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‘The Inpatient’ Creates a Human Connection with Superb Facial Animation, Then Abruptly Severs It

Supermassive Games, the makers of VR titles Until Dawn: Rush of Blood (2016) and Tumble VR (2016), are coming out with a new psychological horror game for PSVR called The Inpatient that seems to offer a level of realism thanks to some...

Quest 2 Stock Appears to be Draining as Holiday Sale Drives Purchases

Although Quest 3 is Meta's hot new headset release, an attractive holiday deal looks like it'll make Quest 2 the company's best selling headset this year. Looking at the stock available directly from Meta shows that Quest 3 availability...

VIRTSIM is the Virtual Reality Platform That Gamers Crave but Can’t Have

VIRTSIM is a highly immersive virtual reality system which can pit squads of players against each other in a realistic virtual reality combat environment. The system utilizes full-motion body capture, VR headsets, gun props, and even shock-feedback. Unfortunately, the...

Hands-on: New Reverb G2 Tweaks Make a Solid Headset Even Better

Last month HP announced that it was releasing a new Reverb G2 headset with some tweaks designed to improve field-of-view and controller coverage. We got out hands on the new headset and put it through the paces. Reverb G2 is...

Two Tools to Make Your Own Avatar for Social VR Apps like ‘VRChat’ & ‘Mozilla Hubs’

With growing usage of social virtual worlds and spaces like VRChat and Mozilla Hubs, you might be looking for a way to make your own avatar to represent yourself in VR. Here are two user-friendly avatar character creator apps for...

‘Everest ’53’ Will Take Viewers on a Historically Accurate Journey of Mountain’s First Summit

In 1953 Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary were the first to successfully summit Everest, the world's tallest mountain at 29,029 feet. Now, VR content house CGO Studios is teaming up with descendants of those first summiteers to recreate the momentous...

Japan’s TDK Acquires Smart Glasses Maker SoftEye to Advance Wearable AI Tech

TDK, the Japan-based electronic component and software company, announced it's acquired SoftEye, the US-based smart glasses hardware and software maker. TDK calls the acquisition of SoftEye a "key milestone in the development of TDK’s contribution to the entire AI ecosystem...
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nDreams Announces VR Action-Adventure ‘Reach’, Packing in Cinematic Action & Parkour This Year

During the Future Games Show livestream today, nDreams Elevation unveiled Reach, a VR action-adventure promising full-body parkour, combat against giant baddies, and a surprisingly detailed world. Reach will be the debut title for nDreams Elevation, the company's internal studio formed in...

Meta Acquires VR Studios Behind ‘Iron Man VR’, ‘Resident Evil 4 VR’ & ‘Wilson’s Heart’, Bringing...

Meta announced at its Connect developer conference today that the company has acquired three more VR game studios, bringing its total to nine such acquisitions over the past two years. Joining Meta's Oculus Studios is Camouflaj (Marvel’s Iron Man VR),...

Best of the Oculus Mobile VR Jam 2015 – Part 2: NeoS The Universe, House of...

In part 2 of our regular series covering some of the most promising content to come out of the Oculus Mobile VR Jam, we take a look at three educational apps that show the transformative power of VR to instill...

Microsoft HoloLens Reveal Concept Video

Prior to actually showing the device on stage at a Windows 10 press event today, Microsoft rolled a concept video giving examples of how the company envisions the device being used. None of this is particularly new when you look...

Manus Machina Begins to Ship Early Wireless VR Gloves to Developers

Manus Machina, a company dedicated to virtual reality input devices, has begun shipping their first sets of wireless VR gloves to developers. Roaming the halls of Birmingham's NEC covering EGX 2015 today, I bumped into the Manus Machina team, who gave...

Work Out With ‘BOXVR’ for Free on Rift, Vive & Windows VR This Weekend

The world can be a stressful place, and for many one of the quickest ways to relax is to turn to food. But if you're finding yourself staring at the bottom of a Doritos bag more often than you...

AxonVR is Building a Generalized Haptic Display

AxonVR was awarded US Patent No. 9,652,037 of a "whole-body human-computer interface" on May 16th, which includes an external exoskeleton as well as a generalized haptic display made out of microfluidic technology. I had a chance to demo AxonVR's...
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Cas & Chary Present: ‘The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners’ Gameplay Overview

Launched yesterday, The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners is a heavy physics-based survival adventure game set in the zombie apocalypse of the Walking Dead universe. In this video and article, we wanted to showcase the core gameplay mechanics without spoiling too...
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