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100+ AR/VR Companies to Gather at This Week’s SVVR 2017 Expo – Save $200

This week's Silicon Valley VR Expo 2017 is set to bring together the core of the VR industry from Silicon Valley and beyond. As VR's biggest industry event, this year's event represents the most diverse group of companies from around...

PSVR Dating Sim ‘Summer Lesson’ to Get English Subtitles and Broader Release in April

Summer Lesson, a rather unique offering among PSVR games, launched alongside the headset in Japan back in November. Now, come April 28th, the game will see a broader release into Southeastern Asia release with English subtitles, opening the door...

‘Robinson: The Journey’ Executive Producer Departs Crytek Amid Company’s Struggles

A little more than four months following the launch of Robinson: The Journey, Executive Producer on the title, Elijah Freeman, has departed Crytek for Virtuos, a game and asset production studio. Meanwhile Crytek attempts to get company back on track. As...
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‘MyLab’ on HoloLens Brings an Interactive Periodic Table to the Chemistry Classroom

Education is widely expected to be an area where AR and VR will see major play, but we can't start at zero and immediately arrive at a world of immersive, transformed education. It takes stepping stones. MyLab is one such...

‘Obduction’ VR Review, Now with Touch and Vive Support

Obduction is an adventure game hailing from Cyan, the same studio that produced the '90s point-and-click classics Myst (1993) and Riven (1997). The game has been hotly awaited since it netted over $1.3 million on Kickstarter back in late 2013, but despite the fact...

‘Starfighter Inc.’ Promises VR Space Combat Sim Built on a Hard Sci-Fi Foundation

Starfighter Inc., said to be the spiritual successor to X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter (1997), is one of the most interesting space combat simulation projects currently in development. Recently relaunched on Kickstarter, developers Impeller Studios’ new crowdfunding campaign has a...

London VR Dev Meetup Returns April 3rd with Holographic Streaming, New 3D Sound System, and VR...

Hackney House London is the new venue for the return of the London VR Developer Sessions in partnership with the upcoming Virtual Reality Show. The tri-monthly event presents a forum for immersive content developers to meet, share, collaborate and...

‘Assetto Corsa’ Racing Sim Adds Support for Vive & OSVR via Native OpenVR

This week's v1.13 update to Assetto Corsa includes native OpenVR support, adding official Vive and OSVR support to the title. The popular racing simulator previously only supported the Oculus Rift, and HTC Vive owners had to use the Revive hack...

‘Drop Dead’ for Oculus Touch Review

When Gear VR games are ported to the Rift, you usually end up with is more of the same; a game with nicer graphics and the added benefit of positional tracking, but more or less the same experience. However...

‘NCAA March Madness Live VR’ Let’s You Watch the Courtside Action for $2

The dream of watching live sports courtside from the comfort of your home through VR is steadily becoming a reality. Oculus and Intel have teamed up with Turner Sports and CBS to stream six March Madness games live in...
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‘Warpaint’ Brings Tabletop Gaming-inspired Turn-based Strategy & Customization to VR

Recently launched on Steam, Warpaint is a turn-based strategy game that lets you customize your troops by painting them to your taste. The game supports both Mac and PC, and features VR support via SteamVR (Vive, Rift, and OSVR)....
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‘Apex’, the Next Real-time VR Music Video from Creator of the Acclaimed ‘Surge’, Premiers Next Month

Arjan van Meerten, the indie 3D artist and musician behind the widely acclaimed Surge VR music video, has confirmed Apex as his next project. Update (3/21/17, 11:35AM PT): In development since 2016, the followup to the acclaimed Surge is finally set...

Update: ‘Korix’ Claims to be First PSVR Title to Run Natively at 120Hz, Launching March 28th

Korix a visually-minimalist VR RTS headed to PlayStation VR claiming to be the first title to run natively at 120Hz on the headset. Update (3/21/17, 11:05AM PT): The official PlayStation Blog confirms Korix will be released on March 28th with and...

‘Ghostbusters VR’ Experience Comes to PSVR, from Makers of Acclaimed ‘The Walk’ Demo

It seems the Ghostbusters franchise isn't done capitalizing on the video game market just yet, because the first installment of a new Ghostbusters experience is heading to PlayStationVR today. The experience (read: not game) was developed by CreateVR and Sony's in-house VR production studio, and is entitled Ghostbusters VR –...
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Avegant Claims Newly Announced Display Tech is “a new method to create light fields”

Avegant, makers of Glyph personal media HMD, are turning their attention to the AR space with what they say is a newly developed light field display for augmented reality which can display multiple objects at different focal planes simultaneously. Most...
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