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First Look: ‘New Retro Arcade Neon’ Launches Today with All New Arcade Space, Multiplayer, Mini-games, and...

The much anticipated New Retro Arcade Neon, a totally revamped version of the lauded virtual reality arcade, finally lands on Steam today, built to take advantage of the HTC Vive. While the original New Retro Arcade, debuting on the second...

‘Batman: Arkham VR’ Review

If Playstation VR is Sony’s maiden voyage into virtual reality gaming, Batman: Arkham VR is a strong wind to cast off with. Developed by Rocksteady Studios, the game immerses you the moment you lock on your headset, or rather...

Hands On: ‘PlayStation VR Worlds’ is an Immersive Starter Pack for PSVR

Sony's virtual reality gaming and experience compilation PlayStation VR Worlds is a virtual reality taster selection of sorts from Sony's London Studio, designed to show off just what their forthcoming PlayStation 4 powered VR headset is capable of. Frank...

‘Star Wars: Trials on Tatooine’ is Released for HTC Vive 18 July

Just announced at a Star Wars "Meet ILMxLab" panel at the Star Wars Celebration expo in London, Star Wars: Trials on Tatooine will be released for the HTC Vive on Steam for free on Monday 18 July. One of the highlight...
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Unity CEO: VR Will Get Huge, But Devs Need to Survive and Avoid Hype Until it...

At VRLA 2017, Unity CEO and games industry vet John Riccitiello dumped a little cold water wisdom on the hype surrounding the red-hot VR industry. Riccitiello believes VR is coming and it will be huge, but advises that developers stay...

Unity’s Main Branch Now Supports NVIDIA VRWorks for Enhanced Rendering Features

The latest release of Unity, version 2017.1 now officially supports NVIDIA's VRWorks rendering tech. VRWorks contains a number of rendering features unique to the company's GPUs which are designed to improve performance in VR applications. Update (7/13/17):  After several months...

A Look Inside HTC’s Steam VR Laser Tracking Base Stations

At GDC 2015, Valve and HTC are demo'ing their new virtual reality system which utilises a laser-based tracking system. We've got high-res images of those base stations for you now. GDC is exploding with VR news, and as ever with new...

Beaming the ‘Matrix’ into Your Eyes: Otoy CEO on the Future of Real-time Lightfield Rendering

At Unity's Unite keynote in November, Otoy's Jules Urbach announced that their Octane Renderer was going to be built into Unity to bake light field scenes. But this is also setting up the potential for real-time ray tracing of...

GameFace Mobile VR Headset Will Also Tether to PCs Through Valve’s OpenVR

GameFace Labs showed off their latest prototype mobile VR headset at E3 last week, a device that promises to deliver both a standalone Android-based mobile VR experience and a tethered PC experience in the same headset. GameFace calls their prototype headset a head...
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More VR Juggling With the HTC Vive, This Time Wirelessly

Back in May, Owlchemy Labs, developer of the forthcoming Job Simulator, shared with us a video that highlighted the impressive precision of the SteamVR controllers along with the HTC Vive. Now with the wireless SteamVR controllers in hand, Owlchemy's...
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‘Lone Echo’ Developer Shows Impressive Procedural Hand-posing System for VR

Lone Echo, Ready At Dawn’s upcoming space-based VR game, employs a physics-based movement system where the player pushes and pulls themselves around a zero-gravity environment. A video presented at GDC highlights their procedural animation system that allows for convincing...

‘NewRetroArcade: Neon’ Bringing Multiplayer and “Huge Amount of New Content” to HTC Vive

Developer Digital Cybercherries has today announced plans to develop a new version of their acclaimed virtual arcade. NewRetroArcade: Neon will be built for SteamVR and will include multiplayer, motion-controls, and room-scale capability for the HTC Vive. Launched all the way back in 2014, NewRetroArcade is a...

Valve’s ‘Secret Shop’ HTC Vive Demo Introduces You to DotA 2’s Fantastic World Full of Magic

Valve showed off a special HTC Vive demo at this year's Gamescom featuring the shopkeeper from the Dota 2 universe. There's no telling yet, but Secret Shop looks extremely cohesive and shows a taste of what level of VR interaction may be just around...
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First Look: Unreal Engine Will Soon Let You Build VR inside VR

Epic Games has unveiled a new feature of its VR-native development platform Unreal Engine 4, the ability for VR developers to build their applications and games from within virtual reality. Here's what it looks like. The VR renaissance has inspired...

HTC Vive Tracker is Now on Sale to General Public for $99

HTC's Vive Tacker, the Lighthouse-compatible puck that promises to get more than your hands into virtual reality with a bevy of hardware applications, is now officially available for sale to anyone with $99. Vive Tracker made its debut at CES...
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