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NVIDIA ‘DesignWorks VR’ to Harness Virtual Reality for Real World Design
NVIDIA today announces DesignWorks VR, a new set of tools that sit alongside their recently launched GameWorks VR SDK, focussed instead on the creation of physical objects in virtual space.
NVIDIA's Quadro line of cards have been around for quite...
Cloudhead Games’ ‘Blink’ to Bring Nausea-free VR to HTC Vive this Holiday
Cloudhead Games, the developers behind one of the first successfully Kickstarted VR dedicated games, have announced their technique called 'blink', a locomotion system they claim eliminates nausea entirely from VR gaming.
VR hardware is improving and the display techniques such...
More VR Juggling With the HTC Vive, This Time Wirelessly
Back in May, Owlchemy Labs, developer of the forthcoming Job Simulator, shared with us a video that highlighted the impressive precision of the SteamVR controllers along with the HTC Vive. Now with the wireless SteamVR controllers in hand, Owlchemy's...
Valve’s ‘Secret Shop’ HTC Vive Demo Introduces You to DotA 2’s Fantastic World Full of Magic
Valve showed off a special HTC Vive demo at this year's Gamescom featuring the shopkeeper from the Dota 2 universe. There's no telling yet, but Secret Shop looks extremely cohesive and shows a taste of what level of VR interaction may be just around...
Hands On: ‘The Assembly’ Offers New ‘Comfort Mode’, a Multi-Pronged Attack on Sim-Sickness
nDreams, a UK based games studio producing upcoming VR title The Assembly, are declaring war on the discomfort commonly associated with first-person VR games. We sat down with Senior Designer Jackie Tetley and Communications Manager George Kelion at Gamescom 2015...
Ximmerse Adds Motion Tracking to PC and Mobile VR Using Stereo Camera Tech
Ximmerse, a tech company based in China, are working on a suite of optically tracked input systems based around a proprietary stereo camera. The system is claimed to work with both PC and mobile based virtual reality.
The three big...
Oculus PC SDK 0.7 is a Major Overhaul, New Direct Driver Mode Made with NVIDIA &...
Oculus have given developers a heads up on their forthcoming PC SDK release, due August 20th. The release brings with it major overhauls, not least of which include a new Direct Driver Mode, developed in conjunction with NVIDIA and...
Formed by Ex Pixar and Bungie Alumni, Limitless Entertainment Says “We will be the Pixar of...
Limitless Entertainment is a new startup created by Tom Sanocki who hails from two of entertainment's biggest heavyweights, Pixar and Bungie. He saw the promise of virtual reality and decided he had to be involved. We talked to Tom...
Hands On: ‘Manus’ Wireless VR Gloves Adding OSVR Integration, Promising Hints of Future Positional Tracking
Manus, the minds behind the eponymous VR data glove and Open Source Virtual Reality (OSVR) partners, have revealed to us that they are well on their way integrating OSVR equipment for their wireless VR gloves
Far from giving up on...
‘Pollen’ Devs Talk Narrative, HTC Vive Integration and Putting Beer Cans into Microwaves
Pollen, a first-person exploration VR game from Helsinki based Mindfield Games, is well on its way for its series of multi-headset launches soon too come, including Sony Morpheus, HTC Vive, and Oculus Rift. We sat down to talk with CEO Ville...
New ‘The Assembly’ Gameplay Video Offers Insight into VR Development
The Assembly is a morally ambiguous adventure game built from the ground up for virtual reality by nDreams. In this new gameplay video, Senior Designer Jackie Tetley walks you through some brand new footage whilst offering commentary on how...
Oculus ‘Toybox’ is a Playground for Touch Controllers and Sets the Bar for Remote Interaction
Gamescom 2015 has just started, a time when a sizeable portion of the European gaming community flocks to Cologne, Germany for a chance to get a glimpse at the newest that the videogame industry has to offer—which in our case...
Crytek and Basemark Announce VR Benchmark Using CRYENGINE
Finnish benchmarking company Basemark have today announced that they're working with game technology house Crytek to produce a virtual reality specific benchmark to test how well your gaming hardware can handle the forthcoming consumer VR revolution.
Hot on the heels...
8i are Generating Light Fields from Standard Video Cameras for VR Video
8i, a startup based in New Zealand, has unveiled a new 3D / VR Video format based on light field technology. 8i claim to be capturing Light Fields using standard video camera arrays, resulting in video you can view...
‘Oculus Cinema’ Getting Online Multiplayer and New Social Features, Coming to the Consumer Rift
Oculus Cinema is a first-party VR application that recreates the experience of having your own personal cinema or leather chair adorned home theater. And while it's great to feel like you're sitting in front of a massive screen, what...



















