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The HTC Vive is Available for Pre-order Now

The HTC Vive VR headset is now available for pre-order from HTC's website. We tell you where you what it is, where you can buy it and how much you can expect to pay. The HTC Vive is now up for...

HTC Vive Pre-orders Will Receive ‘Tilt Brush’ for Free

HTC today confirmed worldwide pricing for the SteamVR powered Vive VR headset, due to go up for pre-order tomorrow (29th Feb). They also announced that those pre-orders would receive Google's virtual reality, paint application Tilt Brush in addition to...

HTC Vive Worldwide Prices Confirmed, €899 in Europe, £689 UK

The HTC Vive VR system is due to go up for pre-order tomorrow (29th February) and we know the US launch price is going to be $799. But what can the rest of the world expect to pay for...
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Developer Pushes Valve’s Lighthouse Tracking to its Limits

Developers Stress Level Zero, the team behind the HTC Vive shooter Hover Junkers, are known for their VR experiments. But their latest investigation pushes the theoretical limits of Valve's Lighthouse tracking system, as featured in the HTC Vive. Using just...

HTC Vive Has a Hidden Mechanism to Maximize Field of View

Among the improvements to come to the latest version of the Vive is easier access to a feature that will maximize the device's field of view between users and be a boon to glasses wearers. The Vive Pre (and consumer Vive, which...

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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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‘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...
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