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Hands-on: ‘Budget Cuts’ Inventive Locomotion is a Lesson for VR Developers

Budget Cuts is a stealth-action virtual reality game in development for the HTC Vive. The polished experience has the player avoiding humanoid robots and attacking from the shadows with throwing knives and crossbows. The game's portaling locomotion system is...
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Preview: ‘The Caretaker’ Recreates the Atmospheric Insanity of ‘The Shining’

Franbo VR, an indie studio based out of Bristol, UK, has created some iconic interiors inspired by The Shining (1980) in a short VR experience called The Caretaker. Distilling some of the film's atmospheric insanity, the experience lets you walk the halls of the isolated Overlook Hotel. In...
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Preview: ‘Arnswalde VR’ is a Memorial to Life as it Was Before WW2

It's nothing short of amazing when you can take a tour of a town that doesn't exist anymore, and Arnswalde VR takes you back to the once-West Pomeranian city to see just what it was like before the turbidity of WW2. Arnswalde,...
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Inside ‘Ixian Gate’ – An Otherworldly, Surrealist Dream Come to Life

Ixian Gate is a beautiful, infectiously weird VR demo created by Jess Johnson, a New Zealand-born artist based in Melbourne. Johnson takes a measure of inspiration from Frank Herbert's iconic sci-fi tome Dune (1965) to produce an otherworldly experience that is an enigmatic trip through tessellating shapes and bodies...

Preview: ‘Meso VR’ Transports You to 900AD to Visit Mayan Temples

Meso VR, an educational project created by Dallas based studio Eightfold VR, introduces you to the world of the Maya by taking you back to 900AD to see one of the ruins brought to life. Meso VR first presents you with a quick history lesson...
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Preview: ‘Korix’ is a Deceptively Simple Cross Between RTS and Tower Defense

The blocky architecture of Korix may look simple, but in this real time strategy-meets-tower defense, appearances can be deceiving. Warning: you may be overwhelmed with the sudden urge to flip over the virtual game board. Korix is a retro-style real time strategy...
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First Look: Inside Oculus ‘Arcade’ Beta – New Tech Brings Back Games of a Bygone Era

Oculus has today released their much awaited Arcade app, which lets you play a number of original classic arcade titles from Sega, Midway, and Bandai Namco. While you won't need virtual quarters to try out the games for a limited time,...
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‘7 Nanocycles’ is an Addictive Flyer that Blasts You Through a Geometric Futurescape

7 Nanocycles is a demo made by Sweden-based indie developer Nicklas Nygren (aka 'Nifflas'), and is a deceptively addictive game concept that lobs you in your tiny spaceship through a world of floating geometric shapes. 7 Nanocycles is about keeping momentum while inside the...
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Preview: ‘Late Night Shop’ is a Nightmare Where Mannequins Come to Life

Late Night Shop is a first person 'mannequin evader' built by Plymouth, England based studio Total Monkery. The game, which is currently in pre-alpha, is excruciatingly close to a personal nightmare of store mannequins come to life. Much like the...

Hands On: ‘Pollen’ is Still a Sci-fi Mystery Waiting to Unfold

Pollen is an upcoming first-person sci-fi puzzle exploration game produced by Finland based Mindfield Games. Taking you to the far-off research station on the surface of Titan, Saturn's largest moon, you follow an ominous quest to explore a mysterious time-bending phenomenon that has taken hold of the...
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Preview: ‘Null of Hope’ Brings the Retro Adventure RPG to VR

Null of Hope, a retro first-person adventure RPG produced by Wade Arcade, gives a new twist to the genre and puts you in the game like never before. A 'list and click' variant of the popular 'point and click' games of the...

Preview: ‘VR Karts’ Open Beta, Now Available on Steam Early Access

VR Karts is a DK2 compatible go-cart racer currently in open beta that delivers familiar gameplay along with a number of smartly designed VR-specific optimizations. Still in open beta, with many more additions to go before it can call itself a...

Latest Version of ‘Virtual Desktop’ is Here, The Free App That Makes Your Entire Windows Computer...

While futurists have contemplated for years what virtual reality computing might one day look like, there's a simple solution to using your Windows computer in VR today, it's called Virtual Desktop, and we've got a look at the latest...

CES 2015: Hands-on With the HDK VR Headset From Razer & Sensics

After yesterday's announcement of OSVR and the 'Hacker Development Kit', we met up with creators Razer and Sensics to check out the forthcoming $199 headset for ourselves. See Also: Razer Announces $199 ‘Hacker Dev Kit’ VR Headset as Part of OSVR...

Latest Darkfield VR Release Shows Huge Progress, Early Access Download Available Now

The latest release from the Darkfield VR team shows how quickly the team are shaping this space dogfighting sim into a slick, polished virtual reality showcase. Space Shooter, The Genre of VR So it seems that Oculus VR's plans for the...
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