There are a number of initiatives out there trying to encourage development into the huge potential represented by virtual and augmented reality’s current renaissance. None we’ve seen are quite as wide in remit though as Innovate UK‘s national UK ‘IC Tomorrow’ contest, an event which has just announced the winners who’ll share in a £210k (around $320k) in funds to further their programs.
In a surprise move by both Sony and Crytek, it’s been announced that the forthcoming built-for-VR title Robinson: The Journey is to be a PlayStation VR exclusive when it launches next year.
Epic, the company behind the popular Unreal Engine, has released the fourth part of it’s series of films looking at virtual reality technology and the industry. It’s been an interestingly positive journey thus far and this latest instalment focuses on where VR technology may take us in the future, beyond gaming.
Shuei Yoshida, Sony’s president of its worldwide studio, announced a new game at Paris Games Week today targeted for the Playstation VR headset. The exclusive PSVR title is called Until Dawn: Rush of Blood.
Sony’s press conference at Paris Games Week today saw a number of new trailers for titles coming to Playstation VR, the PS4-compatible VR headset. Here we see a new teaser for the retro-futuristic Battlezone.
Revealed at Sony’s press conference at Paris Games Week today was a bevy of updated trailers for titles coming to Playstation VR including a new trailer for RIGS Mechanized Combat League.
Yes, you read that correctly. The beat-em-up franchise as old as many of our readers, Tekken, is on its way to Sony’s immersive gaming platform PlayStation VR. This was announced at Paris Games Week today as part of Sony’s special press conference. To celebrate the news, developers Namco have launched a new trailer.
You may recall our extensive coverage of Crytek’s followup to their VR tech demo Back to Dinosaur Island 1 and 2 – Robinson: The Journey, you may also recall it impressed us quite a bit. Well, the title has just been announced as on its way to Sony’s PlayStation VR platform and to celebrate, have released a brand new trailer showing us more of what we can expect from the game proper.
Eric Romo has been around the venture fundraising block over the last 10 years, not only as the founder of AltspaceVR, where he’s raised some $16 million in venture capital, but also at former startup GreenVolts where he helped raise $120 million. At VR Launchpad last week he opted to use his time on stage to share some of those key lessons with VR entrepreneurs.
We caught up with Nick Pittom and John Hibbins of Psytec Games at EGX 2015 to dig a little deeper into the story behind the virtual reality retro-styled dungeon crawler Crystal Rift, set to release alongside the first wave of VR hardware next year.
A UK firm is making a bid for the untethered virtual reality headset space with a new headset called AuraVisor, a self-contained immersive device which packs processing power and display into one headset. The device hit Kickstarter on Monday and has already passed 50% of its £100,000 funding goal in around 24 hours.
Opaque Media Group, a Melbourne-based VR studio, recently announced Earthlight, an upcoming first-person space simulator that places you in the flight suit of a current day astronaut aboard the International Space Station (ISS).
While the latest generation of haptic feedback in controllers has come a long way since the days of N64’s ‘Rumble Pak’ add-on, it’s fundamentally based on the same principle: rumble. Whether it’s the ERM motors of days passed, or linear actuators thought to be used in next-gen VR devices like Oculus Touch and Vive controllers, rumble will only take you so far, but not far enough.
7 Nanocycles is a demo made by Sweden-based indie developer Nicklas Nygren (aka ‘Nifflas’), and is a deceptively addictive game concept that lobs you in your tiny spaceship through a world of floating geometric shapes.
As we reported recently, Paramount Pictures are currently rolling out demo booths to 15 AMC theaters across the US to demonstrate a snippet of the forthcoming virtual reality horror experience based on the Paranormal Activity horror franchise. Frank He attended an event near him for Road to VR and captured this reaction from an in-booth night-vision camera, recording one of the attendees freaking out during the HTC Vive powered experience. Her reactions are hilarious, but are also a great endorsement of the power virtual reality holds to terrify us completely.
