Sony’s PlayStation VR press event at GDC today saw some long-awaited announcements, including price and a preview of a number of titles coming to the platform. Among them was the surprise announcement that a VR version of Battlefront will be coming exclusively to the platform.
At a special press event held at GDC in San Francisco today, Sony have announced that the PlayStation VR will have 50 titles by the end of the year..
At a special press event held at GDC in San Francisco today, Sony have announced that the PlayStation VR headset will cost $399 and is due to ship October 2016.
Sony chose GDC in 2014 to reveal to the world that they would be bringing a virtual reality headset to market, powered by their PlayStation 4 console. Here at GDC 2016, Sony have arranged a special event dedicated to what’s now known as PlayStation VR. Could we finally learn the retail price and a more precise launch date? Tune in to our live blog of the event, due to kick off @2pm PST, to find out.
Ubisoft today announced on stage at Unity’s GDC 2016 keynote that their Eagle Flight prototype VR experience is headed for a full launch.
Yesterday AMD announced the Radeon Pro Duo water-cooled card, which is a dual-GPU with 16 TFLOPS of single-precision performance that’s based on the Fiji architecture and will sell for $1499. Tom’s Hardware reports that it “combines two Fiji GPUs, 8GB of High Bandwidth Memory, and four display ports.”
Red Storm Entertainment, a North Carolina-based Ubisoft studio, is jumping into the world of social VR with Werewolves Within, a unique take on the Russian social deduction game Mafia (also known as Werewolf). We went hands on with the first ever demo of the game at this year’s GDC.
Autodesk are continuing to push their virtual reality credentials with the latest version of their Stingray game engine which adds expanded VR support including HTC Vive and Oculus SDK 0.8 integration plus a new 3D character creation workflow.
Manus VR are developing what they claim will be the first consumer virtual reality glove and have announced that their first developer kits are to go on sale at $250, developers can grab a pre-order reservation today.
AMD has unveiled what it’s calling the worlds most powerful graphics card, the dual GPU Radeon Pro Duo, and it’s targeting the product at virtual reality content creators.
Lucasfilm has revealed a new HTC Vive experiment called Star Wars: Trials on Tatooine, which finally lets us wield the Jedi’s iconic lightsaber. Oh, and the Millennium Falcon makes a visit.
AMD’s Capsaicin GDC event is over and we now have official high resolution images and technical specifications for the new Sulon and AMD powered augmented and virtual reality headset the Sulon Q.
After a very brief and accidental release last week, ILMxLab’s trailer for the Star Wars experience subtitled ‘Trials on Tatooine’ – a room-scale experiment in the Star Wars universe – is here and we’ve got the full trailer for you.
OptiTrack are well known in industry circles for their specialist motion capture technology, but at GDC this year, the company is turning its attention to wide area virtual reality experiences as it puts it tracking technology to task in a new interactive virtual reality basketball experience at GDC.
Earlier today a media leak confirmed the existence of a new untethered VR and AR headset from Sulon and AMD, known currently as the ‘Q’. Now, a video demonstration has appeared which may show that hardware in use.
