Hands-on: NVIDIA Launches GTX 1060 and Benchmarks Against AMD’s RX 480
Today marks the launch of NVIDIA's GTX 1060, the least expensive of the company's 10-series GPUs so far revealed. According to Nvidia, the GTX 1060 matches the performance of the former flagship card, the GTX 980, but at only...
Oculus Rift Growth Spurt Halts HTC Vive Market Share Expansion
There's been a lot of talk about the latest data from Valve's latest Steam Hardware & Software survey, most of it drawing erroneous conclusions about overall market share of VR headsets while missing out on a very interesting data...
Analysis of Valve’s ‘Lighthouse’ Tracking System Reveals Accuracy
Valve's 'Lighthouse' tracking system affords the HTC Vive a 'room-scale' tracking space for the VR headset and its controllers through the use of area-sweeping lasers. But exactly how accurate is it? Oliver Kreylos, a VR researcher at UC Davis,...
New Darth Vader VR Experience Coming from ILMxLAB, Here’s a Quick Peek
During an ILMxLAB panel at this years Star Wars Celebration event in London, Batman movie writer David Goyer was introduced as working on a full Star Wars narrative VR experience that focuses on the series most recognisable villain, Darth Vader.
The...
‘Star Wars: Trials on Tatooine’ is Released for HTC Vive 18 July
Just announced at a Star Wars "Meet ILMxLab" panel at the Star Wars Celebration expo in London, Star Wars: Trials on Tatooine will be released for the HTC Vive on Steam for free on Monday 18 July.
One of the highlight...
New Oculus Touch Features Detailed in Latest Oculus PC SDK 1.6 Release
Oculus' latest Software Developer Kit (SDK) has just been released, and adds support and documentation for a brand new 'Enter' button on the left controller not yet seen in the wild.
The Oculus Touch motion controller is on its way, and...
XBox Head Phil Spencer Sends Mixed Messages on Project Scorpio and VR
Microsoft unveiled 'Project Scorpio' to the world at E3 this year, stating that it would provide the Xbox platform enough power to run high fidelity VR experiences. But a recent interview with Xbox head Phil Spencer seems to show a...
Report: Google Ditched Plans for High Spec Oculus Rift Rival
Google had a high-end, standalone virtual reality headset in the works that was recently ditched in favour of the Android-centric 'Daydream' VR platform, a new report suggests.
It seem that persistent rumours of a standalone, Google VR headset may not have...
New HTC Vive Version May Be Coming This Year, Report Suggests
The SteamVR powered HTC Vive virtual reality system may see an updated "HTC Vive 2.0" before the end of the year according to a report citing suppliers to the Taipei based firm.
The HTC Vive, powered with technology developed by...
Auto VR Sound Generation via Physics Simulations and Machine Learning
Dr. Ming Lin has been working on realtime physics simulations before physics engines were cool. Ming is now actively researching how to simulate audio in real-time. Rather than recording or generating sounds that are then simulated within a virtual...
