Making Valve’s OpenVR Truly Inclusive for VR Headsets

With multiple proprietary VR systems on their way to retail, development fragmentation in the VR market has recently become a hot topic in the VR community. In this guest article, a veteran developer who goes by the name of...

2015 Proto Awards Submission Deadline Extended and Widened

This year's Proto Awards, the premiere awards events celebrating the VR industry, has had it's nomination submission date extended due to "tremendous" response. The 2015 Proto Awards are to be held at AVALON in Hollywood on September 22nd, to coincide...

Sixense STEM Edges Closer to Release

Sixense, the company behind the much beleaguered motion control system STEM, have released what they term 'positive' results from their latest round of EMC (Electromagnetic Compatibility) testing. The STEM system from Razer Hydra creators Sixense, having been successfully Kickstarted back...
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This Full Video of Valve’s ‘Aperture Science’ VR Demo is Wonderful and Spoilerific

*** Warning: This Video Contains Spoilers *** Watch as an anonymous player works through Valve's Aperture Science demo, built to demonstrate the capabilities of Valve's new virtual reality technology - HTC Vive. At the PlayHubs game jam in London last week...
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Dave & Buster’s Hosts Wireless VR System from VRcade, ‘Time Zombies’ and ‘Interstellar Marine’s Bullseye’

Dave & Buster's Milpitas, CA location is now playing host to the restaurant arcade chain's first wireless VR system, an optically tracked solution created by VRcade. VRcade, a gaming and entertainment-centric division of VRstudios, have launched two titles on their...

AMD’s ‘LDK’ is a ‘Liquid VR’ PC Platform for Developers, to Ship with CryEngine this Year

AMD's Liquid VR, an initiative to enhance virtual reality experiences on the company's GPUs, has a development kit that will ship this fall and it'll come with a full copy of Crytek's CryEngine as part of the package. AMD's virtual reality...

Oculus Sign “Largest Live-action VR Deal to Date” with Felix & Paul Studios

Cinematic 360 specialists Felix & Paul, the team behind Cirque Du Soleil's 'Zarkana' and Inside the Box of Kurios, have been signed by Oculus for a multi-project, multi-experience 'pact' to create 360 content for the Rift and Samsung Gear VR. Cinematic...

‘FlyInside FSX’ Launches Prepar3D Alpha Preview

FlyInside FSX, the crowdfunded VR plugin for Microsoft Flight Simulator X (2006), has today released the first taste of the project's $30,000 stretch goal—coming to us in the form of a free alpha preview for Prepar3D. Prepar3D, an academic and professional-level flight...

Oculus Acquires Pebbles Interfaces, Computer Vision Hand Tracking- Breaking

Oculus today announced the acquisition of Pebbles Interfaces, an Israel based firm focused on depth sensing technology and computer vision for the purpose of hand tracking. According to Oculus' blog post, Pebbles Interfaces will officially be joining "the hardware engineering and computer vision...

‘Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes’ Comes to Gear VR Store, PC Release Later This Year

Steel Crate Games, an Ottawa based indie studio, has today announced that their bomb-defusing party game—Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes—is now coming to the Gear VR store. The co-op bomb-defusing game makes for an ingenious way of involving a whole group of people both...