‘Raw Data’ Early Access Review, Now with Oculus Touch Support
Raw Data, a first-person combat game from Survios currently in Early Access, is one of the most fast-paced and exciting games out for HTC Vive and Oculus Touch right now. Far from being a simple shooting gallery, Raw Data gives you an...
NVIDIA GTX 1080Ti vs. 1080 VR Performance Review: Supersampling Showdown
NVIDIA's latest GPU is here and it offers a big performance bump, but what exactly does that power deliver the VR gaming enthusiast? We pit the new Nvidia GTX 1080 Ti against the GTX 1080 to see just how...
‘Lone Echo’ Developer Shows Impressive Procedural Hand-posing System for VR
Lone Echo, Ready At Dawn’s upcoming space-based VR game, employs a physics-based movement system where the player pushes and pulls themselves around a zero-gravity environment. A video presented at GDC highlights their procedural animation system that allows for convincing...
Embodied Cognition Experiments with EleVR’s Math Museums & Hyperbolic Space
I believe that the principle of Embodied Cognition is probably one of the most significant and important concepts to understand about virtual reality. Cognitive science researchers have been connecting the dots the importance of our bodies when it comes...
‘Robo Recall’ Behind-the-scenes – Insights & Artwork from Epic Games
After years of making some of the most impressive VR tech demos of their time, Epic's Robo Recall is not only the company's first VR game proper, but a culmination of what the company has learned about VR game...
Analysis: Latest VR Ready GPUs Benchmarked and Compared with NVIDIA ‘FCAT VR’
While it's been possible to run basic benchmarks on VR-capable GPUs for a rough understanding of performance, NVIDIA's new FCAT VR tool allows detailed logging and analysis of runtime data captured from any VR app on any GPU. We've...
Oculus Publishes Touch CAD Files for Custom-made Accessories
Oculus has provided the ‘Touch Accessory Guidelines 1.0’ for download, which contains 3D CAD files of the Touch VR controller. This data can be used to help designers and manufacturers create new accessories that integrate with the Touch hardware.
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2017 VR Industry Report to Bring Data-driven Insights & Forecasts That Cut Through the Hype
Greenlight Insights and Road to VR are teaming up once again to co-author a comprehensive report on the VR industry which will provide global forecasts, analysis, and best practices. The Virtual Reality Industry Report: Spring 2017 launches April 4th, pre-order...
On the Hunt for VR’s Killer App with Vive’s China President, Alvin Wang Graylin
Everyone in the VR industry can envision a world in the next 10 years that’s radically changed by virtual reality. From healthcare, education, social, training, cinema, gaming, and more, VR has a lot of Killer Use-cases. But it seems...
Google Patent Shows Smartphone Packaging that Doubles as a VR Headset
A recently published Google’s patent application describes an ‘Integrated mobile device packaging and virtual reality headset’. The concept is to provide a ‘relatively low cost’ VR headset solution by shipping the smartphone in packaging that doubles as a VR...
