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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...

Hands On: ‘Pollen’ is Still a Sci-fi Mystery Waiting to Unfold

Pollen is an upcoming first-person sci-fi puzzle exploration game produced by Finland based Mindfield Games. Taking you to the far-off research station on the surface of Titan, Saturn's largest moon, you follow an ominous quest to explore a mysterious time-bending phenomenon that has taken hold of the...

VRTGO and nDreams Partner to Offer Mentoring in VR Dev Competition

VRTGO, a leading UK virtual and augmented reality conference, has partnered with nDreams, the developer behind new VR title The Assembly on a new competition designed to promote and support creativity in the UK. VRTGO 2015 is coming November 12th and...
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Watch this Gorilla’s 360 Video ‘Selfie’ that Inspired the Creation of a VR Company

This 360 degree VR video of a young mountain gorilla taking an accidental 'selfie' was so affecting, it drove the photographers to create their own company, VR Gorilla, in honour of the event. Capturing the intimate and private world of...

IM360 to Live-Stream ‘Immersed Europe’ in 360 VR

IM360, the company behind the recent MTV VMA red carpet live stream, are heading to VR expo Immersed Europe to capture "key points" of the show in immersive 360 degree video, designed for VR viewing. Immersed Europe, presented by the...

New Oculus Touch Documentation Reveals Capacitive Buttons and Recognizable Gestures

While the Oculus Touch controller is largely designed to tell the computer where a user's hands are, the controller also has an idea of what a user's fingers are doing. New documentation adds to our understanding of the controller's hand-tracking capabilities,...

Hands On: Otherworld Interactive’s ‘Nimbus Knights’ HTC Vive Demo at VRLA

The VRLA Summer Expo was held this weekend at the LA Convention Center, and it was bigger than ever. Otherworld Interactive was there, showing off their brand new HTC Vive game Nimbus Knights, a cutesy RTS where your aim...

Apple Has a Team “Exploring the AR Space” Analyst Speculates after ex-HoloLens Engineer Hire

Rumours surrounding Apple's entry into the immersive technology sector have been circulating for years. But as both AR and VR retail products begin to ship this year, Apple's latest hire has lead an analyst at Piper Jaffray to suggest that...

PAX Report: Vive Hands-on With ‘Final Approach’, ‘Fantastic Contraption’, and Cloudhead’s Blink System

This weekend's PAX Prime convention in Seattle was home to a number of exciting new experiences for the HTC Vive. This audio report from Voices of VR host Kent Bye gives us his impressions with the latest room-scale experiences. Kent...
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