Ubisoft and 11 Other Companies Join OSVR’s Open Source Initiative

OSVR announced today that 12 new partners have signed up to work with the Open-Source Virtual Reality (OSVR) headset, a so called "hacker dev kit" that is intended to be entirely hardware agnostic. Ubisoft, the video game studio best known for popular...

OSVR’s HDK VR Headset Gets Upgraded – Adds 1080p OLED, Video Mirroring and ‘Evaluation’ Positional Tracking

Open Source Virtual Reality's (OSVR) flagship VR headset is to get some upgrades. HDK v1.1 brings a low latency 1080p OLED panel and video mirroring amongst other enhancements, the movement has announced today. We reported on the new Open Source Virtual...

MindMaze Raises $8.5m in Angel Funding for “Thought-Powered” VR Headset

MindMaze announced today that it has recently closed an $8.5 million funding round for its "thought-powered VR game system" called MindLeap, a VR/AR headset that uses both electroencephalogram technology (EEG), and integrated 3D motion capture cameras for hand-tracking as a basis for...

HypeVR Captures Ultra-High Def 360 Degree, Depth-Mapped Video Using a 14 x ‘Red Dragons’ and LiDAR

The 360 VR video market is rapidly getting busier. With companies like NextVR and Jaunt racing to develop technologies and deliver content which result in compelling, immersive video for virtual reality, things are moving fast. Now a new company...
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New Sony Project Morpheus Video Highlights New Specs, Features and Design

Last night, Sony's Shuhei Yoshida, President of Sony's Worldwide Studios for Sony Computer Entertainment Inc., proudly announced that their Playstation 4 VR Headset Project Morpheus was coming to market in the second half of 2016. In the mean time, they revealed...

Hands-On with ‘Lucky’s Tale’, Updated Demo from Playful Corp

Playful Corp, the company in partnership with Oculus and makers of Lucky's Tale, gave us a hands-on with the new updated demo, which featured two complete levels and fit and finish that speaks to the near-maturity of the VR games scene. I...

Nvidia ‘Made to Game’ GDC 2015 Event Liveblog @ 6pm PST

Join us as we find out what nVidia has been teasing the world with for the last few weeks. nVidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang says "More than 5 years in the making, what I want to share with you will redefine the...

New Project Morpheus Images – Early Shots of the Latest VR Tech Demo

Sony has revealed the specs for the latest version of their VR headset, Project Morpheus - 120Hz, 1080p low persistence with 18ms latency. These details shared a few moments ago at Sony's special Project Morpheus event. The presentation was short...

Sony Unveils New Morpheus Prototype – Low Persistence OLED @ 120Hz – Launches Q2 2016

One year on from Project Morpheus' reveal at GDC 2104, Shuhei Yoshida just unveiled the newest prototype - now sporting some significant upgrades. With a 1080p OLED panel capable of low persistence it, those aspects match Oculus' DK2 which shipped...

Unity 5 Released, Full-Featured and Royalty Free

With the news still hot off the presses about Unreal Engine 4 releasing their game engine for free to its users, Unity 5 has come out... and it's free too. See Also: DirectX 12 Coming to Unity 5, Can Increase CPU-bound...