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Epic Games to Talk Making-of ‘Bullet Train’ Oculus Touch Demo at VRDC

Epic Games, the company behind Unreal Engine (not to mention a slew of best-selling titles), has worked closely with Oculus over the years to create VR tech demos. Their latest, Bullet Train, was the first to incorporate the Oculus...
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This Video Does a Great Job of Showing What It’s like to Be Inside Virtual Reality

You'll hear the mantra time and again "you have to use virtual reality to understand what it's like." And for the most part that's true. VR is so new and different that using old media like text, photos, or...

Personalized Products Using Computer-Aided Manufacturing and VR Design

Greg Howes is the founder and CEO of the high-tech building company IDEAbuilder, and he's on a mission to disrupt the $8.5 trillion annual building industry using immersive technologies to bridge design & fabrication directly with consumer demand. He...

Vive Pre-orders to Open February 29th as HTC Pivots From Smartphones to VR

Speaking with The Telegraph, HTC CEO Cher Wang confirms that pre-orders for the company's Vive VR system will open February 29th. Wang also indicates that HTC is turning its focus primarily to virtual reality. The Telegraph reports HTC CEO Cher Wang...

Leaked $800 PlayStation VR Price Was an Error, Says Sony

With rather curious timing, a day after Oculus Rift pre-orders became available, Amazon Canada let slip a listing for Sony's PlayStation VR headset. As reported by Forbes, on January 7th, one day after Rift pre-orders opened, a PlayStation VR product...
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HTC Shows Vive Pre Working Great for Seated VR at CES

While the HTC Vive is known for its 'room-scale tracking space, the company maintains that it works just as well for seated VR experiences. At CES 2016, HTC showed just that, using Elite Dangerous running great on the new Vive...
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Windlands Now Available on Steam Early Access

Windlands, a first-person exploration game from Psytech Games, is now available for purchase on Steam Early Access. The game is currently on sale for $15.99, and returns to the normal price of $19.99 after January 15th. After generating over $20k in a successful...
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Hands On: Audi’s Stunning Next-gen Showrooms are Powered by Vive and Rift

We went hands-on with Audi's new room-scale VR showroom experience that the company is hoping will add new dimensions to the car buying experience whilst also introducing entirely new demographics to VR. Audi are serious about VR it turns out, very...

Hands-on: HTC Vive Pre Brings Notable Improvements to Visuals, Tracking, and Ergonomics

Although the HTC Vive saw a significant delay, pushing its expected delivery date way back from Q4 2015 to April 2016, development of the headset has not stalled. The new Vive Pre, the second Vive development kit, makes improvements...

Following Oculus Rift Price Reveal, HTC Thinks Vive Customers will be ‘happy with their investment’

With the price of the Oculus Rift headset coming in above the expectation of many, eyes turn to competitor HTC, whose Vive system has yet to be priced. The company isn't ready to commit to a firm price for...

HTC Vive Pre Side-by-side Shows Significant Size Reduction

While the original HTC Vive development kit has impressed many with its 'room-scale' VR capability, the unit was a full step behind its competitors in the ergonomics department. The Vive Pre, the second development kit of the VR headset, looks...

New Vive Pre Video Invites You to “Experience the freedom of VR without boundaries”

https://youtu.be/CB9ecPgZlq0 Building up the newly revealed 'Vive Pre' development kit, HTC has released a new video teasing the possibilities of virtual reality. The video is similar in production to earlier videos released during the first reveal of the HTC Vive back in...

HTC Reveals ‘Vive Pre’ Development Kit at CES

HTC has finally taken the wraps off of the second development kit of the Vive VR headset, they're calling it the 'Vive Pre', and the new unit is being shown off here at CES 2016. The Vive Pre largely seems...

Virtuix Exploring Crowdfunded Equity Investment Under US ‘JOBS Act’

In accordance with newly eased investment regulations brought forth by the United States' JOBS Act, Virtuix is "testing the waters" for crowdfunded equity investment. The Virtuix Omni VR treadmill began as a Kickstarter success after raising more than $1 million...

HTC, Valve and SteamVR: A 2015 Retrospective and CES 2016 Preview

CES is mere days away and as we edge into 2016, we take a look back at the surprise entry and stratospheric rise of the HTC Vive, Valve's SteamVR flagship virtual reality hardware and, what we might expect to...
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