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Review: ‘Technolust’ is a Gritty Cyberpunk Adventure That Leaves You Begging For More

Technolust, like many others in the cyberpunk genre, stands on the shoulders of giants. Taking cues from neo-noir staples like Blade Runner (1982) and William Gibson's Neuromancer (1984), the adventure game makes good on its promise to deliver the lovably gritty 'high-tech, low-life' atmosphere that cyberpunk fans are after,...

Figuring Out Social VR is Key to Mainstream Adoption

Let’s face it, if there is one VR category that has the most potential, the most controversy, and admittedly the most goofiness, it's social VR. Guest article by Ben Smith Ben is an active investor in VR and digital media, and...

Hands On: The Unspoken and Oculus Touch Made Me a Bad-Ass Wizard

The Unspoken from Insomniac Games wants to use the immediacy of motion controls to give you magical powers and then watch you fight to the death using them. At a special event, Frank He got a chance to go...
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A Look at NASA’s Hybrid Reality Astronaut Training System, Powered by HTC Vive

At NVIDIA's GTC event earlier this month, NASA gave a talk which revealed just how important virtual reality has become to the organisation's Astronaut training program. This talk includes video demonstrations of NASA's advanced experiments designed to give workers...

How to Natively Record Video and Take Screenshots in Gear VR

If you're tired of futzing around with 3rd-party screen recorders to capture your Gear VR play sessions, your long wait is over. Oculus has finally pushed an update to all Gear VR-compatible phones on Android 5.0 that will allow...
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Insomniac Teases Beastly Adventure-Brawler ‘Feral Rights’, Coming to Rift Fall 2016

Insomniac Games today revealed Feral Rights, a single-player VR adventure-brawler set on a mystical island that promises to let you explore your wild side. Coming exclusive to the Oculus Store in fall 2016, Feral Rights gives you control of an orphan on a mission:...
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Insomniac Announces ‘The Unspoken’, a Magical Multiplayer Oculus Touch Exclusive

Insomniac Games, the studio known for series such as Ratchet & Clank and Spyro the Dragon, today announced an Oculus Touch exclusive that promises to have you throwing fire balls and wielding magic of all sorts. It's called The Unspoken. Boasting more than 25 spells and...

Making Calls in VR with HTC Vive’s Bluetooth Functions

Voice calling and messaging comes to the HTC Vive VR system with HTC's Voice Services. We show you how to set it up and tell you if it's any good or not. HTC's announcement at the Mobile World Congress early...

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...

Amazon Brings Road to VR’s Expert Insights to Virtual Reality Hub

Today we're pleased to announce a partnership with Amazon, the world's largest retailer, which leverages Road to VR's expertise to educate and inform those buying VR systems for the first time. Amazon's Virtual Reality Hub page connects customers to the latest...
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Preview: ‘Intone’ is an Audio-Visual Experiment That Could Worry Your Neighbors

Intone is an interactive audio-visual experience built by indie dev Dan Scott (aka 'wheatgrinder'), and while the experiment may seem fairly simple in concept—control the blocks with the sound of your voice—the effects are everything but. Beware: everyone in your vicinity will think you've gone...
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Selfies in VR: Facebook Reveals Social VR Prototype

Facebook today revealed an early prototype of a social VR space during their F8 developer conference, presented on-stage live by Facebook CTO Mike Schroepfer and by Social VR product manager Michael Booth some 30 miles away. Like all online social VR applications, Schoepfer and Booth entered Facebook's...

The Problem With Projections and What Makes the Just-released ‘2016 VR Industry Report’ Different

Today we publish the 2016 Virtual Reality Industry Report. Co-authored with VR business intelligence firm Greenlight VR, the report is a distillation of years of experience, research, and analysis into an accessible and comprehensive foundation of the virtual reality landscape, with the...

Lucid VR Receives $2.1M in Seed Funding, Partnering with ODM Wistron

Lucid VR, the makers of the stereoscopic 3D camera LucidCam, today announced a seed funding round to the tune of $2.1M, bringing a significant raise in funds to the team's successful Indiegogo campaign which attracted over $100,000 in funds over the...

First Look: Striker VR Reveals Latest Prototype Design and Impressive Haptic Effects

Striker VR is moving ahead with their haptic gun technology that we've been anticipating for some time now. The company today has revealed their latest prototype design of the 'ARENA Infinity' which is headed first to out-of-home VR arcade...
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