Infinitus Prime is an Enterprise Focused VR Headset with 5k Horizontal Resolution

The latest virtual reality headset to join the race is a headset not bothering to court the consumer market at at all. The Infinitus Prime tVR headset packs two 1440p displays and the Czech company behind the project are...

Fred Brooks on Ivan Sutherland’s 1965 “Ultimate Display” Speech

Fred Brooks was in the process of looking for his next research agenda when he heard Ivan Sutherland give a speech in 1965 at a computer conference that laid out his vision for future of virtual reality. Sutherland said...

My Unopened Oculus Rift and Why the Vive Stole My Heart

I have a confession to make: my Rift CV1 arrived two weeks ago and I only just opened it. You see... I was busy the night it arrived, and then the next day the Vive arrived, and it has...

The Void to Power New Ghostbusters VR Experience at Madame Tussauds NY

Ghostbusters is coming to virtual reality courtesy of the team at The Void, who are bringing their mixed reality technology to bear on a new VR experience based on the latest movie in the franchise. What's more, you'll be...
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Nvidia’s VRWorks Audio Brings Physically Based 3D GPU Accelerated Sound

At Nvidia's special Editors Day event in Austin, Texas, the company unveiled an enhancement to it's VRWorks APIs which now includes what it says is the first "Physically Based Acoustic Simulator Engine", accelerated by Nvidia GPUs. Nvidia and AMD's focus on...

‘Sisters’ & the Social Experience of VR Horror

Otherworld Interactive recently announced that their horror experience Sisters just surpassed one million downloads for Google Cardboard. To celebrate, they released a compilation of reaction videos of people screaming and slamming VR headsets into the ground. While doing horror in...

Preview NVIDIA’s Impressive ‘Ansel’ 360 3D Screenshots in Rift, Vive, and Cardboard

NVIDIA has announced an advanced screenshot tool called Ansel which allows users much greater control over in-game photo capturing, including the ability to shoot 3D 360 degree imagery which is viewable in VR headsets. You can preview Ansel's output...
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Hands-on: ‘VR Funhouse’ Brings NVIDIA’s Most Advanced Physics Into VR

NVIDIA recently announced VR Funhouse, a new virtual reality experience which showcases the company's GPU-based physics systems. Running on a machine with three of Nvidia's new GeForce GTX 1080 GPUs (with wholly one of them devoted to physics processing) and the...

‘VR Funhouse’ is NVIDIA’s Virtual Reality Physics Sandbox

NVIDIA today announced a number of software tools and updates to go along with the company's newest GPU, the long-awaited GeForce GTX 1080 and the budget GTX 1070. Among them was a VR sandbox that shows off all the cool...

NVIDIA GTX 1070 is Faster Than Titan X for $379, Coming June 10th

Nvidia just announced the GTX 1070, a card based on the new Pascal 16nm FinFET architecture that outperforms the Titan X and it'll retail for $379. Plus, you'll be be able to buy it from June 10th. We were expecting...