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New deadmau5 and Absolut Vodka VR Experience is Free and Still Not Worth it

Absolut deadmau5 is a new VR experience featuring electronic music artist deadmau5 (aka Joel Thomas Zimmerman). Released yesterday on Oculus Rift, Gear VR and Google Cardboard, fans get a brief chance to see 360 video of deadmau5's studio and concert, and complete a number of...

FOVE Debuts Latest Design for Eye Tracking VR Headset

FOVE, the company behind the eponymous eye-tracking VR headset, today announced that they will be showing off a new industrial design at both Comic-Con and SIGGRAPH 2016 where attendees will have a chance to demo the new headset design themselves. The newly revealed design differs from...
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‘L.A. 2097’ is Your Own Little Slice of ‘Blade Runner’

L.A. 2097 is VR experience loosely based on the tech-noir classic film Blade Runner (1982), and although offering only a single re-imagined scene from the film—Rick Deckard's high-rise apartment balcony—the demo holds a surprisingly tight grip on the imagination. We spoke with project creator...

Visionary VR to Give First Glimpse of Content Creation App at VRLA Next Week

Visionary VR, a stealth virtual reality startup which announced a $6 million fundraise back in March, will give the first glimpse of their VR storytelling application at VRLA. VRLA Summer Expo 2016 is fast approaching. Among a packed list of...

Kite & Lightning Raises $2.5M for ‘Bebylon’, a “mini-Sword Art Online”

Kite & Lightning, an LA-based studio known for some of the burgeoning VR industry's most polished experiences, today announced that their next big project, the VR vehicular melee party brawler Bebylon Battle Royale, has been funded to the tune of $2.5...

AMD Announces Radeon Pro WX 7100 GPU Focused on Professional VR Film Editing

In an event at SIGGRAPH this evening, AMD's Radeon Technology Group introduced a new line of 'Radeon Pro' WX-series GPUs. AMD has aimed the WX 7100 specifically at virtual reality content creation. Radeon Pro WX 7100 Release Date, Specs, and Price Built...
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Mobile VR Headset Veeso Aims to Bring Face Tracking to VR

Veeso, a recently launched Kickstarter project, is aiming to be the first to market with a mobile VR headset that tracks your face's movement; a system that uses head-mounted infrared cameras to track both your eyes and mouth for...

Update Opens the Door for Enhanced Roomscale Tracking with Rift and Touch

A recent update to Oculus Home has enabled support for tracking the Rift and Touch with up to four trackers, enabling robust coverage of a roomscale space. While Oculus doesn't officially support 'roomscale' experiences like those on the HTC Vive,...

Samsung’s New Standalone VR Headset May be Called ‘Odyssey’

Samsung reportedly confirmed back at the company's own developer conference that a new, standalone VR headset was on it's way and new trademark filings may indicate it's name. Considering the non existent market that Samsung's 'Oculus Engineered' mobile headset entered when...
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New Magic Leap Videos Shows AR Shopping and Voice Control

A new video of Magic Leap's augmented reality tech in action was shown at a conference in China today. On stage at the event, Magic Leap CMO Brian Wallace had a one-on-one discussion with Alibaba CMO Chris Tung (Alibaba is...

PlayStation VR Game Prices Previewed in Amazon Listings

Listings on Amazon have revealed prices for some PlayStation VR games, giving an idea of what Sony plans to charge for the first wave of virtual reality titles to hit the console platform. PlayStation VR launches in October and we've...
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NVIDIA Says New Foveated Rendering Technique is More Efficient, Virtually Unnoticeable

NVIDIA Research has demonstrated a new method of foveated rendering which the company says is nearly invisible to users. Researchers behind the new approach say the method can drastically reduce rendering workload, allowing for more detailed virtual reality scenes. The human eye...

OSVR Launches Pre-orders for HDK 2 VR Headset, Begins Shipping July 29

Starting today OSVR is taking pre-orders for the HDK 2, the modular, open source ‘Hacker Development Kit’ VR headset which the organization says will ship starting on July 29th. Sold in its basic configuration for $399, the new HDK 2 will be largely the same...

Valve’s Only VR Title, ‘The Lab’, is the Highest Rated Game on All of Steam

Among more than 9,000 games on Steam, Valve's VR title The Lab is heading the platform's list of top rated games. Valve's The Lab is a free VR-only title that offers players eight short room-scale experiences which range from photogrammetry to castle...

‘The Assembly’ Review

The Assembly is a first-person adventure game that wants to put your moral fiber to the test. Much like a novel, the game alternates back and forth between two characters: a brilliant neurologist entering the shadowy research institute eponymously dubbed 'The Assembly', and...
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