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‘Evangelion: VR’ Experience Immerses With a Motion Sim Cockpit and HTC Vive

On May 16, the Bandai Namco-backed VR studio 'Project i Can' announced a new project called Evangelion VR: The Throne of Souls where you can maneuver an Eva, just like in the classic mech anime, Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995). This...

Google’s New ‘Cardboard Design Lab’ App Uses VR to Teach You About VR Design

Google has just released the Cardboard Design Lab app for Android which puts users inside of a VR environment and teaches them fundamentals of VR design. The app demonstrates each of its lessons quickly in impressively effective ways. As Google further...

Valve’s Gabe Newell Expects PC VR Headsets to Have Integrated Wireless in 2018

Valve chief Gabe Newell is optimistic about the future of VR, considering the studio is in development of three VR titles—not mini-games or experiences, but “full” VR games—but what about the future of VR hardware? During a recent press briefing...

Steam Adds ‘VR Support’ Category for Oculus Rift Games

Steam, Valve's digital distribution platform, now includes a 'VR Support' category, making it easy to search the entire Steam library for Oculus Rift games. Currently four titles are listed as part of the category, with many sure to follow...

HTC Vive and SteamVR Hands-on – A Stage of Constant Presence

Last week at GDC, Valve revealed not just a headset, but a stage upon which pioneering storytellers and game designers will create the first VR experiences of a defining platform. Since the Oculus Rift Kickstarter back in 2012, virtual reality headsets...
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‘Elite Dangerous: Commanders’ Update Now Lets You and 3 Friends Co-pilot Interstellar Spacecraft

Elite Dangerous, the interstellar space trading, fighting, and exploration simulator, has been teasing support for co-piloted ships for some time. Today the Commanders 2.3 update launches with the Multi-Crew feature, allowing up to four friends to fly together in VR. Update (4/11/17, 9:51AM): Following...

FOVE Launches Pre-Orders For Eye-Tracking VR Headset FOVE 0, Starting at $549

It's been a long road for FOVE, the creators of the eye-tracking VR headset that hit Kickstarter last summer, but today the company launches pre-orders for their first commercially available product, the FOVE 0. Pre-orders start at a special discount price of...
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‘Google Earth VR’ Launches on HTC Vive, A Breathtaking New Way to Know Our Planet

Today Google launches Earth VR for the HTC Vive for free, giving us a whole new perspective on the world. I remember, back in 2001, how amazed I was to see Google Earth for the first time. I remember huddling...

‘Damaged Core’ Review

Damaged Core is a first-person shooter set in the dingy near-future of a robot uprising. The Core, an artificial intelligence recently gone rogue, is destroying the Earth, and you, an AI program fighting on behalf of the humans, must hack your way closer...

New Darth Vader VR Experience Coming from ILMxLAB, Here’s a Quick Peek

During an ILMxLAB panel at this years Star Wars Celebration event in London, Batman movie writer David Goyer was introduced as working on a full Star Wars narrative VR experience that focuses on the series most recognisable villain, Darth Vader. The...

Daydream-ready Phone Minimum Requirements Detailed in Android Documentation

The latest Compatibility Definition Document for Android includes a new section specifying what's required from a 'Daydream-ready' phone. Daydream VR is Google’s new high-end mobile VR platform, built directly into Android, but it only works with specially designed phones. For...

Existing Phones Unlikely to Qualify as ‘Daydream Ready’, Says Google, VR Fans Should Wait to Upgrade

Google's ambitious Daydream VR platform for Android hinges on a combination of hardware and software to enable a high quality VR experience. To ensure the desired level of performance, Google will certify phones of a certain minimum specification as...

Stop-Motion Guru Phil Tippett Brings Nightmarish ‘MAD GOD’ Universe to VR

Phil Tippett, the visual effects genius behind classic stop-motion animation sequences from films such as the holochess scene from the Star Wars franchise, Jurassic Park (1993), and RoboCop 2 (1990), brings his latest stop-mo project MAD GOD to virtual reality. Based on Tippett's eponymous short film MAD...

Oculus Reveals 6 New VR Titles for Rift & Gear VR at GDC 2017

Debuted at GDC 2017 and announced via their official blog, Oculus offer a first look at some of the titles coming to Rift and Gear VR in 2017. This includes 6 new game reveals across multiple genres, with 4...

The Oculus Rift Will be in Retail Stores Come April

Oculus says that getting the Rift into "broad retail around the world" is going to be critical to the success of the Rift headset and VR in general. The company plans to have a retail presence starting in April. A...
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