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Abrash Spent Most of His F8 Keynote Convincing the Audience That ‘Reality’ is Constructed in the...
Oculus' Chief Scientist, Michael Abrash, took to the Facebook F8 conference stage yesterday to tell the audience 'Why Virtual Reality Will Matter to You'.
Much of Abrash's presentation was dedicated to convincing the audience that the reality we experience is...
“They did it!” William Gibson is Given a Taste of Cyberspace via Gear VR
Legendary author of 80's cyberpunk thriller Neuromancer, a book in which he famously coined the term 'cyberspace', takes a spin in virtual reality courtesy of Samsung's Gear VR. It seems he was suitably impressed.
At TED 2015 in Vancouver last...
Road to VR Executive Editor Ben Lang Holding GDC 2015 Q&A
Road to VR's Executive Editor, Ben Lang, is holding a Reddit Q&A about the latest VR tech from GDC 2015 right now! Feel free to drop some questions.
GDC VR Q&A on Reddit
New Crystal Rift Trailer Reveals Dungeon Level Editor
A grid-based dungeon crawler, Crystal Rift is built from the ground up for virtual reality, yet draws on some very traditional game mechanics. The team behind the Oculus Rift adventure game have released a new trailer, introducing the game's...
New ADR1FT Trailer Shows 9 Minutes of Gorgeous Gameplay
Developer Three One Zero has a 9 minute trailer for its ‘astronaut in peril’ title ADR1FT, which also promises ground-up Oculus Rift support. Debuting at the Video Game Awards last year, it highlights why we're excited about this title.
The stunning yet...
Reload Studios to Unveil and Demo New VR Shooter at VRLA Spring Expo
Reload Studios, a group comprising ex Infinity Ward and Disney veterans, are due to officially unveil their previously teased multi-player VR shooter at the next VRLA Spring Expo on March 22nd.
The Virtual Reality Los Angeles (VRLA) meetup has grown and...
‘Recent History of VR’ Cartoon from Cloudhead Games is Fun if Incomplete
Resident programmer at Cloudhead Games has illustrated (literally) the huge progress that's been made in the last few years in VR hardware, culminating obviously in GDC 2015 and it's Valve Steam VR revelations.
It's sometime difficult to take stock of...
Lucasarts’ Star Wars ‘Jedi Academy’ Gets Oculus Rift DK2 Support
A Lucasarts classic has been given a thoroughly modern makeover, it's received Oculus Rift DK2 support, thanks to the work of coder xLava.
Last year, shortly after George Lucas sold LucasFilm off to Disney for $4.05 Billion, Lucasarts - the...
Video of Valve’s ‘Aperture Science’ Portal VR Demo Leaked
Steam VR is taking GDC 2015 by storm with the HTC Vive VR Headset being demonstrated along with the dedicated, laser tracked controllers. One of the demo's is a new, special version of Portal built for virtual reality. Here's...
John Carmack GDC Talk on “The Dawn of Mobile VR” Video Now Avaliable
John Carmack's talks are always hotly anticipated by the geek legion (myself included) and his GDC 2015 exploration of the first years of mobile virtual reality last night was no exception. The video of the full session is now...
New ‘Loading Human’ Trailer Shows Updated Locomotion System
Untold Games has released a new video showing a gameplay demo for Loading Human, a sci-fi adventure game created ground-up for VR headsets and motion control devices like Sixense STEM.
Foreign worlds, mysteries to be solved, sardonic computers leading the...
First Steam VR Controller Impressions “Utterly phenomenal”
HTC mentioned during their HTC Vive reveal yesterday that the new headset would be accompanied by new controllers, designed for VR. It seems that Scott Broock, VP of Content at Jaunt just got his hands on them, and was...
First HTC Vive / Steam VR Hands-On Preview Emerges “..it’s a massive game changer”
GDC 2015 has only just kicked off, but we're already starting to hear first-hand accounts of Valve's new HTC manufactured VR Headset, the Vive.
HTC's Vive announcement at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona yesterday, is barely a day old...
Magic Leap’s Paul Reynolds Interviewed for the Voices of VR Podcast
With top tier press clamouring for information on the secretive augmented reality project known as Magic Leap, Kent Bye - the force behind the excellent 'Voices of VR' podcast - serendipitously happens upon a full interview with it's Technical...
This Stunning Virtual Realisation of Venice is Available for Oculus Rift Now
Virtual Architectural Visualisation is one of many non-gaming applications for virtual reality, and one that's seeing growth.
UE4Arch is a company dedicated to creating and selling hyper-realistic virtual creations that can be experienced in virtual reality. The company works in Unreal...



















