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‘Alien: Isolation’ is One of VR’s Missed Opportunities, But There’s Still Hope

Alien: Isolation is one of the best VR games never released. We look back at why the title was so revered by VR enthusiasts and that there's now finally hope we'll see an official VR release after all. One of the...
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‘Freedom Locomotion System’ is a Comprehensive Package for VR Movement

Moving around comfortably and immersively in VR remains a hurdle for VR game developers. VR studio Huge Robot has created the Freedom Locomotion System which brings together a number of VR movement systems into a comprehensive and functional package which allows for...

Here’s Every Morpheus Game Sony is Demoing at E3 2015

We scrounged, scraped, and combed for every single Morpheus game currently demoing in Sony's booth at E3 2015 in Los Angeles. Here's our complete list, coming to 17 impressively varied VR demos for the PlayStation 4. Trackmania Turbo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3piye62BYf4 Trackmania Turbo, the newest installment...

Second-gen Lighthouse Chip Could Improve Tracking, Reduce Cost of HTC Vive 2

A new chip that Valve is recommending for use in future SteamVR headsets and accessories brings improved performance and significant power reduction compared to the first generation solution along with potential manufacturing savings. An essential component in the first generation HTC...

Epic Games Share Insights: Optimizing ‘Showdown’ for 90 FPS on Oculus Rift Crescent Bay Prototype

At Oculus Connect in September, the VR company brought together experts and developers from across the world to talk VR. Among them were developers from Epic Games, creators of Unreal Engine, who shared some of the challenges and solutions to...
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New Magic Leap Videos Shows AR Shopping and Voice Control

A new video of Magic Leap's augmented reality tech in action was shown at a conference in China today. On stage at the event, Magic Leap CMO Brian Wallace had a one-on-one discussion with Alibaba CMO Chris Tung (Alibaba is...

AxonVR is Building a Haptic Holodeck Powered by NVIDIA PhysX

AxonVR, the company currently working on a full-body haptic solution for VR, are on their way to bringing their technology to an ever-widening audience. Announced today via an official NVIDIA blogpost, AxonVR says that the company's fledgling haptic engine is actually built on...

10 Seconds of Testing Striker VR’s Gun Recoil System and I’m Sold – Hands-on and Interview

We've written about Striker VR and their electrically driven weapon recoil system previously, but it wasn't until I met up with the company at Oculus Connect two days ago that I was able to try the system for myself....

How to Natively Record Video and Take Screenshots in Gear VR

If you're tired of futzing around with 3rd-party screen recorders to capture your Gear VR play sessions, your long wait is over. Oculus has finally pushed an update to all Gear VR-compatible phones on Android 5.0 that will allow...

Hands-on: FOVE’s Eye-tracking VR Headset Was the Next Best at CES

FOVE, a VR headset prototype in the works by a Japan-based team, is quickly closing the experience gap between itself and the Oculus Rift. If they continue at this pace, they could catch up, and with a trick up...

HTC Expands Vive Financing Program – Get a Headset and VR PC Interest Free

Announced today via the official Vive blog, HTC now has three VR bundles available with 6, 12, and 24-month financing plans in an effort to help customers afford the high upfront cost of the system and the required hardware. Bundles...

First Hands-on: The VOID, a Mixed Reality Experience That Blends Real and Virtual

The VOID is a mixed reality experience that builds virtual worlds over physical environments, allowing users to experience enhanced Presence as they're able to feel the actual objects around them and wield real props like lanterns and swords. Road to...
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Watch: ‘Robo Recall’ is Playable on HTC Vive Using ‘Revive’ Mod, Here’s How

Oculus Rift exclusive title Robo Recall - which launched just yesterday - can already be played on the HTC Vive, using the infamous Revive mod. And, as you can see in this video, the game seems to work remarkably well. Oculus' approach...

‘Dexmo’ The VR Exoskeleton Glove with Force Feedback Launches Kickstarter Campaign

Dexta Robotics today launched a Kickstarter campaign for their VR input device known as Dexmo, a mechanical exoskeleton glove designed for VR input and which offers users force feedback. VR Input and Output in Once Device With the debut of Oculus'...

Oculus Shares 5 Key Ingredients for Presence in Virtual Reality

Having open-sourced the design and software that powered their first VR headset, Oculus shares 5 key ingredients that it believes are the baseline for achieving Presence in virtual reality. See Also: Oculus Open-sources Rift DK1: Mechanical Designs, Firmware, and More All...
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