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Epic Games Shows You How to Create Your First ‘Robo Recall’ Mod
As has been Epic Games' style for many years, Robo Recall - built on the company's Unreal Engine 4 - allows you to change the original game via the engine's editor, giving you the tools you need to mod...
PlayStation is Developing New First Party PSVR Titles With Support for Aim Controller
At a PlayStation VR session today at GDC, Sony stated that first-party PSVR titles with support for the new Aim peripheral are in development.
Sony's curious looking Aim controller may not be the coolest looking peripheral out there (a dubious...
PSVR Aim Controller Launches with ‘Farpoint’ on May 16th, Co-op Confirmed
At GDC 2017, developers Impulse Gear confirmed that their VR shooter Farpoint has Co-op, and will launch in a bundle with the PS VR Aim Controller on May 16th. An ‘unnerving space adventure set on a hostile alien world’,...
Watch: ‘Robo Recall’ is Playable on HTC Vive Using ‘Revive’ Mod, Here’s How
Oculus Rift exclusive title Robo Recall - which launched just yesterday - can already be played on the HTC Vive, using the infamous Revive mod. And, as you can see in this video, the game seems to work remarkably well.
Oculus' approach...
Google Has Shipped Over 10 Million Cardboard Viewers
The Google VR team shared some impressive figures at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week - more than 10 million Cardboard viewers have been shipped worldwide. Google’s low-cost smartphone enclosure for viewing VR content has been available since...
Hands-on: LG’s VR Headset Glimpses Higher Resolution and New Head-mount Options Coming to SteamVR
LG is the first company after HTC to follow the path laid out by Valve for headset makers to bring their wares to SteamVR. That path involves using SteamVR Tracking technology and OpenVR API to create a headset which...
Hands-on: ‘The Gallery Ep 2: Heart of the Emberstone’ is a Visually Stunning Homage to ’80s...
The Gallery – Episode 2: Heart of the Emberstone is coming this spring to Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, and for fans of the first episode, Call of the Starseed (2016), it can't come a moment too soon. Stepping into the demo at...
CCP Games: How ‘Sparc’ is Made to be a ‘Real Sport’, Not a ‘Sports Game’
Sparc (ex-Project Arena) is somewhat of an oddity in the VR space. While some developers are focusing on recreating certain real-world sports like minigolf or tennis, Eve Online studio CCP has gone a different direction by creating an entirely new sport, one...
Windows Mixed Reality Dev Headsets Ship This Month, VR Content Coming to Xbox Scorpio
The Acer Windows Mixed Reality Development Edition headset is shipping this month, the first HMD to include the inside-out tracking technology pioneered on the HoloLens. This marks the beginning of the rollout of Microsoft-endorsed VR headsets that support ‘world...
Oculus Announces Significant Price Drop for Rift and Touch
In an aggressive move that'll help lower the bar of entry still further for VR, Oculus have announced sizeable permanent price drops for both the Oculus Rift headset and Oculus Touch controllers, both now cut by $100 each.
There are...
Oculus’ Jason Rubin on Wireless VR “the Wrong Direction for Right Now”
Speaking at GDC 2017, Jason Rubin described VR wireless technology as “compressed, not perfect, and expensive” and “the wrong direction for right now”. Rubin’s task at Oculus is to deliver compelling VR content, and believes that hardware features such...
NVIDIA PhysX Demo Shows Rigid Body Physics Interactions on a Massive Scale
The demo, presented at NVIDIA's event yesterday where they announced the new GTX 1080 Ti, covers a large area brimming with opportunity for physics-based interactions, a field of seemingly infinite boulders and a bulldozer created to show off the...
NVIDIA Announces ‘FCAT VR’ Frame Analysis Tool to Help Demystify VR Performance
The latest version of NVIDIA's FCAT VR analysis tool is here and it's equipped with a wealth of impressive features designed to demystify virtual reality performance on the PC.
NVIDIA has announced a VR specific version of its FCAT (Frame Capture...
Valve and SMI are Working to Add Eye-Tracking Support to OpenVR
Eye tracking experts SensoMotoric Instruments (SMI) have collaborated with Valve to bring their technology to OpenVR. Eye tracking-enabled HTC Vive units are being shown at GDC 2017, as part of an R&D effort to integrate eye-tracking support into Valve’s...
Watch: Six Minutes of ‘Mage’s Tale’ Gameplay Shows Real Promise
Mage’s Tale is a VR Action RPG set in the world of classic fantasy RPG The Bard’s Tale. It is being shown at GDC 2017 for the first time on Oculus Rift and Touch and here's six minutes of...




















