Guest writer Michael Glombicki attended SEA-VR, a Seattle based virtual reality event, yesterday where local developers Epic Games – creators of Unreal Engine – and went hands-on with their latest Oculus Touch enabled, first person, VR shooter ‘Bullet Train‘ which debuted at Oculus Connect this year.
Oculus has quietly launched an alpha version of it’s long awaited ‘Social’ platform, debuting on the Samsung Gear VR. The application lets your pick avatars, share virtual spaces and interact with others in virtual reality and represents somewhat of a landmark in Oculus’ consumer VR roadmap.
Halloween is nearly upon us, and AltspaceVR, the social VR platform, is hosting a ghoulish party with special surprises across a number of event spaces.
The PlayStation new tsunami continues as the Paris Games Week runs. Long rumoured to have VR support incoming, Eurogamer now report that PlayStation 4 racer DriveClub has been confirmed and is being demo’d at the show this week.
The NBA and Turner Sports partnered with NextVR’s video streaming service to deliver the first NBA VR video livestream ever last night, and it was one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen in VR.
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.
