Month: October 2016

I’m all for short VR experiences. Narrative pieces like Gnomes and Goblins and the precious few minutes of wish fulfillment found in Star Wars: Trials on Tatooine suggest that smaller games and films might be the way forward for this new industry. But, in order to justify the purchase of a premium experience with a...

High end virtual reality is getting a bit more customizable. As of today, the online Oculus store was updated to allow the purchase of individual Sensors for $79. These sensors are what track the infrared beacons inside the Oculus Rift headset itself. By doing so they are able to track the headset’s position in 3D...

We previously reported on being able to explore the photogrammetric capture of the Valve lobby in the Destinations application (there were no Half Life 3 answers to be found). The free software is a cool virtual reality perspective into different environments and is primarily a voyeuristic experience, but not so much in the latest update....

Euro Truck Simulator 2 has been around for several years now, providing players the ability to simply drive a few of trucks around stunning vistas in a specific depiction of Europe. You won’t find bombastic car chases or any kind of thrilling action set pieces in developer SCS Software’s calm simulator. The crux of Euro...

When Oculus Touch launches in December it may already have its killer app releasing right alongside it. Dead and Buried is one of the most exciting titles coming to the already jam packed platform. Developed in-house by Oculus Studios, Dead and Buried is a multiplayer shooter that takes place in a literal ghost town. You assume the...

A spokesperson for Google’s VR team has confirmed that Google Cardboard applications will be able to benefit from the enhanced VR performance that’s baked into Daydream ready phones. Cardboard was Google’s first step into virtual reality. Wanting to introduce as many people to VR as possible, the company developed Cardboard with the lowest common denominator...

As if taking a page from the iconic franchise that inspired it, when Obduction [Review: 8/10] released on PC back in late August, the VR version of the game was Myst-eriously absent. At the very last second, Cyan delayed the VR edition of the cinematic puzzle adventure with a label of “Coming Soon” instead of “Available...

Starbreeze has acquired visual effects (VFX) studio Nozon for €7.1M (~$7.7M), a Belgium-based company known for their pre-rendered PresenZ VR technology which promises to bring ‘Pixar levels’ of visual quality to real-time VR scenes with positional tracking. PresenZ, introduced by Nozon in 2015, is a rendering technique especially created for VR that allows for what they call ‘interactive parallax’...

Flying through an obstacle-filled arena in zero gravity like in the Battle Room scenes of Ender’s Game, catching and throwing a disk to score in an opposing team’s goal, all while in a Tron-looking virtual reality, is probably about the best way I can describe Lone Echo’s surprisingly successful multiplayer mode in one sentence. At Oculus...