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Valve Releases ‘The Lab’ Unity Renderer for Free

Valve have released the Unity based renderer for its superb VR experience collection The Lab in an effort to encourage adoption of what it sees as optimal rendering techniques for VR experiences. Although many probably assumed that Valve's collection of VR experiences,...

‘iRacing’ Oculus Rift Support Arrives Next Week

Early-adopters of VR headsets turned to Live For Speed and Project CARS for their VR-enabled sim racing fix, which both have solid support for Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, but we’re finally seeing movement elsewhere. Assetto Corsa’s pre-alpha support...

uSens Grabs $20 Million Series A Investment for ‘Inside-out’ Tracking Tech

This week uSens announced a $20 million Series A funding round led by Fosun Kinzon Capital. Usens is one of the early developers of hand and head tracking tech; according to the announcement from the company this investment will help launch...
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HTC’s First Vive Game ‘Front Defense’ is a WWII Gallery Shooter

Computex 2016 is under way and HTC are out on the show floor in full force with a collection of titles showing off their Vive VR system. One of the titles developed by the company, playable for the first...

‘Tactera’ Review

If you're the sort of person that played the forerunners of the real-time strategy genre, like the '90s PC classic Command & Conquer (1995), you'll be pleasantly surprised with Tactera, a fast-paced mobile RTS game today released for Gear VR. Although it's missing the flash...

AMD Announces RX 480 GPU at $199 Targeting ‘the next 3-4 years’ of VR

At Computex 2016 today, AMD took to the stage to reveal their latest GPU, the RX 480. Priced at starting at $199, the company says they designed the card to help make the first 100 million PCs ready for...
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‘VR Human Anatomy’ to Give Medical Students a ‘Hands-On’ Using Oculus Touch

Vedavi, a medical animation studio working closely with the University of Zurich, wants students to drop the heavy books and plastic models and pick up a pair of Oculus Touch controllers later this year with their highly detailed anatomy software, VR...
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ILMxLAB Discuss Pioneering VR Storytelling with Star Wars and Beyond

Ben Lang sits down with John Gaeta and Vicki Beck to discuss Lucasfilm's focus on immersive storytelling with the formation of ILMxLab last year, and their constant experimentation in the immersive entertainment space. Lucasfilm's ILMxLab are optimistic, perhaps even bullish, about...

HP and MSI Show Off ‘PC on Your Back’ for Untethered Rift and Vive Sessions

HP and MSI are working on concept 'PC on your back' projects (often known as backtops) which opens the door to untethered PC-level virtual reality experiences by allowing you to carry around your VR experience without those trailing cables. A relatively...

Report: Developer Confirms Work on Xbox One VR Title for 2017

VR on Xbox One rumors are gaining momentum as Ars Technica reports that an unnamed game developer is working on a VR title for Microsoft's game console. Ars Technica's Kyle Orland reports, "Ars can confirm that at least one major...

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Out Now for $699, Here’s Why You Should Wait

One of Nvidia's most important GPU launches in years is under way with the first card based on the company's latest 16nm 'Pascal' architecture, the GeForce GTX 1080, available to buy now in its 'Founders Edition' form. But if you...

Existing Phones Unlikely to Qualify as ‘Daydream Ready’, Says Google, VR Fans Should Wait to Upgrade

Google's ambitious Daydream VR platform for Android hinges on a combination of hardware and software to enable a high quality VR experience. To ensure the desired level of performance, Google will certify phones of a certain minimum specification as...

Microsoft Preparing VR Capable Xbox One for Use with Oculus Rift, Reports Suggest

Microsoft may be preparing a new, much more powerful version of their Xbox One games console codenamed 'Scorpio' to power the Oculus Rift some reports are suggesting. As the gaming industry and associated press wind the hype engine up in...
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‘Project Ghost’ Lets You Bend Time Whilst Dual Wielding Lightsabers

A new early prototype game for the HTC Vive is aiming to bring your time-shifting, lightsaber wielding dreams to life with Project Ghost, a new game, early in production, which mashes together so many individually cool ideas, some of...
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Preview: ‘Buzludzha VR’ Gives New Life to an Abandoned Soviet Megastructure

The imposing Buzludzha Monument in central Bulgaria once invoked infallible power, a power that once rested with the nation's Communist Party. The brutalist megastructure, opened to the public in 1981 and later abandoned after the lifting of the iron curtain, now lies in ruins, with...
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