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Hands-on: Intel’s Project Alloy ‘Merged Reality’ Roomscale Multiplayer Demo

At CES 2017, Intel was showing off more of its Project Alloy VR headset, including a roomscale multiplayer demo featuring 'merged reality', where the game environment adapts to your physical surroundings. Project Alloy Project Alloy is Intel's VR headset reference design....

‘Siegecraft Commander’ Review

Trebuchet, or not to trebuchet? There really is no question when it comes to Siegecraft Commander, a tabletop strategy game that combines traditional real-time strategy (RTS) elements with a unique base-building mechanic that's designed to significantly change the way you...

Apple AR/VR Product to Debut in 2017, Predicts Sony’s Head of Worldwide Studios

To many, the question of an Apple AR or VR headset has become a "when" rather than an "if". The President of Sony's Worldwide Studios thinks 2017 is the year that Apple introduces its first immersive device. Apple does R&D...

Hands-on: Huawei VR is the First Third-party Daydream Headset

Frank He goes hands-on with Huawei's first Google Daydream compatible headset at CES 2017, one which takes cues from both the Samsung and Oculus engineered Gear VR and its closest stable mate, the Daydream View headset. Huawei’s Daydream compatible VR headset, into...

VR Interface Design Contest with $10,000 in Cash Prizes Launched by Purple Pill

Immersive content agency Purple Pill has announced a VR interface design competition and is offering $10,000 in cash prizes to those who create the best virtual reality interfaces. From gaze-based interaction modalities to laser pointer menus to skeuomorphic knobs and...

‘Sansar’ Will Open to All in First Half of 2017 with a New Approach to Virtual Worlds

Sansar, a virtual world platform from the creators of Second Life, will open its doors to everyone in the first half of 2017. Developer Linden Lab explains their new approach to virtual worlds, and the many ways they plan...

Hands-on: PiMAX’s 8K Headset Proves that High FOV VR is Coming

Frank He goes hands on with PiMAX's ludicrously high-spec 8k, 200 degree FOV prototype at CES and find the company has some innovative solutions to some of the substantial challenges driving a headset like this poses. While there were many...

VR as the Most Powerful Surveillance Technology or Last Bastion of Privacy? It’s up to Us.

Virtual reality has the potential to enable so many amazing utopian futures, but it also has the potential to become one of the most intimate surveillance technologies that could create a Big Brother dystopia of political and economic control....

Qualcomm’s New Mobile Tech Unlocks Impressive Inside-Out Tracking

At CES 2017 Qualcomm unveiled its Snapdragon 835 processor and along with it a solid focus on the mobile VR market. We got a chance to test that new focus by going hands on with Qualcomm's latest reference hardware...

Get Free Courtside VR Seats to Spurs vs. Timberwolves NBA Game This Tuesday

Own Gear VR or Daydream View? Then you've got access to free courtside seats to this Tuesday's forthcoming Timberwolves vs. Spurs NBA game live... in VR of course. This Tuesday, January 17th, NextVR is offering a free pass to watch...