3 New PSVR Games to Watch: ‘Tiny Trax’, ‘Theseus’ and ‘The Persistence’
After a lull in PSVR quality titles, PlayStation VR owners can now look forward to a handful of genuinely promising titles appearing for the platform in over the next few months. We pick 3 of the most promising PSVR...
Taking After ‘Sword Art Online’, Oculus Founder Wants to Make a VR Game With Serious Consequences
Having recently departed Oculus after founding the company in 2012, Palmer Luckey has assured the world that he's still very interested in virtual reality and has hinted at some of the things he's pursuing for future projects. Taking a cue...
Four Kits to Get Into VR Sim Racing on Any Budget
Virtual reality is a natural fit for the sim racing genre, bringing high visual immersion in line with detailed and realistic driving physics. But if you're playing with a controller (or worse, a keyboard!) you're missing out the depths...
MindMaze’s MASK is a Practical and Promising Approach to VR Face-tracking
MindMaze, a neurotechnology startup, is developing a simple, low-cost approach to face-tracking called MASK—claimed to be compatible with any VR headset—that can map significantly more life-like expressions onto your virtual avatar.
I recently met with MindMaze at their San Francisco working...
‘Testimony’ Uses VR to Create an Opportunity to Heal Sexual Assault Trauma and Raise Awareness
Testimony is one of the most profound and powerful applications of virtual reality that I've seen so far. It's an experimental documentary that captures the stories of sexual assault from five women broken up into five segments. You're completely...
‘Nemesis Perspective’ Pits VR Player vs. Screen Player in Asymmetric Multiplayer Gameplay
Evocat Games’ first title Nemesis Perspective is a two-player action game where one player uses a gamepad and traditional screen to operate a third-person hero character, while the other assumes the role of an ‘endgame boss’, towering over the hero...
‘The Mage’s Tale’ Available for Pre-order for Oculus Touch, Launching June 20th
On June 20th, action RPG The Mage’s Tale will launch on the Oculus Store. The dungeon crawler from developer inXile Entertainment is optimised for Rift and Touch, set between the events of The Bard’s Tale III: Thief of Fate...
‘FORM’ Review
The word 'surreal' invariably falls short when it comes to trying to lift the shroud surrounding the VR first-person puzzler FORM. Transporting you to a strange inner universe via an enigmatic black obelisk, you experience what it must feel like to...
New $2,000 Core i9 CPU Isn’t ‘VR Ready’ on Its Own, But Intel Says Integrated Graphics...
While Microsoft's 'Mixed Reality' VR headsets are due to launch with some impressively low minimum hardware requirements that will be met by integrated graphics, the big players presently in the market have a much higher 'VR Ready' bar which...
Microsoft Reveals Asus Mixed Reality Headset, New Design from Dell
Today at Computex 2017, the annual IT expo held in Taipei, Taiwan, Microsoft revealed more from their line-up of affordable Windows 'Mixed Reality' headsets, including Asus' headset and an updated design from Dell.
While solid specs or pricing information aren't available for either headset...
