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Watch: 17 Mins of ‘Arktika.1’ Oculus Touch Gameplay

Arktika.1 is the VR debut for 4A Games, the developers bind the Metro series of first person shooters. The title is built from the ground up for Oculus Touch, here's 17 minutes of the Oculus Connect 3 demo where...

Facebook Plans to Launch Social VR App “As Soon As Possible”

Facebook, parent company of Oculus, is beginning to flex its virtual reality arm. The company wants to use the technology revolutionize how social interactions happen across the web, and we may see the first stages of that plan earlier...

‘Loading Human’ Review

Loading Human is a first-person sci-fi adventure that, much like the pulp fiction space operas of years gone past, puts you in the shoes of a charming 22nd century astronaut straight out of space academy. Instead of launching into the far...

Sony Expects Early PSVR Sales to Reach “Many Hundreds of Thousands”

Sony is setting high near term sales figure expectations for PlayStation VR's rollout. Speaking with CNBC earlier this week, Jim Ryan, President of Sony Computer Entertainment Europe, spoke to the company's confidence in early traction of the PSVR headset. "We know...

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...

‘Until Dawn: Rush of Blood’ Review

Until Dawn: Rush of Blood is a horror rail shooter launch title for PlayStation VR. It begins with a creepy carny warning you about the horrors that lie ahead. Once you ignore his warnings and accept the challenge of...

VR Visual Novel ‘Angels and Demigods’ Hits Kickstarter

The first chapter of Angels and Demigods, 7 Keys Studios’ lightly gamified, anime-style “VR visual novel,” is out, and four more chapters are waiting on funding from a Kickstarter launched September 28. Available for Vive via Steam, Cardboard via...

Ricoh Announces Theta SC, a Colorful Mid-Range Addition to 360 Camera Lineup

Ricoh, the Japanese imaging and electronics company, today announced a new model of the Theta, the company's pocketable 360 camera. It's called Theta SC. The new Theta SC is a lighter, more colorful version of the Theta that has almost everything...

NVIDIA’s Stunning ‘Discovery’ Demo is a Look at the Future of Industrial Design

At GTC Europe in Amsterdam last month, NVIDIA's 'VR Village' was host to a number of cutting-edge virtual reality demos, many of which we’ve had our hands on before. But there was something new being shown behind closed doors. No...

Valve: 300 Companies Already Planning to Use SteamVR Tracking Tech

Valve have revealed that their room-scale tracking technology SteamVR has now been licensed to over 300 companies, many of which plan to release products integrating the tech in 2017. Valve's pseudo-annual developer focused event 'Steam Dev Days' will kick off...
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Watch: 12 Minutes of ‘Robo Recall’ Gameplay with Oculus Touch

One of the flagship announcements at last week's Oculus Connect developer conference, Epic Games' Robo Recall is a slick, polished first person shooter built for Oculus' forthcoming VR motion controllers Touch. Here's 12 minutes of raw gameplay from the...

Battlezone PSVR Dev Diary #1: The Importance of Feedback in Uncharted Territory

Welcome to the 1st in our 3 part series of developer diaries from Rebellion covering the making of the forthcoming PlayStation VR title Battlezone, a reboot of the 1980 Atari arcade classic in virtual reality. In this entry, Senior Designer...

2016’s Proto Award Winners Revealed, Tilt Brush Receives Top Honour

The annual Proto Awards, set up to highlight and honour the best and brightest the VR industry has to offer, is over for another year, with Google's Tilt Brush walking away as the overall winner. But who else made the...

Oculus Says Walt Disney Studios Collaboration Will “Set a Higher Bar for VR”

Among the swath of announcements made at Oculus Connect 3, one of the fleeting but important pieces of content-related news is that Walt Disney Studios is working with Oculus to create a series of VR experiences based on iconic...

Oculus Will Cover Unreal Engine Developer Fees Through First $5M in Revenue, Per Game

Oculus covered a lot of ground during their opening keynote at Oculus Connect 3 this week; among many exciting announcements, one of interest for Unreal Engine developers might be how Oculus says that they’ll cover the royalty fees for any...
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