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‘EVE: Valkyrie’ to Receive Carrier Assault Mode with Star Wars-style Trench-run

A new objective-based game mode was today announced for EVE: Valkyrie at Fanfest 2016, CCP's annual gathering in Reykjavik, Iceland. Called 'Carrier Assault', it promises to offers what lead designer Andrew Willans calls an "influence from a certain '70s sci-fi classic moment."...
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CCP Teases New Footage of ‘Project Arena’, a Purported ‘VR eSport’ for Touch and Vive

Project Arena, a prototype game now in development from CCP, was teased today by CCP Games at Fanfest 2016, the company's annual gathering in Reykjavik, Iceland. We first saw a rudimentary prototype of Project Arena at Fanfest 2015. It was found among a...

Meet Strangers in VR and Create Beautiful Things Together

What if you could take the magical sense of creativity evoked by Tilt Brush and share that with someone else, online, simultaneously, using nothing but your hands for input? That's the ethos behind developer Mike Harris' latest project, StrangersVR. If...

Tapping Our Primal Fears for Virtual Tightrope Experience ‘The Walk’

At GDC this year, Epic Games had a VR Lounge where they were showing off 10 different VR experiences that used the Unreal Engine. One of those experiences was Create VR's The Walk VR Experience, where you can walk...
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New Magic Leap Video Shows Your Home as a User Interface

The secretive augmented reality project Magic Leap enjoy their fantastical teaser videos, but their latest takes a more sober tone by demonstrating the potential for the technology as a user interface to your life. There's not much new that exists...

Hands On: The Unspoken and Oculus Touch Made Me a Bad-Ass Wizard

The Unspoken from Insomniac Games wants to use the immediacy of motion controls to give you magical powers and then watch you fight to the death using them. At a special event, Frank He got a chance to go...
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A Look at NASA’s Hybrid Reality Astronaut Training System, Powered by HTC Vive

At NVIDIA's GTC event earlier this month, NASA gave a talk which revealed just how important virtual reality has become to the organisation's Astronaut training program. This talk includes video demonstrations of NASA's advanced experiments designed to give workers...
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Halo Composer Marty O’Donnell on the Music and Design of Golem for PSVR

Marty O'Donnell, a composer most famous for his beloved work on Bungie's Halo Series, talks to Ben Lang about his new developer start-up Highwire Games - whose first title Golem is coming this year for PlayStation VR. "My approach to...

Top 10 Interviews from the VR Intelligence Conference

I was invited to cover the VR Intelligence Conference that debuted in San Francisco in November last year. It was a smaller but very focused gathering of decision-makers from a wide range of different industries where I had a chance...

Making Calls in VR with HTC Vive’s Bluetooth Functions

Voice calling and messaging comes to the HTC Vive VR system with HTC's Voice Services. We show you how to set it up and tell you if it's any good or not. HTC's announcement at the Mobile World Congress early...

‘VR Duck Hunt’ Team Wants to Build Your Favorite Arcade Classic, Vote Now

Want to see your favorite classic arcade game realized in virtual reality? The makers of a VR prototype of Duck Hunt for HTC Vive are taking suggestions from the community to do just that. The campaign is called VRcade Challenge, and there are more...
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One of VR’s Best ‘First Time’ Experiences Comes to CV1 and HTC Vive

Consistently a firm favourite here at Road to VR, Sightline: The Chair is an award winning 'greatest hits' of VR vignettes that happen to be one of the best introductions to virtual reality. The developer just released the latest...

Kokoromi Collective’s Heather Kelley on Designing ‘SUPERHYPERCUBE’

One of my favorite VR games is the Kokoromi Collective's SUPERHYPERCUBE, which is a very stylized 3D Tetris game with amazing sound design. It's a VR experience that really gives your brain a stimulating spatial memory workout. I first...

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...

Following Rift Delay, HTC Vive Backorder Pushes Into June

The HTC Vive opened for pre-orders back at the end of February and officially launched just last week on April 5th. The headset's backorder date is now into June for new orders. After the initial wave of pre-orders for the...
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