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Snapchat Hires Hollywood Effects Artist as “Augmented Reality Designer”

Social media company Snapchat have just appointed a Hollywood effects artist Raffael Dickreuter who joined in June as a "Concept and Augmented Reality Designer." Snapchat is a rising giant in social media platforms, and it seems the company is serious about keeping...

Apple and Valve Have Worked Together for Nearly a Year to Bring VR to MacOS

Apple's broad embrace of VR this week shows that the company has had virtual reality support on its roadmap for quite some time. During a session at WWDC, Apple and Valve confirmed they've been working together for nearly a...

Oculus Founder Expects No Next-gen VR Headsets From Market Incumbents Before Mid-2018

Oculus' founder Palmer Luckey, who left the company in March, recently opened up on record for the first time in an interview since September 2016. Among a range of topics discussed, Luckey spoke of the timeline of future VR headsets...

Oculus SDK v0.7 Beta is Released With ‘Preliminary’ Windows 10 Support, Multiple Enhancements

The latest v0.7 release of Oculus' Software Development Kit and Runtime Driver is now here, bringing with it multiple enhancements alongside preliminary Windows 10 support. As we detailed a couple of weeks ago, Oculus' latest and much anticipated SDK release is...

4 Dev Demos Showing Off Apple’s New ARKit Tracking

Showcased at Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference this week, ARKit is a new core technology for iOS 11, due to launch this Fall, soon to enable augmented reality features on hundreds of millions of iPhones and iPads. As the iOS...

PlayStation VR U.S. Release Date Set for October 13th

Sony has announced the U.S. release date of the PlayStation VR headset as October 13th, 2016. At Sony's E3 2016 press conference the company gave the final U.S. release date for the PlayStation VR headset as October 13th 2016. The...

3 New PSVR Games to Watch: ‘Tiny Trax’, ‘Theseus’ and ‘The Persistence’

After a lull in PSVR quality titles, PlayStation VR owners can now look forward to a handful of genuinely promising titles appearing for the platform in over the next few months. We pick 3 of the most promising PSVR...

Moto Racer 4 Trailer for PlayStation VR Looks Suitably Intense

Moto Racer 4 is a motocross and racing bike racing title inbound for the Sony PlayStation VR platform and if this trailer is anything to go by, it'll offer a challenge for those without their VR legs. Car racing games...

PlayStation VR’s RIGS & the Future of eSports in VR

One of the PlayStation VR titles at Sony's E3 booth this week is RIGS: Mechanized Combat League, which is a competitive, 3 player vs 3 player game that is like a mixture between a FPS and basketball. The overall...

13 Trippy Screenshots of the new ‘Rez Infinite’ for PlayStation VR

15 years after the launch of the original Rez (2001) on Dreamcast, the new Rez Infinite (2016) will come to PlayStation 4 and PlayStation VR. On the official PlayStation Blog, Rez creator Tetsuya Mizuguchi says that Rez Infinite is "the futuristic...

‘Battlezone’ Launches on Steam and Oculus Store

Battlezone (2016), the low-poly, high-action reboot of the classic Atari game, launched as a timed exclusive with PlayStation VR when it hit shelves in October of last year. Today owners of HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, and OSVR can now strap into the cockpit...
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Watch: ‘Throttle Powah’ is a Crazy VR Racer That Gives You Motorbikes for Arms

Early in development, Throttle Powah is a promising looking multiplayer racer with a VR locomotion mechanic which seems entirely unique and more than a little insane. It's refreshing to watch the still young virtual reality development community flourish, not least...

‘Audio Factory’ is a Compelling Showcase of Google’s Spatial Audio Engine for VR

Google has released a Daydream VR app called Audio Factory, a polished and even entertaining demonstrating their Spatial Audio Engine for VR. Described as “VR’s second sense”, spatial audio is a key aspect of maintaining a high level of...

AMD Launches ‘Radeon Pro Duo’ Dual GPU Card, Targets VR Content Creators

AMD has unveiled what it's calling the worlds most powerful graphics card, the dual GPU Radeon Pro Duo, and it's targeting the product at virtual reality content creators. Running consumer virtual reality applications and games is already challenging enough in...

SUPERHOT Beta Released Along with New Gameplay Video

The bullet time infused action game SUPERHOT has just released a beta version of the game to Kickstarter backers and a new video showing gameplay from the new release. SUPERHOT has enjoyed a good amount of publicity since its successfully...
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