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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...

Cyberith Combines Virtualizer VR Treadmill with PrioVR Motion Input Suit (Video), Kickstarter Nearly Funded

Cyberith is powering ahead toward their $250,000 Kickstarter goal to bring the Virtualizer VR treadmill to market. A new video from the company shows the unit combined with the PrioVR motion tracking suit for some truly awesome full body...

NVIDIA Takes the Lid Off ‘Gameworks VR’ – Technical Deep Dive and Community Q&A

Virtual reality is coming, and it's going to need high frame rates and low latency visuals. In this guest post from NVIDIA Graphics Programmer Nathan Reed, we take a deep dive into their forthcoming Gameworks VR initiative. What is it...

First Look: Basemark’s ‘VRScore’ Benchmark Arrives With a Unique Solution for Accurate Testing

Basemark has officially launched its virtual reality performance benchmark, VRScore and the package comes complete with an ingenious, low-cost hardware assisted solution to help ensure results are accurate. I've written previously about how tough a problem benchmarking virtual reality hardware...

‘Adventure Time’ Game Coming Soon to All Major VR Headsets

Adventure Time: Magic Man's Head Games is a whimsical Gear VR 3D platformer featuring all of your favorite characters from the show. Fans of Adventure Time better keep their eyes peeled in the coming months though, as the game is 'coming soon' to...

Smart Solution Makes Handheld VR Cinematography Easy with a Real Virtual Camera

VFX professional Kert Gartner has been pioneering new ways to make capturing virtual worlds as compelling as filming in the real world. His latest technique makes a real virtual camera out of an extra Vive controller and a smartphone. You may...

Google Job Listings Point to New “Mass Production” AR/VR Hardware in the Pipeline

Google launched the Daydream View headset late last year, the company's first virtual reality hardware product. As a smartphone clip-in headset, the View is a relatively simple device which leaves the bulk of the work up to the host smartphone....

HTC Vive Support and “New Morpheus Features” Coming to Unreal Engine 4

According to Epic's Unreal Engine roadmap, the company is soon to add support for Valve's SteamVR / HTC Vive platform as well as new features for Sony's Morpheus VR headset. With strong existing support for both the Oculus Rift and...

VR RTS ‘Cosmic Trip’ to Leave Early Access with New “Fully-featured” Strategy Mode

First-person real-time strategy VR game Cosmic Trip will leave Early Access on May 24th. Developer Funktronic Labs is readying the ‘fully-featured’ RTS mode for the v1.0 launch, along with a digital Deluxe Edition which adds an artbook and soundtrack. Since...
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Microsoft ‘Holographic Shell’ Aims to Immerse You in Windows by 2017

At Intel's Developer Forum this week, Microsoft has announced that it's to bring its 'Holographic Shell' to Windows operating systems everywhere by 2017 with an aim to provide "one platform for VR, AR and MR." For some perhaps, there's nothing...

Oculus Slash ‘Feral Rites’ Price, Gift 6 Free Games to Existing Owners

In an interesting twist to Insomniac's VR brawler Feral Rites' recent release, Oculus have slashed the price of the game to $29.99 from $49.99 stating the price was "too high". In an unusual move, Oculus have seemingly taken on board...

‘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...

Hands-on: NVIDIA Launches GTX 1060 and Benchmarks Against AMD’s RX 480

Today marks the launch of NVIDIA's GTX 1060, the least expensive of the company's 10-series GPUs so far revealed. According to Nvidia, the GTX 1060 matches the performance of the former flagship card, the GTX 980, but at only...

New Oculus Render Tech Cuts Entry Level VR PC Costs to $499

Keeping games chugging along at 90 frames per second (fps) while rendering modern graphics is a tall order, which is why building a VR-ready computer is pretty much impossible with less than $600. Well, now the minimum spec—at least...

YouTube Confirms Stereo 3D 360 Video Support Coming ‘Soon’

After recently adding support for 360 degree videos to YouTube, the company now says that 360 + stereoscopic 3D video support is on the way. The streaming service currently supports 360 or 3D videos, but not both together. Google's tentative toe...
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