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Crytek-Incubated ‘VR First’ Program to Double Number of Academic VR/AR Labs in 2017

VR First, the global initiative to seed academic institutions with VR/AR hardware and software, today announced that it's nearly doubling the number of its VR labs in universities and science parks across the globe by the end of 2017. With currently 26...

Latest HTC Vives Are Shipping with Tweaked Base Stations, Redesigned Packaging

Although HTC has hardly even hinted at a Vive 2, the company is continuing to make subtle improvements to their first headset that's been selling in stores since April 2016. In addition to a 15% reduction in weight, the latest...
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‘Planet Whack’ is a Multi-user VR Demo Showcasing PhaseSpace Motion Tracking

A short video (heading this article) of two people wildly hitting a giant ball with foam swords (captured by Super Ventures) is an amusing showcase of PhaseSpace’s motion tracking technology. Planet Whack is a whac-a-mole-inspired game, where two players participate in...

‘Rick and Morty’ VR Game is Releasing on Oculus Rift and HTC Vive April 20th

Rick and Morty are finally making their way to VR in Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality. Coming to HTC Vive and Oculus Rift headsets on Steam and Oculus Home, you can take part in the dimension-hopping adventure starting Thursday, April 20th...
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‘HoloLems’ Makes Your Room into a ‘Lemmings’ Level with HoloLens

Canadian technology company Globacore have created an AR homage to video game classic Lemmings (1991), now for Microsoft HoloLens. HoloLems, which is free on the Microsoft Store, uses HoloLens’ spatial mapping technology to generate an obstacle course from the player’s...
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This Interactive & Immersive Graphic Novel is Built From the Ground Up for VR

The Spiraloid Workshop Company (headed by Bay Raitt, former Valve employee, and known as the creator of the facial animation system for the character Gollum in Lord of the Rings) has created the VR comic Nanite Fulcrum, which the...
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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...

Lytro’s Latest VR Light-field Camera is Huge, and Hugely Improved

In the last few years, Lytro has made a major pivot away from consumer-facing digital camera products now to high-end production cameras and tools, with a major part of the company's focus on the 'Immerge' light-field camera for VR....
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‘Tornuffalo’ Shows What Full-body VR Gaming Could Look Like with Vive Trackers

Using HTC’s Vive Trackers, Tornuffalo—named after a combination of 'tornado' and 'buffalo'—has been given a 'Full-Body Action' mode, an early example of full body tracking in a VR gameplay scenario. This simple action game involves dodging flying debris (which...

AMD Acquires Valve-invested Wireless VR Company Nitero

AMD has announced that it's acquired Nitero, a company lately focused on creating technology to eliminate the tether from VR and AR headsets. In a rare move, Valve—co-creator of the Vive and creator of Steam—invested a “significant amount” in the...

Inexpensive GTX 1050 Ti Gets Official Thumbs-Up for Oculus Minimum Spec

Following the launch of the more powerful GTX 1060, 1070, and 1080, NVIDIA revealed the latest in their low-end GeForce GPUs, the GTX 1050 and 1050 Ti in October 2016. While not the first in line for a premium VR...

Apple Points to VR as One Reason Why Next Mac Pro Needs to be More Powerful

At present, modern VR headsets are for the most part unsupported on Apple computers, largely because many of the company's computers do not meet the recommended hardware specifications. Apple may rarely hint at it, but the company is thinking...
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‘Forestry’s’ Procedural Mesh System Offers Unique VR Crafting & Destruction

Procedural mesh destruction and construction underpins Decoder VR’s first title, Forestry, which just launched on Steam. Built for Vive, Rift and PSVR, the game’s fully destructible world presents a vast forest for the player to cut to pieces, which...
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Preview: Visually Dazzling VR RPG ‘The SoulKeeper VR’ Plans For a Full Story With Deep Lore

VR gamers have longed heavily for deeper titles that go beyond the surface-level experiences that make up a large portion of today's VR content. They’ve longed for games with depth and complexity; developer HELM Systems plan to offer exactly...

Hands-on: ‘EVE: Valkyrie’ Groundrush Update Drops Daring Dogfights to Dangerous Altitudes

Fanfest is upon us again, CCP's yearly festival in Reykjavik for all things EVE Online, but to go along with the round table discussions and announcements surrounding the massive multiplayer universe is a new update to the studio's sci-fi VR arcade dogfighter...
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