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Sneak Peek at The VOID’s Latest Tech to Feature at TED 2016
The VOID, the virtual reality theme park experience, has caused quite a stir in the industry over the last 12 months. Now, the company are taking their free-roaming brand of mixed reality entertainment to TED2016 and Road to VR's...
PlayStation VR: What You Do and Don’t Get in the Box
The PlayStation VR headset will be available from October 2016 for $399, but what do you get for your 400 bucks? That how does what's missing cost you?
As an additional piece of hardware dedicated to gaming, the PlayStation VR...
This Full Video of Valve’s ‘Aperture Science’ VR Demo is Wonderful and Spoilerific
*** Warning: This Video Contains Spoilers ***
Watch as an anonymous player works through Valve's Aperture Science demo, built to demonstrate the capabilities of Valve's new virtual reality technology - HTC Vive.
At the PlayHubs game jam in London last week...
Vive Tracker Enables a Bevy of Bats, Guns, Gloves, and Other Tracked Accessories
Today at CES 2017 HTC announced the Vive Tracker, a standalone tracking module that's designed to attach to anything to become tracked in the virtual world.
We heard at least as far back as the reveal of the HTC Vive...
VR-optimized Forward Renderer Comes to Unreal Engine 4.14, Said to Be 22% Faster
Epic Games touted their VR-optimized forward renderer as the reason why their forthcoming Robo Recall game looks so crisp in VR. Now the tech is available to all Unreal Engine developers in version 4.14 released today.
While deferred rendering has...
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...
Ubisoft’s Star Trek VR Game will Let 4 Friends Command a Starship, Leak Suggests
In what could be dream VR title for many out there, a leaked article from DigitalSpy have revealed details of an upcoming virtual reality Star Trek title that lets 4 players command the bridge of a starship.
Given the crossover of...
New YouTube VR App is Completely Re-designed for Daydream
YouTube has launched a new app to coincide with today's Daydream launch, one that's built for virtual reality headsets and designed from the ground up to work with Google's 'next gen' mobile VR platform.
Immersive video and VR film has...
Facebook Study Finds Introverts Feel More Comfortable with VR Social Interaction
A recent study by Facebook IQ, in which people completed one-on-one conversations in VR, concluded that most people respond positively, and introverts in particular feel more comfortable. Facebook IQ is a team established to assist marketers in understanding the...
Apple Reportedly Could Have Over 1,000 Engineers Working on AR in Israel
According to UBS analyst Steven Milunovich, Apple could have over 1,000 engineers working on Augmented Reality technology in Israel, mostly at its major R&D centre in Herzliya. Milunovich maintains Apple might introduce AR features similar to Google’s Tango in the...
‘Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare’ VR Experience to be Shown on PSVR at Official Fan Event
Debuting early next month at Call of Duty XP 2016, the official fan celebration hosted by Activision, attendees will have a chance to see what's being called an "exclusive" Call of Duty VR experience running on PlayStation VR.
The experience...
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...
Facebook Launches Social VR App ‘Facebook Spaces’ in Beta for Rift
On stage at Facebook's F8 conference this morning, CEO Mark Zuckerberg confirmed that the company will today launch their first social VR application.
Back in October, Facebook Social VR Product Manager Mike Booth said that the company intended to launch their...
‘PlayStation VR Worlds’ Gets New Features to Improve Casual and Competitive Play
PlayStation VR Worlds is a collection of VR mini-games created by Sony's talented London Studio. The studio has detailed new features designed to improve first-time VR experiences for those showing VR to their friends and family, and competitive features...
Oculus Touch Will Support 360 and Room-scale Tracking With Extra Cameras
Long a point of contention, Oculus last week announced a welcome new stance: the Rift will be officially supporting 360 degree tracking and room-scale as part of the forthcoming Touch launch.
At the company's 'Connect' developer conference it was finally...

















