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AMD GPUs to Support Asynchronous Reprojection via SteamVR
Announced at AMD’s GDC 2017 press conference, Radeon GPUs will support Asynchronous Reprojection on SteamVR in the next update. The technology helps to maintain smooth head motion when framerate drops below the headset's refresh rate.
Roy Taylor, Corporate Vice President...
Oculus Reveals 6 New VR Titles for Rift & Gear VR at GDC 2017
Debuted at GDC 2017 and announced via their official blog, Oculus offer a first look at some of the titles coming to Rift and Gear VR in 2017. This includes 6 new game reveals across multiple genres, with 4...
25 Minutes of New ‘ARKTIKA.1’ Oculus Touch Gameplay
Launching exclusively on the Oculus Rift in Q3 2017, ARKTIKA.1's polish and presentation has quickly risen it up the ranks to one of the year's most anticipated VR titles. And though it's still months away, we've got a new...
‘From Other Suns’ is an ‘FTL’ Inspired Co-op VR FPS for Oculus Touch That’s Different Every...
Returning to an earlier era of gaming, Chronos (2016) was an unforgiving third-person action adventure game that launched alongside the Rift. Inspired by FTL (2012) developer Gunfire Games is now applying their lauded old-school game design principles to new-school game tech, with...
‘Mage’s Tale’ Aims for 10 Hours of Hand-crafted VR Dungeon Crawling
Mage's Tale is a new title in the works for Oculus Touch by inXile Entertainment that wants to deliver a meaty VR adventure RPG that has you dwelling in dark dungeons for some 10 hours.
Some of the best VR...
Hands-on: ‘ARKTIKA.1’ is Gun-Centric, Highly Detailed and Ready to Impress
Game Developers Conference (GDC) 2017 is here, and Oculus is showing off a bevy of exclusive games that are due out sometime later this year. Among them was an entirely new level of ARTIKA.1, a sci-fi shooter from 4A Games' Malta-based studio that...
‘Killing Floor: Incursion’ Makes You a Co-op Zombie-Killing Machine
Killing Floor: Incursion is an Oculus Touch exclusive co-op horror shooter from Tripwire Interactive, the makers of the Killing Floor franchise. Tripwire refers to it as a 'horde shooter' instead of wave shooter per say, as the zombies that populate the...
Hands-on: ‘Brass Tactics’ is a True Tabletop RTS with All the Classic Trimmings
At Oculus' off-site GDC demo booth we saw Brass Tactics, Hidden Path Entertainment's new real-time strategy game coming exclusively to Oculus Touch after their hit tower defense game Defense Grid 2 Enhanced VR Edition (2016). Filled with a bevy of miniature structures and multiple toy soldier units, the...
‘Twisted Arrow’ Puts a Superpowered Bow at the Center of Phaser Lock’s Next VR Title
Whereas traditional FPS titles have settled on the gun as a primary weapon, it seems the bow & arrow is increasingly becoming a favorite of the VR FPS. Twisted Arrow, the next title from Phaser Lock (the studio behind...
HTC Confirms Vive Tracker and Deluxe Audio Strap Prices and Pre-order Dates
HTC announced the new accessories, the Vive Tracker and Deluxe Audio Strap, back at CES 2017 earlier this year but didn't provide pricing or release date info more specific than Q2. At $100 for each accessory, the pricing falls...
Official: Sony Sold Nearly 1 Million PlayStation VR Headsets in 4.5 Months, Despite Limited Stock
Sony is the first of the big three tethered VR headset makers to drop official PSVR sales figures: 915,000 PlayStation VR headsets sold as of February 19. And it likely could have been more, save for the fact that the device...
Samsung Announces New Gear VR with Touch Sensing Controller Included
Today at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Samsung announced the brand-new Gear VR with Controller, with 70 titles coming soon. The controller is said to add a deeper level of immersion, using motion sensors, and an intuitive touch pad...
Watch: How ‘Star Wars: Rogue One’ Used SteamVR Tracking to Shoot VFX
It's emerged that last year's Star Wars: Rogue One, used existing virtual reality technology - specifically HTC Vive's Steam VR tracking - to allow the film's director to compose visual effects shots for the movie. Watch how it was done.
Whatever you...
SteamVR Tracking HDK Now Available for Anyone to Buy
Valve is increasingly opening its SteamVR Tracking technology—that which powers the HTC Vive's room-scale tracking—to the world. The royalty-free system requires no permission from Valve to be embedded and launched as part of third-party products. And now one of...
‘Bigscreen’ Social VR Desktop App Raises $3 Million Seed Investment Led VC Firm Andreessen Horowitz
Bigscreen Inc, the company behind the social VR desktop app, Bigscreen, last year told us they'd raised a seed round from "Tier 1" VC firms. Today the company has announced details of that round and where they're heading next.
Bigscreen is simple but...

















