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Owlchemy Labs Announce New Valve Steam VR Based Project, Debuts at GDC 2015

Hot on the heels of HTC's suprise 'Vive' VR Headset announcement - a partnership with Valve, Owlchemy labs has teased it's newest virtual reality IP, to debut on Valve's Steam VR platform. Owlchemy labs have been at the forefront of...

HTC and Valve Announces New VR Headset ‘Vive’ Partnership –Breaking

At HTC's 'Utopia' event at the Mobile World Conference, the company just announced a partnership with gaming giant Valve, seemingly including the production of a new VR headset. We're gathering info, but it seems the unit which comprises '70 sensors'...
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This Stunning Virtual Realisation of Venice is Available for Oculus Rift Now

Virtual Architectural Visualisation is one of many non-gaming applications for virtual reality, and one that's seeing growth. UE4Arch is a company dedicated to creating and selling hyper-realistic virtual creations that can be experienced in virtual reality. The company works in Unreal...

This Uncovered Silhouette May Be the First Glimpse of the SteamVR Headset

So you've probably heard by now that Valve is set to reveal a SteamVR Dev Kit come GDC 2015 next week. Well, some folks poking around their website found a photo hidden in the source code that reveals what...

Epic Games Offering up Cash from $5 Million Fund to ‘Anyone Making Cool Things with UE4’

Epic Games is offering developers a "no strings attached" piece of their recently established development fund, a financial grant pool that tops out at $5,000,000 worth of cash. The funds are earmarked for projects with working prototypes, that are...

Apple Granted Patent for Gear VR-like Mobile Headset, Could Have “Broad Ramifications” for Such Devices

Yesterday, Apple was granted a patent for a Gear VR-like mobile headset which would use a portable device (like a smartphone) as the primary display. The patent strikes similarities between both Samsung's Gear VR and a swath of VR...

Following $23 Million Series A, Meta 1 Developer Kit Hackathon to Be Held March 6

On the tail end of this year's GDC, Meta will be hosting their very first 24-hour AR hackathon centered around their Meta 1 Developer Kit, a crowdfunded augmented reality headset that is now shipping out to backers. The event comes after...

Sony to Discuss “Unique social experiences possible only with Project Morpheus” and More at GDC

Sony is bringing back Project Morpheus to this year's Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco, now with updated information on the VR headset that promises to expound new applications for the VR side of their PlayStation ecosystem. See Also: Sony Morpheus...

Sulon Cortex ‘Augmented Virtual Reality’ Headset, Interview with Don Henderson

Sulon had an impressive presence at CES 2015, their sizeable booth on the show floor accompanied by eye-catching prototype headsets clearly designed to announce to the world that they'd arrived. Their product, an AR/VR headset named the 'Cortex', has an interesting...

Google’s Chief Game Designer to Talk Tango at GDC, Augmenting Virtual Reality with the Real World

Google will be demoing some of their new sensor-assisted virtual reality technology at this year's Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, which promises to "enable Holodeck-like experiences with less than $100 add-on cost" to mobile devices. While not explicitly named,...

Sensics CEO Yuval Boger: The Dual-Element Optics of the OSVR HDK Headset

Announced last month at CES 2015, the Open Source Virtual Reality (OSVR) project encompasses a $199 'hacker development kit' (HDK) VR headset, and an SDK designed to interoperate with a range of headsets, peripherals, and game engines. Both facets...

Rev VR Podcast (Ep. 92): Interview with Sky Nite, Author of ‘Virtual Reality Insider’

We've all seen those 'books' about VR that seem to be nothing more than a quick cash grab, taking advantage of a burgeoning industry and hoping to dupe a few suckers into spending a few dollars. I am here...

Leap Motion’s ‘Planetarium’ Gives you the Power to Grab Constellations

In a new technical demo from Leap Motion's labs, you can use your hands to soar through space and manipulate entire constellations with mere gestures. The Planetarium aims to illustrate ideas in virtual reality user interfaces and demonstrate the...

Valve Has Tips, Tricks, and VR Standards to Share at GDC 2015

Valve isn't holding another Steam Dev Days this year, a developers conference organized by the company in 2014. Instead they seem to be focusing their developer outreach energy on March's rapidly approaching Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. Alex...

AltspaceVR Holding Open Beta This Weekend For Virtual Superbowl Party

AltspaceVR is hosting another open beta weekend, and they want you to bring the chips and dip this time for a shared viewing of Super Bowl XLIX. Whether you're rooting for the Patriots or the Seahawks, you're sure to...
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