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HTC’s Vive President on What’s Happening in China & VR

Alvin Wang Graylin is the China President of Vive at HTC, and I had a chance to talk with him at CES this year about what's happening in China. He provided me with a lot of cultural context, which...

‘John Wick Chronicles’ Review

Neo-noir action-thriller John Wick (2014) has come to the Vive in its new VR wave-based arcade shooter John Wick Chronicles. Recreating the look and feel of the film franchise while offering up a heavy slice of gun play and plenty of moving targets, the game can be...

Bethesda Head Affirms Ongoing Work on ‘Fallout 4 VR’, Calls it “Pretty Incredible”

Bethesda Game Studios made the surprise announcement at E3 last year that the company would be porting the entirety of Fallout 4 to virtual reality, and confirmed it would be released for both the HTC Vive and in VR on...
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Watch: ‘LogiX’ is an Impressive Multi-User Visual Programming Interface for VR

Sightline developer Tomáš ‘Frooxius’ Mariančík has released a major update for his collaborative 'world engine' NeosVR which adds an incredibly cool multi-user visual programming interface, so you and your friends can code together, entirely within VR. NeosVR is a collaborative ‘world engine’...

Vive Tracker Dev Kits Are Shipping to Developers, Applications Remain Open

HTC promised to give away 1,000 Vive Tracker dev kits in an effort to kick start an ecosystem of accessories and VR game implementations for the motion-tracked accessory. Now the company says the first shipments are on their way...

Report: 39% of Game Developers Working on AR/VR Headsets

A survey of game developers attending the annual GDC conference suggests major growth in the number of developers building games for AR and VR headsets. The 2017 GDC State of the Game Industry report, which gathered data from 4,500 attendees of...

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...

Vive Purchase Bundle Includes Two Extra Games Through March 31st

If you're planning to pick up an HTC Vive any time soon you'll net two extra titles with your purchase in addition to the two already offered. Through March 31st all new Vive purchases will include the current purchase bundle including Zombie...
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Watch: Star Wars Battle Brought to Life in VR Via Tilt Brush

Designer and Creative technologist Dong Yoon Park has painstakingly recreated a Star Wars battle scene inside VR with Google's Tilt Brush. Watch this beautiful digital art come to life in this walkthrough and speeded up realtime recording. Virtual reality artistry...

Sony’s ‘Joshua Bell VR Experience’ on PSVR is Among the Best VR Video You’ll Find on...

Powered by the PS4, PSVR might not be the most powerful VR platform out there, but the newly released Joshua Bell VR Experience shows that execution—not oomph—is a major part of what makes VR great. The VR video experience uses...

‘SYREN’ Review

SYREN (2017) is a single-player, survival-horror game that will have you sneaking around corners, hiding under virtual desks, and flailing helplessly as you're mauled to death by the world's ghastly "Syrens," a terrifying amalgamation of human/robot/awfulness. Despite some pretty distracting...

Kickstarter Goal Within Reach for VRGE VR Headset Dock in Final 24 Hours

The sleek-looking VRGE VR headset dock Kickstarter looks set to come down to a photo-finish. Heading into its final 24 hours, the crowdfunding campaign is within $2,000 of its $30,000 goal. We've had our eye on the VRGE Kickstarter since it...

‘EVE: Valkyrie’ Gets Major ‘Wormholes’ Update with Intriguing New Game Mode

CCP Games are updating the sci-fi dogfighting EVE: Valkyrie today with a brand new game mode, a league system, and a number of fixes and improvements. The 'Wormhole' mode creates new combat scenarios, as travelling into an anomaly changes the...

Apple CEO Continues to Set the Stage for Rumored AR Play: ‘AR is for everyone, like...

Apple CEO Tim Cook has once again affirmed his belief in the significance of augmented reality technology. Interviewed during a recent trip to Europe, he spoke broadly about how AR could benefit everyone’s lives in the future, highlighting the way...

8i Lands $27M in Series B Funding and Reveals Tango-powered Mixed Reality App ‘Holo’

Volumetric video specialists 8i have announced their latest series B funding round has netted them a further $27 while also unveiling Holo, a mixed reality video app, powered by Google's Tango technology. We first reported on 8i back in 2015,...
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