News

News

Oculus Further Details Ideal Hardware and Sensor Configurations for Roomscale VR with Touch

The Oculus Team have published a detailed guide on Roomscale VR setup. This four-part series expands on the Experimental Roomscale Guide published before the launch of the Touch controllers, discussing sensors, bandwidth, host controllers and extra equipment. While Oculus continues...
video

‘Doom’ & ‘Fallout 4’ Devs are Collaborating to Make Titles Work in VR

Doom VR Executive Producer Marty Stratton sheds light on Doom VR, how Bethesda are approaching the project, what VR hardware they're targeting and whether it'll ever see a full release. After thrusting a glimpse of a modern VR technology into the public...

Bethesda Head Affirms Ongoing Work on ‘Fallout 4 VR’, Calls it “Pretty Incredible”

Bethesda Game Studios made the surprise announcement at E3 last year that the company would be porting the entirety of Fallout 4 to virtual reality, and confirmed it would be released for both the HTC Vive and in VR on...

‘Eagle Flight’ Review

After years of previews and teasers, Ubisoft make their long anticipated VR debut on Oculus Rift and PlayStation VR.  Eagle Flight has all the hallmarks of being a toe in the water for Ubisoft, but the VR world may...

Reggie Watts to Perform Live Comedy Act in AltspaceVR

Acclaimed comedian and musician Reggie Watts is bringing his surrealist lyrical style and infectious comedy act to virtual reality later this month. Fans can attend the show from within AltspaceVR's social VR platform, or spectate via the YouTube livestream. Watts will be...
video

Guinness Record Set With 25 Continuous Hours in Virtual Reality

Guinness World Records, an organisation journalling the extraordinary (and often insane) stunts people will pull for notoriety, and now the book has its first virtual reality entry. Watch as Derek Westerman swaps reality for Tilt Brush inside the HTC...
video

Hands-on: ‘Sprint Vector’s’ Breakthrough Locomotion Could Inspire an Entirely New Genre of VR Games

"Adrenaline platformer" is the apt descriptor that Survios is using for their newly announced title, Sprint Vector. The core of the game is what the company is calling the Fluid Locomotion System, a synthesis of VR movement techniques seen elsewhere...

Hands-on: LG’s VR Headset Glimpses Higher Resolution and New Head-mount Options Coming to SteamVR

LG is the first company after HTC to follow the path laid out by Valve for headset makers to bring their wares to SteamVR. That path involves using SteamVR Tracking technology and OpenVR API to create a headset which...

Hands-on: Sony’s 120Hz Morpheus Demo, ‘Magic Controller’, and ‘Bedroom Robots’

With the reveal of Sony's 2015 Morpheus prototype, the company surprised the VR space with the announcement that the headset would support a 120Hz refresh rate, significantly higher than the 90Hz of the competition. We went hands-on with the...

Infinadeck is a 1000 Pound Omnidirectional Treadmill Designed and Built By One Man

Infinadeck is a new entrant into the omnidirectional treadmill space for VR use. The device allows a user to walk completely naturally in any direction. Unlike other VR treadmills that have sprung up recently, the Infinadeck is an active,...
video

Students Hack Positional Tracking onto Gear VR with SteamVR Tracking

In a reverse engineering exercise, two students at Utah State University have hacked positional tracking onto a Gear VR headset using SteamVR Tracking technology. Mobile VR solutions like Samsung’s Gear VR currently employ rotational tracking only. The popular forms of...

Watch Sony’s E3 Livestream Here @6PM PST

E3 2017 is here, and Sony's conference is kicking off tonight at 6PM PST (local time here) where VR announcements are sure to await. Enjoy our predictions and watch the livestream here linked below. We've long suspected Star Wars: Battlefront...
video

The Keyword is ‘Action’: RYOT’s VR App Champions More than Empathy

RYOT (pronounced “riot”), an American news media company founded in 2012, recently launched iOS and Android apps for its VR content, who are empowering readers to get themselves involved with the issues about which they learn about via immersive media. RYOT...

‘Werewolves Within’ Review

Based on the popular party game Mafia (also known as Werewolf), Werewolves Within represents Ubisoft's first dive into the world of social VR games. I first got my hands on the game at GDC earlier this year, and while it remains...

10 Things You Didn’t Know About Steam VR’s Lighthouse Tracking System

Lighthouse is Valve's laser-based tracking system that forms the bedrock of Steam VR's input system. Alan Yates, Hardware Engineer at Valve was a key player in the system's design and implementation. Alan, frustrated with being asked the same questions...
39,929FansLike
13,574FollowersFollow
66,541FollowersFollow
27,800SubscribersSubscribe

Latest Headlines

Features & Reviews