Ultra-violent Battle Sim ‘Gorn’ to Hit Steam Early Access July 10th
Gorn, the blood-soaked battle simulator from the makers of weird and wild games Broforce (2015) and Genital Jousting (2016), is officially coming to Steam Early Access on July 10th.
Free Lives, the studio behind the game, have developed Gorn on a unique, fully...
Oculus Brings Mixed Reality Capture Support to Rift
Trying to capture what someone is experiencing when they're head-first in a VR game has been an interesting problem to crack. By matching up live video and a digital environment with the help of a green screen setup though, you...
GunnAR Live Fire Test Shows How AR Can Revolutionize Decades-old Combat Procedures
The GunnAR system uses augmented reality helmets to visually relay targeting and firing commands to gunners aboard Navy vessels, replacing decades-old methods of giving audible commands by radio which can be hard to hear over the sounds of firing...
Apple’s Job Listings Seek ‘VR File Format Engineer’, ‘VR Pipeline Engineer’, & More
Now that Apple is being open about their interest in VR the company is publicly listing new job postings for a number of roles seeking candidates with VR expertise. Two of the latest listings suggest the company is exploring VR...
Developer Videos Show Valve’s Knuckles Controllers in Action
New footage of Valve’s new ‘Knuckles’ controllers has emerged over the past few days, as developers begin to test out the new device. The ‘next-gen’ SteamVR controller prototypes represent a major advancement over the current Vive motion controllers, with...
Apple Adds VR Rendering Essentials to MacOS via Metal 2
With Apple's increasing interest in VR on Mac, the company is adding essential features to its new Metal 2 graphics API to support high performance VR on MacOS.
Because VR demands high-powered graphics and extremely low latency, specially tuning the...
Google Begins Experimenting with VR Ads
According to a recent entry on the Google Developers Blog, the company has begun experimenting with advertising formats suitable for placement inside of virtual reality experiences. Focusing on mobile VR platforms, the first idea they've shared for a native...
Projection-mapped Immersive Theater Shows the Future of Live AR Performances
There was an amazing projection-mapped, immersive theater piece at Sundance this year by Heartcorps called Riders of the Storyboard. Trained street performers interacted with virtual projection-mapped 2D objects, and through the sleight of hand magic broke these flat objects...
HTC Vive & Lenovo Standalone Headsets to be Based on Qualcomm Reference Design, Components Detailed
Just about the only thing we know so far about the new Daydream standalone VR headsets in the works from HTC and Lenovo is that they are... in the works. Now however we're getting a little more clarity about...
VR World Brings an Open Buffet of 50+ VR Experiences to the Heart of NYC
VR World NYC is a new VR arcade that opened on June 24th in New York City right next to the Empire State Building. They have three floors with 55 different VR experiences, and they're using an all-you-eat buffet...















