META Raises $50M in Funding to Accelerate “Groundbreaking” AR Tech
On Monday, Meta, the company building AR HMDs that allow the wearer to manipulate holographic objects within the wearer’s visual field and the headset’s field of view (90 degrees, in the Meta II), among other things, announced that it’s raised $50M in Series B funding.
‘Harmonix Music VR’ is the Weirdest Collection of Things I’ve Ever Done in VR
Harmonix Music VR is a collection of music-based experiences slated to launch alongside PSVR on October 13th. Ranging from trippy to the super trippy, the experiences of Music VR are a mix of passive and interactive worlds designed to evoke what creative lead Jon Carter told me at this year’s E3 is supposed to balance between “a creative mind-state, and music appreciation.”
Ripcoil is a Multiplayer Disc Battle for Oculus Touch, First Gameplay Videos Inside
One of Oculus’ 30 titles coming to support their Touch motion controllers this year, Ripcoil from Sanzaru Games takes some heavy gameplay influences from the classic TRON disc battles but utilises motion controls to “Control your body and hands in a way that’s only possible with Touch.” Here are some gameplay snippets to give you an idea how it plays.
CastleStorm VR Announced for Oculus Rift and Gear VR, New Trailer Here
CastleStorm VR is a curious blend of medieval RTS, Tower Defence and RPG mechanics with a dash of Angry Birds, set on a 2D plane and build for virtual reality. It’s on its way for both the Oculus Rift and Samsung Gear VR headsets, take a look at it in action in this launch trailer.
The Stunning ‘Bound’ is Coming to PlayStation VR, New Trailer Here
Bound from developer Plastic is a beautiful 3D platformer with a unique visual style and it’s eye on highbrow, contemporary art direction not to mention dance. As if that weren’t enough, the title has now been confirmed to be heading to PlayStation VR.
OSVR Will Offer HDK 2 Display Upgrade for Older Headsets
OSVR’s newly announced HDK 2 packs a new display which brings a significant improvement in resolution and performance. The organization says they will make available a display upgrade allowing older HDK headsets to swap for the improved display.
Audio Highlights of VR News from 6 Major E3 Press Conferences
There were a lot of VR games announced over the past two days at E3 by AAA game publishers. I watched all of the press conferences from Sony, Ubisoft, Bethesda, Microsoft, EA, and Oculus’ appearance at the PC Gaming Show in order to capture audio highlights of all of the VR news that was presented. I distilled over 8 hours worth of content down to 41 minutes of the most interesting audio highlights and analysis in today’s episode of The Voices of VR podcast. You can listen to all of the major announcements in their own words, and find all of the new VR game trailers down below.
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Here’s the video the Sony PlayStation E3 conference:
Sony PlayStation VR will launch on October 13th and have at least 50 games by the end of 2016, and below are the new trailers that were just released
Resident Evil 7 biohazard will be released in 2017
A new horror game Here They Lie
Some portion of Final Fantasy XV will be in VR
Batman: Arkham VR
Farpoint is a sci-fi VR thriller that uses a new PSVR Aim controller
Starwars: Battlefront X-Wing VR Experience from EA. More details from Criterion Games Producer James Svensson here, and more details on EA’s Frostbite Labs here.
Bound is an amazing-looking game that just got a new trailer:
Here’s a list of the 29 games that PlayStation VR will be showing at E3.
Here’s the archive of Ubisoft’s E3 Press Conference
Palmer Luckey and the Oculus team beat the Ubisoft developers in a game of capture the flag in Eagle Flight.
Here’s the trailer for the social game Star Trek: Bridge Crew
Oculus’ Anna Sweet announced a SUPERHOT VR and Killing Floor: Incursion at the PC Gaming Show
SUPERHOT VR
Killing Floor: Incursion
Giant Cop
Wilson’s Heart
Serious Sam VR: The Last Hope
Oculus posted a blog post with 30 different launch titles for the Oculus Touch.
Here’s a list of Oculus Touch Launch titles named in the blog:
- Luna by Funomena
- Unspoken by Insomniac
- Dead & Buried by Oculus Studios
- Rock Band VR by Harmonix
- VR Sports Challenge by Sanzaru
- The Climb (now Touch enabled) Crytek
- Pro Fishing Challenge VR by Opus
- I Expect You to Die by Schell Games
- Job Simulator by Owlchemy Labs
- Fantastic Contraption by Northway Games
- Giant Cop by Other Ocean
- Oculus Medium will also ship with Touch
Bethesda Softworks E3 Conference where they announced Fallout 4 & Doom on VR
Microsoft E3 press conference is currently archived here.
Here’s a portion of the Minecraft update
Here’s Microsoft’s VR-ready console named Project Scorpio launching during the holidays of 2017
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E3 Roundup Day 0: Top 5 Most Important Announcements
The expo floor opens today, but this year’s E3 in Los Angeles has already kicked off with some big names in the industry making fresh commitments to VR on both the software and hardware side of things. Here we take a look at the top 5 announcements from Day 0 of E3, ranked in no particular order (because who would agree?):
Crytek Release ‘Robinson’ E3 Trailer for PlayStation VR
Crytek have released a new trailer for their forthcoming PlayStation VR exclusive adventure title Robinson: The Journey.
‘Final Fantasy XV’ Trailer Released, “VR Experience” Coming to PlayStation VR
Final Fantasy fans can officially save their pennies, because the latest instalment, Final Fantasy XV, is making its way to PlayStation VR later this year – the only problem is we still don’t know exactly what form the so-called VR experience will take. The latest trailer does give us some clues though.
Hands-on: ‘PSVR Aim’ Controller Debuts with ‘Farpoint’ FPS
PlayStation VR Aim is a new Move-like gun peripheral employed by the newly announced PSVR title Farpoint. Sony quietly revealed the PSVR Aim controller during their E3 2016 PlayStation VR event. We went hands-on with both the game and the controller.
Resident Evil 7 Will be Playable to the End With PlayStation VR, First Trailer Here
Sony had a handful of VR surprises for us at their Pre-E3 event last night and one of them will be very welcome to survival horror fans. Resident Evil 7: Biohazard is coming to PlayStation VR this year and will be fully playable inside the VR headset from beginning to end.
Horror Game ‘Here They Lie’ Coming to PSVR, Teaser Trailer is Here
PlayStation’s pre-E3 event teased a number of PSVR games from well-known names out there, including Batman: Arkham VR, Star Wars: X-Wing VR Missions, and Final Fantasy XV, but it looks like some original IP has made its way into the event’s rapid fire trailer releases as well. And horror game Here They Lie certainly is original, we’ll give them that.
Here’s All 29 PSVR Games Sony’s Showing at E3
Sony’s pre-E3 press conference saw the announcement of a number of high-profile games headed for PSVR after the headset’s October 13th launch, and to wit, we’re currently perusing over 20 PSVR games right now in the post-press mop up.
