Hands-on: ‘Budget Cuts’ Showcases an Impressive Grip on What Makes VR Great
It's been over two years since Stockholm-based Neat Corporation released the initial prototype for Budget Cuts, an upcoming stealth-action game that throws you into a robot-filled office space and arms you with various throwing weapons and a novel portal-based teleporting device,...
Sony Highlights 30+ PSVR Games Launching This Spring
Over on the US PlayStation Blog, SIEA Social Media Manager Justin Massongill has compiled a list of 34 PSVR games targeting a Spring 2018 release. The article details some of the more anticipated titles: Ark Park, Crisis on the...
NVIDIA Announces ‘RTX’, Real-Time Ray Tracing Engine for Volta GPUs
NVIDIA today announced RTX, a GPU accelerated technology capable of producing photo-realistic imagery through realtime ray-tracing, all accelerated on the company's latest generation of Volta GPUs.
Modern GPUs are capable of creating some pretty spectacular realtime imagery these days. Today's...
Report: Facebook to Launch Oculus Go Standalone Headset at F8 Developer Conference
Oculus Go, the company's upcoming $200 standalone VR headset, doesn't have an official release date yet, but a recent report from Variety contends Oculus will be launching Go at Facebook's f8 developer conference this May.
Variety cites "multiple sources familiar with...
Magic Leap Launches Developer SDK, Confirms Eye-tracking, Room-scanning, and More
Today Magic Leap has launched the Lumin SDK, the toolkit which allows developers to build AR experiences for Lumin OS, the operating system that powers the Magic Leap One headset.
Announced with support for both Unity and Unreal, the Lumin...
LG Confirms No Presence at GDC, the One Year Anniversary of Their Headset’s Reveal
At GDC 2017 last year, LG made the surprise introduction of a SteamVR headset boasting high resolution displays and an interesting ergonomic design. After HTC's Vive, It would be the first SteamVR headset introduced by a major company and...
Vive Pro Headset Pre-orders Open at $800 for April 5th Launch, Original Vive Drops to $500
HTC today announced that the Vive Pro headset only (without controllers or base stations) will cost $800 and launch on April 5th; the headset is now available for pre-order. Meanwhile, the original Vive is getting a price cut of $100,...
Update: Weta’s Concept First-person Shooter is Really Coming to Magic Leap One
Magic Leap One, the upcoming AR headset from one of the most well-funded startups in history, is said to arrive sometime this year. While no real specs are known about the headset outside of a few choice bits revealed...
If ‘Ready Player One’ Doesn’t Suck, It Stands to Positively Impact the VR Industry
Steven Spielberg's film adaptation of Ernest Cline's best-selling novel Ready Player One is hitting the big screen later this month. As a story based in a world where virtual reality headsets are omnipresent and everyone is connected to the...
What to Expect From Top AR/VR Companies at GDC 2018
GDC is here once again, all next week we'll have boots on the ground bringing you the latest VR/AR news. Held annually in San Francisco, Game Developers Conference has undeniably been a focal point for VR the industry, and...
