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‘Pool Nation VR’ Review

Video games have induced many emotions inside me over the years but, I don’t think any of them felt as real as the shame I felt when the AI computer, on easy, sunk his final ball against me. As...

HTC Viveport VR App Store Client Now Available – Breaking

HTC's virtual reality app portal 'Viveport', designed as a showcase for HTV Vive VR content, has it seems quietly made available at least some parts of the new platform, according to images posted online. Update: A helpful Twitter follower (thanks @killercow) pointed...

How to Play Wii and Gamecube Classics on Your Oculus Rift with DolphinVR

Ever wanted to play old gaming classics in virtual reality? Well, DolphinVR is an emulator with enhanced support for the Oculus Rift headset that lets you do just that. Here's how to get it working. Back in the dim, distant...
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Why New Social VR App ‘Rec Room’ Makes You Smile

Rec Room is a new social VR platform for HTC Vive from indie studio Against Gravity, and as a project currently in Early Access for the low low cost of absolutely free, it's quickly becoming a success on Steam. At the time of this writing, more...
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New ‘Robinson: The Journey’ Video Shows 5 Minutes of PSVR Gameplay

Crytek's Robinson: The Journey is the studio's first PlayStation VR game. A new gameplay video reveals more about the title's gameplay and interactions. Robinson: The Journey is shaping up to be an ambitious VR adventure game, and a beautiful one at...

‘Athena’ is a New Lighthouse Tracked VR Gun Controller from Ilium VR

Ilium VR are working on a new VR-centric gun peripheral which plans to use Valve's SteamVR 'Lighthouse' tracking to bring realistic weapon control to virtual reality games. Shooting things in games is cool. Shooting things in VR can be infinitely cooler....

Canon Reveal 2.5k Per Eye, 120 Degree FOV ‘VR Viewer’

Here's a name you may not expect to be entering the immersive wearable market, Canon. They just demonstrated a virtual reality viewer (this is not a traditional headset) at Canon Expo in New York, and it packs some interesting...

HTC Launches Vive App on iOS to Keep You Connected While in VR

It's been known since early 2016 that HTC planned to integrate bluetooth into the Vive headset to allow your phone to talk to the headset while you're in VR, but we didn't know what platforms or specific functionality would...

Hands-on: ‘Project Arena’ Aims for Competitive VR Motion Combat

Project Arena is a competitive ‘full-body’ VR experience from CCP. Using the Oculus Touch controllers, this eSports experiment is far removed from the space simulation themes normally associated with the company, although it retains much of the style and slick presentation. I was able...

Retinad’s Promising VR Ad and Analytics System is Now Backed with a $500,000 Investment

Retinad, a company working to bring immersive advertising and analytics to virtual reality, has just closed a $500,000 early-stage round to bring their solution to market. Avoiding the worst case banner-in-your-face approach, the company is jumping feet first into VR,...

Racing in Assetto Corsa on the Oculus Rift DK2 is a Flawed Revelation

Oculus have prescribed that for this generation of its VR headsets, the target experience is resolutely a seated one. This means that racing games are a match made in heaven for the DK2. And, after a period of drought...

‘Robo Recall’ Behind-the-scenes – Insights & Artwork from Epic Games

After years of making some of the most impressive VR tech demos of their time, Epic's Robo Recall is not only the company's first VR game proper, but a culmination of what the company has learned about VR game...
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HordeZ Brings Doom-style Multi-player Coop Carnage to HTC Vive

Developer Niklas Persson is working on bringing the visceral, gore-soaked carnage of the Doom series to virtual reality with HordeZ, a multi-player coop shooter for the HTC Vive. Whether you're willing to admit it or not, there's very little in...
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Launching April 24th: PSVR’s ‘Statik’ is an Undeniably Unique Take on the Puzzle Genre

I've written often about the need to push creative boundaries in order for VR to find its voice. Statik is doing just that, with an undeniably unique puzzle game that takes one of VR's weaknesses and turns it into a...

The Problem With Projections and What Makes the Just-released ‘2016 VR Industry Report’ Different

Today we publish the 2016 Virtual Reality Industry Report. Co-authored with VR business intelligence firm Greenlight VR, the report is a distillation of years of experience, research, and analysis into an accessible and comprehensive foundation of the virtual reality landscape, with the...
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