OSVR Gets NVIDIA ‘Gameworks VR’ Support, Adds 65 New Industry Collaborators
The OSVR project is celebrating the addition of a further 65 companies in support of their initiative, among them GPU technology giant NVIDIA, adding a low latency, driver optimised 'Direct Mode' to the list of OSVR's features.
OSVR has evolved rapidly since we...
How VR Productivity Apps Could Make Us As Smart As Sherlock
In the first of a new regular series of reports, Noah looks at how virtual reality could use fictional ideas like Sherlock Holmes' 'mind palace' as inspiration for new productivity applications, helping us all to function at a higher...
Oculus Story Studio Talks Tooling, Using “out-of-the-box tools as much as possible”
Oculus Story Studio, the company's in-house content creation studio that has produced a number of highly polished experiences, recently released a surprising 'tell all' blog post detailing just what sort of tools the team of VR content creators use.
Story Studio has the funds, and...
Designing the 6DOF Controller Gameplay for Final Approach
John Nagle is the CTO at Phaser Lock Interactive, who is developing a Vive game called Final Approach. The gameplay of Final Approach involves selecting miniature planes flying through the air and then drawing landing paths in 3D space...
Valve Confirms ‘Aperture Science’ VR Demo is Not HTC Vive Exclusive
In a tweet by Valve writer Chet Faliszek, he has confirmed that the brilliant Aperture Science demo used in Valve's press and public displays of SteamVR hardware at various shows, will not be exclusive to the HTC Vive and will...
Convrge Devs Release ‘Stacks’ Demo – Create Delightful Worlds in VR, Then Destroy Them
The team behind Convrge, the online VR social platform, have just released a great new demo for the Oculus Rift DK2 which encourages the player to build and create structures within a virtual world and then destroy them with...
Owlchemy Labs Shows Off New Convenience Store Level in ‘Job Simulator’
Owlchemy Labs's Job Simulator has become a staple demo in the HTC Vive demo reel thanks to its fun and intuitive room-scale interactions with everyday kitchen items. The studio has just revealed a teaser of another job that will...
Epic Games Releases ‘Showdown’ UE4 VR Demo, Compatible with Rift, Vive, and Morpheus
Epic Games has shown the world some of the most visually stunning VR experiences to date, and today, one of them (Showdown) is being released for free as a UE4 VR sample for developers to learn from.
Showdown was created...
Pantomime’s ‘Playground’ iOS App Lets You Reach in to Virtual Worlds with an iPad
Pantomime, the company founded by VPL-alumni David Levitt and Sims-developer Don Hopkins, released its Playground app for iOS today. Pantomime describes the app as a “Consumer Immersive 3D Platform” that does not require a headset—think a radically mobile VR display...
Hands On: ‘Pollen’ is Still a Sci-fi Mystery Waiting to Unfold
Pollen is an upcoming first-person sci-fi puzzle exploration game produced by Finland based Mindfield Games. Taking you to the far-off research station on the surface of Titan, Saturn's largest moon, you follow an ominous quest to explore a mysterious time-bending phenomenon that has taken hold of the...
