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Sixense STEM Edges Closer to Release

Sixense, the company behind the much beleaguered motion control system STEM, have released what they term 'positive' results from their latest round of EMC (Electromagnetic Compatibility) testing. The STEM system from Razer Hydra creators Sixense, having been successfully Kickstarted back...
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This Full Video of Valve’s ‘Aperture Science’ VR Demo is Wonderful and Spoilerific

*** Warning: This Video Contains Spoilers *** Watch as an anonymous player works through Valve's Aperture Science demo, built to demonstrate the capabilities of Valve's new virtual reality technology - HTC Vive. At the PlayHubs game jam in London last week...
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Dave & Buster’s Hosts Wireless VR System from VRcade, ‘Time Zombies’ and ‘Interstellar Marine’s Bullseye’

Dave & Buster's Milpitas, CA location is now playing host to the restaurant arcade chain's first wireless VR system, an optically tracked solution created by VRcade. VRcade, a gaming and entertainment-centric division of VRstudios, have launched two titles on their...

AMD’s ‘LDK’ is a ‘Liquid VR’ PC Platform for Developers, to Ship with CryEngine this Year

AMD's Liquid VR, an initiative to enhance virtual reality experiences on the company's GPUs, has a development kit that will ship this fall and it'll come with a full copy of Crytek's CryEngine as part of the package. AMD's virtual reality...

Oculus Acquires Pebbles Interfaces, Computer Vision Hand Tracking- Breaking

Oculus today announced the acquisition of Pebbles Interfaces, an Israel based firm focused on depth sensing technology and computer vision for the purpose of hand tracking. According to Oculus' blog post, Pebbles Interfaces will officially be joining "the hardware engineering and computer vision...

‘Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes’ Comes to Gear VR Store, PC Release Later This Year

Steel Crate Games, an Ottawa based indie studio, has today announced that their bomb-defusing party game—Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes—is now coming to the Gear VR store. The co-op bomb-defusing game makes for an ingenious way of involving a whole group of people both...

Radial-G Update #4 Adds Oculus SDK 0.6.0 Support, “Gruelling” Single Player Campaign

Tammeka Games' Radial-G, the futuristic 'Wipeout' inspired racer built from the ground up for VR support, has just been updated with Oculus SDK 0.6.0 support and the addition of a challenging new single player campaign. The latest update to Radial-G has...

‘The Last Starfighter’ TV Spin-off to Integrate Virtual Reality Enabled Scenes

1984 cult classic The Last Starfighter, beloved by 80's video-gamers the world over, is coming back in a new TV spin-off that will apparently feature scenes created for virtual reality. The Last Starfighter (1984) is one of those cult classics...

‘VRTGO 2015’ UK Conference to Usher in Consumer VR on November 12th

One of Europe's premiere industry VR conferences, VRTGO, is back on November 12th and, like last year, the event promises appearances from some big industry names and a greater emphasis on commercial virtual reality. The north of England isn't the first place...

‘VRLO’ Gathers Virtual Reality Industry Creatives for New London Meetup on 15th July

VRLO, a London, UK based virtual reality meetup has it's inaugural event on 15th July with the likes of Two Big Ears, RewindFX and VRSE.Works scheduled to speak. The virtual reality community continues to blossom and as the industries that have...

Why the Oculus Rift’s Integrated Headphones Might Replace Your Gaming Headset

At E3 2015 we got our eyes and ears on the consumer Oculus Rift, which now of course includes integrated headphones. Here's why we think you may consider ditching your existing gaming headset in favour of Oculus' alternative. Oculus' inaugural 'Connect' developer conference...

Grab One of 50 Early Access Tickets to Today’s Sold-out SoCal Virtual Reality Conference

Today's SoCal Virtual Reality Conference & Expo event in Irvine is chock full of talks, panels, and demos from VR pioneers. If you didn't manage to nab yourself a ticket before they sold out, you're in luck: we've got...
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WEARVR Weekly Top Ten VR Downloads – July #2

WEARVR and Road to VR are joining forces this month to bring you VR goodness from the WEARVR app marketplace, a cross-platform repository of virtual reality experiences. This video gives a glimpse of the top 10 most popular experiences...

End of an Era: Disney’s First VR Attraction Set to Close

Sad news greeted the VR attractions sector with the confirmation from the Orlando Sentinel that DisneyQuest, the famous Indoor Interactive Theme Park, would be closing its doors in 2016 for the final time. Originally opened in 1998, the Orlando, Downtown...

‘Blocked In’ Creator Daniël Ernst on the Art of the Virtual Reality Diorama

Daniël Ernst is the founder and sole member of The Shoebox Diorama, a production company dedicated to exploring the brand new artistic possibilities of a new genre, the virtual reality diorama. Ernst has thus far eschewed VR's early rush for cheap thrills...
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