Videos
8 Minutes of the HTC Vive’s Front-facing Camera in Action
Take a wander into SteamVR's neon-infused window on the real world whilst in VR, utilising the HTC Vive Pre's front-facing camera in this video which takes a thorough look at the feature.
The newest iteration of the HTC Vive development...
‘XLR’ is an Evolution of Tower Defence With Room-scale VR on HTC Vive
Developers Metaware Limited are working to utilise virtual reality and HTC Vive's room-scale talents to evolve the familiar genre of Tower Defence with some unique gameplay innovations that only really work in VR. It's called XLR.
Tower defence, the mainstay of...
‘Unseen Diplomacy’ Uses Every Inch of Your Room-Scale VR Space
Triangular Pixel's Unseen Diplomacy is an ambitious virtual reality obstacle course set in a world of spies and subterfuge. The new title for the HTC Vive really invests in the concept of room-scale VR by having you walking and crawling around...
SteamVR ‘Shell’ is Customizable, Allows Seamless VR Game Switching and Web Browsing
The HTC Vive Pre is now in the hands of press and developers around the world and although hands-on impressions with Vive games are now fairly common, what's the SteamVR interface, where you spend your time between games, like to...
First ‘Golem’ PlayStation VR Exclusive Gameplay Revealed
IGN has gone hands on with the new PlaySyation VR exclusive project from Highwire Games, a studio started by a gaggle of Ex-Halo and Infamous developers, and here's some footage from the session.
We first set eyes on Golem from...
Valve Releases First SteamVR Developer Roundtable Discussion Video
Filmed as part of the recent SteamVR developer showcase in Seattle, Valve have released the first in what appears to be a series of discussions with developers working on titles for the SteamVR platform and the HTC Vive.
Headed by...
VR Animated Series ‘Sequenced’ Creates Truly Reactive Storytelling in VR
Sequenced is an upcoming animated series by Apelab for VR headsets that's pioneering a new method of delivering episodic content, one that tailors itself to the individual viewer in the slightest way imaginable. And all that Sequenced wants from you, the passive...
Time Machine VR Launches with HTC Vive in April, New Trailer Lands
Minority Media have released a new trailer to celebrate the forthcoming launch of its time-travelling, subterranean adventure title Time Machine VR.
From the makers of critical hit indie game Papo & Yo, Time Machine VR has you piloting the titular flying...
‘Ninja Trainer’ on Vive is Like Kinect ‘Fruit Ninja’, Except it Actually Works (really well)
While Fruit Ninja was neat in concept, the performance limitations of the Kinect made it amount to little more than glorified flailing; the latency and lack of precision made you feel more like a parody than a ninja proper. Thankfully,...
Developer Pushes Valve’s Lighthouse Tracking to its Limits
Developers Stress Level Zero, the team behind the HTC Vive shooter Hover Junkers, are known for their VR experiments. But their latest investigation pushes the theoretical limits of Valve's Lighthouse tracking system, as featured in the HTC Vive.
Using just...
Preview: Explode Hordes of Sweet Little Kittens in ‘Kittypocalypse’
Kittypocalypse is a tower defense game from Bolvërk Games that gives you a single mission: stop the kitties at all costs.
Ok, they're not really sweet little doe-eye kitty cats, but rather evil aliens disguised as such, and that's what makes...
‘Neos Core’ Enables a World of Multi-User, Multi-device VR Collaboration
Tomáš 'Frooxius' Mariančík, the man behind the Sightline series has reached what he calls a "major milestone" with his continuing creation and education platform Neos. Today he unveiled a breakthrough framework which allows multiple users to gaze into and collaborate...
Independent ‘Orion’ Video Shows Massive Improvements in Leap Motion Hand Tracking
This week Leap Motion released 'Orion' a brand new made-for-VR hand tracking engine which works with their existing devices. Time and again we've seen promo videos from the company showing great tracking performance but then found it to be less...
Leap Motion Launches Overhauled Hand Tracking Engine That’s Made for VR
Leap Motion formed prior to the VR craze, but it turns out that their goal of allowing you to use your own hands as a way to interact with computers jived quite nicely with virtual reality. In recent years...
Preview: Explore and Plunder the Deep Sea with ‘Neptune Flux’
It's only really a matter of time until humanity befalls some Malthusian calamity, bringing with it roving bands of cannibals, face-eating pathogens, etc. etc. Don't panic! Because in Neptune Flux, a friendly dystopian corporation is recruiting submarine technicians for their deep sea...




















