At GDC 2015, game developer and CryEngine creator Crytek was showing an impressive virtual reality experience on the Oculus Rift Crescent Bay prototype. But it would seem that the company has much more up their collective sleeve than a mere demo or Rift support for their engine.
After HTC’s surprise announcement at MWC and the subsequent VR frenzy of GDC, it became apparent some lucky developers had had their hands on early Steam VR hardware for some time. Two of them are Bossa Studios‘ (Surgeon Simulator) and Vertigo Games (Skyworld). The video for their recent EGX Rezzed discussion, as compared by Valve Writer Chet Faliszek, is now online.
VR is returning to this year’s South by Southwest (SXSW) festival in a big way, with sessions featuring familiar names from Oculus, and a number of key leadership from game studios and hardware companies currently developing for future VR devices.
After months of hearing about Oculus’ latest prototype VR headset, Crescent Bay, and pining after a session with the bleeding edge device for so long, I finally secured a demo with the Crescent Bay prototype at this year’s GDC. What I wasn’t counting on though, was that 24 hours later I would be thrown straight into the new HTC Vive.
Jaunt VR, a company specialising in 360 VR Video, has collaborated with outdoor apparel giant ‘The North Face‘, going out on into the wilderness to create a VR experience which captures the beauty of the great outdoors in 360 degree 3D glory.
The clock is ticking for Immersive VR Education’s Apollo 11 Virtual Reality Experience. With only 3 days left in the Kickstarter campaign, the team is more than 75% of the way to reaching their crowdfunding goal.
SteamVR made a powerful debut at last week’s GDC 2015. Valve collaborated with a diverse group of indie VR developers to create demos for the system. Now SteamVR gameplay footage has emerged from The Gallery: Six Elements demo.
NUREN: The New Renaissance has now obtained more than half of its crowdfunding goal, and with only a few days left until the close of their campaign they’ve also announced that they’ll be tacking on another big name in video game music composition to the project.
While we left off with a Day 2 recap, this episode actually wraps up the last several days of GDC and actually takes place several days after the event ended. Why? Because our friends at Road To VR took a much needed break, recouped, and now Ben Lang is back to give us the final piece to our podcast puzzle.
I’ve got everything I need to kill time at the airport: Samsung Galaxy Note 4, Gear VR headset, my last bag of American Cheetos before I leave the homeland for who knows how long. I’ve even managed to work up the self confidence to wear the thing while sitting in the International Concourse in front of a pack of Italian teenage girls. Barring any repressed memories that still haunt me to this day (locker room incident: I don’t want to talk about it), I have a few hours until my flight departs, and free demos just aren’t going to cut it.
Virtual and augmented reality is hitting this year’s South By Southwest (SXSW) multimedia festival in Austin in a big way. With more sessions and meetings involving VR than we can count, there’s one event happening during the festival for sure not to miss: ‘AR/VR Austin’, a collaboration of companies in the field offering live demonstrations of their content and hardware.
Road to VR’s Executive Editor, Ben Lang, is holding a Reddit Q&A about the latest VR tech from GDC 2015 right now! Feel free to drop some questions.
Valve and their partner HTC stole VR enthusiasts’ hearts at GDC last week when the unveiled their Steam VR platform. Now, a new game coming to Steam VR, Skyworld, demonstrates a use for that room-space tracking with this debut trailer.
A grid-based dungeon crawler, Crystal Rift is built from the ground up for virtual reality, yet draws on some very traditional game mechanics. The team behind the Oculus Rift adventure game have released a new trailer, introducing the game’s level editor.
Developer Three One Zero has a 9 minute trailer for its ‘astronaut in peril’ title ADR1FT, which also promises ground-up Oculus Rift support. Debuting at the Video Game Awards last year, it highlights why we’re excited about this title.
