‘Doom VFR’ Works on Rift After Quick Fix from Valve—Here’s How to Get It

The highly anticipated Doom VFR launched today, officially for the PSVR and Vive. While the SteamVR version initially wasn't working with the Rift, a patch to SteamVR's beta branch has enabled the game to work with Oculus' headset. Here's...
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BBC Takes You 250 Miles Above Earth in ‘Home – A VR Spacewalk’, Now Available for Vive & Rift

BBC and VR production studio REWIND have released their much-lauded interactive VR experience inspired by real NASA and ESA astronaut training programs. The experience, called Home - A VR Spacewalk, supports HTC Vive and the Oculus Rift and is now available...

‘Justice League’ IMAX VR Experience to Debut Haptic VR Controller from Tactical Haptics

The new IMAX VR Centres aim to fuse the best arcade VR games with the best peripherals, for an experience you can't get from your home VR headset. For the new (and awkwardly named) Justice League: An IMAX VR...

Exclusive: How NVIDIA Research is Reinventing the Display Pipeline for the Future of VR, Part 2

In Part 1 of this article we explored the current state of CGI, game, and contemporary VR systems. Here in Part 2 we look at the limits of human visual perception and show several of the methods we're exploring...
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Google Launches Poly API & Toolkit to Make 3D Objects Easier to Find & Use in AR/VR

Google launched Poly earlier this month, a new platform for browsing and downloading 3D objects and scenes. While Poly enjoys full integration with Google’s popular VR creative tools Tilt Brush and Blocks, now the company has released Poly API to make...

Sunsoft’s VR MOBA for PSVR ‘Dark Eclipse’ to Launch in Spring 2018

Sunsoft, the Japanese publisher and developer, today announced their multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) for PlayStation VR Dark Eclipse will be launching Spring 2018. If you’re heading to Sony's annual PlayStation Experience next week you'll be able to get your hands on...

Varjo Secures $6.7M Investment, First Batch of “Human Eye-Resolution” VR Prototypes Shipping to Partners Soon

At Slush 2017, Helsinki-based Varjo Technologies today announced an additional investment of $6.7 million from the Finnish business development group Tekes to continue development on their "human eye-resolution" display for VR headsets. The company also announced they'll be shipping their first Alpha Prototype...

Oculus Go Headsets Are Now Shipping to Developers

Oculus Go, the upcoming standalone VR headset from the makers of Rift, is now arriving to developers looking to get a jump start on creating apps for what promises to be an affordable VR solution at just $200. First reported by VRScout,...

Google’s Daydream Impact Project Aims to Bolster Philanthropic Efforts With VR

Google's newly announced Daydream Impact program is a philanthropy project that provides organizations, nonprofits, and advocates for change with resources, tools, and training to create immersive VR content to support their cause. Instead of just creating advertisements, organizations using...

Exclusive: How NVIDIA Research is Reinventing the Display Pipeline for the Future of VR, Part 1

Virtual experiences through virtual, augmented, and mixed reality are a new frontier for computer graphics. This frontier state is radically different from modern game and film graphics. For those, decades of production expertise and stable technology have already realized...