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6 Game Industry Artists Let Loose in HTC Vive ‘Tilt Brush’ Competition

NVIDIA's booth at PAX Prime 2015 recently saw a special competition that put six game industry artists to task, where they created wild and wonderful sculptures—not with complicated CAD software though, but rather with the help of Tilt Brush, a VR creation tool coming...
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First Look: Vive Chief Content Officer Phil Chen on VR’s Role in the Evolution of Storytelling

Virtual reality pushes the capabilities of computers like no other current technology; putting a 3D world in front of you and making it interactive requires a lot of power. But the payoff? A new medium that directly engages with...
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This HTC Vive PAX Reactions Video is Pure, Honest Hype

The HTC team are in marketing overdrive mode right now, with an estimated arrival date for their (and Valve's) first VR headset slated for the end of the year (albeit in limited numbers), the team's whistle stop 'world' tour...

‘Everspace’ Blasts Through Kickstarter Goal, Raises Almost Half a Million Dollars

The extremely promising looking space combat shooter Everspace, focused on accessibility and adrenaline rather than space trading, has completed its Kickstarter campaign, raising a whopping 420,252 EUR ($477,139) of it's original 225,000 EUR target. Everspace is a space shooter which...
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Watch a Disney Animation Legend Learn to Draw in VR

In a short film exploring the evolution of storytelling, veteran Disney animator Glen Keane, creator of some of the most iconic characters of all time, steps into virtual reality to learn how to draw in virtual reality, with Tilt Brush and...
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‘The Vanishing of Ethan Carter Redux’ is Out, Bringing VR Support

The Vanishing of Ethan Carter is a critically acclaimed, story driven mystery from developer 'The Astronauts'. It's a game which always seemed ideal for virtual reality and now, with the release of the game's Unreal Engine 4 'redux', VR support is...

Canon Reveal 2.5k Per Eye, 120 Degree FOV ‘VR Viewer’

Here's a name you may not expect to be entering the immersive wearable market, Canon. They just demonstrated a virtual reality viewer (this is not a traditional headset) at Canon Expo in New York, and it packs some interesting...

‘Community’ and ‘Rick and Morty’ Co-creator Goes Wild for Making VR Soup on the HTC Vive

Creator of the cult hit comedy show Community, Dan Harmon, has raved about the new HTC Vive VR headset in a recent podcast where he describes his extraordinary experiences ... making soup in virtual reality. Dan Harmon's popular podcast series 'Harmontown'...

‘Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes’ Comes to Steam and Oculus Rift (or not) in October

Steel Crate Games, an Ottawa based indie studio, has today announced that their bomb-defusing party game—Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes—is coming to Steam on October 8th with Oculus Rift support. The co-op bomb-defusing game makes for an ingenious way of involving a whole...
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‘Stark Tower’ is a Stunning Avengers Recreation, Coming to HTC Vive and Rift

We've seen a few architectural companies exploring the VR space with recreations of realistic structures. Trek Industries now want to let you step into the fantastic fictional world of The Avengers with this stunning VR recreation of one Marvel's...

‘Garry’s Mod’ Sequel to Receive Virtual Reality Support

Rust developer Facepunch Studios, founded by developer Garry Newman, has confirmed that its founding game Garry's Mod will receive virtual reality support - just don't call it 'Garry's Mod 2'. In an interview with PCGamesN, the founder of Facepunch studios...
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Project ‘impacto’ is Designed to Let People Really Feel Virtual Reality

The lab of Human Computer Interaction at Germany’s Hasso Plattner Institute has developed impacto, a wearable, wireless device designed “to render the haptic sensation of hitting and being hit in virtual reality.” Led by Professor Patrick Baudisch, the lab has...

One-on-one Consulting with Epic, Unity, and Oculus Available to VR Devs at Connect

Oculus' forthcoming Connect 2 conference is a resolutely developer focused event and these events, offering 1:1 face-time with experts in both Unity and Unreal engines, specifically on the mechanics of building a VR project, may just be the ticket...

Unity Awards 2015 VR Finalists Announced, Vote for Your Favourite

Unity, the leading 3D game engine synonymous with the early days of Oculus Rift software, is due to hold its annual conference 'Unite' in Boston on September 22nd. As part of the event, the company will honour the best...
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New ViveCraft Video Shows How Amazing ‘Rollercoaster Tycoon’ Would be in VR

ViveCraft, an experimental project from Facepunch Studios, has somewhat departed from the blocky Minecraft style and gone full Rollercoaster Tycoon in their newest video. James King, a developer from Facepunch Studios, has taken a new experimental approach with the HTC Vive Minecraft clone....
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