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New ViveCraft Video Shows How Amazing ‘Rollercoaster Tycoon’ Would be in VR

ViveCraft, an experimental project from Facepunch Studios, has somewhat departed from the blocky Minecraft style and gone full Rollercoaster Tycoon in their newest video. James King, a developer from Facepunch Studios, has taken a new experimental approach with the HTC Vive Minecraft clone....

‘Oculus Social SDK’ Slips Out in Connect 2 Schedule

Details of Oculus' second 'Connect' VR developer conference are now out and hints at a new 'Social SDK' which it's presumed is designed to help developers to create applications designed to being people together in VR. There are many examples of disruptive...

Oculus CTO John Carmack Will Demo His ‘VrScript’ Environment at Connect

John Carmack is something of a legend in the programming world with a history that's intertwined with the early gaming industry. Now at Oculus as Chief Technical Officer, Carmack may be poised to leave a similar mark on the world...

Big ‘Sightline: The Chair’ Update Brings Oculus SDK v0.7 and Unity 5 Upgrades

Sightline: The Chair is a virtual reality demo designed as a sort of showcase for the technology and one we're a big fan of. Now, developer Tomáš 'Frooxius' Mariančík of has released the latest iteration and it's packed with technical...
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WEARVR Weekly Top Ten VR Downloads – September #1

Looking for something fun to play in VR? We’ve got the top 10 downloads from the last week on the WEARVR app marketplace, a cross-platform repository of virtual reality experiences. RGBverse is a constant roller platform arcade with beautiful 3d graphics, non-stop...
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Review: ‘InCell’ is a VR Racer That Puts You Inside the Microscopic World of a Cell

InCell is VR racing game that shrinks you down to play among the micro structures of a human cell. Visuals, gameplay, and the feel of the game are all on point, but some of the educational material seems a little whitewashed...
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Elite: Dangerous ‘Close Quarters Combat’ Beta Released, VR Gameplay Footage Emerges

Elite: Dangerous has been a benchmark virtual reality application for a while now, but for those who love space combat and find the remaining gameplay mechanics of E:D a little laborious, a new, free expansion pack may well provide...

VorpX v0.9 to Bring ‘Direct Driver Mode’ and Enhanced DX11 3D Support

vorpX, the VR injection driver that lets you to play non VR games in VR, has announced that the latest version will be out this month and will include some major updates including reworked DX11 3D Geometry support and Oculus Runtime...

New OSVR HDK v1.3 Headset Gets 120Hz OLED Display, New Optics – Ships in October

OSVR, the open source virtual reality project founded by Razer and Sensics, today announced the latest version of their HDK (Hacker Development Kit) VR Headset. The v1.3 version of the open source headset includes an improved display and optics. After...

OSVR Gets NVIDIA ‘Gameworks VR’ Support, Adds 65 New Industry Collaborators

The OSVR project is celebrating the addition of a further 65 companies in support of their initiative, among them GPU technology giant NVIDIA, adding a low latency, driver optimised 'Direct Mode' to the list of OSVR's features. OSVR has evolved rapidly since we...

Oculus Story Studio Talks Tooling, Using “out-of-the-box tools as much as possible”

Oculus Story Studio, the company's in-house content creation studio that has produced a number of highly polished experiences, recently released a surprising 'tell all' blog post detailing just what sort of tools the team of VR content creators use. Story Studio has the funds, and...

Valve Confirms ‘Aperture Science’ VR Demo is Not HTC Vive Exclusive

In a tweet by Valve writer Chet Faliszek, he has confirmed that the brilliant Aperture Science demo used in Valve's press and public displays of SteamVR hardware at various shows, will not be exclusive to the HTC Vive and will...
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Convrge Devs Release ‘Stacks’ Demo – Create Delightful Worlds in VR, Then Destroy Them

The team behind Convrge, the online VR social platform, have just released a great new demo for the Oculus Rift DK2 which encourages the player to build and create structures within a virtual world and then destroy them with...
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Owlchemy Labs Shows Off New Convenience Store Level in ‘Job Simulator’

Owlchemy Labs's Job Simulator has become a staple demo in the HTC Vive demo reel thanks to its fun and intuitive room-scale interactions with everyday kitchen items. The studio has just revealed a teaser of another job that will...
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Epic Games Releases ‘Showdown’ UE4 VR Demo, Compatible with Rift, Vive, and Morpheus

Epic Games has shown the world some of the most visually stunning VR experiences to date, and today, one of them (Showdown) is being released for free as a UE4 VR sample for developers to learn from. Showdown was created...
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