News
HTC Explains Why It Hasn’t Lowered the Price of the Vive
Despite its primary competitor, Oculus, making a major price cut to the Rift & Touch earlier this year, HTC's Vive headset still sits at a hearty $800. The company's GM of VR, Daniel O'Brien, tells us why HTC hasn't cut the...
Racing Game “Sprint Vector” is an Intense Workout with VR Locomotion that Just Works
Sprint Vector is an "adrenaline platformer" racing game that relies upon a unique locomotion technique of swinging your arms in order to run through an obstacle course. It's the latest game from Raw Data developer Survios, but with a...
Review: ‘The Mage’s Tale’
Stepping into The Mage's Tale, a first-person dungeon crawler RPG that puts you in the enchanted boots of an apprentice mage, is a bit like jumping into your own personal '80s sword and sorcery flick. With elemental magic at the ready,...
The Crazy VR Goggles in HBO’s ‘Silicon Valley’ Are Not a Prop but a Real Prototype
HBO's show Silicon Valley entertains with tales of the pervasive startup culture of California's San Francisco Bay Area. While virtual reality has graced the show previously, season four is bringing it closer to the fore, with the show's main characters becoming...
Valve Reveals More Detail on ‘Knuckles’ Motion Controllers
Valve has lifted the veil somewhat on its Knuckles controllers, first revealed as a prototype last October at the company's annual Steam Dev Days conference. In a blog post today, Valve showed off some specs of the Knuckles dev kit...
New Oculus Update Embraces 360 Room-scale, Adds Mixed Reality Capture
Version 1.16 of Oculus Rift software is beginning to roll out to all Rift users, adding support for Mixed Reality capture, a redesigned interface for future updates and issue reporting, a new Home environment and multilanguage support. The Store...
Xbox Head Phil Spencer Clarifies Stance on VR for Xbox One X in Refreshingly Candid Interview
Microsoft’s E3 2017 presentation concentrated on the new Xbox One X console, but made no mention of VR. After dodging questions for the first few days following the presentation, Phil Spencer, Head of Xbox, gave his thoughts on the...
Kopin’s ‘Elf’ Headset is Impressively Compact, More Than 3x the Pixels of Rift and Vive
Kopin is touting a new prototype VR headset featuring their 4K OLED 'Lightning' microdisplay that they say is made specifically for VR. At nearly half the size of other headsets, and made from lightweight materials, the device feels featherlight...
Startup Aims for Retinal Resolution VR Display With 70x “effective resolution” of Today’s Headsets
Finland-based Varjo has announced a new display technology for AR and VR which the company is calling "the first human eye-resolution VR/AR/XR immersive display." Varjo claims an "effective resolution" that's nearly 70 times greater than the Rift and Vive.
We've...
Oculus Begins ‘Summer of Rift’ Sale, $100 Credit for Rift & Touch Bundle Buyers
Oculus have announced they will be offering up to 60% price reductions on over 30 titles across the Oculus Store for the Rift and Gear VR from June 16th until July 5th. In addition, between now and June 24th,...
Report: Public VR Awareness Almost Doubling Annually with PSVR & Gear VR Leading the Way
A new report from Nielsen suggests that not only is public awareness of virtual reality at record levels, it's nearly doubled year on year.
Away from business analysts' wildly varying estimations on how much virtual reality as a business segment...
SteamVR Home Gets Virtual Collectibles, an Intriguing Glimpse at the Future of Achievements & Digital Goods
Valve has added the first wave of SteamVR Collectibles to SteamVR Home, unlockable rewards which can be used to decorate your virtual Home space or modify your avatar. This new feature further expands the rich customisation and interactivity found...
Hands-on: IBM Watson Brings Voice Commands to ‘Star Trek: Bridge Crew’
IBM Watson, the artificial intelligence platform designed to understand natural language, today launched support for Star Trek: Bridge Crew (2017) across PSVR, Oculus Rift and HTC Vive.
Before the service launched today, lone players could control the ship's other posts—Engineering, Tactical, Helm—by clicking...
Hands-on: ‘Ace Combat 7’ Campaign Not Playable on PSVR, Separate Mode to Offer ‘Several Hours of...
Stepping into the Bandai Namco booth at E3 in Los Angeles, I got a hands-on with Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown's PSVR mode. Far from being just a single mission, the VR mode is apparently going to offer "several hours of...
This Flexible Thermoelectric Skin Has Made Me a Believer in Thermal Haptics for VR
Korea-based TEGway is developing ThermoReal, a thermoelectric array which can generate heat and cold with impressively low latency. The flexible nature of ThermoReal could make it suitable for integration into VR controllers, gloves, and more.
I've tried a few different...


















