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Hands On: The Unspoken and Oculus Touch Made Me a Bad-Ass Wizard

The Unspoken from Insomniac Games wants to use the immediacy of motion controls to give you magical powers and then watch you fight to the death using them. At a special event, Frank He got a chance to go...

PlayStation VR Sees the Return of the Demo Disc with 8 VR Games to Try in...

PlayStation VR arrives on October 13th, and with the promise of over 50 titles arriving by the end of year, Sony is sensibly providing demos of some of the key titles as a launch showcase. Sony has announced that each...

HelmetVR Combines an Oculus Rift with a Real Race Helmet

Said to be the world’s first VR sim racing helmet, the HelmetVR is perhaps the ultimate in VR sim racing excess, combining a real Arai racing helmet with an Oculus Rift headset. The custom headset comes from FormulaVR, a...
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FOVE Eye-tracking Headset Gets Final Specs and Pre-order Date

FOVE has announced that their first eye-tracking VR headset, the FOVE 0, will open for pre-orders on November 2nd, and has also released the final specifications of the device. Much like Oculus, FOVE began as a successful Kickstarter which raised...

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...
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‘The Void’ is a VR Experience which Fuses Physical and Virtual Reality Environments

Whilst the the virtual reality industry's focus right now is largely on in-home entertainment, the out-of-home VR sector shows immense promise. A new project called 'The Void' is an out-of-home experience that aims to let players explore physical environments...
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NVIDIA Demonstrates Experimental “Zero Latency” Display Running at 1,700Hz

At GTC 2016 this week, NVIDIA's Vice President of Graphics Research demonstrated a novel prototype display running at an incredibly high refresh rate, all but eliminating perceptible latency. Update (4/6/16, 11:08AM PT): An earlier version of this story transposed '17,000Hz'...
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‘Alien: Covenant In Utero’ VR Experience Launches Wednesday

The forthcoming Alien: Covenant movie is getting a VR experience, Alien: Covenant In Utero and it launches this Wednesday on Oculus platforms. Following the news of director Ridley Scott's film production company launching a VR division, the release date for the Alien: Covenant In...

This Oculus Ready PC Costs $500 When Bundled with Rift

Looking to lower the barrier of entry for VR, CyberPower Inc., a custom PC manufacturer, recently announced a new Oculus Ready gaming system that could just convince you to take the plunge into virtual reality. Dubbed the 'Gamer Ultra VR Desktop', the...

Oculus Rift Shipping to Select Developers This Week with SDK 1.0

Oculus has announced via their official blog that "early builds of final Rift hardware" are shipping this week to developers alongside the Oculus SDK 1.0. According to Oculus, developers will start getting their hands on near-final Oculus Rift headsets this week....

Samsung Gear VR Detailed Review: Part Two – Experience, Gameplay Videos, and More

It's been just a few days and I've already been able to wow more people with VR through Gear VR than in the last month with the Oculus Rift DK2. Mobility is one of Gear VR's biggest assets; at...

Mozilla Launches A-Frame: VR-capable Websites Starting with One Line of Code

Mozilla today released A-Frame, an open source library for creating virtual reality web experiences without having to know the powerful (but complex) WebGL. Designed for web developers, A-Frame aims to make it easy to create high-performance and responsive virtual reality experiences...

$4 Billion ZeniMax v. Oculus Verdict Could Come as Early as Today, Here’s What You Need...

This week the eyes of the virtual reality industry are on a federal court in Dallas, Texas where ZeniMax (and child company id Software) and Facebook (and child company Oculus) have been engaged in legal battle over a dispute...
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‘Geppetto’ Prototype Makes Animating in VR a Hands-on Experience

Masters of Pie, a London based 3D animation studio, have taken a page out of the book of renowned claymation works such as Wallace and Gromit with their stop-motion animation prototype tool for VR, aptly code named Geppetto after the fictional creator...

Meet ‘V’, the Universal Dashboard That Pipes the Power of the Web Into Any VR Experience

In the real world, most of us have a smartphone in our pocket which means we're just a few taps away from a wealth of apps and services that enable us to do all manner of things, from communicating...
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