‘L.A. Noire: The VR Case Files’ is Officially Coming to Rift March 29th
Rockstar Games, the mega studio behind Grand Theft Auto, Red Dead Redemption, and plenty more, are officially bringing Oculus Rift support to its first VR title, L.A. Noire: The VR Case Files. The game, which previously launched on HTC Vive via...
Oculus PC SDK Adds NVIDIA Lens Matched Shading to Boost Performance
Oculus' PC SDK version 1.19 now supports NVIDIA's VRWorks Lens Matched Shading (LMS) technique, offering "a performance boost and a slight quality improvement" on supported GPUs.
Lens Matched Shading is part of NVIDIA's VRWorks toolset, and takes advantage of the...
Exploring Space & Experiential Modulation of Time in VR with Felix & Paul Studios
Felix & Paul Studios had two experiences at Sundance this year: one featured the training of NASA astronauts in Space Explorers, and the other was a time-lapse VR story featuring characters from Wes Anderson's new Ilse of Dogs film with...
New Jersey Utility Uses Augmented Reality to Visualise Underground Infrastructure
vGIS, a new geographic information system (GIS) visualisation platform from the Environmental Systems Research Institute (Esri) partner Meemim, is being used to view underground infrastructure while wearing Microsoft Hololens. Piloted by Toms River Municipal Utilities Authority in New Jersey,...
Lenovo Mirage VR180 Camera Now Available for Pre-order, Launches May 4th
Lenovo Mirage Camera, the company's 4K 180-degree stereoscopic VR camera, is now available in pre-order for $300, and is slated to launch May 4th.
You can now pre-order Lenovo Mirage Camera on Amazon, although retailer release dates may vary. Lenovo...
TPCAST Launches Business Edition Wireless VR Adapter, Up to 4 Simultaneous Vives
TPCAST, the Beijing-based makers of 60GHz wireless VR transmitters, launched their previously announced Business Edition (BE) Wireless VR Adapter in North America today. The setup is said to include support for up to four simultaneous users occupying a single space.
The...
Vive Pro ‘Recommended Spec’ Seeks GTX 1070, Drops 1060 to ‘Minimum Spec’
Because VR is so demanding, hardware makers have issue 'Recommended' or 'VR Ready' guidelines to help customers understand what kind of hardware they need for a good VR experience. For the most part, the VR industry's biggest players have...
Infinadeck VR Treadmill Shows Improvements With Vive Trackers, Launches This Week
Infinadeck is an active omnidirectional VR treadmill which has been in development since at least 2014. A new video shows the treadmill now using Vive Trackers for enhanced tracking, which appears to have increased the responsiveness of the device....
Hands-on: Massless Wants to Bring High-precision Stylus Input to VR
Massless is developing a stylus designed specifically for high-precision VR input. We got to check out a prototype version of the device this week at GDC 2018.
While game-oriented VR controllers are the norm as far as VR input today...
HTC Releases 3 ‘Ready Player One’ VR Experiences in ‘OASIS Beta’, Now Free on Viveport
HTC showed off eight Ready Player One-inspired experiences at the film's debut event at SXSW. Now, the company has released three of these experiences on Viveport in a single download called Ready Player One: OASIS Beta.
Here's the full list of mini-games...















