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Valve’s ‘Steam Direct’ to Replace Controversial ‘Greenlight’ Voting System

Steam Direct, a new sign-up system for launching games on the store, is due to replace Greenlight in Spring 2017. Currently, any developer or publisher new to Steam is required to submit their game for approval through Greenlight, which...

Why Social Virtual Reality is Worth Celebrating

When I opened my eyes I suddenly found myself in an art gallery that had been transformed into a full-blown party with thumping music, bright red helium balloons pulling at the furniture, and a menagerie of life forms, humanoid...
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A Look at NASA’s Hybrid Reality Astronaut Training System, Powered by HTC Vive

At NVIDIA's GTC event earlier this month, NASA gave a talk which revealed just how important virtual reality has become to the organisation's Astronaut training program. This talk includes video demonstrations of NASA's advanced experiments designed to give workers...
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Watch Us Test Oculus Touch Front Facing Tracking to its Limits

Oculus Touch is out tomorrow and we finally get to test just how well the optical 'Constellation' tracking system handles itself, all the way from rug scale to beyond roomscale. The term "roomscale" has really only been in popular use...

Preview NVIDIA’s Impressive ‘Ansel’ 360 3D Screenshots in Rift, Vive, and Cardboard

NVIDIA has announced an advanced screenshot tool called Ansel which allows users much greater control over in-game photo capturing, including the ability to shoot 3D 360 degree imagery which is viewable in VR headsets. You can preview Ansel's output...

OSVR is Offering a 20% Discount on the HDK 2 for Students and Developers

OSVR is currently offering the HDK 2 at a 20% price reduction as part of their Academia and Developer Program. The HDK 2 is the most recent iteration of the organization's open-source VR headset, normally priced at $399. The OSVR HDK...

Steam Launches First ‘VR Weekend Sale’, 181 Vive and Rift Titles Discounted

Steam has launched the first VR Weekend Sale giving steep discounts on VR titles for the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift, including a huge 20-game bundle at 30% discount. Looking to bolster your VR game library? Vive and Rift owners...

Lyrobotix Merges Ultrasonic and Lighthouse-like Tech for Portable Positional VR Tracking

Lyrobotix is developing a portable outside-in positional tracking system for mobile VR headsets that uses a combination of ultrasonic and Lighthouse-like tracking. While big names in the VR space hope to create a robust inside-out positional tracking solution for mobile...
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Preview: ‘Dead & Buried’ Action Packed Multiplayer Could be the Killer App Oculus Touch Needs

After playing the latest build of Dead & Buried, the gun-slinging action game from Oculus Studios, I walked away disappointed. Disappointed that I would have to wait many months still for Oculus to release their Touch controllers so that I'd be...

Oculus on Platform-exclusive VR Content: ‘it’s the only viable way to jumpstart the market’

Earlier this month we saw a slew of new Oculus Touch game announcements. Many of these new VR titles, which benefit from funding or publishing (or both) by Oculus, will launch exclusively for the Rift and Touch. And while...

Sony Expects Early PSVR Sales to Reach “Many Hundreds of Thousands”

Sony is setting high near term sales figure expectations for PlayStation VR's rollout. Speaking with CNBC earlier this week, Jim Ryan, President of Sony Computer Entertainment Europe, spoke to the company's confidence in early traction of the PSVR headset. "We know...

Exclusive: Early Oculus Rift DK2 Unboxing, “The color, contrast, and motion is leaps and bounds over...

It's DK2 month, with swaths of developers and enthusiasts eagerly awaiting a knock on the door from their local delivery man. An anonymous source has revealed an unboxing of the highly anticipated Oculus Rift DK2. In a recent update from...

Vuze is a 360 3D 4k Camera Aimed at ‘Soccer Moms’

At CES yesterday I had the chance to take a look at the new 'affordable' 360 camera called Vuze. The camera shoots at resolutions up to 4k per combined, sporting 8 x 1080p cameras capturing footage at up to 30FPS...

Apple Mum on AR/VR for iPhone 7, but Here’s How We Know They’re Still Working on...

Yesterday Apple held a keynote presentation to update the world on their latest products. While the company didn't have any announcements on the AR/VR front, it's clear that it's only a matter of time before they enter the fray. It's...

Exclusive: VRClay Beta Hands-on, the 3D Sculpting Software for VR

Another video has surfaced within the past few days of VRClay, sparking more curiosity around the only 3D modeling software currently designed to be used in virtual reality. We reached out to the team behind the software and were granted an...
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