Preview: ‘Alice VR’ is a Reality Bending Sci-Fi Puzzler for Rift and Vive
Alice VR is a sci-fi exploration puzzle game from Carbon Studio coming out soon for Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and OSVR. I was taken through three levels of the game, which studio co-founder and Art Director Aleksander Caban says is more...
PowerClaw is a Haptic Glove Ready To Freeze, Burn, and Shock You (Virtually)
PowerClaw is a haptic glove that lets you feel heat, cold, and a number of sensations on the tips of your fingers. Coming to Gamescom 2016 right after the recent launch of their IndieGogo campaign, the team is now...
Hands-on: Crytek’s ‘The Climb’ with Oculus Touch Feels Like an Entirely New Experience
The Climb is a climbing simulator game from Crytek designed for the Oculus Rift. Originally premiering in April using the Xbox controller, The Climb is getting an update to work with Oculus Touch, the company's yet released hand controller.
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Khronos Group President Neil Trevett on glTF: The ‘JPEG for 3D Objects’
The Khronos Group announced that the open standard of glTF was gaining momentum by some of the key players within the graphics industry before SIGGRAPH this year. glTF provides a standardized baseline and interchange format to deliver 3D content...
This VR Experiment Generates Beautiful Worlds From Your Biometrics
STRATA is a new virtual reality experiment from The Mill that taps into biometric data—heart rate, breathing etc.—and produces beautiful procedurally generated worlds to match.
No Man's Sky is the latest and possibly the most high profile example of procedurally generated...
Telling Stories in VR with Improv Acting and ‘Mindshow’
At VRLA Summer Expo 2016, Visionary VR premiered Mindshow, an interactive storytelling platform which allows users to animate and voice characters by inhabiting those character's bodies.
I had a chance to catch up with Visionary VR and VRLA co-founder Cosmo Scharf,...
Oculus Rift to Hit Stores in Europe and Canada from September 20th
Soon you'll be able to walk into a regular store in Europe and Canada and pick up an Oculus Rift headset, according to a tweet from the company's CEO Brendan Iribe.
Oculus' launch in March was certainly viewed as 'less...
Ubisoft Sets Dates for VR Titles ‘Star Trek: Bridge Crew’, ‘Eagle Flight’ and ‘Werewolves Within’
Ubisoft have announced the release dates for it's first three dedicated VR games, 'Star Trek: Bridge Crew', 'Eagle Flight' and 'Werewolves Within'.
Ubisoft are one of the first triple-A games studio to throw their weight behind virtual reality in gaming in...
Latest Version of Touch has Better Tracking & Longer Range, Says Oculus
Oculus revealed Touch, their VR motion controllers, all the way back in June of 2015, but didn't commit to shipping the controllers until the second half of 2016. Since the announcement, the controller has seen several design permutations, but Oculus...
Understanding Binocular Overlap and Why It’s Important for VR Headsets
Binocular overlap refers to the visible overlapping portion between the two eyes of a stereoscopic vision system. In other words, it describes how much of the viewed scene can be seen by both eyes as opposed to by just...
