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Proto Award Winning ‘Synthesis Universe’ Teases Breathtaking Visuals – Hands-On
Synthesis Universe is a rare thing, a virtual reality game which has been in development for over 3 years. Paul James goes hands-on with the neon infused, futuristic teaser experience for the Oculus Rift DK2 and comes away wanting...
Mozilla Research VR Launches Experimental Website Compatible with Oculus Rift
Earlier this year Mozilla began exploring virtual reality capabilities for the web. Now, they have released MozVR.com, which they call “a VR website about VR websites,” in celebration of the 10th anniversary of Firefox. It uses a virtual reality...
Hands-on with Fove’s First Eye-tracking HMD Prototype
At Engadget Expand 2014 in NYC I got to take a look at Fove, a head mounted display with integrated eye-tracking. This is an older prototype made some time ago, but demonstrates the core technology and potential benefits of eye-tracking...
News Bits: ‘Dumpy Going Elephants’ Now Released for DK2
One of the most unlikely ambassadors for virtual reality gaming to come out of Indiecade's 2013 VR Jam contest, Dumpy Going Elephants has now been released in it's first DK2 compatible version.Back in September 2013, the IndieCade VR Jam contest,...
Samsung Gear VR Gets Positional Tracking Via Sixense STEM, Announced at SFVR (Video)
Samsung's Gear VR is close to release, if recent rumours are to be believed, and it's certainly hotly anticipated. At a recent SFVR meetup, Sixense demo'd a solution to the Note 4 powered VR headset's one glaring feature omission -...
VR Dev Storms Comic-con with Z0NE and an Oculus Rift, Here’s His Video Diary
There's absolutely one constant with virtual reality, it's a medium that provides an experience that cannot be adequately described. You have you be shown to understand what good VR feels like. It's a sentiment developer of VR shooter Z0NE...
Longbeach VR Inaugural Meetup Highlights Local VR Talent
The 1st official virtual reality meetup in Long Beach was hosted at California State University Long Beach on November 4th, 2014 which brought together people from all over the West Coast. LBVR’s foundation is one built on the cross-section...
After Raising More Than $55,000, Dexta Robotics Cancels Kickstarter for Haptic Hand Exoskeleton
After raising just over $55,000 with the assistance of online crowdfunding, the Chinese mechanical exoskeleton company Dexta Robotics has canceled the Dexmo campaign on Kickstarter.
This affordable mechanical exoskeleton was developed to provide forceful feedback to those wearing it and...
Former Call of Duty Developers Working on Mutiplayer VR Shooter
Developer Reload Studios, made up of former Infinity Ward employees, creators of the mighty Call of Duty franchise, has shared details of its plans to produce a VR focussed first person shooter targeting VR headsets such as the Oculus...
Avegant Closes $9.37 Million Series A With Participation by Snoop Dogg, Final HMD Design to Be...
Avegant, creators of the Glyph head mounted display, have announced the closing of a series A funding round of $9.37 million lead by Intel Capital and NHN Investment, including funding from rap artist Snoop Dogg. The company says that...
Kickstarter Roundup: Nimble Sense Passes Goal with 38 Days Remaining, Riftmax Theater Moves On to 7th...
Nimble Sense and Riftmax Theater both launched Kickstarter campaigns recently and both are going well. Nimble Sense has passed its goal with plenty of time remaining, and Riftmax Theater is closing in on their 7th stretch goal.
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NimbleVR launched...
‘UniverseVR’ Lets You Visualize 20 Million Galaxies in the Oculus Rift
A developer named Markus Lipp has created a spectacular space demonstration for the Oculus Rift that can help you wrap your head around just how big the universe really is. It's called UniverseVR and utilizes data taken from the Millennium Simulation...
Review: ‘NewRetroArcade’ is a Must-play Homage to Video Game Culture Old and New
I just stepped out of what may as well have been a time machine. NewRetroArcade uses gaming's newest technology to take players back to a classic arcade of yore, replete with playable arcade machines buzzing and blinking in a battle...
‘NewRetroArcade’ is a Brilliantly Detailed 80’s Arcade That Will Take You on a VR Nostalgia Trip
Developer Digital Cybercherries has just released NewRetroArcade, a brilliantly detailed 80's arcade that's built in Unreal Engine 4. Inside, players are taken on a nostalgia trip, able to play any one of many working arcade machines representing classic titles. The...
Epic Games Share Insights: Optimizing ‘Showdown’ for 90 FPS on Oculus Rift Crescent Bay Prototype
At Oculus Connect in September, the VR company brought together experts and developers from across the world to talk VR. Among them were developers from Epic Games, creators of Unreal Engine, who shared some of the challenges and solutions to...



















