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Hands-on: HaptX Glove Delivers Impressively Detailed Micro-pneumatic Haptics, Force Feedback
The company formerly known as AxonVR, which has raised more than $5 million in venture capital, is rebranding to HaptX, and revealing a feature prototype of a VR glove which uses micro-pneumatics for detailed haptics and force feedback to...
Free UE4 Template Makes Creating More Realistic VR Hands a Snap
Czech developer iNFINITE Production has released UVRF - a free, cross-platform template for hand presence in VR. The open-source demo offers a framework for use in any Unreal Engine project, as well as a ‘Playground’ scene containing an underground...
Microsoft Discounts Windows VR Headsets for Black Friday Sale, Up to $100 Off
Black Friday is nearly here, and while the stores are soon to be jam-packed with people hoping to get a great deal on this year's must-buys, online sales have already begun for the newest entries into the world of...
1,350 Student VR Education Study Measures Attitudes, Interest in VR Learning & Building
Foundry10, a Seattle based philanthropic educational research organization, wanted to explore what happens when you bring VR into the classroom. Following a pilot project started in 2015, Foundry10 has now put VR in the hands of 40 schools and community...
Futuremark to Launch New DirectX 12 Scene for VRMark Benchmark
Benchmark specialists Futuremark are launching a new ‘room’ on November 22nd as a free update for VRMark Advanced & Professional Editions. Adding to the existing ‘Orange Room’ and ‘Blue Room’ benchmarks, ‘Cyan Room’ uses a pure DirectX 12 engine...
GridRaster Raises $2 Million for AR/VR Cloud Rendering Solution
Palo Alto-based VR/AR startup GridRaster recently announced a nearly $2 million seed funding round to strengthen and develop their mobile VR/AR rendering infrastructure. GridRaster claims to deliver high-fidelity graphics at 10 times the performance compared to standalone mobile platforms,...
‘Skyrim VR’ Review – The Other Side of the Immersion Equation
Skyrim VR is the first to launch in a series of VR titles from legendary game-maker Bethesda (with Doom VR and Fallout 4 VR soon to follow). The title is effectively a port of the now six year-old open-world...
‘Resident Evil 7: Biohazard’ Wins Golden Joystick’s Best VR Game of 2017
The 2017 Golden Joystick Awards winners are in, revealed last night at the 35th annual ceremony that celebrated the best in gaming this year. Taking the Golden Joystick for 'Best VR Game' was Capcom's horror-adventure Resident Evil 7: Biohazard (2017), a...
HTC Announces New First-Party Titles, ‘Front Defense: Heroes’ & ‘Super Puzzle Galaxy’
HTC’s internal development and publishing arm Vive Studios has announced two new games coming to Vive in early December. Physics puzzler Super Puzzle Galaxy from 2 Bears Studio and multiplayer WWII shooter Front Defense: Heroes from Fantahorn Studio will...
HTC’s Black Friday Sale Gets You a Free Audio Strap with Vive Purchase, Free ‘Fallout 4...
HTC recently announced they'll be sweetening the pot this Black Friday for potential Vive-owners located in North America by throwing a free Deluxe Audio Strap your way when you purchase an HTC Vive. The deal also includes the previous...
New PSVR ‘DOOM VFR’ Bundle Will Include Updated Headset, Launching December 1st
Just in time for Christmas, the much awaited DOOM VFR is getting a PlayStation VR bundle too, giving you everything you need to battle demons from the pits of Hell.
Including a PSVR headset, PS Camera, the new PSVR demo disc and a...
‘Payday 2’ VR Beta Now Available, Supporting Cross-play with Desktop Players
Payday 2 (2013), the popular FPS with four-player co-op, has now updated to include access to the VR beta for HTC Vive and Oculus Rift. The beta is free, and will see updates in discrete phases, the first of which is now...
‘Sparc’ Comes to Vive & Rift with Cross-play Support for PSVR
Despite the news that CCP Games is shelving VR for the time being, the company promises that their last title Sparc will not only go on, but CCP is carrying through with plans to launch the game on both the Oculus...
HTC Announces Consumer Availability of Vive Tracker & New Tracker Accessory Bundles
HTC today announced consumer availability of Vive Tracker, the tracking module that uses Valve's Lighthouse tracking standard. The company also announced North American pre-order availability of a number of Vive Tracker accessory bundles that are slated to make their way to consumers in mid-December.
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Pixar’s First VR Experience ‘Coco VR’ is Astounding, Raising the Bar on VR Movie Tie-ins
Coco VR, Pixar's first-ever VR experience, has a pretty specific goal in mind; getting you to see the film in theaters when it opens next week. That's at least the mindset I had before putting on my Rift, a...

















