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New ‘Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond’ Trailer Shows a Full Slate of Multiplayer Game Modes
We've known Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond would include a multiplayer component, but with just a little over a week left before its December 11th launch, it wasn't clear if developer Respawn Entertainment would offer much detail ahead of...
Pimax’s New Headset is Priced & Positioned to Take on Varjo’s Ultra-enthusiast Aero
Pimax today announced the Pimax Crystal, a new headset that's broadly similar to the company's upcoming Pimax "12K" QLED headset, but with a few features pared back and a reduced price. Though the price is lower at $1,900, it...
‘Lone Echo’s’ Virtual Hands Are an Unexpected VR Innovation
Oculus had talked much about 'Hand Presence' with the launch of their Touch VR controllers last year, but few games have implemented the controllers in such a way that truly deliver on that promise. Combined with Touch, Lone Echo's impressive...
Tech Demo Shows the Real Power of Quest Pro Face Tracking
Quest Pro's face-tracking capabilities will be quickly put to use to make Meta's avatars more expressive, but next-gen avatars stand to benefit much more from the new tech.
One of Quest Pro's big new features is a face-tracking system that...
Valve Says Steam Frame Development Started Even Before Index Was Released
In March 2019, Valve surprised the VR industry with the tease of 'Index', its first self-made VR headset. Index would go on to launch later in May 2019 and be seen as the enthusiasts' choice in PC VR headsets...
Nintendo Still Not Ready For VR, Not Enough “Truly Fun” Experiences
Reggie Fils-Aime, Nintendo of America's President and COO, took the stage Thursday at Variety's Entertainment and Tech Summit to discuss the company's immediate future, including the likely (and entirely predictable) shortage of Nintendo Switch this holiday season. According to Fils-Aime,...
PlayStation VR is Coming to EGX 2015, Book Your Demo Slot from Friday 18th September
EGX, the UK's biggest gaming show is just around the corner - running for 4 days starting 24th September - and Sony's newly christened PlayStation VR will be there - but if you want to try it, make sure...
Meta Admits There’s a “Goldilocks Zone” for VR Session Length Due to Form Factor Concerns
It's been the same basic story for more than a decade now: wearing a VR headset is easy, but not as easy as simply looking at a monitor. While a lot has changed since the early days, Meta admits...
Google Job Listings Point to New “Mass Production” AR/VR Hardware in the Pipeline
Google launched the Daydream View headset late last year, the company's first virtual reality hardware product. As a smartphone clip-in headset, the View is a relatively simple device which leaves the bulk of the work up to the host smartphone....
SpaceVR’s Second Kickstarter Raises More Than $40k in First Six Days
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1035872323/spacevr-step-into-space
SpaceVR, the Ryan Holmes-founded San Francisco startup that wants to build a 360-degree video platform for space footage, has re-launched its Kickstarter geared towards putting its VR camera Overview One on the Cupola module of the International Space Station...
Researchers Showcase Impressive New Bar for Real-time Digital Human Rendering in VR
A broad team of graphics researchers, universities, and technology companies are showcasing the latest research into digital human representation in VR at SIGGRAPH 2017. Advanced capture, rigging, and rendering techniques have resulted in an impressive new bar for the...
Varjo Brings Real-time Green-screen Capability to XR-1 for More Seamless Mixed Reality
Varjo, makers of high-end enterprise focused VR headsets, is adding real-time green-screen (aka chroma key) and marker tracking features to its XR-1 headset to make mixed reality applications more seamless.
Varjo's XR-1 headset is a high-end enterprise development kit headset which...
Oculus PC SDK 0.7 is a Major Overhaul, New Direct Driver Mode Made with NVIDIA &...
Oculus have given developers a heads up on their forthcoming PC SDK release, due August 20th. The release brings with it major overhauls, not least of which include a new Direct Driver Mode, developed in conjunction with NVIDIA and...
Meta Wants to Beat Google at its Own Game with Horizon OS
Meta announced it's licensing its XR operating system to select OEMs in a bid to become a more open alternative to Vision Pro, marking a monumental shift in the company's XR strategy. This puts Meta in an entirely new...
‘Fallout 4’ and ‘Doom’ Are “just the beginning of Bethesda’s future in virtual reality”
"Weren't expecting that were you?" said Pete Hines, Bethesda's VP of Marketing, after revealing that an incarnation of Fallout 4 (2015) and Doom (2016) are in development for virtual reality on the HTC Vive.
Hines, on stage at Bethesda's E3 2016...


















