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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...
‘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....
‘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...
‘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...
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...
New ‘EVE: Valkyrie’ Update ‘Groundrush’ is Bringing Planet-based Dogfights
EVE: Valkyrie (2016), the arcade dogfighter from EVE Online studio CCP Games, is about to get a big update that promises to take the game in what lead game dev Andrew Willans says via an official Sony blogpost "new and exciting...
New HTC Vives Weigh 15% Less Than They Did at Launch
While the Vive is often criticized for its front-heavy weight, the headset has actually managed to slim down over time thanks to manufacturing improvements. HTC has managed to shave 15% off of the original 550 grams (1.21 pounds), bringing...
Gorillaz’ Music Video Breaks Record as Most Successful 360 Music Video Debut
The 360-degree version of Gorillaz’ music video for new track Saturnz Barz received over 3 million views in the first 48 hours, making it the single biggest 48 hour debut for a 360 music video in the (young) history...
Wevr Teases ‘APEX’, Coming to Tribeca This Month From the Creator of ‘Surge’
APEX is the latest real-time VR music video experience directed by Arjan van Meerten, the creator of the acclaimed Surge (2015). The experience is set to debut at the Tribeca Film Festival this month.
Update (4/10/17, 12:50PM PT): A spokesperson for Wevr...
Today Only: Vive Anniversary Brings $100 Discount, Free Content, Viveport Subscription Service Launch
With the Oculus Rift anniversary sale soon coming to an end, it's now time for the HTC Vive—which launched just a week after the Rift—to get in on the celebration. The April 5th anniversary of the Vive launch, which HTC is...



















