‘In Death’ is a Medieval Roguelike Bow-shooter from ‘EVEREST VR’ Developer Sólfar Studios
In quite the pivot from virtual tourism experience EVEREST VR (2016), Iceland-based Sólfar Studios has revealed their next VR project, In Death, a VR roguelike bow-shooter that promises procedurally generated crawling for loot and more.
Announced today, Sólfar says that In Death is set...
Houston Fire Department on VR’s Potential to Enhance Firefighter Training
Patrick Hagan is a technical specialist for the Houston Fire Department who had an opportunity to try out a VR demo by HTX Labs featuring an active shooter critical response training scenario. This demo inspired him to start collaborating...
Lytro is Positioning Its Light Field Tech as VR’s Master Capture Format
Lytro, a leading light-field company, is positioning its light-field capture and playback technology as the ideal format for immersive content. The company is building a toolset for capturing, rendering, and intermingling both synthetic and live-action light-field experiences which can...
‘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...
