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New AMD Driver Adds Spacewarp & Reprojection to More Radeon GPUs
Oculus' Asynchronous Spacewarp rendering technology is designed to smooth out the VR experience by making dropped frames a thing of the past. The tech rolled out several months ago, but some of AMD's older Radeon GPUs didn't get support...
It Was Only a Matter of Time: The Star Wars Mod for ‘Robo Recall’ is Here
We all saw this one coming, and yet it still looks like a blast. Robo Recall now has an unofficial Star Wars mod that dresses up the game with a fresh coat of paint and new weapons.
With official modding support,...
Facebook Expands 360 Livestreaming to All, Adds More Cameras and Spatial Audio
As promised at its December launch, Facebook has now enabled Live 360 video streaming globally on all Profiles and Pages, allowing anyone with a 360 camera to broadcast live. The global roll-out introduces a wider range of camera compatibility,...
Wireless Vive Adapter TPCAST to Ship First Pre-orders by Month’s End
Shipping of the first TPCAST Wireless Adaptors for HTC Vive has been delayed for a few weeks and is now expected by the end of April. In a statement posted on Weixin, TPCAST apologised to pre-order customers, explaining that...
IKinema Teases More Impressive Full Body Mocap with Vive Tracker
A new video produced by IKinema showcases Orion, their new full-body animation system that uses HTC Vive tracking hardware. Their expertise in inverse kinematics results in convincing, affordable motion capture using a small number of tracking points.
The Vive Tracker's...
Eye-tracking Glasses Give Glimpse into Professional Pianist’s Perception
For immersive technologies like AR and VR to be effective, they need to understand not only about our world, but also about us. But we don't even understand us all that well yet; as we capture more biometric information on...
Get a Free Gear VR + Controller with Galaxy S8 Pre-orders, Offer Lasts Until 4/20
With the Galaxy S8 and S8+ coming later this month, Samsung is hoping to sweeten the deal with a free Gear VR headset and Controller for US and Canadian pre-orders before April 20th. And while there are plenty of...
Oculus CTO: Improved Gear VR Visuals Part of a “brand new Oculus runtime system,” Details Improvements
In an update rolling out to Gear VR users over the next few weeks, Oculus Home on Gear VR will see a 2x boost in pixel resolution, according to Oculus, and load times improved as much as 3x. Oculus...
VRLO 7 Brings Latest in VR and AR to London from Epic Games, HTC, Rewind, and...
VRLO, the UK’s leading meetup for virtual reality practitioners and enthusiasts, had its seventh edition on March 20th. Hosted by Rewind, in association with Advertising Week Europe, VRLO 7 attracted 350 attendees who glimpsed the present and future of...
‘Virtual Virtual Reality’ on Google Daydream Plays on Popular Anxieties of the Near Future
It's the joke everyone in the VR space has made at least once: 'virtual virtual reality—how meta!' But developer Tender Claws has taken the idea and applied it to a new Daydream experience which explores common themes of "VR, AI...
‘Ghost in the Shell’ VR Experience is an Awe-Inspiring Deep Dive into the Mind of Major
The live-action Ghost in the Shell (2017) film starring Scarlett Johansson is already in theaters worldwide, but Oculus has today published the VR experience so you can get a slice of the android-kicking action direct on your Gear VR or Oculus Rift.
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TouchSense Force Plugin Aims to Help VR Game Devs Make Better Haptics, Faster
Founded in 1993, Immersion Corp. designs and licenses haptic technology that's come to be used in gamepads you're well familiar with. Now the company is developing a new haptic programming system which aims to help game developers make better...
‘Downward Spiral: Prologue’ Review
Downward Spiral: Prologue (2017) is a sci-fi adventure game that takes you into a lovingly recreated '70s retro future of CRT monitors and space stations abound. Featuring a single-player and coop mission, and multiplayer deathmatch mode Downward Spiral: Prologue feels like...
Hands-on: Rhythm Game ‘Audio Beats’ is a Hidden Gem That Plays to VR’s Strengths
At SVVR 2017 this week in Silicon Valley, Chinese VR developer organization VRCore brought a range of content to the show representing some of the VR work happening in the West. Among that content was Audio Beats by developer Famiku,...
Oculus Co-founder Palmer Luckey Bids Goodbye to Facebook
Palmer Luckey, the co-founder of Oculus VR and designer of the Oculus Rift, is stepping down from his position at the company.
Oculus told Upload VR the news, saying that it will be Luckey's last week at the Facebook-owned VR headset...


















