‘L.A. Noire: The VR Case Files’ Review – A Virtual Scavenger Hunt
L.A. Noire: The VR Case Files is the debut VR title from Rockstar Games, and a remake of unique action-detective game L.A. Noire which was released in 2011. LA Noire VR draws upon the same foundation of impressive facial motion...
‘Raw Data’ Studio Survios Announces ‘Electronauts’ for Jamming Out in VR
Electronauts is a music creation tool built within an “interactive sonic environment” where users can make, remix, and perform music, regardless of skill level. This is the third VR project from California-based developer Survios, creators of VR action games...
‘L.A. Noire: The VR Case Files’ Workaround Adds Support for Rift and Windows VR Headsets
L.A. Noire: The VR Case Files launched to much excitement yesterday, but it wasn't long before it was revealed that the game explicitly blocks OpenVR-compatible headsets other than the Vive. Luckily a free, unofficial workaround has been released which...
‘Nazi VR’ Documentary Shows How VR is Helping to Convict Nazi War Criminals
More than 6,000 German soldiers worked at the Nazi concentration camp in Auschwitz. Now on the cusp of 2018, the ones that are still alive are in their 90s and 100s, so there's very few left to actually pursue....
Vive Focus Hands-on Video Emerges from China
Vive Focus, the first consumer-available standalone headset with six-degrees-of-freedom (6DoF) positional tracking, has officially launched in China. While HTC isn't shipping Vive Focus outside the country, fresh reports of the headset's tracking capability seem to be promising.
Richard Lai, Engadget China's Senior...
‘YouTube VR’ Finally Comes to PC, Bringing the Platform’s 360 Videos to Vive, Rift, and Windows...
It's been a long while coming, but Google has finally launched a YouTube VR app on PC. The app is now available on Steam, officially for the Vive (but also functional with Rift and Windows VR headsets). Google expects YouTube...
‘Gunjack 2: End of Shift’ Finally Comes to Gear VR
CCP Games (developer of EVE: Valkyrie, EVE: Online, and others) has launched Gunjack 2: End of Shift (2016), for the Samsung Gear VR on the Oculus Store. The title is the sequel to 2015's Gunjack which had debuted on Gear VR.
Initially Gunjack...
Apple Final Cut Pro X Update Adds a “Complete Toolset” for 360 Video Editing
Alongside today's launch of the new iMac Pro, which the company is pitching as an ideal machine for VR creators, Apple has updated its widely used video editing software, Final Cut Pro X, with what it calls a "complete...
NFL Debuts Season 2 of ‘NFL Immersed’ Immersive Football Documentary
Google and the NFL today announced season two of Immersed, the multi-episode docuseries following NFL players on and off the field. The first three episodes are available today on Daydream through YouTube VR and the NFL’s YouTube channel.
According to...
VR Short Film ‘Asteroids!’ from Baobab Studios Now Available
Interactive VR short film Asteroids!, the follow-up to Emmy award-winning VR short Invasion! (2016) is now available for Gear VR, Daydream, and Windows MR headsets. From the director of the Madagascar franchise, the full 11-minute cut continues the journey of...
