Watch 20 Minutes of ‘Stormland’ Gameplay
Stormland, the upcoming single player adventure from Insomniac Games and Oculus, came to PAX West this past weekend where the public got a chance to go hands-on with the open world game for the first time.
Rift and Windows VR Squeeze Marketshare from Vive in Latest Steam Survey
In the latest set of data from Valve’s monthly Steam Hardware & Software survey, the Oculus Rift and Windows VR headsets posted gains in marketshare at the expense of the HTC Vive.
NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX Cards Bring New VR Rendering Features and Enhancements
NVIDIA’s latest ‘RTX’ cards are not just an incremental step in performance, but represent significant new direction for NVIDIA’s approach to real-time rendering. Built on the company’s ‘Turing’ architecture, the RTX cards pave the way for graphics infused with accelerated ray-tracing and artificial intelligence, and also bring VR-specific enhancements over NVIDIA’s prior 10-series GPUs which are based on the ‘Pascal’ architecture.
Watch the ‘Real’ Magic Leap Whale Take Flight in ‘Helio’ Web Experiment
Back in 2016, Magic Leap released a video clip of a breaching augmented reality whale as a backdrop to their freshly redesigned website, something meant to grab the attention of prospective investors, developers, and consumers alike. Now, through Magic Leap’s Helio browser, we can finally see what an augmented reality whale actually looks like running on Magic Leap One.
‘Torn’ Review: Masterful ‘Black Mirror’ Style Storytelling Tarnished by Repetitive Puzzles
Torn is a single player adventure game that’s inspired by arguably the greatest sci-fi television of all time, The Twilight Zone and Black Mirror. There’s much to like about Torn, but in the end it left me feeling, well, a bit torn.
Mozilla’s ‘Hubs’ Gets More Useful With Instant Media and 3D Model Imports
Mozilla’s Hubs is a WebVR based VR chatroom that anyone can join on a wide range of devices just by plugging a URL into their web browser. A new update to the platform now allows instant importing of media and 3D models to be shared with everyone in the room, giving Hubs a big usability boost.
Imogen Heap VR Concert Experience to Land on ‘TheWaveVR’ August 31st
Imogen Heap, the Grammy-award winning musician, is following in the footsteps of TOKiMONSTA, Ash Koosha, and The Glitch Mob with a social VR concert experience, hosted on TheWaveVR platform soon.
‘Creed: Rise to Glory’ Slated to Launch Next Month, Pre-orders Now Live
Survios, the studio behind Raw Data (2017) and Sprint Vector (2018), are getting ready to release their next big VR title soon, which puts you in the boxing ring as underdog Adonis Creed on his quest to become the light heavyweight champ of the world.
Oculus to Donate Rift & Go to Learning Institutions Across Seattle, Taiwan, & Japan
Oculus recently announced the’ll be expanding their educational pilot program by donating Oculus Rift and Oculus Go headsets to a number of educational institutions across Taiwan, Japan, and Seattle.
Magic Leap’s First Developer Conference is Coming to L.A. in October
Magic Leap, the Florida-based AR company behind the Magic Leap One headset, just announced the dates of the first developers conference.
Apple Acquires AR Optics Startup Akonia Holographics
Apple has acquired Akonia Holographics, a startup focused on holographic display and storage technology. The move is the latest development in a years-long string of acquisitions, patents, and hirings by the company focused on augmented and virtual reality technology
‘Golem’ on Track for 2018 Launch, Affirms Highwire Games
Despite several delays under its belt, Golem, a unique looking VR adventure title headed to PSVR, is on track to launch in 2018, affirms developer Highwire Games.
Former ‘God of War’ Devs Launch Kickstarter for Colossal VR Shooter ‘Titan Arena’
Lightbound Studios, a company founded by two former God of War series developers, are aiming to bring something truly colossal to VR with their upcoming first-person shooter Titan Arena.
Acer Unveils New Business-friendly Windows VR Headset with Detachable Display
Acer today announced a new Windows “Mixed Reality” VR headset. Dubbed the Acer OJO 500 (pronounced ‘O-ho’), the new headset is packing a few features that seem to be making overtures to the commercial sector.
Avegant Raises $12M Financing to Further Develop AR Display Tech
Avegant, the AR display company known for its Glyph head-mounted display, announced that the company has successfully closed a $12M Series AA financing, which will allow them to further develop their light field technologies and “high resolution, low latency, and high brightness” retinal displays.
