2023 Sections
Immersive Computing Platform ‘Envelop VR’ Begins Closed Beta Program
Envelop VR want to pull your every day computing environment into the virtual realm as the company launch their first closed beta for what they describe as "an immersive computing platform that brings the best out of your PC while...
Combining Game & Story with ‘The London Heist’ + Reflections on Exclusive VR Content
Sony's The London Heist is one of the best fusions of narrative VR storytelling with interactive game components. It's structured as a flashback sequence starting with you being confronted within an interrogation room, and there are branching narratives that...
Catching Up with nDreams’ ‘The Assembly’, Coming to Rift and Vive July 19th
The Assembly from nDreams is coming soon, and with an official release date of July 19th now announced, we thought we'd take some time to catch up on this intriguing story-driven thriller built from the ground up for VR.
The...
HTC-led Venture Capital Consortium Represents $10 Billion Earmarked for VR
This week at MWC Shanghai, HTC announced the Virtual Reality Venture Capital Alliance (VRVCA), a consortium of 28 venture capital firms focusing their funds on virtual reality. Collectively, the group represents more than $10 billion in capital aimed at...
Starbreeze Bolsters VR & AR Team with $1.65M Acquisition of ePawn
Starbreeze continues to make strategic VR/AR partnerships as today it has announced a $1.65M acquisition of augmented reality and "toys to life" company ePawn, who bring them some intriguing technologies with potential applications for the immersive space.
Starbreeze seems to...
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...
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.
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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...
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...
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...



















