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Social Dynamics Within Sony’s PlayStation VR Social VR Experiments

At GDC this year, Sony revealed some of their first experiments into social VR with a four-person demo that was showing at their press event. The avatars looked like South Park characters, and the thumbs up or down gestures...

Latest ‘Revive’ Update Lets You Play 35 Oculus Home Games on HTC Vive

Revive, the mod which lets HTC Vive owners play games released only on Oculus Home, has just got a new release and is now compatible with 35 titles in the Oculus Store. Revive, a free mod project created by LibreVR in...
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Hands-on: ‘New Retro Arcade’ Tech Demo HTC Vive Gameplay

New Retro Arcade has finally got the roomscale treatment with newly released support for the HTC Vive (and Oculus Rift CV1) through Steam. Even back in 2014, long before HTC or Oculus announced their intention to create VR controllers, it was...

IBM’s Interactive Media CTO on Using Watson for Game Design, Interactive Narratives, & Conversational Interfaces

Machine Learning has the potential to revolutionize so many different aspects of our lives, and it's starting to enter into game development with IBM's Watson. LISTEN TO THE VOICES OF VR PODCAST http://d1icj85yqthyoq.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Voices-of-VR-390-George-Dolbier.mp3 For instance, developers could integrate cloud-based AI services into...

‘New Retro Arcade’ Tech Demo Launches with HTC Vive and Rift CV1 Support on Steam

Developer Digital Cybercherries has launched the New Retro Arcade Tech Demo on Steam for the HTC Vive. The tech demo is functionally identical to the game seen previously on the Oculus Rift, but now with support for the Vive's...

How to Sharpen Your HTC Vive’s Visuals with Supersampling

Want to substantially improve image quality whilst immersed in your HTC Vive? Here's details of a new tweak that allows you to engage supersampling in SteamVR and compatible games with the resulting differences impressive - as long as your...

Acer to Invest $9 Million in Starbreeze to Help Manufacture StarVR Headset

Taiwan-based electronics firm Acer recently announced an investment into game studio Starbreeze equating to the sum of $9M USD, an amount intended to further the manufacture and commercialization of Starbreeze's high-FOV, high resolution StarVR headset. The investment, which comes on the heels of the news...

Preview: ‘The Crystal Curse’

The Crystal Curse is death-defying puzzle game created by Sigtrap Games for HTC Vive. Make sure to invite your friends and family though, because much like the breakout hit Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes, The Crystal Curse requires more than one person...
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Hands-on: VR Needs More Great Party Games like PSVR’s ‘Playroom VR’

One of the most fun parts about virtual reality is still watching friends and family experience it. PlayStation VR's The Playroom VR takes this one step further by making VR inclusive for a whole couch full of friends. With just...
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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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Polynomial 2 Aims to Hold You in a Musical VR Trance, Out Now on Steam

Polynomial 2, the sequel to the 2010 original, brings its trance inducing, laser fuelled musical charms to virtual reality. The original Polynomial received some reserved critical reaction on its release back in 2010. In fact, although reviews appeared in gaming publications...
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‘Final Approach: Pilot Edition’ Lets Oculus Rift Players Take Flight

Final Approach lands for the Oculus Rift with developer Phaser Lock Interactive coming up with a novel solution to the VR platform's current lack of motion controllers, instead of guiding planes into land, they let you fly them. Phaser Lock Interactive's...
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Watch: 6 Minutes of Golem Gameplay on the PlayStation VR

Here's 6 minutes of gameplay from Golem, the forthcoming action adventure game from Highwire games, on the PlayStation VR - recorded at Sony's showcase event held during GDC 2016 in March. At GDC, Sony were out in force to mark...

Play Metroid Prime on Your Rift or Vive with Dolphin VR

The latest release of Dolphin VR, an impressive Nintendo Gamecube emulator that ads VR functionality to games, adds support for Oculus' consumer headset the CV1 so now you can play Metroid Prime in VR, with head tracking and have...
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This VR Training Simulation is One of the Best We’ve Ever Seen

One of the best we've seen, this video, demonstrating a dangerous workplace simulation for train operators, shows how virtual reality and motion controllers might revolutionise training in the work place. Anyone who's experienced the torture of mandatory safety training and...
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