Microsoft Preparing VR Capable Xbox One for Use with Oculus Rift, Reports Suggest
Microsoft may be preparing a new, much more powerful version of their Xbox One games console codenamed 'Scorpio' to power the Oculus Rift some reports are suggesting.
As the gaming industry and associated press wind the hype engine up in...
‘Project Ghost’ Lets You Bend Time Whilst Dual Wielding Lightsabers
A new early prototype game for the HTC Vive is aiming to bring your time-shifting, lightsaber wielding dreams to life with Project Ghost, a new game, early in production, which mashes together so many individually cool ideas, some of...
Modbox Update Brings Room-scale VR Game Building with New Mod Support
Modbox, the physics sandbox title where you're free to create whatever insane contraptions you like, alongside a friend, has expanded its scope. The team are to deliver a big update in June that expands ability for users to mod the...
Preview: ‘Buzludzha VR’ Gives New Life to an Abandoned Soviet Megastructure
The imposing Buzludzha Monument in central Bulgaria once invoked infallible power, a power that once rested with the nation's Communist Party. The brutalist megastructure, opened to the public in 1981 and later abandoned after the lifting of the iron curtain, now lies in ruins, with...
Reminder: Reggie Watts Brings Act to AltspaceVR May 26th, RSVP Today
Didn't get the memo that the critically acclaimed comedian/beatboxer/musical magician Reggie Watts is coming to VR? There's still time to sign up for the AltspaceVR event, which is being billed as "the largest attended event in VR ever."
With the social VR...
AltspaceVR Debuts Key Tech to Massively Scale Virtual Events
AltspaceVR has today announced FrontRow, a new feature of the social VR platform which opens the door for mass-attended events in virtual reality.
Available on the Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, and Samsung Gear VR, AltspaceVR has made it easy to jump...
Netflix Prototypes Retro Room-scale Streaming Video Store
Netflix engineers working on ways to bring their video streaming service into the immersive realm have released this video of their prototype room-scale virtual reality reality experience modelled on an 80's VHS video rental store. Yes, it is as odd...
Google’s Nathan Martz on Developing with the Daydream SDK
Nathan Martz is a product manager for Google's Daydream SDK, and I had a chance to catch up with him to talk about what developers need to know in order to get started in developing for Daydream, which will be...
Platform Politics: Inside the Oculus and ‘Revive’ Dilemma
Revive is an application that allows select VR games exclusive to the Oculus Home platform to be played on a rival SteamVR-powered HTC Vive headset. A recent update to Oculus Home crippled Revive, an act that has caused outrage...
VR Audio Specialists ‘Two Big Ears’ Acquired by Facebook
In surprise news, it seems that the British company behind the excellent 3DCeption spatial audio pipeline Two Big Ears, has been acquired by Oculus' parent company Facebook in a move set to see their technology included alongside Oculus' to...
