Hot on the tails of the Oculus Rift’s unveiling at the company’s ‘Step into the Rift’ event, the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) promises to see a number of press conferences featuring the top players that have expressed strong interest in VR projects.
At Microsoft’s E3 conference today, the company let loose with another live demonstration of their mixed reality headset HoloLens. In the demo they showed a number of features, including the newly revealed multiplayer function for non-headset players.
E3 is underway here in LA and at Microsoft’s press conference the software giant have announced that they’re working closely with Valve on virtual reality for the Windows 10 platform.
Microsoft kicks off E3 Day 0 with their big press conference. With the company recently engaging in an interesting partnership with VR headset maker Oculus, this is one we’ll be keeping our eye on.
Rothenberg Ventures, the San Francisco based VC firm behind the ‘River’ VR accelerator is opening their doors for a second class of VR startups. The company seeks to invest another $1 million across 10 companies after a successful inaugural class. This time they’re also interested in bringing on companies working in augmented reality.
Esper, from UK based Coatsink Software, is a charming virtual reality puzzle game that was recently unveiled as part of Oculus’ consumer Rift launch line up next year. Ahead of it’s showing at E3 2015 in LA this week, the team have released a new trailer and screenshots.
SFX house Stress Level Zero recently received their Valve Vive Developer Edition kit and have now published a useful image demonstrating just what Valve’s 15×15 feet ‘room scale’ tracking looks like when applied in reality.
Loading Human, a ambitious made-for-VR adventure game, in development for the Oculus Rift have announced it’s on its way to Sony’s Project Morpheus too.
As we reported yesterday, InfinitEye is alive, well and reborn as Star VR, now a 5k, dual panel, 210 degree FOV VR Headset. The headset will be on show at E3 this year and will have a custom ‘The Walking Dead‘ experience produced by parent company Starbreeze.
Oculus announced at their pre-E3 ‘Step into the Rift’ event that they would be committing more than $10 million to accelerate indie VR developers. The investment fund signifies the largest amount of money ever publicly earmarked by Oculus for third-party content development.
Speaking with the Wall Street Journal, Take-Two Interactive CEO Strauss Zelnick says that the company is still far from deploying virtual reality games.
VR Karts: Sprint, the Gear VR adaptation of VR Karts, is now on the Gear VR store. With the addition of online multiplayer, you can now race around the game’s cartoony kingdom against competitors from all over the globe.
At yesterday’s Oculus ‘Step into the Rift’ event, Oculus listed some stats about the spread of the Rift DK1 and DK2 development kits, showing that more than 175,000 units have been sold.
Oculus is now taking Rift demo appointments at E3 through their app. If you’ll be at E3 and want to get your head into the Rift consumer version for the first time, jump in and sign up! You’ll get to choose between nine games to experience.
