PlayStation VR is Coming to EGX 2015, Book Your Demo Slot from Friday 18th September
EGX, the UK's biggest gaming show is just around the corner - running for 4 days starting 24th September - and Sony's newly christened PlayStation VR will be there - but if you want to try it, make sure...
Sony Confirms New 90Hz Display Mode for PlayStation VR (formerly Morpheus)
Sony wowed us back in March when they announced a 120Hz display mode on the latest version of the PlayStation VR headset (formerly known as 'Project Morpheus'), the fastest available on any of the 'big three' consumer VR headsets soon to hit...
New ‘Foxhole’ HTC Vive Concept Footage Released from The Virtual Dutchmen
The Virtual Dutchmen, a Netherlands based VR studio, has come out with a second video showing their HTC Vive concept Foxhole.
The team had originally planned to build a tower defense game, but opted to go for a 'King of the...
SpaceVR’s Second Kickstarter Raises More Than $40k in First Six Days
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1035872323/spacevr-step-into-space
SpaceVR, the Ryan Holmes-founded San Francisco startup that wants to build a 360-degree video platform for space footage, has re-launched its Kickstarter geared towards putting its VR camera Overview One on the Cupola module of the International Space Station...
‘The Ark’ 360 VR Documentary, the Story of the Planet’s Most Endangered Species
From the makers of the award-winning documentary Empire comes a 360 degree documentary that aims to put you face-to-face with the most endangered species on the planet: the northern white rhinoceros.
Called The Ark, documantarians Eline Jongsma and Kel O'Neill are bringing their collective...
Valve’s Alan Yates Slams Spherical Photos and Video, “They Basically Suck!”
Alan Yates, who somewhat euphemistically identifies himself as "Chief Pharologist" at Valve Corporation, is one of the minds behind Valve's laser based motion tracking technology, Lighthouse, used in SteamVR's flagship HTC Vive VR headset and controllers. It seems the...
‘Deus Ex’ Creator Warren Spector Has U-Turned on VR, “I’ve started to come around”
One of the most respected game developers in the business, Warren Spector, has been a fairly vocal critic of virtual reality's recent resurgence of late. But in a recent interview, the Deus Ex creator says he's changed his mind...
5 Days at SIGGRAPH 2015, My Virtual Reality Highlights
Frank He digs into his journal to bring us his favourite moments from SIGGRAPH 2015, where virtual reality's presence was stronger than ever before (pun intended).
Now a second year UCLA undergraduate in a neuroscience program, Frank was born in...
‘Blocked In’ VR Diorama Gets Visual Overhaul and Oculus Runtime v0.7 Update
One of the most original, visually arresting and sombre VR experiences, Blocked In, has just received an update bringing with it a host updates from reworked geometry to Oculus runtime 0.7 support.
This test version of the much loved Blocked...
Taking the Long-view: The VR Future Starts in 2016
In the second of a new regular series of reports, Noah Nelson looks at virtual reality's rocky road ahead as the VR industry grapples with the unenviable task of convincing a cynical world, beyond the enthusiasts, that virtual reality is here, it's...
