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Combining Game & Story with ‘The London Heist’ + Reflections on Exclusive VR Content
Sony's The London Heist is one of the best fusions of narrative VR storytelling with interactive game components. It's structured as a flashback sequence starting with you being confronted within an interrogation room, and there are branching narratives that...
Catching Up with nDreams’ ‘The Assembly’, Coming to Rift and Vive July 19th
The Assembly from nDreams is coming soon, and with an official release date of July 19th now announced, we thought we'd take some time to catch up on this intriguing story-driven thriller built from the ground up for VR.
The...
HTC-led Venture Capital Consortium Represents $10 Billion Earmarked for VR
This week at MWC Shanghai, HTC announced the Virtual Reality Venture Capital Alliance (VRVCA), a consortium of 28 venture capital firms focusing their funds on virtual reality. Collectively, the group represents more than $10 billion in capital aimed at...
Starbreeze Bolsters VR & AR Team with $1.65M Acquisition of ePawn
Starbreeze continues to make strategic VR/AR partnerships as today it has announced a $1.65M acquisition of augmented reality and "toys to life" company ePawn, who bring them some intriguing technologies with potential applications for the immersive space.
Starbreeze seems to...
Google is Adding a VR Shell to Chrome to Let You Browse the Entire Web in...
Google is working to add fully immersive browsing capability to Chrome, allowing users to browse any part of the web in VR, not just those sites that are specially built for VR.
Google has played an active role in helping to...
AMD Launches RX 480, the $199 VR-Ready GPU
AMD today launched the Radeon RX 480, the company's budget-friendly GPU that promises to lower the barrier of entry into virtual reality. And while VR still isn't exactly what you'd call cheap, budget-conscious consumers looking to upgrade their old...
Watch Rick and Morty Creator Justin Roiland Sketching and Riffing in VR
Social platform AltspaceVR welcomed voice actor and creator of cult show Rick and Morty, Justin Roiland who joined a virtual audience inside the social VR platform where he drew, riffed and generally entertained everyone.
Justin Roiland is one of those...
Latest ‘Revive’ Update Lets You Play 35 Oculus Home Games on HTC Vive
Revive, the mod which lets HTC Vive owners play games released only on Oculus Home, has just got a new release and is now compatible with 35 titles in the Oculus Store.
Revive, a free mod project created by LibreVR in...
‘New Retro Arcade’ Tech Demo Launches with HTC Vive and Rift CV1 Support on Steam
Developer Digital Cybercherries has launched the New Retro Arcade Tech Demo on Steam for the HTC Vive. The tech demo is functionally identical to the game seen previously on the Oculus Rift, but now with support for the Vive's...
How to Sharpen Your HTC Vive’s Visuals with Supersampling
Want to substantially improve image quality whilst immersed in your HTC Vive? Here's details of a new tweak that allows you to engage supersampling in SteamVR and compatible games with the resulting differences impressive - as long as your...
Acer to Invest $9 Million in Starbreeze to Help Manufacture StarVR Headset
Taiwan-based electronics firm Acer recently announced an investment into game studio Starbreeze equating to the sum of $9M USD, an amount intended to further the manufacture and commercialization of Starbreeze's high-FOV, high resolution StarVR headset.
The investment, which comes on the heels of the news...
Preview: ‘The Crystal Curse’
The Crystal Curse is death-defying puzzle game created by Sigtrap Games for HTC Vive. Make sure to invite your friends and family though, because much like the breakout hit Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes, The Crystal Curse requires more than one person...
Ragnarok VR is an Immersive Remake of the Biggest MMO You’ve Never Heard Of
This is Ragnarok VR, a virtual reality remake of an early and hugely popular Korean MMO, which takes the original's 3D assets and recreates the fantasy world in immersive 3D for a dose of immersive nostalgia, for those that have heard...
Polynomial 2 Aims to Hold You in a Musical VR Trance, Out Now on Steam
Polynomial 2, the sequel to the 2010 original, brings its trance inducing, laser fuelled musical charms to virtual reality.
The original Polynomial received some reserved critical reaction on its release back in 2010. In fact, although reviews appeared in gaming publications...
‘Final Approach: Pilot Edition’ Lets Oculus Rift Players Take Flight
Final Approach lands for the Oculus Rift with developer Phaser Lock Interactive coming up with a novel solution to the VR platform's current lack of motion controllers, instead of guiding planes into land, they let you fly them.
Phaser Lock Interactive's...




















