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‘Cardboard Enabler’ Opens Google’s VR Library to Gear VR, No Root Required
Are you the sort of person that lugs around your Gear VR and Google Cardboard on your mission to evangelize the ever-living-hell out of virtual reality? Well, the Cardboard Enabler for Gear VR wants to free up some space...
‘Bullet Train’ on the Latest Oculus Touch Makes You a Bullet-Catching Badass
If you didn't know you could catch bullets, Epic Games wants you to reconsider in their physics-bending VR first-person shooter Bullet Train. The game gives you a few well-placed commands in the beginning, and thankfully no lengthy tutorializing as such.
Time dilates...
The First Oculus Rift Has Shipped, Deliveries Begin Monday
It's been a long time coming, but the very first Oculus Rift consumer headset is due to arrive to customers starting this Monday the 28th.
Anticipation is palpable for the first deliveries of the Oculus Rift VR headset which began...
Multiplayer ‘Siege VR’ Prototype Highlights Solid STEM Tracking Performance
At GDC 2016 we got to take a look at the latest STEM VR controllers from Sixense. With units purportedly on track to begin shipping next month, the company is also committing resources to create a promising cross-platform multiplayer...
FOVE Raises $11 Million Series A Investment to ‘Accelerate Mass Production’ in Fall 2016
FOVE today announced a Series A investment of $11 million led by the Colopl VR Fund with participation by Hon Hai VC fund 2020, and Samsung Ventures.
Fove, who is creating a VR headset with inbuilt eye-tracking, raised $480,000 on Kickstarter last...
Unity’s VR Editor Lets You Create VR Content Like a God
At a special event at GDC this morning, Unity's Principal Designer Timoni West showed off the latest prototype of Unity's new Virtual Reality editor that lets you build VR applications and games as if you were a god.
The two biggest...
PlayStation VR Pre-orders Sell Out in Minutes at Amazon, 4 Other Stores Still Taking Orders
Those hoping to board the early train to VR town were likely dismayed today when Amazon's PlayStation VR Launch Bundle pre-order sold out within minutes of going live. Luckily it may not be too late. In the US, Best...
Hands-on: Oculus Touch 2016 Prototype Brings Refinements to an Already Elegant Design
Oculus Touch won't launch until the second half of 2016, but the company continues to iterate on the impressively ergonomic VR controller. We went hands-on with their latest prototype at GDC 2016 last week.
This article discusses the changes between...
Crytek and Basemark Accidentally Made the Most Spectacular Cinematic VR Short I’ve Ever Seen
At GDC 2016 I saw an early version of VRScore, a virtual reality benchmarking program created in collaboration with Crytek and Basemark. To test PC hardware performance to ensure enough power for running VR experiences, Crytek created a real-time...
Sam Macaroni’s ‘Junkbots’ Used a Custom Camera Rig to Capture Seamless 360 Action
Over the last four years, Sam Macaroni has pumped out over two hundred movies on YouTube. Before that, he was carving up Hollywood as an actor and a director. Last year, someone placed an Oculus Rift DK2 on his...
OptiTrack’s Precise ‘Void’ Style Tracking Lets You Play Real Basketball in VR
World renowned motion capture specialists OptiTrack were at GDC this year demonstrating their mo-cap systems integrated with VR simulations. They chose to highlight their wide-area, camera based optical tracking solution using a basketball demo which let players handle, bounce...
Serious Simulations Claim Their ‘Zero Frame Latency’ Tech Can Make VR Headsets Wireless
Serious Simulations, a virtual reality, military training solutions provider, say they may have a solution to the tethered desktop virtual reality conundrum. Serious claim that their wireless streaming solution is capable of delivering wireless streaming video at a latency...
Watch Epic Games’ Nick Donaldson Build a Scene in Unreal’s VR Editor
Epic senior designer Nick Donaldson schooled us on some of the intricacies of Unreal's new VR Editor, modifying a pre-built demo scene using the Oculus Rift and Touch controller in the Epic booth at GDC.
The Unreal VR Editor announced just last month...
GDC 2016 Round Table Discussion – PlayStation VR, Minecraft VR, Star Wars and More
I'm joined again by Road to VR co-founder Ben Lang & writer Scott Hayden to do a wrap-up of Wednesday's GDC news including all of Sony's PlayStation VR Announcements, the Star Wars Trials on Tatooine experience by ILMxLAB, and...
Preview: ‘John Wick: The Impossible Task’ Puts You in the Shoes of an Elite Assassin
John Wick - The Impossible Task is an upcoming shooter from Starbreeze Studios working in collaboration with WEVR, Grab Games and Lionsgate that throws you into the John Wick universe for dual pistol-wielding action. We went hands on with the demo shown at this year's GDC...
