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First Look: ‘Proton Pulse’ is Coming to Vive and Touch with New Mechanics

Proton Pulse, the instant classic VR demo harkening back to the Rift DK1 days is coming to the HTC Vive and Oculus Touch with brand new mechanics. We've got the first look at how it'll play. Proton Pulse is most easily...
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‘Sightline’ Dev Wants Your Feedback on Experimental ‘Holosphere’ Locomotion

Tomáš 'Frooxius' Mariančík, the developer behind the outstanding Sightline: The Chair and World of Comenius projects has devised a new locomotion system for VR, and he needs your help to make it better. The prolific and irritatingly talented VR developer Tomáš Mariančík, the...

Project Cars v7.0 Patch Brings More Oculus Rift Enhancements

One of the early titles to pledge and receive virtual reality support, Driving Simulation title Project Cars has refined it's support for the Oculus Rift headset in the latest 7.0 patch. Project Cars from Slightly Mad Studios, has received a...

HTC Vive Pre-Orders in February, “We Could Have Started to Ship Vive” CEO Claims

HTC recently announced that it the expected arrival date for its SteamVR powered headset the Vive had slipped from 'holidays 2015' to April 2016. HTC's CEO Cher Wang claims however that "...we could have started to ship Vive this month". So,...
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Modbox is a Multiplayer Physics Wonderland for HTC Vive

Developers Alientrap have revealed details and a new trailer for their riotously fun looking physics playground title, Modbox, coming to SteamVR and HTC Vive next year. There's something unusually compelling about games which utilise realistic physics upon which to build...

Presence Capital’s $10 Million AR/VR Fund Counts HTC’s Phil Chen Among Founders

Presence Capital today announced they've raised a $10 million fund to invest in VR/AR companies through the new VC firm. Among other heads of the fund is HTC's Phil Chen, the purported "founder" of the HTC Vive project at HTC. Presence...

Presence Capital’s Amitt Mahajan Brings Lessons from Casual Mobile Games to VR

Presence Capital is a new early-stage venture capital firm that's focused on funding virtual reality and augmented reality startups. I had the chance to interview one of the co-founders Amitt Mahajan at the VRX Conference about this new fund...
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EVE: Valkyrie Gameplay – 10 Player Footage From the Latest Pre-Alpha

We now know that EVE:Valkyrie will be packed-in with every retail Oculus Rift once that VR headset launches in Q1 2016. So what can you expect from the game? We've got some new gameplay of the latest pre-alpha in...

Going Beyond Gaming and Entertainment with Clay Park VR’s Shauna Heller

Shauna Heller worked as a developer relations specialist focusing on non-gaming and non-entertainment experiences at Oculus for a year and a half before leaving to start her consultancy Clay Park VR. She's had a lot of exposure to the...

“Second Generation” HTC Vive Development Kit to Debut at CES in January

HTC today announced that it will be launching the "second generation" of the HTC Vive Developer Kit at CES 2016 in January. HTC made the announcement today via a blog update which confirmed a delay of the commercial launch of...

HTC Vive Delayed to 2016, 7,000 Additional Developer Kits Coming Early Next Year

In an update to the company's blog today, HTC has announced that the Vive VR headset for Valve's SteamVR platform will be delayed until April 2016. Announcing back in March that the HTC Vive would launch to consumers starting in...

Tony Parisi’s ‘Learning Virtual Reality’ Book Now Available

At the end of November, around 60 people gathered at the offices of Rothenberg Ventures in downtown San Francisco to celebrate the release of VR pioneer Tony Parisi's new book Learning Virtual Reality. For the uninitiated, Tony is recognized...

What $136 Million Invested in November Alone Says About the VR Industry

Still think virtual reality is a fad? The latest data suggests over $136M was raised by VR startups in the month of November 2015 alone. It appears that VR is quickly leaving the realm of odd curiosity and is...

Valve Adds Support for Latest Oculus Rift SDK in SteamVR Update

Amidst ongoing development of Valve's SteamVR platform, a recent update has brought support for the latest version of the Oculus Rift SDK and Runtime. Apparently in an effort to ensure continued support for the Oculus Rift through SteamVR, a November...
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Watch Halo Played on Microsoft HoloLens in Augmented Reality

This is a video of Microsoft project manager Varun Mani, streaming a game of Halo: Guardians to his HoloLens, presented through the magic of augmented reality, straight onto his walls. Microsoft's augmented reality wonder-toy HoloLens has flirted with the idea of becoming...
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