Epic Games Founder Tim Sweeney Talks Three Major Modes of VR Gameplay

Tim Sweeney is the founder of Epic Games, which has been collaborating with Oculus over the last two years creating a number of different tech demos with their Unreal Engine 4. I had a chance to catch up with...
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‘Pinball Labs’ to Bring Accurate Pinball Simulator to VR, Kickstarter Now Live

That pinball-playing street gang you joined for protection as a kid ('The Pinball Wizards', duh) have laughed at you your whole life. Why? You never owned your very own pinball machine! Ok. The premise is bad, but the pinball...

HTC CEO Claims “Very, Very Big” Vive Breakthrough to be Shown at CES

HTC's CEO Cher Wang has gone on record stating that one of the reasons for the recently announced delay to the release of the Steam VR powered HTC Vive VR headset was to incorporate the latest "very, very big...

Big ‘Crystal Rift’ Steam Update Includes “Whole Game”

Psytec Games, the developers behind grid-based VR dungeon crawler Crystal Rift, have announced a big update to their Early Access release of the game, stating that all content planned for release is now present. Psytec Games are having a busy...

New Games and Apps on Gear VR – December Week #3

Got a Samsung Gear VR? Hungry for new games and experiences? We're rounding up the week's Oculus Store releases for fans of the mobile VR platform. This week: test your archery mettle with Archer E Bowman, repair cities in Cityscape...
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WEARVR Weekly Top Ten VR Downloads – December #3

Looking for something fun to play in VR? We’ve got the top 10 downloads from the last week on the WEARVR app marketplace, a cross-platform repository of virtual reality experiences. When the city streets are filled with bad guys there is only...

NVIDIA’s GameWorks VR Features & Integration with Unreal Engine

NVIDIA recently announced the first steps towards supporting foveated rendering with Multi-Res Shading as well as VR SLI integration in Unreal Engine 4. I talked with Nvidia's Tony Tamasi, the senior vice president of content and technology, at the VRX Conference...

AVADirect and Road to VR Launch Exemplar, The Benchmark PC for High-end VR

Road to VR and AVADirect are pleased to announce the launch of Exemplar, a high-end VR gaming PC designed for those who want to push the limits of immersion. Available starting today, Exemplar is made for VR enthusiasts who...

New Images for 2nd HTC Vive Developer Kit Supposedly Leaked

Having been delayed until April 2016, the HTC Vive consumer headset is still under wraps. But these images, supposedly sourced from an accidental leak, may give us a clue as to what we can expect from the forthcoming 2nd...

The Complete Star Wars ‘Jakku Spy’ VR Experience is Now Available

With Star Wars: The Force Awakens hitting theaters tomorrow, the ILM-created Star Wars Jakku Spy is now fully unlocked for your Google Cardboard viewer on Android or iOS. The first of nine segments of the Jakku Spy experience was released earlier this...