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HTC: ‘Vive Developer Edition Will Not Be Sold Before Consumer Launch’

A report published last month in Fortune seemed to indicate that HTC would make the SteamVR / Vive Developer Edition system available for sale prior to the forthcoming launch of the consumer version of the headset. Speaking with Road...
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‘Envelop’ Launches Open Beta of Immersive Windows Desktop Platform for Vive and Rift

Envelop, the virtual reality desktop platform for Windows, has launched as a public beta for anyone with a Vive or Rift to enjoy. After announcing a $5.5 million Series A investment at the beginning of 2016, followed by a closed...
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Have You Found These 11 Easter Eggs in Valve’s ‘The Lab’?

Valve's collection of VR-minigames, The Lab, is one of the highest rated SteamVR titles and it's free. With support for Index, Vive, Rift, and Windows VR, there's no reason not to try it if you own a PC VR headset. Beyond...

Crytek’s 50 Person VR Dev Team Can Only Mean One Thing

At GDC 2015, game developer and CryEngine creator Crytek was showing an impressive virtual reality experience on the Oculus Rift Crescent Bay prototype. But it would seem that the company has much more up their collective sleeve than a...
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This is What Star Wars Looks Like Running on Magic Leap

This is a quick demonstration video released by ILMxLab and Magic Leap to mark the announcement of the two company's newly announced collaboration. They've set up a "collaboration lab" in order to work on immersive experiences using Lucasfilm IP...

Valve Releases ‘Destinations’, a Free VR Creation Tool Built on Source 2 Engine

Valve has today released a new VR content creation tool suite called Destinations, a free program that lets you create, share and view community-created photogrammetry scenes, game worlds, and other 3D models. Both HTC Vive and Oculus Rift users can take advantage...

PlayStation VR Pre-orders Sell Out in Minutes at Amazon, 4 Other Stores Still Taking Orders

Those hoping to board the early train to VR town were likely dismayed today when Amazon's PlayStation VR Launch Bundle pre-order sold out within minutes of going live. Luckily it may not be too late. In the US, Best...
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Star Wars ‘Mos Eisley’ Realised in Staggering Detail on UE4, VR Version Coming

An environmental artist with a passion for Star Wars has realised the iconic location of Star Wars' Mos Eisley space port in jaw-dropping detail via Unreal Engine 4. What's more, it's coming to VR soon and you can download the...

Here’s All 29 PSVR Games Sony’s Showing at E3

Sony's pre-E3 press conference saw the announcement of a number of high-profile games headed for PSVR after the headset's October 13th launch, and to wit, we're currently perusing over 20 PSVR games right now in the post-press mop up. Here's...
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HTC’s First Vive Game ‘Front Defense’ is a WWII Gallery Shooter

Computex 2016 is under way and HTC are out on the show floor in full force with a collection of titles showing off their Vive VR system. One of the titles developed by the company, playable for the first...
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Ragnarok VR is an Immersive Remake of the Biggest MMO You’ve Never Heard Of

This is Ragnarok VR, a virtual reality remake of an early and hugely popular Korean MMO, which takes the original's 3D assets and recreates the fantasy world in immersive 3D for a dose of immersive nostalgia, for those that have heard...
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Watch Epic Games’ Nick Donaldson Build a Scene in Unreal’s VR Editor

Epic senior designer Nick Donaldson schooled us on some of the intricacies of Unreal's new VR Editor, modifying a pre-built demo scene using the Oculus Rift and Touch controller in the Epic booth at GDC. The Unreal VR Editor announced just last month...

Next-gen Lighthouse Base Station Could Bring “rapid cost reductions”

Valve is continuing to improve upon the design of the 'Lighthouse' Base Stations, the laser-beacons that form a crucial part of the SteamVR Tracking system. Future iterations are expected to become dramatically simplified, reducing size, noise, and perhaps most...

‘Mythica VR’: VR LARP With D&D-style World Building Hits Kickstarter

Arrowstorm Entertainment is what you might call 'serial Kickstarters', as they've successfully completed 13 different campaigns on the crowdfunding site—mostly focusing on small budget sword and sorcery flicks starring the likes of Kevin Sorbo from Hercules (1995) and Kristian Nairn (aka Hodor) from Game of Thrones...

Hands-on: Sony’s First Triple-A Competitive VR Game, ‘Rigs’

We go hands on with Project Morpheus exclusive multiplayer mech combat game by Guerilla Games Cambridge, Rigs: Mechanized Combat League. By far the best looking VR game on Morpheus right now. Guerilla Games, the developers behind smash hit Playstation franchise Killzone,...
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