PAX Report: Vive Hands-on With ‘Final Approach’, ‘Fantastic Contraption’, and Cloudhead’s Blink System
This weekend's PAX Prime convention in Seattle was home to a number of exciting new experiences for the HTC Vive. This audio report from Voices of VR host Kent Bye gives us his impressions with the latest room-scale experiences.
Kent...
Hands-on: Creating Magical Machines in ‘Fantastic Contraption’ on HTC Vive
Greetings from delightfully temperate Seattle! At this weekend's PAX Prime, I had my first experience in the HTC Vive and got to see the brand new Fantastic Contraption demo.
Christine Genova Porter caught the VR bug in late 2014. She's...
Control VR Halts Kickstarter Pending “Significant” Restructuring and “Additional Financial Investment”
Control VR, a motion input solution for VR that raised nearly $450,000 on Kickstarter, appears to be in critical condition, unable to deliver on its promises without significant help.
A June 2014 Kickstarter for Control VR, a motion input device capable...
3D Mapped HTC Vive Demo Brings Archaeology to Life
Realities.IO is a company specialising in the scanning and visualisation of archeological sites of interest. The company is using their detailed scanning data to recreate those sites in room-scale VR, courtesy of the HTC Vive.
This new video demonstrates the potential power...
The Collaboration Between Valve and HTC to Create the Vive & Room-scale VR
Daniel O'Brien is the Vice President of Business Planning and Management for Virtual Reality at HTC. I had a chance to catch up with him at PAX Prime in the HTV Vive private demo area. Daniel talks about the...
How to Win an Oculus Touch Demo at PAX Prime
While Oculus has a booth full of their Rift CV1 headsets for PAX attendees to try out, the company's new 'Touch' motion input controller is behind closed doors. But that doesn't mean they're off-limits entirely. A few lucky PAX-goers...
‘Papo and Yo’ Creators Launch ‘Time Machine VR’ via Steam, Try it at PAX Prime
Time Machine VR is an action adventure title from Papo and Yo developers Minority Media, which puts you in the shows of a time-travelling scientist searching for an ancient cure for a modern day plague. It's a native VR...
New NVIDIA and AMD Drivers Unlock ‘Direct Driver Mode’ for Oculus Rift Users
Oculus' recently released 0.7 SDK and Runtime Drivers were a significant step forward in technology for the company, offering up major enhancements for Rift users. AMD and NVIDIA have now both launched drivers which allow Rift developers and users alike...
Latest Dexmo Input Glove Features Positional Tracking with Full Finger Input, Claims 5ms Latency
Dexta Robotics, a technology company with presence in the US, China and the UK, has announced the latest iteration of its Dexmo input glove. A new video released demonstrates some of the glove's capabilities, as a user is shown...
‘Distance’ is a Dazzling Neon Survival Driving Game, Try it at PAX in VR
Distance and its developer, Seattle based Refract Studios, are at PAX 2015 to demonstrate their unique futuristic survival racer in VR at a booth that you will not be able to miss.
Distance has been in development for a little while...
