Oculus Rift Shipping to Select Developers This Week with SDK 1.0
Oculus has announced via their official blog that "early builds of final Rift hardware" are shipping this week to developers alongside the Oculus SDK 1.0.
According to Oculus, developers will start getting their hands on near-final Oculus Rift headsets this week....
NVIDIA Releases OpenGL Friendly ‘VR SLI’ Capable Driver
Today NVIDIA announced a new driver release bringing compatibility with its latest Gameworks VR 1.1, which in turn brings with it multicast GPU acceleration for OpenGL applications.
NVIDIA's Gameworks and Designworks VR, a suite of APIs designed to target the...
3DMark PC Benchmark Adds VR Rendering Preview
Futuremark, one of the biggest names in PC benchmarking software, has added VR rendering to their 3DMark program.
As we near the release of the first desktop consumer VR headsets, we also confront reality that rendering VR worlds is quite...
Survios Breaks Stealth With Debut of Action-packed Title Headed to Rift and Vive
Survios, one of the earliest companies to spin up in this new era of VR, is today debuting gameplay from a new VR title that's coming to the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. Inside, players battle robots in an...
First Look: ‘vTime’ is a “Sociable Network” for Mobile VR, Available Today on Gear VR
Starship, a Liverpool-based digital entertainment studio, has today released vTime on the Gear VR store, the mobile platform's latest social VR app. I got a chance to check out vTime's alpha and sat down with Paul Hollywood, the studios product development director, to find...
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...
‘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...
