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Massive Particle Simulation Playground ‘Chroma Lab’ Launches on SteamVR

VR design is still in the very early stages, but something that we know leads to immersion in VR is interactivity. One developer is taking interactivity to the extreme with Chroma Lab, a VR experience now available on SteamVR that...

Ibex is a Virtual Reality Desktop Environment for the Oculus Rift and other VR Headsets [video]

The Oculus Rift developer kit might not have shipped yet, but that hasn't stopped some intrepid developers from working on exciting Rift projects like virtual reality desktop environments.  Hesham Wahba is a developer working on one such project, he calls...

OSVR HDK 2160×1200 Screen Upgrade Kit Now Available

OSVR has launched a display upgrade kit for the HDK headset which allows users to swap a new, higher performance panel into their existing HDK headsets. The $220 screen upgrade kit, sold at the OSVR Store, offers HDK 1.3 &...
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Sixense’s Danny Woodall on Porting ‘Jedi Training’ STEM Demo to Unreal Engine 4

Road to VR last caught up with Sixense at CES, where they demonstrated an early integration with Gear VR to add positional tracking. The 'Jedi Training' demo now comes to GDC, running on Unreal Engine 4. Ben Lang Speaks to Creative...
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This VR Experiment Generates Beautiful Worlds From Your Biometrics

STRATA is a new virtual reality experiment from The Mill that taps into biometric data—heart rate, breathing etc.—and produces beautiful procedurally generated worlds to match. No Man's Sky is the latest and possibly the most high profile example of procedurally generated...
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New ‘Robinson: The Journey’ Video Shows 5 Minutes of PSVR Gameplay

Crytek's Robinson: The Journey is the studio's first PlayStation VR game. A new gameplay video reveals more about the title's gameplay and interactions. Robinson: The Journey is shaping up to be an ambitious VR adventure game, and a beautiful one at...

“Valve’s VR Demo Felt Like Being in a Lucid Dream State and Very Much Like a...

Last week we saw the latest Oculus Rift prototype, dubbed 'Crystal Cove,' and this week we've been waiting patiently for info on Valve's prototype virtual reality head mounted display that the company showed yesterday and today at the Steam...

Google’s ‘Project Soli’ Radar Hand Tracking and How VR and AR Might Use it

Google's I/O 2015 conference last week was packed with technology with potential uses with VR or AR. The most unusual among them, Project Soli, uses radar technology to detect minute movements and gestures and translate them for input. Google ATAP (Advanced...

Inside the David Cronenberg VR Experience with the Developers Who Met Him

Body/Mind/Change is a trans-media experience that was built to accompany a recent celebration of film director David Cronenberg and his work. As part of the project Blair Renaud, developer of Technolust, got to meet the man behind Scanners and The...

Lucasarts’ Star Wars ‘Jedi Academy’ Gets Oculus Rift DK2 Support

A Lucasarts classic has been given a thoroughly modern makeover, it's received Oculus Rift DK2 support, thanks to the work of coder xLava. Last year, shortly after George Lucas sold LucasFilm off to Disney for $4.05 Billion, Lucasarts - the...

DK2 Shipping Update: 60,000 Orders, More than 20,000 Units Shipped, New Orders Ship in October

The much lauded Oculus Rift DK2 is in high demand. Shipping began at the end of July and Oculus says they've already shipped more than 20,000 of their 60,000 orders. The company recently updated their order page to indicate...

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...
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Third-party VR Client for Plex is in the Works to Stream Your Own Media Library in...

While much of the world moves to cloud streaming media libraries, there remains those of us that like to maintain our own personal local media library. Plex is a popular application for streaming your own library to other devices,...
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HTC’s First Vive Game ‘Front Defense’ is a WWII Gallery Shooter

Computex 2016 is under way and HTC are out on the show floor in full force with a collection of titles showing off their Vive VR system. One of the titles developed by the company, playable for the first...

‘Until Dawn: Rush of Blood’ Review

Until Dawn: Rush of Blood is a horror rail shooter launch title for PlayStation VR. It begins with a creepy carny warning you about the horrors that lie ahead. Once you ignore his warnings and accept the challenge of...
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