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PlayStation VR Priced at $399 with October Release Date

At a special press event held at GDC in San Francisco today, Sony have announced that the PlayStation VR headset will cost $399 and is due to ship October 2016. Sony caused a storm when they announced they were working...

Tapping Our Primal Fears for Virtual Tightrope Experience ‘The Walk’

At GDC this year, Epic Games had a VR Lounge where they were showing off 10 different VR experiences that used the Unreal Engine. One of those experiences was Create VR's The Walk VR Experience, where you can walk...
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‘Star Wars: X-Wing VR Mission’ Coming to PSVR, Free for All ‘Battlefront’ Owners

A Star Wars: Battlefront game was teased for PlayStation VR back during GDC last March, and we also caught a glimpse during the E3 keynote address, but we've today learned the name of PSVR's Star Wars game to come,...

Catching Up with nDreams’ ‘The Assembly’, Coming to Rift and Vive July 19th

The Assembly from nDreams is coming soon, and with an official release date of July 19th now announced, we thought we'd take some time to catch up on this intriguing story-driven thriller built from the ground up for VR. The...

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...

Apple CEO: VR Has “Lower Commercial Interest” than AR, New Hires from Magic Leap & Oculus

Apple CEO Tim Cook has stated that in his view, augmented reality and not virtual reality holds the ticket for commercial success in immersive technologies in the future. On the subject of virtual and augmented reality Apple is still largely...
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Epic Games Releases ‘Showdown’ UE4 VR Demo, Compatible with Rift, Vive, and Morpheus

Epic Games has shown the world some of the most visually stunning VR experiences to date, and today, one of them (Showdown) is being released for free as a UE4 VR sample for developers to learn from. Showdown was created...
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Build and Race on Your Own Tiny Racing Track with ‘Tiny Wheels’

The days of setting up ludicrously long Hot Wheels tracks and launching the tiny diecast metal cars straight into the side of a hastily constructed LEGO fort are all but over—not when you can practically revisit the glory days...

‘Assetto Corsa’ Racing Sim Adds Support for Vive & OSVR via Native OpenVR

This week's v1.13 update to Assetto Corsa includes native OpenVR support, adding official Vive and OSVR support to the title. The popular racing simulator previously only supported the Oculus Rift, and HTC Vive owners had to use the Revive hack...
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MythBusters’ Adam Savage Steps Inside Nvidia’s ‘VR Funhouse’ Physics Playground

Nvidia takes Mythbuster's Adam Savage inside their VR Funhouse application which is a sandbox for new technologies made possible with the company's latest Pascal-based GPUs. Nvidia created VR Funhouse as an example application showcasing many of their proprietary real-time physics...

PlayStation VR Search Interest Blows Past Rift and Vive Amid Launch

It's been a long time coming, but PlayStation VR is finally here. As the least expensive option among the top three contenders, not to mention a 40+ million install base of PS4 owners, many think that PSVR could be the...
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‘Warpaint’ Brings Tabletop Gaming-inspired Turn-based Strategy & Customization to VR

Recently launched on Steam, Warpaint is a turn-based strategy game that lets you customize your troops by painting them to your taste. The game supports both Mac and PC, and features VR support via SteamVR (Vive, Rift, and OSVR)....

Beautiful PvP Space Explorer ‘Detached’ Gets Official Steam Release May 18th

Already on Steam Early access, the very pretty online PvP space explorer / dueller Detached from developers Anshar gets a new, official release on May 18th with a sprinkle of new features and a new multiplayer map. Described by Polish...

NVIDIA ‘DesignWorks VR’ to Harness Virtual Reality for Real World Design

NVIDIA today announces DesignWorks VR, a new set of tools that sit alongside their recently launched GameWorks VR SDK, focussed instead on the creation of physical objects in virtual space. NVIDIA's Quadro line of cards have been around for quite...

2016 VR Industry Report: Everything You Need to Know in One Place

Greenlight VR’s second industry report is co-authored with leading VR news site, Road to VR, and provides industry forecasts, analysis, and best practices. SAN FRANCISCO, CA, January 15, 2016 – Greenlight VR and Road to VR today unveil plans to...
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