‘Until Dawn: Rush of Blood’ Trailer & Developer Video Glimpses PSVR Gameplay
Until Dawn: Rush of Blood is a literal ‘rail shooter’ for PlayStation VR.
A Professional Gamer’s View on VR eSports
Stephanie Harvey (aka “missharvey”) is a professional eSports gamer playing Counter-Strike: Global Offensive with the Counter Logic Gaming Red team. I had a chance to catch up with her at PAX West to talk about the future of eSports in VR, the ecosystem of announcers and observers that makes games more entertaining for spectators, her training schedule, core competencies for maintaining a competitive edge, and all of the various ingredients that have to emerge in order to have a viable VR eSports ecosystem.
These Tiny Sensors Will Let You Build Lighthouse Tracked Headsets and Peripherals
With Valve’s move to open up its Lighthouse tracking technology to third parties, Triad Semiconductor is soon to be selling specialized chips which companies can use to create new VR headsets and peripherals with SteamVR Tracking.
Samsung Gear VR 2015 Model Now $60
If you’ve got a compatible Samsung phone, here’s a deal worth considering: the 2015 Gear VR headset can be bought brand new for $60.
Hands-on: New and Improved 2016 Samsung Gear VR vs. 2015 Model
Announced alongside the new Galaxy Note 7 smartphone last month, the 2016 Gear VR headset is new and improved, with thoughtful backward compatibility with prior Gear VR phones. Our pal Ritchie Djamhur explores the differences compared to the 2015 model.
First ‘StarVR’ 210 Degree FOV Headsets Have Shipped to IMAX
Starbreeze, Acer and the StarVR team are celebrating a milestone this week as the very first headsets, sporting a unique 210 degree field of view, have rolled off the production line and are winging their way to IMAX, who’ll be using them to wow customers with new immersive content to be shown at IMAX venues.
‘Iron Man’ Director Jon Favreau’s First VR Project ‘Gnomes & Goblins’ Looks Delightful
Veteran Director of Iron Man, Chef and more recently The Jungle Book, Jon Favreau has now teamed up with veteran VR production house WEVR on a brand new project entitled ‘Gnomes & Goblins’, a realtime VR experience set in a magical fantasy world.
Opting Out of a Phobia with VR
Theresa Duringer has a fear of flying, and rather than treating her aviophobia with VR exposure therapy she’s been experimenting with using VR to just completely opt out of the real-life signals of the flying experience altogether.
‘Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare’ to Get Free PlayStation VR DLC ‘Jackal Assault’
Big news for fans of VR and the FPS franchise behemoth Call of Duty. The series’ latest instalment Infinite Warfare, is to come with free made-for-PlayStation VR DLC ‘Jackal Assault.
Exemplar 2 VR PC Now Available, Save $100 Through Labor Day
Today marks the launch of Exemplar 2, the second generation of our high-end VR gaming PC designed for those who want to push the limits of immersion. Exemplar 2 Ultimate is Road to VR’s internal test bench for VR reviews and benchmarking.
Using VR Revolutionize Sports Training with STRIVR Labs
When Derek Belch was a kicker on Stanford’s football team in 2007, he took a class with the Virtual Human Interaction Lab’s Jeremy Bailenson where he was exposed to virtual reality technologies for the first time. Belch asked Bailenson if it was possible to use VR to train football players, but the technology wasn’t ready yet back in 2004. Fast-forward six years, with Oculus Rift VR development kits readily available, Belch started a master’s thesis project with Bailenson to study how to use VR to train quarterbacks.
VR at PAX West 2016: What’s There and How to Find It
Seattle’s annual PAX West 2016 gaming convention starts tomorrow with VR once again expected to have a significant presence. So, here’s a reference guide on where to find VR on the show floor along with some handy expo floor maps to ease your itinerary planning.
Oculus Affirms Commitment to Gamepad Input As Touch Launch Nears, “we don’t believe gamepads are going away”
While Oculus has been drumming up its soon to launch Touch VR controller for many months now, the company doesn’t expect motion input to supersede the gamepad gameplay that Rift users are using today.
Qualcomm’s New VR Headset Could the Reference Platform We’ve Been Waiting For
For a while now we’ve been waiting for the industry to coalesce around a standard VR hardware platform. Now Qualcomm, a leading semiconductor company which regularly releases smartphone ‘reference’ platforms from which companies build their products, aims to fill that gap in the mobile VR space.
Crazy Camera Rig Captures Volumetric VR Video with 14 Cameras and LiDAR
HypeVR is working to bring live-action volumetric 360 video to VR. The company’s crazy camera rig, built to capture the necessary data, is a mashup of high-end cameras and laser scanning tech.
