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New ‘The Assembly’ Gameplay Video Offers Insight into VR Development
The Assembly is a morally ambiguous adventure game built from the ground up for virtual reality by nDreams. In this new gameplay video, Senior Designer Jackie Tetley walks you through some brand new footage whilst offering commentary on how...
Samsung Opens Signup Page to Gauge Interest in ‘Project Beyond’ VR Camera
Although the company isn't ready to release it as a commercial product just yet, Samsung is now soliciting the interest of content creators who might want to make use of their 'Project Beyond' VR camera.
Project Beyond is a VR camera...
HTC Vive Nominated for ‘Best Hardware’ in Gamescom 2015 Awards
Virtual reality hardware has set something of a trend at trade show awards over the last few years. Oculus in particular have traditionally cleaned up in the 'best hardware' category at shows like CES for example. Now it seems...
New Elite Dangerous: Horizons Trailer ‘Lands’
Frontier Developments just announced a new expansion series called 'Horizons' bringing with it planetary exploration and a new loot system. Here's a new teaser trailer to whet your appetite ahead of the expansion's first instalment's release - set for Christmas...
New Gamescom ‘Pollen’ Screenshots Reveal Beautiful Attention to Detail
Pollen from Helsinki based developer Mindfield Games is an immensely promising ‘Oculus Rift Optimised’ story driven adventure set on Saturn moon Titan. The title is coming to Gamescom again this year and the studio has released this new screenshots...
AltspaceVR Hosts DOTA 2 Championship Viewing Party, Watch the Main Event August 3-8 in VR
The International Dota 2 Championships have returned to the KeyArena in Seattle this year to see twenty teams compete in front of crowds in excess of 15,000 people. Can't make it in person? Why not pop into AltspaceVR and enjoy the action...
SUPERHOT Beta Released Along with New Gameplay Video
The bullet time infused action game SUPERHOT has just released a beta version of the game to Kickstarter backers and a new video showing gameplay from the new release.
SUPERHOT has enjoyed a good amount of publicity since its successfully...
Oculus Recommends Rift Users Wait to Update to Windows 10
Despite a recently announced partnership between Microsoft and Oculus, the VR headset maker recommends that Rift users wait for official compatibility before updating to Windows 10.
Windows 10 is now rolling out and many folks are excitedly updating. But if...
Latest ‘Technolust’ Gameplay Footage Shows New Mini-games and Areas, Now Running in Unity 5
Blair Renaud, the sole member of virtual reality codehouse IrisVR, has released a video to demonstrate what we can expect from the next beta release of Technolust, his Blade Runner inspired, futuristic thriller, now running in Unity 5.
Technolust has...
2015 Proto Awards Submission Deadline Extended and Widened
This year's Proto Awards, the premiere awards events celebrating the VR industry, has had it's nomination submission date extended due to "tremendous" response.
The 2015 Proto Awards are to be held at AVALON in Hollywood on September 22nd, to coincide...
Sixense STEM Edges Closer to Release
Sixense, the company behind the much beleaguered motion control system STEM, have released what they term 'positive' results from their latest round of EMC (Electromagnetic Compatibility) testing.
The STEM system from Razer Hydra creators Sixense, having been successfully Kickstarted back...
2nd Round Winners of ‘Render the Metaverse’ VR Panoramic Contest Announced, Available Now on Gear VR
Oculus and OTOY have today announced the winners of the second round for Render the Metaverse, a three-month long contest to find the most compelling 360-degree stereo-panoramic still images rendered by OTOY's OctaneRender software.
OTOY and Oculus have named the winners of this month's...
Sony Supporting but Not Funding “Non-gaming content” for Morpheus, Says Yoshida
Shuhei Yoshida, President of Sony's Worldwide Studios, recently revealed that Sony won't be producing or funding any first-party "non-gaming content" for Project Morpheus.
In a recent interview with GamesIndustry.biz, Yoshida revealed his thoughts on 360 videos, and their place within the...
‘FlyInside FSX’ VR Plugin for Microsoft Flight Simulator X Passes Kickstarter Goal in First Week
FlyInside FSX, a project that brings VR support to Microsoft Flight Simulator X (2006), has been successfully funded in its first week on Kickstarter with 23 days left in the campaign.
It's been quick ride for Daniel Church, the mind behind FlyInside. Only having launched...
‘Vox Machinae’ Latest Update Includes Multiplayer and Better Physics
Vox Machinae, the mech action shooter from Canadian developer Space Bullet Dynamics, is to receive significant enhancements soon including networked multiplayer and a new physics engine.
We were impressed with Vox Machinae's brand of stompy robot action when we went hands-on...




















