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Unity and Unreal Engine Now Both Support HTC Vive Development

The industry's two largest game engines, Unity and Unreal Engine, are now both officially supported by SteamVR, Valve's full-featured 'room-scale' VR experience. The integration of the two game engines will allow developers to immediately begin developing for HTC Vive. Unity and Unreal Engine now both...
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HoloLens App Envisions Immersive Future for Architecture and Construction

Microsoft has recently released a video showing some of the architectural applications of HoloLens, the company's untethered AR headset. The prototype app shows the device's ability to improve communication between industry professionals through the use of immersive 3D models. Trimble, a company focused...

HTC: ‘Vive Developer Edition Will Not Be Sold Before Consumer Launch’

A report published last month in Fortune seemed to indicate that HTC would make the SteamVR / Vive Developer Edition system available for sale prior to the forthcoming launch of the consumer version of the headset. Speaking with Road...

‘Wearality Sky’ Passes $100,000 Kickstarter Goal, Meetups in San Francisco and New York

With only 4 days left until the official end of its crowdfunding campaign, Wearality Sky has passed its funding goal of $100,000. The company will be offering trials of their 150 degree field of view (FOV) lenses in San Francisco...

Steam VR Image Leak May Indicate Software Line-up for HTC Vive VR Headset

Steam VR and Valve's accompanying VR hardware, the HTC Vive, is on its way and with release windows already confirmed, the question is what content will be available for early adopters of the virtual reality platform? These images, found...

HTC Vive-enabled Unreal Engine 4.8 Coming next Week, Devs Can Start Work with Rift DK2

Epic Games has today announced that the company will be releasing an Unreal Engine 4.8 preview build next week which will offer support for Valve's highly anticipated SteamVR / HTC Vive. Epic says that even developers who don't have...

Unity Announces Support for Microsoft HoloLens, Complete Toolset Free of Charge

Unity has officially joined Microsoft in its quest to render the world around us with fantastical interactive 3D imagery, an endeavor made possible by HoloLens, Microsoft's as yet unreleased augmented reality visor. The game engine will fully support HoloLens and just like the...

Valve’s Joe Ludwig to Talk ‘OpenVR’ and ‘Lighthouse’ Hardware Partners at SVVR Expo

Valve Software Programmer Joe Ludwig, aka one of the brains behind Team Fortress 2's 'VR mode' and SteamVR, will be giving a talk at this year's SVVR Expo on the company's SteamVR APIs, otherwise known as OpenVR. The 20 minute talk,...

‘Render the Metaverse’ Contest by OTOY, John Carmack Signs on as Judge

OTOY, the studio behind the made-for-VR rendering software OctaneVR, has announced a contest sponsored by Oculus that aims to get the community involved in generating immersive 360-degree panoramas using their software suite. Oculus CTO John Carmack is also signing on to...

Microsoft to Talk ‘Hololens’ at Build 2015, Keynote Livestream @8:30AM PT / 11:30AM ET

Microsoft biggest event of the year 'Build 2015' kicks off today and with it brings promise of more information for their intriguing augmented reality headset, Hololens. Running from April 29-May 1st, Microsoft's Build event has grown to become Microsoft's most important...

HTC Vive Support and “New Morpheus Features” Coming to Unreal Engine 4

According to Epic's Unreal Engine roadmap, the company is soon to add support for Valve's SteamVR / HTC Vive platform as well as new features for Sony's Morpheus VR headset. With strong existing support for both the Oculus Rift and...

Jaunt Releases First iOS Experience, Paul McCartney Performs “Live and Let Die” in Stereo 360

Jaunt, the cinematic VR company known for its host of high-profile 360 video content, has officially entered Apple Territory with its first iOS app—Paul McCartney's "Live and Let Die" 360 concert. Originally released back in November 2014 on Google Cardboard and Oculus DK1/DK2, Apple fans can...

HTC Vive Developer Edition Signups Now Open, Free for Selected Devs but Not for Sale

Apparently on their way to making good on the promise of the HTC Vive Developer Edition being available this Spring, Valve has opened the developer signup form for interested parties to throw their name into the hat. Valve will be...

We Preview ‘Crystal Rift’ on the Oculus Rift – Now Available on Steam Early Access.

Crystal Rift from Psytec Games promises a return to the halcyon days where 3D, grid based gaming was at the cutting-edge albeit this time in VR. So what does a retro-inspired, virtual reality dungeon crawler feel like? As the...

How to Configure VorpX to Play GTA V on the Oculus Rift

PC Game launches don't come much bigger than Grand Theft Auto, and GTA V's launch just last week has been no exception. Similarly, VorpX's rapid addition of GTA V support to allow players to experience the game on the...
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