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Hands-on: ‘VR Funhouse’ Brings NVIDIA’s Most Advanced Physics Into VR
NVIDIA recently announced VR Funhouse, a new virtual reality experience which showcases the company's GPU-based physics systems.
Running on a machine with three of Nvidia's new GeForce GTX 1080 GPUs (with wholly one of them devoted to physics processing) and the...
‘Fantasynth’ Alpha Preview
Fantasynth (2017) is an upcoming VR music experience for Oculus Rift and HTC Vive that takes you on a surreal ride through an abstract world of sharp geometric shapes and eye-catching neon lights. Pulsing to the futuristic beat of...
Students Create Real World AdBlock, Keeps Your Augmented Reality Ad-Free
The University of Pennsylvania's winter hackathon, PennApps, is now over, and we're not surprised to see a few VR experiences in the winners circle. Brand Killer, an application running on a custom-built VR headset, was unfortunately not among them, but...
YEI Creates First Person Virtual Reality Demo With Full Body Tracking in Unreal Engine [video]
The ultimate goal of virtual reality gaming is to convince players that they are actually the inhabitants of another world. A number of components are needed to make this a reality. While head mounted displays like the Oculus Rift...
Oculus Rift Support Could Be on the Way for Battlefield 3, Future DICE Titles
Battlefield 3 could be getting Oculus Rift support along with future titles from EA-owned developer DICE. According to a recent internship posting, EA and DICE are looking for someone to “investigate and implement support for Occulus Rift SDK in...
We Preview ‘Crystal Rift’ on the Oculus Rift – Now Available on Steam Early Access.
Crystal Rift from Psytec Games promises a return to the halcyon days where 3D, grid based gaming was at the cutting-edge albeit this time in VR. So what does a retro-inspired, virtual reality dungeon crawler feel like? As the...
Video Preview: Manus Machina’s Wireless VR Glove Looks Promising, Headed to E3 2015
Manus Machina, a tech startup based in the Netherlands, have released a video preview of what they're calling 'the first consumer VR glove' ahead of its appearance at E3 2015 where the device will quite literally be on hand...
New Virtuix Omni Gameplay Footage, Kickstarter Goal Crushed on Day One
New Virtuix Omni gameplay videos have popped up, but first, a big congratulations to Virtuix who's Omni Kickstarter blasted out of the gate yesterday morning and crushed its goal shortly thereafter. Now the only question left is: how high...
HordeZ Brings Doom-style Multi-player Coop Carnage to HTC Vive
Developer Niklas Persson is working on bringing the visceral, gore-soaked carnage of the Doom series to virtual reality with HordeZ, a multi-player coop shooter for the HTC Vive.
Whether you're willing to admit it or not, there's very little in...
Rebellion’s CEO Jason Kingsley on Pioneering Commercial VR with Battlezone
Rebellion, makers of the made-for-VR reboot Battlezone, is a veteran games developer with over 20 years in the industry. Here, in footage taken from a recent Sky News interview with Joe Tidy, the company's CEO Jason Kingsley shares his reasons...
Developer Details Design Approach to Siemens Oculus Rift Experience
The multinational conglomerate company known as Siemens has partnered up with a team of artists and developers from London to highlight the company's engineering abilities using the Oculus Rift DK2 headset.
The story begins when Siemens approached the UK-based company...
HTC Vive’s Laser-based Lighthouse Trackers Get FCC Approval for Safe Use
As one of the necessary steps for getting a product ready for consumer sale in the U.S., the HTC Vive and its laser-based 'Lighthouse' base stations have received approval from the FCC.
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission is tasked with...
This Fan-made Star Wars VR Trailer Makes us Want an Official Title from the Franchise
Piloting vehicles, taking down infamous foes, and wielding lightsabers in one of sci-fi's most iconic franchises? The Star Wars universe offers an array of memorable and heroic experiences that we only wish we could live ourselves. VR technology could make...
StarVR 210-Degree VR Headset to Receive Eye-tracking Support Courtesy of Tobii
Starbreeze, an "independent creator, publisher and distributor of high quality entertainment products" has announced that its StarVR headset will receive eye-tracking support as the result of a partnership between specialist in the field, Tobii.
Starbreeze's StarVR headset made quite the splash...
‘The North Face’ Brings the Wilderness to You Courtesy of Jaunt’s Cinematic VR
Jaunt VR, a company specialising in 360 VR Video, has collaborated with outdoor apparel giant 'The North Face', going out on into the wilderness to create a VR experience which captures the beauty of the great outdoors in 360...

















