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Notes From the Forest

Road to VR's VR Community Liaison, Chris Madsen, fills us in on the latest happenings in Convrge, an in-development multiplayer VR environment that's been connecting VR denizens from around the world. Chris Madsen has been eagerly exploring the developing Social VR...

Crytek’s 50 Person VR Dev Team Can Only Mean One Thing

At GDC 2015, game developer and CryEngine creator Crytek was showing an impressive virtual reality experience on the Oculus Rift Crescent Bay prototype. But it would seem that the company has much more up their collective sleeve than a...

First-Time Reactions from Oculus’ Crescent Bay and HTC’s Vive VR Headsets, 24 Hours Apart

After months of hearing about Oculus' latest prototype VR headset, Crescent Bay, and pining after a session with the bleeding edge device for so long, I finally secured a demo with the Crescent Bay prototype at this year's GDC. What I...

HTC Vive and SteamVR Hands-on – A Stage of Constant Presence

Last week at GDC, Valve revealed not just a headset, but a stage upon which pioneering storytellers and game designers will create the first VR experiences of a defining platform. Since the Oculus Rift Kickstarter back in 2012, virtual reality headsets...

Inside the David Cronenberg VR Experience with the Developers Who Met Him

Body/Mind/Change is a trans-media experience that was built to accompany a recent celebration of film director David Cronenberg and his work. As part of the project Blair Renaud, developer of Technolust, got to meet the man behind Scanners and The...
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Tactical Haptics’ Will Provancher Talks Updated ‘Reactive Grip’ and We Go Hands-on

As Ben Lang says in his interview introduction, Will Provancher is one of the OG's of virtual reality. Tactical Haptic's 'Reactive Grip' controller was one of the few peripherals shown back at GDC 2013 that aimed to enhance...
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HapTech is Bringing Realistic Weapon Recoil to a VR Controller for $60

HapTech, formerly Striker VR, are specialising in haptic and recoil simulation for use in gaming peripherals. Ben Lang got to try out the company's new prototype and chat with Founder and President Kyle Monti. We first covered HapTech, formerly known as...

Valve Reveals Timeline of Vive Prototypes, We Chart it For You

Welcome to Valve's Steam VR Mini-museum Virtual reality is still in its infancy. Many hard problems are being worked through and thus, the hardware to deliver compelling VR experiences is still evolving. Anyone who's followed the VR space for a while...

Face to Face With Smaug: Inside Weta’s New Lord of the Rings Oculus Rift Demo

What happens when you take an iconic movie franchise and combine it with UE4, latest Oculus Rift prototype, and the most advanced GPU that Nvidia has ever released? Well, it turns out this combination can transport you to the...

Anyone Who Says ‘You Can’t Do VR on Console’ Hasn’t Tried Sony’s 2015 Morpheus Prototype

On the one year anniversary of the device's unveiling, Sony has revealed a substantial upgrade to the Morpheus PS4 VR headset, a version which they say has nearly reached its final form for a launch by Q2 2016. Everything about...

Sponsored: Intel Developer Lab Explores Gesture Input With Latest RealSense Depth Cameras

On February 18th Intel held a developers lab in Rocklin, CA (north of Sacramento) in the new 'Hacker Lab' space at Sierra College. The event sought to teach devs the in's and out's of developing with Intel's latest RealSense...

Rev VR Podcast (Ep.95): Apollo 11 Kickstarter and Education in VR with Drash, David, and Sandra

Several folks emailed me and asked, "Where is the podcast with the Apollo 11 developers!?" Great idea. I reached out to the developers, David and Sandra Whelan, and Drash, to talk about their hot new Kickstarter campaign. Rev VR Podcast...

Why Social Virtual Reality is Worth Celebrating

When I opened my eyes I suddenly found myself in an art gallery that had been transformed into a full-blown party with thumping music, bright red helium balloons pulling at the furniture, and a menagerie of life forms, humanoid...

GDC 2015: The Games Industry is Gearing Up for VR’s Arrival – Road to VR will...

GDC is once again upon us, and on March 2-6 the people responsible for creating the games we love come together at the Moscone Center in San Francisco to talk shop. This year, virtual reality dominates the conference agenda. Here's...

Apple Granted Patent for Gear VR-like Mobile Headset, Could Have “Broad Ramifications” for Such Devices

Yesterday, Apple was granted a patent for a Gear VR-like mobile headset which would use a portable device (like a smartphone) as the primary display. The patent strikes similarities between both Samsung's Gear VR and a swath of VR...
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