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XEODesign’s Nicole Lazzaro on Design Leadership in VR
XEODesign's Nicole Lazarro has been researching emotional reactions of gamers in VR to discover the unique properties of the medium. You can't just port a 2D game into VR and expect it to work, and so she's calling for...
$30,000 in Cash and Prizes for Winner of Nvidia VR Showcase
NVIDIA's forthcoming GTC Conference runs April 4-7 and is going to be dominated by the topic of virtual reality – with a dedicated session track and VR Village with the latest and greatest demos. What's more, if you're an...
Steam Expands VR Game Listings With Supported Headsets, Play Area, and More
In preparation for the launch of the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, Valve has enhanced the categorization of VR games listed on Steam.
Steam first added a basic 'VR Support' category all the way back at the end of 2013,...
New Vox Machinae Trailer Shows Off Multi-player VR Mech Mayhem
Space Bullet have been quiet for a while, busy polishing their virtual reality mech combat game Vox Machinae. The studio have now released a trailer showing the world what they've been up to, featuring multi-player mechs blasting the hell...
Jesse Schell on the Art of Game Design in VR
Jesse Schell wrote the book "The Art of Game Design: A book of lenses," and his company Schell Games produced I Expect You to Die. It's one of the top-ranked VR games on Oculus Share, and it also won...
HordeZ Brings Doom-style Multi-player Coop Carnage to HTC Vive
Developer Niklas Persson is working on bringing the visceral, gore-soaked carnage of the Doom series to virtual reality with HordeZ, a multi-player coop shooter for the HTC Vive.
Whether you're willing to admit it or not, there's very little in...
Preview: Explode Hordes of Sweet Little Kittens in ‘Kittypocalypse’
Kittypocalypse is a tower defense game from Bolvërk Games that gives you a single mission: stop the kitties at all costs.
Ok, they're not really sweet little doe-eye kitty cats, but rather evil aliens disguised as such, and that's what makes...
Sony Send Out Invites to PlayStation VR GDC Press Event
Sony have sent out invites to an "exclusive PlayStation VR press event", due to take place during the Game Developer Conference in San Francisco on March 15th.
Sony's affinity with the GDC conference in San Francisco in relation to its...
‘Neos Core’ Enables a World of Multi-User, Multi-device VR Collaboration
Tomáš 'Frooxius' Mariančík, the man behind the Sightline series has reached what he calls a "major milestone" with his continuing creation and education platform Neos. Today he unveiled a breakthrough framework which allows multiple users to gaze into and collaborate...
‘Thunderbird’ Father-Son Dev Team Win ‘Best VR Experience’ at Vision Summit
For the past year, Tony Davidson and his 17-year old son Kai have been tucked away in the hills of Oregon collaborating on a VR experience that was inspired from one of Kai's dreams. Thunderbird is a puzzle adventure...
ThingLink Raises $1.3 Million to Expand Media Annotation Platform to VR
Money continues to pour into the VR space, but not all of it is aimed at brand new ventures. Last week, the interactive media platform, ThingLink (founded in 2008), announced the closing of a $1.3M round of new funding...
Early SteamVR Performance Test Included Hidden Half-Life & Left 4 Dead Demo Code
Valve have just released a new tool to determine if your gaming PC is up to the task of running SteamVR experiences unlocked with the HTC Vive. But, buried in the code of the tool lies some interesting glimpses...
Movidius’ Dedicated Vision Processing Chip is Coming Soon to AR and VR Headsets
Movidius may be a little known name to the average consumer, but the company behind Google Project Tango's Myriad 1 vision processing chip is gearing up to release their new chip architecture in both VR and AR headset manufacturers, and a...
Boost VC Invests in 15 More VR Startups in Latest Accelerator Class
Boost VC, a startup accelerator based in San Mateo California, announced its seventh accelerator 'Tribe' with 15 new investments in VR companies, bringing its total VR portfolio to 34 startups.
Boost VC, which invests in bitcoin and VR startups, has...
New HTC Vive ‘Consumer Edition’ Trailer Lands
In the wake of HTC's announcement that the HTC Vive will ship on April 1st and cost $799, here's 51 seconds of industrial design to give you a really good look at the headset you as a potential buyer...




















