Getting Ramped up on VR with Microsoft’s Developer Evangelist

Liv Erikson was able to to live out one of her dreams when she stepped into the Star Wars universe to battle against a lightsaber training Remote within Sixense's VR demo. This helped her discover that she has a...

Comparing ‘EVE: Valkyrie’ VR Experiences: Oculus Rift Vs PlayStation VR

This week at Fanfest 2016, CCP Games has announced that EVE: Valkyrie will not only find its way to all three major VR headsets, but will also allow cross-platform play between them. We went hands-on with PC and console versions...

Transforming Living Rooms into Classrooms with the Virtual World Society

Tom Furness has been working in virtual reality longer than anyone else on the planet, and he's starting a new phase of his legendary career: building a coalition of content creators and financial backers through the Virtual World Society...

Preview: ‘Pollen’ is ‘Gone Home’ for Hard Sci-Fi Fans, Motion Control Coming Soon

It's 1995. The world looks a little different after the failed assassination of JFK. In a bid to open-source all US and Soviet space patents, the Space Race booms into a new era of long-haul interplanetary travel—spearheaded of course by a...

Hands-on: ‘Project Arena’ Aims for Competitive VR Motion Combat

Project Arena is a competitive ‘full-body’ VR experience from CCP. Using the Oculus Touch controllers, this eSports experiment is far removed from the space simulation themes normally associated with the company, although it retains much of the style and slick presentation. I was able...

VR Chief to Explain “Google’s Vision for VR” in Hour-long Session at I/O 2016

Google have been floating at the periphery of serious commitment to virtual reality since the launch of their ultra low-cost Android Cardboard VR platform in 2014. But this year's Google I/O session schedule indicates it's about to throw some...
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‘EVE: Valkyrie’ to Receive Carrier Assault Mode with Star Wars-style Trench-run

A new objective-based game mode was today announced for EVE: Valkyrie at Fanfest 2016, CCP's annual gathering in Reykjavik, Iceland. Called 'Carrier Assault', it promises to offers what lead designer Andrew Willans calls an "influence from a certain '70s sci-fi classic moment."...
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CCP Teases New Footage of ‘Project Arena’, a Purported ‘VR eSport’ for Touch and Vive

Project Arena, a prototype game now in development from CCP, was teased today by CCP Games at Fanfest 2016, the company's annual gathering in Reykjavik, Iceland. We first saw a rudimentary prototype of Project Arena at Fanfest 2015. It was found among a...

Meet Strangers in VR and Create Beautiful Things Together

What if you could take the magical sense of creativity evoked by Tilt Brush and share that with someone else, online, simultaneously, using nothing but your hands for input? That's the ethos behind developer Mike Harris' latest project, StrangersVR. If...
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‘Skywand’ Uses VR and Autonomous Drones to Capture the Perfect Shot

Once upon a time if you were a filmmaker who wanted an aerial shot, you paid a hefty fee to charter a helicopter and brought a camera along for the ride. Today, filmmakers can use virtual reality to pre-plan...