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‘Fallout 4’ and ‘Doom’ Are “just the beginning of Bethesda’s future in virtual reality”
"Weren't expecting that were you?" said Pete Hines, Bethesda's VP of Marketing, after revealing that an incarnation of Fallout 4 (2015) and Doom (2016) are in development for virtual reality on the HTC Vive.
Hines, on stage at Bethesda's E3 2016...
‘Big Data VR Challenge’ $20,000 Grand Prize Winner Revealed by Epic Games and Wellcome Trust
Epic Games and Wellcome Trust revealed at Develop:Brighton that the winner of the Big Data VR Challenge—claiming a grand prize of $20,000—is LumaPie.
LumaPie, a London based team made up of the creative studio Masters of Pie and 3D software consultancy firm Lumacode, was one of the six teams...
CES 2015: Avegant’s Allan Evans on the Glyph’s new Design, Launch and Future (video)
We caught up with Allan Evans, CTO at Avegant, home of the unique personal media viewer - the Glyph, to talk about their new 'near final' design and the future of the device.CES 2015 has been all about picking...
Samsung is Demo’ing Gear VR at America’s Largest Mall
One of virtual reality's greatests strengths—that it's a unique and unprecedented experience for most—is also one of its greatest weaknesses when it comes to marketing the technology. Without actually trying VR for themselves, how do you sell someone on...
Kevin Williams – A Wider FOV
This marks the first in a semi-regular feature in what I hope will be covering the wider aspects of the re-emergence of virtual reality into the commercial and consumer sector. My consultancy, KWP, and our news service The Stinger...
Unity Will Soon Let Developers Build Games Inside of VR Itself
Today at Vision Summit 2016 in Hollywood, Timoni West, principal designer at Unity Technologies, took the stage to show Unity's answer to the recently revealed Unreal Engine 4 VR editor.
West demonstrated Unity's newly revealed VR scene editor using the Oculus...
Sony Patent Shows Method of Automatic IPD Measurement for VR Headset
With Samsung rumored to be revealing their 'Gear VR' device later today, we went digging through the company's patent portfolio to see what information we might be able to glean. We stumbled upon a patent that caught our attention...
CastAR HMD Made by Former Valve Employees Offers AR and VR in One Compelling Package. Kickstarter...
Rising like a prototypical phoenix from the ashes of a discarded Valve project comes CastAR. The worlds first projected AR and VR system has arrived at Kickstarter and is nearly fully funded after just two days.CastARs Dramatic JourneyMany of...
Google Acquires Eye-tracking Company Eyefluence, Reportedly Building VR Headset With Tech
Just what Google has brewing in their skunkworks, we can't say for sure, but with their most recent acquisition of Eyefluence, a company that builds eye-tracking technology for VR headsets, it seems Google is getting ever deeper into what's largely...
Avegant’s Ed Tang and Yobie Benjamin Talk About Their Journey to Kickstarting the Glyph at CES...
During a packed CES 2014 schedule, CEO of Avegant, Edward Tang and COO Yobie Benjamin take some time to talk to Paul James about Avegant's history and how the Glyph HMD came to be.
Calm Before the Kickstarter Storm
Ed Tang...
Hands-on: Oculus Touch is an Elegant Extension of your Hand for Touching Virtual Worlds
From the beginning, Oculus said they didn't want to reveal an official VR input solution until they could do it right. Despite pressure from their developers, competitors, and the VR community at large, the company bided their time up...
‘Neos Core’ Enables a World of Multi-User, Multi-device VR Collaboration
Tomáš 'Frooxius' Mariančík, the man behind the Sightline series has reached what he calls a "major milestone" with his continuing creation and education platform Neos. Today he unveiled a breakthrough framework which allows multiple users to gaze into and collaborate...
Eve Developer Teases Possible SteamVR Integration and “Never-before-seen VR Demos” to Be Revealed at Fanfest 2015
CCP Games, developer of Eve Online, was one of the earliest big studios to jump into VR game development. After announcing Eve: Valkyrie, a made-for-VR space dogfighting game, the project has been running relatively silent. However there are strong...
Google’s Chief Game Designer to Talk Tango at GDC, Augmenting Virtual Reality with the Real World
Google will be demoing some of their new sensor-assisted virtual reality technology at this year's Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, which promises to "enable Holodeck-like experiences with less than $100 add-on cost" to mobile devices. While not explicitly named,...
‘Robinson: The Journey’ Executive Producer Departs Crytek Amid Company’s Struggles
A little more than four months following the launch of Robinson: The Journey, Executive Producer on the title, Elijah Freeman, has departed Crytek for Virtuos, a game and asset production studio. Meanwhile Crytek attempts to get company back on track.
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