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HTC Viveport VR App Store Client Now Available – Breaking
HTC's virtual reality app portal 'Viveport', designed as a showcase for HTV Vive VR content, has it seems quietly made available at least some parts of the new platform, according to images posted online.
Update: A helpful Twitter follower (thanks @killercow) pointed...
HTC Vive’s Laser-based Lighthouse Trackers Get FCC Approval for Safe Use
As one of the necessary steps for getting a product ready for consumer sale in the U.S., the HTC Vive and its laser-based 'Lighthouse' base stations have received approval from the FCC.
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission is tasked with...
Oculus Rift Bundled Game ‘Lucky’s Tale’ Gets New Trailer
Oculus have just announced that Playful Corp's 3D made-for-VR platformer Lucky's Take will be packed in fot free inside every Oculus Rift consumer box at launch. As if that wasn't enough good news for you, here's a brand new...
Tekken 7 VR Support Hints Dropped by Developer
Bandai Namco Designer Michael Murray has dropped some fairly major hints that their forthcoming Tekken 7 will not feature a full, fighting 'VR mode' for the game proper when it ships next year supporting Sony's PlayStation VR headset.
If when...
HTC Partnership Aims to Bring Vive to “hundreds of millions” of Internet Café Users
HTC formally debuted the Vive VR headset to Chinese developers at a packed event last Friday in Beijing, China. The event featured speakers from HTC, Valve, and notable developers working with the Vive. One of the announcements to come...
New Lunar Flight Images Reveal Detailed Cockpit Makeover
Lunar Flight from Shovsoft, is one of those OG's of virtual reality gaming, and a damned fine one too. We've not heard too much from the developer recently, but the game work on the game does continue. These new...
Survios Breaks Stealth With Debut of Action-packed Title Headed to Rift and Vive
Survios, one of the earliest companies to spin up in this new era of VR, is today debuting gameplay from a new VR title that's coming to the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. Inside, players battle robots in an...
‘Pinball Labs’ to Bring Accurate Pinball Simulator to VR, Kickstarter Now Live
That pinball-playing street gang you joined for protection as a kid ('The Pinball Wizards', duh) have laughed at you your whole life. Why? You never owned your very own pinball machine! Ok. The premise is bad, but the pinball...
HTC CEO Claims “Very, Very Big” Vive Breakthrough to be Shown at CES
HTC's CEO Cher Wang has gone on record stating that one of the reasons for the recently announced delay to the release of the Steam VR powered HTC Vive VR headset was to incorporate the latest "very, very big...
Big ‘Crystal Rift’ Steam Update Includes “Whole Game”
Psytec Games, the developers behind grid-based VR dungeon crawler Crystal Rift, have announced a big update to their Early Access release of the game, stating that all content planned for release is now present.
Psytec Games are having a busy...
NVIDIA’s GameWorks VR Features & Integration with Unreal Engine
NVIDIA recently announced the first steps towards supporting foveated rendering with Multi-Res Shading as well as VR SLI integration in Unreal Engine 4. I talked with Nvidia's Tony Tamasi, the senior vice president of content and technology, at the VRX Conference...
New Images for 2nd HTC Vive Developer Kit Supposedly Leaked
Having been delayed until April 2016, the HTC Vive consumer headset is still under wraps. But these images, supposedly sourced from an accidental leak, may give us a clue as to what we can expect from the forthcoming 2nd...
Sony’s Richard Marks on the Evolution of PlayStation VR
Sony is no stranger to virtual reality, having a long history of exploring the technology throughout the years. Sony's 'Magic Lab' Director, Richard Marks, tells me about the company's history with VR and the development of PlayStation VR.
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$50M VR Venture Fund Announced by Japanese Mobile Game Giant COLOPL
COLOPL, mobile game giant in Japan, announced that they've opened a $50 million fund to invest in VR companies worldwide.
Guest Article By Shun Kubota
Shun is the co-founder and Editor in Chief of Mogura VR, the largest VR publication in Japan, aiming to...
Building the Metaverse with janusVR
James McCrae wants to lower the barrier to entry for creating virtual worlds with janusVR. He has a PhD in computer science from University of Toronto, and he's created a sophisticated technology stack that allows front-end web developers to...


















