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Steam VR GDC Content Partner VR Headset “V minus-1” Revealed

Valve is revealing the evolutionary steps its developer edition Steam VR headset the HTC Vive took before reaching GDC 2015. As part of their Steam VR mini-museum, they've shown the headset that content partners demonstrating applications and software at GDC 2015...

Face to Face With Smaug: Inside Weta’s New Lord of the Rings Oculus Rift Demo

What happens when you take an iconic movie franchise and combine it with UE4, latest Oculus Rift prototype, and the most advanced GPU that Nvidia has ever released? Well, it turns out this combination can transport you to the...

Sony: Morpheus Developers Will be Upgraded to 2015 Prototype

Representatives from Sony confirmed at their GDC 2015 media event that owners of company's VR headset dev kit, Project Morpheus, will be receiving an upgrade to the new and improved 2015 prototype, a device that has made a big...

Developers Start Your Engines: Gear VR Full Launch Next Samsung Product Cycle

At his GDC 2015 session, 'The Dawn of Mobile VR' John Carmack, CTO at Oculus, included lots of information on Gear VR, his primary project at the virtual reality firm. He's also now said with confidence that Gear VR will...

Ubisoft and 11 Other Companies Join OSVR’s Open Source Initiative

OSVR announced today that 12 new partners have signed up to work with the Open-Source Virtual Reality (OSVR) headset, a so called "hacker dev kit" that is intended to be entirely hardware agnostic. Ubisoft, the video game studio best known for popular...

OSVR’s HDK VR Headset Gets Upgraded – Adds 1080p OLED, Video Mirroring and ‘Evaluation’ Positional Tracking

Open Source Virtual Reality's (OSVR) flagship VR headset is to get some upgrades. HDK v1.1 brings a low latency 1080p OLED panel and video mirroring amongst other enhancements, the movement has announced today. We reported on the new Open Source Virtual...

HypeVR Captures Ultra-High Def 360 Degree, Depth-Mapped Video Using a 14 x ‘Red Dragons’ and LiDAR

The 360 VR video market is rapidly getting busier. With companies like NextVR and Jaunt racing to develop technologies and deliver content which result in compelling, immersive video for virtual reality, things are moving fast. Now a new company...

Hands-On with ‘Lucky’s Tale’, Updated Demo from Playful Corp

Playful Corp, the company in partnership with Oculus and makers of Lucky's Tale, gave us a hands-on with the new updated demo, which featured two complete levels and fit and finish that speaks to the near-maturity of the VR games scene. I...

Unity 5 Released, Full-Featured and Royalty Free

With the news still hot off the presses about Unreal Engine 4 releasing their game engine for free to its users, Unity 5 has come out... and it's free too. See Also: DirectX 12 Coming to Unity 5, Can Increase CPU-bound...

Project Morpheus GDC 2015 Media Event Liveblog @ 3pm PST

This afternoon, Sony is hosting press during GDC 2015 to talk Morpheus, the company's PS4 VR headset that was revealed one year ago at this very show. At 3pm PST we'll have liveblog coverage of the event. There aren't many...

Have an Oculus Rift and Leap Motion? Try This Web VR Demo Right Now.

Mozilla is making impressive progress in bringing virtual reality to the web. Today I got to see a surreal new experience that makes use of the Oculus Rift and the Leap Motion directly in the web browser using Mozilla's...

Gameface Launches nVidia K1 Based VR Head Mounted Console, the EP1

Gameface labs, a company who are focusing on mobile virtual reality, have announced their latest VR headset, to be based on the powerful mobile SoC (System on Chip) the nVidia TK1 and sporting a 1440p Samsung fabricated Super OLED...

First HTC Vive / Steam VR Hands-On Preview Emerges “..it’s a massive game changer”

GDC 2015 has only just kicked off, but we're already starting to hear first-hand accounts of Valve's new HTC manufactured VR Headset, the Vive. HTC's Vive announcement at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona yesterday, is barely a day old...

HTC Vive and Steam VR has Google, HBO and Lionsgate as Content Developers

Yesterday, Valve and HTC revealed the 'Vive' VR headset, and there's some pretty big names already working on content for the headset. According to the Vive website, Google, HBO, and Lionsgate are already working to create content for the new headset...

Unreal Engine is Now Free for Everyone

In a surprise move, Epic has announced that its cutting-edge 3D engine 'Unreal' is now free to everyone who wants it. So what's the catch? Well, in short it seems there really isn't one. Epic's ethos is now "We succeed...
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