Frontier Developments, creators of intergalactic trading and combat title Elite Dangerous have today announced a series of expansion packs which will bring planetary landings and will offer new crafting an looting systems.
Pollen from Helsinki based developer Mindfield Games is an immensely promising ‘Oculus Rift Optimised’ story driven adventure set on Saturn moon Titan. The title is coming to Gamescom again this year and the studio has released this new screenshots ahead of the show.
At GDC Europe 2015, Autodesk has announced that their new Stingray game engine will launch worldwide on August 19th. The engine will support the Oculus Rift VR headset out of the box.
Gunjack is a quite gorgeous looking turret-shooter for Samsung’s Gear VR headset. The game is set in the EVE universe, that of developer CCP Games’ Eve Online. As an arcade-style shooter, players can collect powerups as they fend off waves of enemies. The game will launch with the consumer version of Samsung’s Gear VR which CCP affirms will come this fall.
August 14th kicks of the SHVR Vive Jam, a collaboration between HTC and the Shanghai VR Meetup to bring teams from across China for a weekend of rapid prototyping room-scale VR experiences for the SteamVR platform. Road to VR signs on as the official media sponsor of the SHVR Vive Jam and will be on-site to bring reports from the event in Shanghai.
The International Dota 2 Championships have returned to the KeyArena in Seattle this year to see twenty teams compete in front of crowds in excess of 15,000 people. Can’t make it in person? Why not pop into AltspaceVR and enjoy the action with your fellow VR nerds?
Kat Walk, a VR treadmill from China based company KatVR, can now add its name to the list of omnidirectional treadmills currently in pre-order, which includes the likes of Cyberith Virtualizer and Virtuix Omni.
The bullet time infused action game SUPERHOT has just released a beta version of the game to Kickstarter backers and a new video showing gameplay from the new release.
WEARVR and Road to VR are joining forces this month to bring you VR goodness from the WEARVR app marketplace, a cross-platform repository of virtual reality experiences. This video gives a glimpse of the top 10 most popular experiences from the last week.
Which is your favorite?
Interested in listing your app on WEARVR? The company encourages you to reach out to info@wearvr.com. In the next few weeks they’ll allow developers to manage their own listings and upload files directly.
A developer at Facepunch Studios, the team behind Garry’s Mod, has whipped up a Minecraft VR prototype for the HTC Vive. Thanks to natural input devices like the SteamVR controllers, interaction and manipulation will be beyond anything gamers have seen before, completely redefining building games as we know them.
Want to step inside the HTC Vive and SteamVR? HTC continues their ‘Vive World Tour’, hauling the headset around the US and beyond to give folks a chance to try out the new headset. The tour makes five stops in August.
Despite a recently announced partnership between Microsoft and Oculus, the VR headset maker recommends that Rift users wait for official compatibility before updating to Windows 10.
UBM Tech, the company behind the annual Game Developers Conference and many other events across industries, is recognizing the continued explosion of consumer virtual reality by forming a standalone Virtual Reality Developers Conference to be held alongside their massive GDC event.
Sphericam 2’s Kickstarter has come to an end today after having more than tripled their initial funding goal of $150,000. The little baseball-sized 360 camera is now promising some pretty ambitious extra features thanks to the added funding.
