Futuretown is Bringing Motion Platform Arcade Thrills to VR
Taipei based virtual reality company Futuretown is planning to build a out of home destination where you can experience custom built VR game experiences built for and enhanced by 3 different motion platforms.
The rampant rise of video games in...
The Ambitious ‘Loading Human’ is a PlayStation VR Launch Title
Ambitious Sci-fi adventure game Loading Human from developers Untold Games is one of the first made-for-VR titles we covered and it's now been confirmed to be one of the day-one launch titles for the forthcoming PlayStation VR headset on October...
Framestore VR on Digital Lightfield Workflows & VR Ad Campaigns
When I was at SIGGRAPH this year, one of the hottest topics was figuring out the workflows for how to deal with the complexity of capturing, processing, and distributing volumetric digital light fields. Otoy's Jules Urbach had a lot...
HoloLens Inside-out Tracking Is Game Changing for AR & VR, and No One Is Talking about...
Augmented reality, while growing in buzz, has been around in some form or another for more than two decades. But immersive head-mounted AR for consumers has had one major hurdle that Microsoft may have just solved.
Despite copious concept videos showing...
Oculus Touch Price Revealed in London GAME Store
Touch, the long awaited natural input controller for the Oculus Rift, still doesn't have an official price or release date—but a tweet from Nick Summers, associate editor at Engadget UK, has revealed that Oculus Touch is going to be priced...
Leaked Input Device May Explain Why Investors Just Dropped $120 Million into Thalmic Labs
Thalmic Labs, makers of the gesture control armband MYO may be working on a new VR controller, a wristband device which senses the position of your fingers. The company is teasing new products after closing a whopping $120 million...
Innoactive’s ‘VR Suitcase’ is a Portable, Self-Contained HTC Vive Demo Station
Innoactive has answered the call of nomadic VR developers on-the-go with a super slick portable pop-up, self-powered Vive station in a case, it's called the VR Suitcase and it'll put a serious dent in your wallet.
Whilst the HTC Vive...
PlayStation VR Accessories Hit Major Online Retailers
With the PlayStation VR launch just around the corner—October 13th to be exact—major retailers like Amazon, Best Buy and GameStop have started to stock a few accessories that are sure to keep you charged-up at moment's notice and travel-ready for those...
Second-gen Lighthouse Chip Could Improve Tracking, Reduce Cost of HTC Vive 2
A new chip that Valve is recommending for use in future SteamVR headsets and accessories brings improved performance and significant power reduction compared to the first generation solution along with potential manufacturing savings.
An essential component in the first generation HTC...
What Dungeons & Dragons Can Teach Us About Storytelling in VR
Dungeons & Dragons is a form of collaborative storytelling that isn't constrained by time or budget. Because it's all happening within the theater of the mind, if you can imagine it, then it can be constructed instantaneously within everyone's...
