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New ‘Modbox’ Video Has Portals that Will Mess with Your Mind

We got our hands on Alien Trap's HTC Vive multi-player sandbox physics title at Unity's Vision VR/AR Summit last week and loved its playful encouragement to create and destroy. Now, this latest video shows the developer's tests with mind-bending...
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Hands On: Modbox on HTC Vive Indulges Your Creative & Destructive Urges

The human desire to create is strong, but our desire to destroy perhaps even stronger. Frank He takes Alien Trap's new, motion control, made-for-VR title Modbox out for a spin and finds he's all about the destruction. Physics sandbox with toys,...
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ADR1FT is Coming March 28th for Oculus Rift

Thee One Zero's made-for-VR 'astronaut in peril' game ADR1FT is one of the most anticipated releases for VR headsets, and now it looks to be launching, on March 28th - in close proximity to the consumer Oculus Rift ship...

HTC Vive Pre Arrives With Developers, Twitter Rejoices

HTC's second iteration of their SteamVR hardware, the Vive Pre, was unveiled last month at CES with a number of ergonomic and technical enhancements. Well it looks like developers worldwide are taking to twitter to rejoice the receipt of...
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VR Puzzler ‘Dimensional’ Has Interesting VR Locomotion Ideas, On Kickstarter Now

Dimensional from UK developers is a built-for-VR puzzle platformer for the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift which leverage's experimental locomotion ideas to tackle nausea and enhance presence. The project has just hit Kickstarter, so we thought we'd take a...

Oculus Launch Avatar Lip Sync Plugin for Unity

Oculus have released a dedicated Unity plugin which aims to automatically detect and transform an audio stream from speech into virtual character lip movements automatically. It seems that the substantial investment in research and development at Oculus over the last...

SteamVR and HTC Vive Pre Gets ‘Direct Mode’

Valve has just announced that the latest release of SteamVR beta, its virtual reality platform SteamVR just upgraded its rendering pipeline to support Direct Mode, a way to bypass unnecessary operating system clutter to render directly to a VR...

How NASA is Using VR to Explore the Universe

Dr. Jeff Norris works on Mission Operations Innovation at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory Ops Lab. They've been partnering with all of the major virtual reality & augmented reality companies to accelerate the progress in space exploration, designing spacecraft, and...

Consumer Oculus Rift to Arrive with 4-Month Free Trial of Unity Pro

Oculus founder Palmer Luckey revealed today at Vision Summit 2016 that the company would be giving away 4 months of Unity Professional Edition for free with the purchase of an Oculus Rift. The move comes as a bid to entice consumers...

Unity is Making Big Improvements to Their VR Rendering Pipeline

Unity is making a huge push to position itself as the leading game engine in the virtual reality space today at its Vision Summit where they made a series of new partner announcements and previewed big improvements coming to...
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‘Universe Sandbox 2’ to Get VR Support, “Grab the Moon and Hurl it Toward Earth”

Universe Sandbox 2 is a physics-based space simulator from Giant Army that will soon be getting Oculus Rift and HTC Vive support, so you can build the Universe as you see fit in virtual reality—provided you adhere to the laws of classical...
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Developing Coop VR Games with Remote Presence Using the HTC Vive and Kinect

After featuring their new experiment which used the HTC Vive and Microsoft Kinect to the physical image of 2 players into virtual worlds remotely, we wanted to know more about how developers Jasper Brekelmans and Jeroen de Mooij had pulled it...
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VRLO 3.0 Event Wrap-Up Features Autodesk, Bossa Studios, HammerheadVR and More

VRLO is a London based VR event which celebrated its third outing in December, bigger and better than ever before. Road to VR's Jonathan Tustain was there to report from the show. Here's a nifty wrap-up tour featuring a collection...

WEVR Unveils ‘Transport’ VR Content Network, Announces Over $25M Investment

Wevr today unveiled Transport, a new VR content distribution platform that they hope will allow developers easier access to a broader market. To that, Wevr announced the results of an investment made by some big names in VR, amounting to the tune of $25M. Wevr is a virtual...

The HTC Vive Pre is Now Shipping to Developers

The second generation SteamVR development kit, the HTC Vive Pre, was unveiled at CES in January and included numerous enhancements. Valve have now announced that the new Pre systems are on their way to developers. In the run up to...
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