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NVIDIA’s New High-end Quadro RTX First to Include VirtualLink VR Port

Today at SIGGRAPH 2018 NVIDIA announced 'Turing', their next-generation GPU architecture aimed at real-time ray tracing, and the first high-end GPUs built atop it, the Quadro RTX 8000, 6000 and 5000. The cards are the first to include the recently...

Report: Next-gen NVIDIA GPUs Will Boost VR Bandwidth With New Connector

A report from Tom's Hardware states that NVIDIA's next-generation GeForce GPUs, tentatively being referred to as the GTX 11-series, will include a new connector with enough bandwidth to support future VR headsets much higher resolutions and greater refresh rates. According to a...

Oculus PC SDK Adds NVIDIA Lens Matched Shading to Boost Performance

Oculus' PC SDK version 1.19 now supports NVIDIA's VRWorks Lens Matched Shading (LMS) technique, offering "a performance boost and a slight quality improvement" on supported GPUs. Lens Matched Shading is part of NVIDIA's VRWorks toolset, and takes advantage of the...

GDC 2018 ‘Day 1’ Roundup – Vive Pro Pricing, Magic Leap SDK, Nvidia RTX, and More

Here’s a roundup of news from ‘day one’ of our GDC 2018 coverage. Vive Pro date and price, Magic Leap announcements, Nvidia's real-time ray-tracing, and Budget Cuts resurfaces. Vive Pro headset launches April 5th for $800, original Vive drops to...
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NVIDIA ‘Holodeck’ Collaborative VR Design Tool Opens Applications for Early Access

At today’s GTC Europe conference in Munich, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced an Early Access program for Holodeck, their photorealistic, collaborative VR viewer. Described as the “design lab of the future”, Nvidia Holodeck aims to provide a highly immersive...

‘EVE: Valkyrie’ Gets New ‘Ultra’ Graphics Option Thanks to Nvidia VRWorks

As part of this week’s EVE: Valkyrie update, which includes AI improvements, balance tweaks, and stability fixes, the game has also received some visual optimisations courtesy of Nvidia VRWorks. Suitable for higher-spec Nvidia cards (GTX 1070 and above), the...
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NVIDIA Demonstrates Experimental 16,000Hz AR Display

While virtual reality surely has high performance requirements to maintain a comfortable experience, immersive AR may ultimately require a greater level of performance if we're to achieve the theoretical ideal. While virtual reality can get away with comfortable and immersive...
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NVIDIA Shows How Physically-based Audio Can Greatly Enhance VR Immersion

Positional audio for VR experiences—where noises sound as if they are coming from the correct direction—has long been understood as an important part of making VR immersive. But knowing which direction sounds are coming from is only one part...

Analysis: Latest VR Ready GPUs Benchmarked and Compared with NVIDIA ‘FCAT VR’

While it's been possible to run basic benchmarks on VR-capable GPUs for a rough understanding of performance, NVIDIA's new FCAT VR tool allows detailed logging and analysis of runtime data captured from any VR app on any GPU. We've...

NVIDIA GTC VR Content Showcase to Award $30k in Cash & Prizes to Non-gaming Applications

At NVIDIA's upcoming GTC 2017 conference on May 8-11, the company plans to award $30,000 in cash and prizes to the winners of the VR Content Showcase which is seeking companies focusing on content other than gaming which is using or...
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NVIDIA PhysX Demo Shows Rigid Body Physics Interactions on a Massive Scale

The demo, presented at NVIDIA's event yesterday where they announced the new GTX 1080 Ti, covers a large area brimming with opportunity for physics-based interactions, a field of seemingly infinite boulders and a bulldozer created to show off the...

NVIDIA Announces GTX 1080 Ti, Purportedly 35% Faster Than GTX 1080 at $699

Tonight NVIDIA has announced the top dog of their GeForce GTX graphics cards, the GTX 1080 Ti. The new Ti model succeeds the GTX 1080 to become the flagship GPU of Nvidia's consumer line. Launched last year, Nvidia's latest 10-series...

AxonVR is Building a Haptic Holodeck Powered by NVIDIA PhysX

AxonVR, the company currently working on a full-body haptic solution for VR, are on their way to bringing their technology to an ever-widening audience. Announced today via an official NVIDIA blogpost, AxonVR says that the company's fledgling haptic engine is actually built on...

Get $100 in Free VR Games When You Buy an NVIDIA GPU and HTC Vive

Haven't decided whether to pull out the credit card and buy the VR system of your dreams yet? Well, NVIDIA is making it that much harder this holiday season with a new bundle that includes three highly rated games...

NVIDIA’s Stunning ‘Discovery’ Demo is a Look at the Future of Industrial Design

At GTC Europe in Amsterdam last month, NVIDIA's 'VR Village' was host to a number of cutting-edge virtual reality demos, many of which we’ve had our hands on before. But there was something new being shown behind closed doors. No...
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