‘Summer Lesson’ for PlayStation VR Made Me Feel Like a Creep, and That’s a Good Thing
Summer Lesson is a "VR Character Communication Demo" for Sony's PlayStation VR headset by some of the same folks behind the famous Tekken franchise. The experience puts you in intimate proximity with young virtual women. After trying the experience for...
3DUI, Perception, and Using Multi-Touch Screens with Depth Cameras
Frank Steinicke is professor for Human-Computer Interaction at the Department of Informatics at the University of Hamburg. His research into VR strives to understand the limitations of human perceptual, cognitive and motor abilities to reform the 3D user interactions...
STEM System “3 Months Away from Shipping” Says Sixense
The wireless motion controllers, designed for virtual reality input, the Sixense STEM system has had a rocky road since its hugely successful Kickstarter campaign concluded. Design issues and seemingly insurmountable FCC certification problems meant the date which backers could...
‘The Vanishing of Ethan Carter’ VR Support Removed in Patch, Developer Teases Future VR DLC
Well, this has been a small roller-coaster. First the new UE4 Redux of acclaimed mystery adventure The Vanishing of Ethan Carter, did have VR support out of the box, then the developer admitted this was a mistake and now...
Oculus Connect 2 Mobile App Now Available, Check Who’s Going and What’s There
As with every major event, Oculus have launched a mobile application to assist you organise your time at the forthcoming Connect 2 conference. The new app update allows you to check in to identify to your fellow developers you're...
Vote in NVIDIA’s ‘Tilt Brush’ Contest For Your Chance to Win a GTX 980 Ti
Six game industry artists converged on NVIDIA's booth at PAX Prime 2015 recently to take part in an art contest using Google's VR painting program, Tilt Brush. You could win a NVIDIA's flagship VR-ready GPU, the GTX 980 Ti, just by voting for...
AltspaceVR Now Supports HTC Vive, Making for 3 VR Headsets in Cross Platform Space
AltspaceVR today announced that the social VR platform will be receiving official support for HTC Vive, the first consumer VR headset to integrate large-scale positional tracking.
After yesterday's announcement that the VR social space would soon be getting mobile support via...
This Excerpt from a 1993 Book on VR Will Make You Say “Déjà vu”
For many, the modern era of consumer virtual reality is exciting and new. There's a palpable pioneering spirit shared by denizens of the rapidly growing industry who want to harness VR technology to do amazing things—world changing things. But there...
Playstation VR Initial Japanese Games Line Up Revealed, Includes Final Fantasy XIV
At Sony's Tokyo Games Show conference this morning, the company revealed its vision for consumer VR powered by a console - it's now known as Playstation VR. But there were also some glimpses at what we can expect, in...
Playstation VR First Official Promo Video Shows How Sony May Market VR
Sony's Tokyo Games Show press conference is over, and the big news is that Project Morpheus as we knew it will now be known as Playstation VR. Subsequent to that announcement, Sony have released a promo video which gives...
