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NVIDIA Shows How Physically-based Audio Can Greatly Enhance VR Immersion

Positional audio for VR experiences—where noises sound as if they are coming from the correct direction—has long been understood as an important part of making VR immersive. But knowing which direction sounds are coming from is only one part...

Battlezone PSVR Dev Diary #2: Building Levels in VR That Welcome Players Into the World

In the 2nd of our 3 part developer diary series from Battlezone developers Rebellion, Game Designer Grant Stewart writes on making levels that don’t just use VR, but also welcome you into the game world. Guest Article by Grant Stewart Grant designs...

Star Wars Battlefront VR Glimpsed During E3 EA Keynote

For those waiting to catch a glimpse of the new Star Wars Battlefront VR title announced for the PlayStation VR back at GDC in March, we got exactly that during EA's opening E3 2016 keynote. At GDC in March, Sony...

Nearly $700 Million Invested in AR/VR in 2015

According to a recent report by Digi-Capital, investors have injected some pretty big bucks into companies focusing on augmented and virtual reality lately. A total of $686 million in 2015 alone. The most interesting bit: they aren't counting Magic Leap. Digi-Capital,...

Mindshow’s VR Movie-making Helped Me Rediscover the Joy of Play-acting

Frank He rediscovers his childhood and finds a new talent for improvisational performance as he goes hands on with Mindshow, a new virtual reality application that lets you create and act in your own interactive movies. A childhood experience some of us...

AMD to Share Low-Latency VR GPU Rendering Tricks at GDC 2015

GDC 2015 is just around the corner and the event's conference schedule has revealed that semiconductor giant AMD will be sharing tips and tricks designed to help developers targeting virtual reality to get the best performance for virtual reality from the company's...

VR Shooter ‘Arizona Sunshine’ Comes to PSVR with PS Aim Support in June

Announced on Vertigo Games’ social media channels and via the PlayStation Blog, VR zombie shooter Arizona Sunshine has been confirmed for a June release on PlayStation VR, along with support for the new PSVR Aim controller. The zombie wave-based shooter...
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Oculus Rift Bundled Game ‘Lucky’s Tale’ Gets New Trailer

Oculus have just announced that Playful Corp's 3D made-for-VR platformer Lucky's Take will be packed in fot free inside every Oculus Rift consumer box at launch. As if that wasn't enough good news for you, here's a brand new...

New Project Morpheus Images – Early Shots of the Latest VR Tech Demo

Sony has revealed the specs for the latest version of their VR headset, Project Morpheus - 120Hz, 1080p low persistence with 18ms latency. These details shared a few moments ago at Sony's special Project Morpheus event. The presentation was short...
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Watch: NeosVR “Metaverse Engine” World Building in Action, Latest Version Adds Cloud Functionality

Solirax's latest alpha release of its collaborative "metaverse engine" NeosVR has reached an important milestone, adding the ability to save your VR worlds and experiences to the cloud and enjoy other creator's virtual projects at the wave of a...

‘Cineveo’ VR Movie Theater 0.9.5 Beta Brings File Browser, Support for Latest Oculus SDK, and More

Cineveo is a virtual reality movie theater for the Oculus Rift DK1 and DK2 that allows users to watch existing 2D and 3D media. The software has been recently updated to version 0.9.5 which adds a much desired file...

Audio Highlights of VR News from 6 Major E3 Press Conferences

There were a lot of VR games announced over the past two days at E3 by AAA game publishers. I watched all of the press conferences from Sony, Ubisoft, Bethesda, Microsoft, EA, and Oculus' appearance at the PC Gaming...

Exploring the Hidden Military VR of the Vis-Sim Industry

In this, the latest in the semi-regular feature, Kevin Williams explores the wider aspect of the re-emergence of virtual reality development. In this article, he explores a resilient segment of the VR industry, Visuals and Simulations. Kevin Williams has an extensive...
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Live Mixed Reality Demo Shows Seamless Cross-AR/VR Collaboration

At today’s Microsoft Build 2017 presentation, creators at Cirque du Soleil demonstrated a custom creative toolset on stage using HoloLens technology. The world-class theater production company says the tools can be used to greatly enhance and accelerate the set...

Razer Earmarks $5 Million to Encourage OSVR Content Development

Today Razer is announcing a $5 million OSVR development fund which the company will use to incentivize support of its open-source VR platform. With tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars being invested by Oculus and HTC into content...
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