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VRTGO Organisers to Whet UK VR Appetites with Free Demo Day, Sept 10th
One of the UK's leading virtual reality conferences, VRTGO, is on its way to Gateshead, UK on November 12th. But if you can't wait until then to sate your VR hunger, the organisers are holding a VR demo day on...
Valve Dials Back Vive Release Expectations, Suggests Bulk Will Ship in Q1 2016
Having revealed SteamVR and the Vive VR headset just six months ago, Valve and HTC set an aggressive consumer release date of Q4 2015. This would make the companies first-to-market over major competitors. Now, however, Valve is dialing back...
HTC: Consumer Vive Is “Gonna Look a Lot Different” – Modular Headphones, New Mounting System, and...
While the HTC Vive's room-scale VR experience is one of the best available today, the device itself still needs to undergo a significant metamorphosis from development kit to consumer-ready product. Details about exactly what changes we'll see in the...
‘Fantastic Contraption’ Devs Announce VR Remake for HTC Vive, Coming to PAX Prime
Fantastic Contraption, the free 2008 building game that challenged players to use a variety of tools to get their contraptions from point A to point B, is receiving a 3D makeover for virtual reality on the HTC Vive.
According to...
‘Two Bit Circus’ Can Sync Audience Experiences in VR, Tech to Debut at VRLA
Two Bit Circus VR, an experiential entertainment company based in LA, has developed a system to sync 360 VR video experiences across 'limitless' local Gear VR users to help create a truly shared VR experience.
As isolating as virtual reality is...
Preview: ‘Null of Hope’ Brings the Retro Adventure RPG to VR
Null of Hope, a retro first-person adventure RPG produced by Wade Arcade, gives a new twist to the genre and puts you in the game like never before. A 'list and click' variant of the popular 'point and click' games of the...
First Trailer for ‘Final Approach’ for HTC Vive and Oculus Rift Lands
We wrote yesterday how Texas based code-house Phaser Lock Interactive was to debut their new VR airport management title Final Approach at PAX Prime in Seattle from Friday. Well, feast your eyes on the very first trailer to accompany the...
Vive Dev Kit Signups Closed, “Hundreds” of Kits May Still Be Pending Shipping
As the Q4 2015 launch of the consumer version of the HTC Vive draws near, signups for the Vive Developer Edition have officially ended. Valve says that Vive development kits will continue to ship through the coming months.
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Phaser Lock Interactive to Demo ‘Final Approach’ on HTC Vive at PAX
Phaser Lock Interactive, a developer formed from veteran coders from the games industry, are to bring their SteamVR HTC Vive launch title Final Approach to PAX Prime in Seattle this weekend. The team will have HTC Vive hardware at the show to...
Candy Crush Creator’s ‘Resolution Games’ Captures $6M From Google Ventures to Build Accessible VR Games
Resolution Games, a company formed from mobile development veterans, has announced it's to receive $6 million in funding from Google's investment arm to make VR games everyone can play.
You can almost smell the money circulating the VR industry right...
Jimmy Kimmel Sends Up Virtual Reality Facebook in New Skit
Virtual reality is probably doing something right if people are poking fun at it and in a new skit from the Jimmy Kimmel Live talk show, Facebook's relationship with Oculus and that social network's possible VR future is mercilessly...
‘Marble Mountain’ Fuses Retro Arcade Gameplay with VR Immersion
Lightning Rock is a small development company based in Australia who are working on a retro inspired action puzzler called Marble Mountain who's Steam Greenlight campaign is currently doing rather well.
If you take Atari arcade classic Marble Madness and mash...
Proto Awards Nominees Announced, Jonah Ray to Host September Award Ceremony in Hollywood
The 2015 Proto Awards are just around the corner and the VRF, the organization running the show, has announced the nominees. Comedian Jonah Ray has been selected as the host of the award ceremony.
Following an impressively executed inaugural award show...
Hands On: KartKraft VR Experience Revealed at Gamescom 2015
KartKraft, a go-kart sim created by Melbourne based games studio Black Delta, revealed VR-compatibility at Gamescom 2015 for their upcoming title. I had a chance to hop into their 6-degree-of-freedom hexapod motion simulator to race along a laser-scanned, virtual version of Geelong...
Kat Walk VR Treadmill Kickstarter Raises $150,000
Kat Walk, the newest addition to the lineup of VR treadmills, has raised a total of $149,278, putting them well over their initial $100,000 Kickstarter funding goal. KatVR, the China based company behind the VR locomotion device, have announced that non-Kickstarter pre-orders...



















