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HP and MSI Show Off ‘PC on Your Back’ for Untethered Rift and Vive Sessions

HP and MSI are working on concept 'PC on your back' projects (often known as backtops) which opens the door to untethered PC-level virtual reality experiences by allowing you to carry around your VR experience without those trailing cables. A relatively...

Valve’s Lighthouse Room-Scale Tracking Illustrated IRL

SFX house Stress Level Zero recently received their Valve Vive Developer Edition kit and have now published a useful image demonstrating just what Valve's 15x15 feet 'room scale' tracking looks like when applied in reality. Valve and HTC's Vive virtual...
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‘Doom’ & ‘Fallout 4’ Devs are Collaborating to Make Titles Work in VR

Doom VR Executive Producer Marty Stratton sheds light on Doom VR, how Bethesda are approaching the project, what VR hardware they're targeting and whether it'll ever see a full release. After thrusting a glimpse of a modern VR technology into the public...

‘ROM: Extraction’ Review

Shooting a gun in VR is a pretty powerful experience, and the feeling of being able to look down the sights and blast away the baddies with a well-aimed shot is pretty cathartic to say the least. With games like...

Apple Mum on AR/VR for iPhone 7, but Here’s How We Know They’re Still Working on...

Yesterday Apple held a keynote presentation to update the world on their latest products. While the company didn't have any announcements on the AR/VR front, it's clear that it's only a matter of time before they enter the fray. It's...

‘Raw Data’ Developer Survios Raises $50 Million, Now Top Funded VR Dev Studio

Survios, the VR development studio behind the Vive title Raw Data, has announced a whopping $50 million in funding to further expand its VR content offerings. The new round makes the company the most funded pure VR development studio to date. Survios'...

Valve Confirms ‘Aperture Science’ VR Demo is Not HTC Vive Exclusive

In a tweet by Valve writer Chet Faliszek, he has confirmed that the brilliant Aperture Science demo used in Valve's press and public displays of SteamVR hardware at various shows, will not be exclusive to the HTC Vive and will...
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‘SuperChem VR’ Shows Impressive, Engaging Gamification of Chemistry Lab Education

I Expect You to Die developer Schell Games have released a trailer for their latest project SuperChem VR, an incredibly fun looking way to teach chemistry and perhaps a glimpse into the potential future for VR in education. We've seen...

SoundStage Lets You Build Your Dream Music Studio in Room-Scale VR

This is SoundStage, from solo developer Logan Olson, a VR application that aims to let musicians build their own dream music studio, allowing them to play, record and mix from within VR on the HTC Vive. Being a musician can...
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‘V’, The Universal Dashboard for VR, Launches Open Beta

V is a universal dashboard for virtual reality experiences which lets you load websites and webapps like Slack, Spotify, and Soundcloud inside of your favorite VR games. Today the software launches as a free open beta for the Rift. A universal...
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Developing Coop VR Games with Remote Presence Using the HTC Vive and Kinect

After featuring their new experiment which used the HTC Vive and Microsoft Kinect to the physical image of 2 players into virtual worlds remotely, we wanted to know more about how developers Jasper Brekelmans and Jeroen de Mooij had pulled it...
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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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WEARVR Weekly Top Ten VR Downloads – February #1

Looking for something fun to play in VR? We’ve got the top 10 downloads from the last week on the WEARVR app marketplace, a cross-platform repository of virtual reality experiences. Take a thrilling ride through the colorful city on the beach on...

BigScreen is Making Virtual LAN Parties Real, Beta Signups Now Open

BigScreen is a new VR application which brings you and your computer into a shared virtual space with your friends. The company is today leaving stealth to announce the closing of a seed round and that former Convrge creator Hayden...
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‘Universe Sandbox 2’ to Get VR Support, “Grab the Moon and Hurl it Toward Earth”

Universe Sandbox 2 is a physics-based space simulator from Giant Army that will soon be getting Oculus Rift and HTC Vive support, so you can build the Universe as you see fit in virtual reality—provided you adhere to the laws of classical...
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