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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...
‘Mage’s Tale’ Studio inXile Entertainment Raises $4.5M Investment, Open World VR RPG on Horizon
inXile Entertainment, the studio behind The Bard's Tale franchise including VR dungeon crawler The Mage's Tale (2017), today announced they've raised a combined investment of $4.5M intended for equity in the company and as funds to develop an unannounced open world survival RPG VR game.
Investment...
Video Gives Us a Peek Into the Future of How AR and VR Will Work Together
We're all waiting for the day when you can put on a singular, tether-free headset and experience all the 'R's that VR/AR/MR have to offer—and NormalVR, a "small but focused" group of passionate immersive media creators just gave us a peek...
Two Ways to Play Non-VR Games With the Oculus Rift or HTC Vive
Games that are specifically developed for VR are always going to look and play the best in a VR headset, but let's face it, most of us probably have huge libraries of traditional games, and you may be wondering...
‘Lone Echo’s’ Virtual Hands Are an Unexpected VR Innovation
Oculus had talked much about 'Hand Presence' with the launch of their Touch VR controllers last year, but few games have implemented the controllers in such a way that truly deliver on that promise. Combined with Touch, Lone Echo's impressive...
Vive Deluxe Audio Straps Back in Stock on Monday, Vive Pre Adapter Kit Available With Promo...
The Vive Deluxe Audio Strap is a more ergonomic strap with integrated headphones for the HTC Vive, and when it launched last month, it was only on sale for less than 48 hours until stocks ran dry in the EU and US. Now...
‘Dead Secret’ is Getting a Sequel, Coming Later This Year
Dead Secret (2015), Robot Invader's first-person mystery thriller for PC, Gear VR and SteamVR-capable headsets, is getting a sequel called Dead Secret Circle. The second installment in the series is slated to come to VR and traditional platforms in 2017.
Like its predecessor, Dead...
‘Fantastic Contraption’ Gets PSVR Release Date & Price – Exclusive Levels, Native 120 FPS Rendering
Fantastic Contraption, one of the first (and still one of the best) VR puzzle games out there, is finally coming to PSVR on July 11th and has been specially tuned for the platform, including unique levels not seen elsewhere...
Google Announces ‘Blocks’, a VR App Like ‘Tilt Brush’ for Modeling 3D Objects
Google wants to make it easier for VR/AR app developers to create 3D objects with its new app revealed today called Blocks, a program designed to let you build assets for the immersive mediums from within the VR headset itself.
Creating objects for...
Apple Developers Join WebVR Community Group Shaping the Future of VR on the Web
WebVR is an in-development open standard that aims to define how browsers should communicate with VR hardware, allowing developers to create VR experiences that are served directly from the web. With Apple's newly public interest in VR, developers from...
‘Noda’ is a Mind Mapping Tool for Spatial Thinking in VR
Gaming in VR is great, but there's huge potential for the tech to be used for productivity too. One early stab at that is Noda, a mind mapping tool for the Vive and Rift.
A mind map is a type...
Nokia and Xiaomi Announce a Long-term Partnership to “Explore” AR and VR
The Finnish and Chinese companies today signed a cross-licensing patent deal ‘focused around the data center’, according to a CNBC report. This will allow Nokia and Xiaomi to develop new products, as they look to collaborate further in areas...
Diversity in VR: Lessons from the Oculus Launchpad Initiative
In March 2016, Oculus announced their Oculus Launchpad program with the idea that in order for VR to be successful, then there needs to be a diverse range of content created from diverse set of creators who are informed...
Ultra-violent Battle Sim ‘Gorn’ to Hit Steam Early Access July 10th
Gorn, the blood-soaked battle simulator from the makers of weird and wild games Broforce (2015) and Genital Jousting (2016), is officially coming to Steam Early Access on July 10th.
Free Lives, the studio behind the game, have developed Gorn on a unique, fully...
Apple’s Job Listings Seek ‘VR File Format Engineer’, ‘VR Pipeline Engineer’, & More
Now that Apple is being open about their interest in VR the company is publicly listing new job postings for a number of roles seeking candidates with VR expertise. Two of the latest listings suggest the company is exploring VR...



















