OSVR announced today that 12 new partners have signed up to work with the Open-Source Virtual Reality (OSVR) headset, a so called “hacker dev kit” that is intended to be entirely hardware agnostic.
Open Source Virtual Reality’s (OSVR) flagship VR headset is to get some upgrades. HDK v1.1 brings a low latency 1080p OLED panel and video mirroring amongst other enhancements, the movement has announced today.
MindMaze announced today that it has recently closed an $8.5 million funding round for its “thought-powered VR game system” called MindLeap, a VR/AR headset that uses both electroencephalogram technology (EEG), and integrated 3D motion capture cameras for hand-tracking as a basis for game input.
The 360 VR video market is rapidly getting busier. With companies like NextVR and Jaunt racing to develop technologies and deliver content which result in compelling, immersive video for virtual reality, things are moving fast. Now a new company called ‘HypeVR’ aims to raise the bar by delivering ultra high quality 3D footage that you’re able to ‘lean into’ – made possible with 3D mapping techniques.
Last night, Sony’s Shuhei Yoshida, President of Sony’s Worldwide Studios for Sony Computer Entertainment Inc., proudly announced that their Playstation 4 VR Headset Project Morpheus was coming to market in the second half of 2016. In the mean time, they revealed the latest Project Morpheus prototype was at GDC and contained numerous enhancements over the first demonstrated version.
Playful Corp, the company in partnership with Oculus and makers of Lucky’s Tale, gave us a hands-on with the new updated demo, which featured two complete levels and fit and finish that speaks to the near-maturity of the VR games scene.
Join us as we find out what nVidia has been teasing the world with for the last few weeks. nVidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang says “More than 5 years in the making, what I want to share with you will redefine the future of gaming.”
Could it be a new virtual reality product to go head to head with Sony, Oculus, Valve / HTC and Samsung? We’ll find out at 6PM PST as Ben Lang and Scott Hayden live blog direct from the event in San Francisco.
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Sony has revealed the specs for the latest version of their VR headset, Project Morpheus – 120Hz, 1080p low persistence with 18ms latency. These details shared a few moments ago at Sony’s special Project Morpheus event.
The presentation was short as it seems the lions share of the allotted 4 hours for the event was to give time enough for attendees to get their hands on the new prototype.
We’ll be bringing you early impressions as soon as we can as both Ben and Scott scramble for some demo time. In the mean time, catch a glimpse of the new tech demo Yoshida spoke of in his presentation. You can catch up with the details from our recent live blog over here.
One year on from Project Morpheus’ reveal at GDC 2104, Shuhei Yoshida just unveiled the newest prototype – now sporting some significant upgrades.
With the news still hot off the presses about Unreal Engine 4 releasing their game engine for free to its users, Unity 5 has come out… and it’s free too.
This afternoon, Sony is hosting press during GDC 2015 to talk Morpheus, the company’s PS4 VR headset that was revealed one year ago at this very show. At 3pm PST we’ll have liveblog coverage of the event.
Untold Games has released a new video showing a gameplay demo for Loading Human, a sci-fi adventure game created ground-up for VR headsets and motion control devices like Sixense STEM.
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.
