2023 Sections
This is The Rogue Initiative’s Debut VR Fantasy ‘Crowe: The Drowned Armory’
Fledgling production studio The Rogue Initiative have revealed their first VR game project as Crowe: The Drowned Armory, an original sci-fi fantasy adventure which, from the newly release key art, looks promising.
The Rogue Initiative describe themselves as a "full spectrum...
VR Pet Tracking with the HTC Vive and Bandit the Dog
HTC Vive title Hover Junkers creators StressLevelZero felt that their house pet Bandit was missing out on all the room-scale VR goodness enjoyed by the rest of the clan, so they rigged up a controller and put him in VR.
The...
Elite:Dangerous Gets Big Black Friday Discount
One of the finest virtual reality experiences around has just got a whole lot cheaper as Frontier Developments joins the holiday sale madness and slashes the price of it's space epic Elite:Dangerous by 67% to just £9.99 ($15).
The seasonal...
‘Oculus Touch’ Connect Demo Leak Shows Cross Platform VR Development
Oculus Connect day one is over, but it was but a warm up act for the remaining two days, kicking off today with a series of keynotes at 10am PST. In the mean time, UploadVR noticed that information has 'leaked'...
New Oculus 0.6 SDK Built Into Unreal Engine 4.8 Preview 3, Available Now
With the exciting new developer features revealed with the Oculus SDK 0.6 earlier this month, it's great to see Epic working diligently to bring the new version to Unreal Engine 4. The first integration of 0.6 for UE4 comes...
UnTethered eSports VR with Atomic VR
Michael Lenzi is the CEO & co-founder of Atomic VR, and they've spent the last couple of years experimenting with untethered VR experiences. They've created a backpack with custom hardware that can run a desktop GPU for up to...
‘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...
ThingLink Raises $1.3 Million to Expand Media Annotation Platform to VR
Money continues to pour into the VR space, but not all of it is aimed at brand new ventures. Last week, the interactive media platform, ThingLink (founded in 2008), announced the closing of a $1.3M round of new funding...
Gamescom 2014: Sony Shows War Thunder Running with Project Morpheus and HOTAS Support
At a Sony press event today during Gamescom 2014, the company showed the flight combat game War Thunder running on Sony's VR headset, Project Morpheus, and with a 'HOTAS' joystick accessory.
War Thunder has had support for the Oculus Rift...
Social Dynamics Within Sony’s PlayStation VR Social VR Experiments
At GDC this year, Sony revealed some of their first experiments into social VR with a four-person demo that was showing at their press event. The avatars looked like South Park characters, and the thumbs up or down gestures...
Crytek’s David Bowman “We’re One of the Largest VR Teams on the Planet”
Revealing one of the most polished VR demos we've seen to date, CryEngine and Crysis developer Crytek were in fighting form at E3 in Los Angeles this year. We speak to Director of Production David Bowman who was bullish about...
Google Announces Tilt Brush ‘Artist in Residence’ Program Featuring Over 60 Artists
Google have announced a new 'Artist in Residence' program which will see over 60 artists introduced to the emergent artistic platform of virtual reality via the company's own Tilt Brush application.
As anyone who's tried it knows, Google's Tilt Brush...
Mozilla Research VR Launches Experimental Website Compatible with Oculus Rift
Earlier this year Mozilla began exploring virtual reality capabilities for the web. Now, they have released MozVR.com, which they call “a VR website about VR websites,” in celebration of the 10th anniversary of Firefox. It uses a virtual reality...
Star Wars: The Force Awakens VR Experience is Coming December 2nd
Whilst all of geekdom simmers with hot anticipation awaiting a brand new entry in the Star Wars movie franchise, ILMxLabs and Google are about to drive the hype further with a new virtual reality experience, based on Star Wars:The...
‘Pollen’ is a Sci-Fi Virtual Reality Exploration Game with Stunning Visuals
Let's be honest here. Back when the Oculus Rift DK1 was barely in enthusiast's hands, the majority of content available for this new breed of VR headset wasn't pretty. Such was the power of this new platform and the new-ness...



















