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NextVR Livestreams US Open Golf Tournament in VR, App Coming to “All VR Devices”
NextVR and FOX Sports have recently partnered to bring live streaming VR to the 2015 U.S. Open golf tournament. Live VR broadcasts of the event were available onsite and across select North American cities via Gear VR headsets.
NextVR, a company focused...
Meta Expects to Ship 10,000 AR Dev Kits in 2017
The Meta 2 augmented reality dev kit began pre-orders in March of 2016 and has apparently seen quite a bit of interest. By the end of 2016, the company says they began shipping the first Meta 2 dev kits,...
Intel’s Next Project Alloy Prototype to Get Enhanced CV Capabilities, Wider FoV, More Powerful Processor
Intel says 'Project Alloy' is an open reference platform for companies who want to build advanced, all-in-one VR headsets. But the headset itself still in ong going development. Developers working closely with the headset have shared new details on...
New Android Developer Preview Shows First Hints of “Virtual Reality Mode”
It's been clear for some time that Google's virtual reality ambitions extend beyond Cardboard and now we're seeing the first hints that the company will be integrating VR functionality into Android N, the next major release of the company's...
‘Star Citizen’ to Refocus on VR Support in Early 2016
Star Citizen, the massively crowd-funded space adventure game, committed to adding VR support back in 2012, before the now relatively ancient Rift DK1 had even begun to ship. Unfortunately the game's VR support hasn't seen much attention beyond some...
‘Tornuffalo’ Shows What Full-body VR Gaming Could Look Like with Vive Trackers
Using HTC’s Vive Trackers, Tornuffalo—named after a combination of 'tornado' and 'buffalo'—has been given a 'Full-Body Action' mode, an early example of full body tracking in a VR gameplay scenario. This simple action game involves dodging flying debris (which...
Valve is Showcasing 12 VR Games That Will Ship on the HTC Vive This Year
Today Valve is hosting a SteamVR developer showcase in Seattle, WA. Featured are titles from 12 VR developers, all of which will ship on the HTC Vive in 2016, says Valve.
With the HTC Vive approaching pre-orders at the end...
How to Measure Your IPD and Create a VR Player Profile with the New Oculus Configuration...
Oculus VR Inc is making steady improvements to the Oculus Rift SDK; the company recently launched version 2.3. Along with some other changes comes the Oculus Rift Configuration Utility which lets players measure IPD, input height, and create a...
‘Robinson: The Journey’ Launches on Steam with Critical Bug and Lack of Official Vive Support
After remaining a PSVR exclusive since its November release, Crytek's gorgeous Robinson: The Journey recently popped up on Oculus Home and has now come to Steam. Following the unfortunate lack of VR controller support, a rocky Steam release has been...
Hands-on: ‘ARK Park’ is Like Jurassic Park Before Things Went Wrong
ARK Park is a VR spin-off of ARK: Survival Evolved (2017) from Suzhou, China-based Snail Games. Letting you explore the habitats of the world's wild mix of fictional and non-fictional pre-historic creatures, ARK Park is betting big on the pure wow-factor of...
News Bits: Previously Unseen Jaunt VR Camera Prototype Appears Unexpectedly
The Jaunt VR camera has a habit of popping up in curious places. This time we've spotted a previously unseen prototype in Wired's 'Futuristic Gifts for the Super-Early Adopter' list.
See Also: Jaunt VR 360 3D Camera Spotted Ringside at Boxing Match
Jaunt...
Windows Mixed Reality Dev Headsets Ship This Month, VR Content Coming to Xbox Scorpio
The Acer Windows Mixed Reality Development Edition headset is shipping this month, the first HMD to include the inside-out tracking technology pioneered on the HoloLens. This marks the beginning of the rollout of Microsoft-endorsed VR headsets that support ‘world...
‘Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes’ Comes to Gear VR Store, PC Release Later This Year
Steel Crate Games, an Ottawa based indie studio, has today announced that their bomb-defusing party game—Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes—is now coming to the Gear VR store.
The co-op bomb-defusing game makes for an ingenious way of involving a whole group of people both...
Acer to Introduce VR Tech “to surprise everyone” at MWC
Acer has announced its plans to release a VR device in the first half of this year. While Acer is staying mum on the details, we could be seeing prototypes at next week's Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona.
Acer...
Intel Reveals Project Alloy, an All-in-one VR Headset With Mobile Positional Tracking
Today at the Intel Developer Forum event in San Francisco, Intel revealed Project Alloy, an all-in-one mobile virtual reality headset which the company says will launch in 2017 as an "open platform."
On stage at IDF 2016, Intel CEO Brian...



















