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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. See Also: HTC...

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...
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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...
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‘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...

‘Everspace’ Promises Dazzling Space Combat, Heading for Kickstarter Success with VR Support

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rockfishgames/everspace?ref= Everspace is an unapologetically accessible space shooter with some of the most dazzling visuals we've ever seen - currently on track to hit its Kickstarter target of 225k EUR. What's more, the developers plan virtual reality support. As of writing...
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SHVR Vive Jam Dev Log #3: Crunching and Final Presentations

With just 48 hours to create prototype experiences for the HTC Vive, developers participating in the SHVR Vive Jam in Shanghai worked tirelessly to prepare their projects to present in front of their peers. While the SHVR Vive Jam wasn't...

Littlstar Joins Disney Accelerator, Apps Coming Soon to Rift, Morpheus, and Vive

Disney has added Littlestar, the "VR Cinema Network," to its accelerator program. Joining the media conglomerate’s tech accelerator will give the startup access to Disney’s considerable resources and a chance to garner more investment from industry players down the...

WEARVR Weekly Top Ten VR Downloads – August #3

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. Bali, the famed Island of the Gods, with its varied landscape of...

VRLA Summer Expo to Be Biggest yet with 1,500+ Attendees and 65 Exhibitors – Road to...

VLRA, the premier VR community in Los Angeles, is hosting their Summer Expo 2015 next weekend where attendees will have a chance to check out the latest VR products from more than 60 companies. Road to VR readers can...

Second Life Developer Invites First Creators to Next-gen Made-for-VR Virtual World

Linden Lab, the developer behind Second Life, has announced the invitation of a select group of engineers and creators to trial the company's next generation virtual world, Project Sansar. Project Sansar aims be an early competitor in the race to develop something like...
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