‘Doom’ & ‘Fallout 4’ Devs are Collaborating to Make Titles Work in VR

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Doom VR Executive Producer Marty Stratton sheds light on Doom VR, how Bethesda are approaching the project, what VR hardware they’re targeting and whether it’ll ever see a full release.

New PSVR ‘Rigs’ Trailer Reminds Us Why We Like it so Much

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Guerilla Cambridge developed arena shooter Rigs: Mechanized Combat League will be available at the PlayStation VR’s launch and this new trailer reminds us why it’s one of our most anticipated titles for the platform.

Prototype VR Robot Fighter Reminds us of ‘Pacific Rim’ in the Best Possible Way

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This footage of a physics-driven, motion-controlled robot brawler not only looks amazing, but also features an extremely clever VR control mechanic we’d love to get our hands on.

Ubisoft Fart Simulating “Nosulus Rift” South Park Ad Pokes Fun at VR Headsets

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Ubisoft have taken immersive hardware peripherals to the next logical level for the new South Park game with a fictional, but completely functional, nose-mounted odour generator, the Nosulus Rift.

Sony Announce PlayStation VR Gamescom Lineup

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These are the PlayStation VR games making their way to Gamescom 2016 in Cologne next week.

National Geographic and “Hurt Locker” Director Team Up on New VR Film

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National Geographic are further committing themselves to immersive film-making as they announce a new VR short, co-directed by Kathryn Bigelow, Director of The Hurt Locker, which aims to bring the terrible plight of the African Elephant to VR.

HTC Vive Now Shipping With a New VR Game Bundle

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The free three-game bundle that comes with the purchase of an HTC Vive is now featuring two new titles.

Social Presence & Training Social Dynamics with Virtual Humans

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andrew_robbTeam training scenarios are often difficult due to the logistics involved with coordinating many different people’s schedules. One solution has been to use virtual humans as stand-ins for actual humans in team training scenarios where the conversation is mediated by ‘Wizard of Oz’ interactors who are puppeting the virtual humans. The goal is to recreate a sense of social presence so that the person being trained forgets that they are interacting with virtual humans instead of actual humans.

Elders React to the HTC Vive with Joy, Fear, and Disbelief at How Far Technology Has Come

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…granted, that’s not much different than how the rest of the world reacts to it in their first try of VR, but this video (above) in the ‘Elders React’ series is too good to pass up.

‘Virtual Reality Challenge’ Promises UK’s “largest VR-only Game Jam ever”

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Fellow virtual reality news outlet VRFocus has launched ‘Virtual Reality Challenge’ and has hopes for it to become the largest hackathon of its kind in the UK dedicated to virtual reality content.

Mindshow’s VR Movie-making Helped Me Rediscover the Joy of Play-acting

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Frank He rediscovers his childhood and finds a new talent for improvisational performance as he goes hands on with Mindshow, a new virtual reality application that lets you create and act in your own interactive movies.

‘Minecraft’ on Oculus Rift Launches Next Week, Touch Support Coming Later This Year

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Minecraft developer Mojang has confirmed that the popular sandbox game is finally coming to the Oculus Rift next week, and further that the game would get support for Oculus’ Touch VR controllers later this year.

‘Headmaster’ & Why the Physics of Stuff Flying at Your Face is so Compelling in VR

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ben-throopWhen Ben Throop went to the Boston VR hackathon in June 2014, he didn’t know that Valve was going to be showing off some prototype VR hardware that had positional tracking. At this point the Oculus DK2 had not shipped yet, and so he was able to build a VR game using his soccer experience to head soccer balls into a goal. He wanted to see how it felt, and was surprised that it was actually a lot of fun. He decided to continue working on it, and last year the game, Headmaster, was first announced at E3 as a PlayStation VR launch title. Frame Interactive was back again this year at E3 showing off the game at PlayStation VR’s booth.

OSVR HDK 2 Headset Gets Detailed Teardown – Scores High in Repairability

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The venerable iFixit has done it again: taken a brand new, perfectly good VR headset and ripped it apart for our pleasure.

Killer Raptors and Crash Landings – ‘Robinson: The Journey’ Dev Diary Explores Crytek’s Second VR Title

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Robinson: The Journey is Crytek’s second VR game, coming to PSVR, following The Climb which was launched earlier this year for the Oculus Rift. A new development diary explores the game’s premise, design philosophy, and killer raptors.

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