The VR news is coming thick and fast this week and with just a few hours until nVidia’s ‘Made to Game’ event, AMD has dropped news of it’s brand new initiative for streamlining the development and enjoyment of virtual reality – an SDK named ‘Liquid VR’.
Attention Gear VR owners: the fabled time has come to take out your credit cards, and hand them over to the likes of the newly monetized Gear VR store, where you can kiss your money goodbye in increments of $2.99 – $9.99 for full versions of mobile VR games.
Mozilla is making impressive progress in bringing virtual reality to the web. Today I got to see a surreal new experience that makes use of the Oculus Rift and the Leap Motion directly in the web browser using Mozilla’s latest web VR developments.
Gameface labs, a company who are focusing on mobile virtual reality, have announced their latest VR headset, to be based on the powerful mobile SoC (System on Chip) the nVidia TK1 and sporting a 1440p Samsung fabricated Super OLED panel.
HTC mentioned during their HTC Vive reveal yesterday that the new headset would be accompanied by new controllers, designed for VR. It seems that Scott Broock, VP of Content at Jaunt just got his hands on them, and was impressed.
GDC 2015 has only just kicked off, but we’re already starting to hear first-hand accounts of Valve’s new HTC manufactured VR Headset, the Vive.
Yesterday, Valve and HTC revealed the ‘Vive’ VR headset, and there’s some pretty big names already working on content for the headset.
With top tier press clamouring for information on the secretive augmented reality project known as Magic Leap, Kent Bye – the force behind the excellent ‘Voices of VR‘ podcast – serendipitously happens upon a full interview with it’s Technical Director Paul Reynolds.
In a surprise move, Epic has announced that its cutting-edge 3D engine ‘Unreal’ is now free to everyone who wants it. So what’s the catch?
There’s still a lot of unanswered questions surrounding HTC’s Steam VR Headset the Vive, not least of which how exactly the tracking solution works. There is one theory that has emerged which does offer a plausible solution.
NextVR is incorporating light field capture technology into their VR platform which will allow users to alter their perspective inside the VR space, adding a degree of positional tracking to the live action videos and making for a more immersive 360 video experience, according to the company.
The HTC Vive, a virtual reality headset for Valve’s SteamVR platform, was launched yesterday and it was accompanied by a lavish, high-concept trailer extolling the wonders of the new platform.
Samsung have sent along the specs for the updated Gear VR, announced at Samsung’s Unpacked event earlier today – and it includes some notable changes.
Cloudhead Games, the developers behind the Kickstarter backed Oculus Rift adventure The Gallery have announced that not only have they been working on bringing their game to Steam VR and the freshly announced HTC Vive headset, but that they’ll be demo’ing it at GDC next week.
Samsung at their Unpacked event has just announced, to accompany the release of their new flagship smartphones, the Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge, it will also release an updated version of the Gear VR to be compatible with these new smart phones.
The new phones feature 5.1 inch quad Super AMOLED screens, but it’s not clear how the new Gear VR might cope with anomalies caused by the S6 Edge curved screen edges.
No details as to if the new mobile VR headset is to include further enhancements as yet.
This story is breaking – we’ll update with more details as we hear them.
