HTC Vive Focus to Release Internationally in 2018, Dev Kit Pre-Orders Live Now
HTC's standalone, untethered VR headset the Vive Focus, will come to western markets later this year, HTC announced today. The company also announced that developers can register for Dev-Kit units from today.
With the VR market still in an early...
Lenovo Confirms May 5th US Launch, June for UK and $400 Price for Mirage Solo VR...
Lenovo's Mirage Solo standalone VR headset, which was announced last year and fully revealed back in January, is set to launch on May 5th, priced at $400, Lenovo tells Road to VR. The standalone headset is set to compete with...
Companies Can Soon Make Vive Wave Headsets Based on Qualcomm’s New VR Reference Design
Qualcomm today announced their Snapdragon 845 Virtual Reality Development Kit (VRDK) reference headset will have support for Vive Wave, HTC's open API which allows a large range of third-party headsets and peripherals access to a common platform. The move to integrate Vive Wave...
VR Enthusiasts Aren’t Happy About the Price of the Vive Pro
When revealing the HTC Vive Pro back in January, HTC left one salient piece of information out of the announcement: the price. After letting impression of the headset's higher resolution, improved ergonomics, and other changes simmer for a few...
7 Lessons ‘Sea of Thieves’ Can Teach Us About Great VR Game Design
Sea of Thieves has finally arrived, and it's the first game in four years from legendary developer Rare, the studio behind some of gaming's greatest titles, like Donkey Kong Country, Banjo-Kazooie, and GoldenEye 007. And while Sea of Thieves itself doesn't support...
GDC 2018 ‘Day 1’ Roundup – Vive Pro Pricing, Magic Leap SDK, Nvidia RTX, and More
Here’s a roundup of news from ‘day one’ of our GDC 2018 coverage. Vive Pro date and price, Magic Leap announcements, Nvidia's real-time ray-tracing, and Budget Cuts resurfaces.
Vive Pro headset launches April 5th for $800, original Vive drops to...
GDC 2018: Talk on Creating Games for Magic Leap One, Live Blog @3PM PDT
Now that Magic Leap has officially launched its Lumin SDK, a dev toolkit which allows developers to build AR experiences for Lumin OS, the operating system that powers the Magic Leap One headset, we expect to hear more specific...
Google and Squanch Games Team up for New Daydream Exclusive, ‘Dr. Splorchy Presents: Space Heroes’
In partnership with Google, developers Squanch Games have revealed Dr. Splorchy Presents: Space Heroes, the first in a series of exclusive games for the Daydream VR platform. Announced today, the game is playable on the GDC show floor at...
Google Opens ‘Maps’ API So Devs Can Create ‘Pokémon Go’-style Games
During the Google Developer Day presentation at GDC 2018, Product Manager Clementine Jacoby and Engineering Lead Patrick Donelan at Google Maps presented the team’s progress in bringing their technology and data to game developers. Several ‘location-based’ AR games using...
4 Interesting New ARCore Apps Hitting Google Play Store
ARCore, Google's augmented reality software development kit for Android devices, was recently made available on 13 flagship smartphones - giving over 100 million devices, the company says, the ability to run AR apps. At GDC today, Google highlighted two upcoming...















