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How Oculus Studios’ First Touch Shooter Made Me Feel Like a Gun Slingin’ Badass
Dead and Buried is the latest game to come from the first-party Oculus Studios; built specifically for the company's Touch controllers, the game has you gunning down targets backset by an old west mining operation. With your hands directly in...
Virtuix Cancels International Pre-Orders for Omni VR Treadmill
Virtuix, the creators of the Virtuix Omni treadmill, posted an update to customers yesterday stating that they won't be fulfilling pre-orders to customers outside the United States. According to the company, trying to ship the 80kg (175 lbs) square meter box the...
Oculus ‘Medium’ 1.1 Update Brings Major Improvements
On April 12th, Oculus Medium received the 1.1 ‘Large’ update, which added several highly-requested features, including the ability to import reference images. Medium is Oculus’ flagship creative tool for the Touch motion controllers, recognised for its intuitive sculpting and...
‘Holocommander’ Oculus Rift RTS Prototype Emerges from Global Game Jam 2015
Every year the Global Game Jam (GGJ) assembles game developers worldwide—this year spanning 488 locations across 72 countries—and presents them with a theme, something to base their work on for the next 48 hours of feverish game development. This year's theme, 'What do...
Steam Now Boasts More than 600 VR Games and Apps, 30% of Top 10 Steam Games...
Focusing on cross-headset support, Valve aims to make Steam the go-to place for virtual reality content distribution. Now touting more than 600 VR titles, the platform's VR apps are steadily rising through the ranks of the entire Steam library.
Among Steam's...
Google ‘Jump’ is an Open VR Camera Design with “Seamless” Stitching Solution and YouTube Playback
Amidst other VR related announcements from Google at today's I/O 2015 conference comes 'Jump', a VR camera that will follow Cardboard's path by offering up an open design. Google is also revealing the 'Assembler' which the company says can...
The VOID Opens Mixed-Reality Location in Dubai
THE VOID, the untethered mixed-reality park, is opening a new location in Dubai, UAE. The new Dubai-based park is the company's second public location, and will be hosting their Ghostbusters: Dimension experience—the same currently running at their first location...
NVIDIA Announces GTX 1080 Ti, Purportedly 35% Faster Than GTX 1080 at $699
Tonight NVIDIA has announced the top dog of their GeForce GTX graphics cards, the GTX 1080 Ti. The new Ti model succeeds the GTX 1080 to become the flagship GPU of Nvidia's consumer line.
Launched last year, Nvidia's latest 10-series...
Leap Motion Launches Overhauled Hand Tracking Engine That’s Made for VR
Leap Motion formed prior to the VR craze, but it turns out that their goal of allowing you to use your own hands as a way to interact with computers jived quite nicely with virtual reality. In recent years...
‘Neos’ Aims to be the Google Docs of VR World Building
We catch up with Sightline creator Tomáš 'Frooxius' Mariančík whose work to create the Google Docs of VR world building with his latest project Neos, is progressing rapidly.
We've not heard much of Tomáš 'Frooxius' Mariančík, the developer behind the excellent...
Facebook Details Social VR Avatar Experiments and Lessons Learned
Facebook says they want to launch an official social VR experience "as soon as possible;" to get there the company has been experimenting with various approaches to find out which avatars work best for social VR interaction.
During the opening...
Update: ‘Korix’ Claims to be First PSVR Title to Run Natively at 120Hz, Launching March 28th
Korix a visually-minimalist VR RTS headed to PlayStation VR claiming to be the first title to run natively at 120Hz on the headset.
Update (3/21/17, 11:05AM PT): The official PlayStation Blog confirms Korix will be released on March 28th with and...
Magic Leap CEO: “we are making mini-production test runs of our first system”
Following a bout of skeptical press, Magic Leap CEO Rony Abovitz claims the company is already doing production test runs of their first AR "system," which is said to be "small, sleek, cool."
Following an oddly scathing headline from The Verge,...
12% of Americans Plan to Buy VR Within 6 Months, New Research Suggests
A new online study of 12 western countries by Newzoo suggests that 11% of people are looking to buy into virtual reality within the next 6 months, that Spain is the most aware of VR and that Canada is...
Two Companies Working on Products that are Eerily Similar to Microsoft’s HoloLens
HoloLens, a newly announced augmented reality device from Microsoft, is definitely turning some heads to the possibility of interacting with floating apps and games. We can't help but notice though that there seems to be an eerie convergence of...


















