2023 Sections
Valve Releases ‘The Lab’ Unity Renderer for Free
Valve have released the Unity based renderer for its superb VR experience collection The Lab in an effort to encourage adoption of what it sees as optimal rendering techniques for VR experiences.
Although many probably assumed that Valve's collection of VR experiences,...
uSens Grabs $20 Million Series A Investment for ‘Inside-out’ Tracking Tech
This week uSens announced a $20 million Series A funding round led by Fosun Kinzon Capital. Usens is one of the early developers of hand and head tracking tech; according to the announcement from the company this investment will help launch...
‘Pool Nation VR’ Review
Video games have induced many emotions inside me over the years but, I don’t think any of them felt as real as the shame I felt when the AI computer, on easy, sunk his final ball against me. As...
HTC’s First Vive Game ‘Front Defense’ is a WWII Gallery Shooter
Computex 2016 is under way and HTC are out on the show floor in full force with a collection of titles showing off their Vive VR system. One of the titles developed by the company, playable for the first...
Save Babies from Imminent Danger in Rescuties! VR
If you've always thought of yourself as a hero, one that could step up to the plate when danger rears its head, Rescuties! VR may well be the game for you. Save babies and other helpless creatures in this...
The Fearless Creativity of ‘Lucid Trips’ is Exactly What VR Needs to Thrive
Born out of a lengthy period of experimentation, Lucid Trips begins with a novel method of locomotion and follows through with a unique approach to game design and multiplayer interactivity.
Lucid Trips is an excellent example of the sort of...
MythBusters’ Adam Savage Steps Inside Nvidia’s ‘VR Funhouse’ Physics Playground
Nvidia takes Mythbuster's Adam Savage inside their VR Funhouse application which is a sandbox for new technologies made possible with the company's latest Pascal-based GPUs.
Nvidia created VR Funhouse as an example application showcasing many of their proprietary real-time physics...
HP and MSI Show Off ‘PC on Your Back’ for Untethered Rift and Vive Sessions
HP and MSI are working on concept 'PC on your back' projects (often known as backtops) which opens the door to untethered PC-level virtual reality experiences by allowing you to carry around your VR experience without those trailing cables.
A relatively...
Review: Time Machine VR
A virus is spreading across the world infecting all in its path. Millions are dead. This pandemic is referred to as the 'Jurassic flu' named for the time period from which it originated. Scientists have thrown all of the...
Microsoft Preparing VR Capable Xbox One for Use with Oculus Rift, Reports Suggest
Microsoft may be preparing a new, much more powerful version of their Xbox One games console codenamed 'Scorpio' to power the Oculus Rift some reports are suggesting.
As the gaming industry and associated press wind the hype engine up in...
‘Project Ghost’ Lets You Bend Time Whilst Dual Wielding Lightsabers
A new early prototype game for the HTC Vive is aiming to bring your time-shifting, lightsaber wielding dreams to life with Project Ghost, a new game, early in production, which mashes together so many individually cool ideas, some of...
Modbox Update Brings Room-scale VR Game Building with New Mod Support
Modbox, the physics sandbox title where you're free to create whatever insane contraptions you like, alongside a friend, has expanded its scope. The team are to deliver a big update in June that expands ability for users to mod the...
Preview: ‘Buzludzha VR’ Gives New Life to an Abandoned Soviet Megastructure
The imposing Buzludzha Monument in central Bulgaria once invoked infallible power, a power that once rested with the nation's Communist Party. The brutalist megastructure, opened to the public in 1981 and later abandoned after the lifting of the iron curtain, now lies in ruins, with...
Netflix Prototypes Retro Room-scale Streaming Video Store
Netflix engineers working on ways to bring their video streaming service into the immersive realm have released this video of their prototype room-scale virtual reality reality experience modelled on an 80's VHS video rental store. Yes, it is as odd...
Platform Politics: Inside the Oculus and ‘Revive’ Dilemma
Revive is an application that allows select VR games exclusive to the Oculus Home platform to be played on a rival SteamVR-powered HTC Vive headset. A recent update to Oculus Home crippled Revive, an act that has caused outrage...


















