Bob Murphy was born without three fingers. The pinky, ring and middle digits on his right hand end around the first knuckle. Murphy is the owner of an Oculus Rift virtual reality headset and he recently obtained the Oculus Touch hand controller system as well. According to Murphy, he acquired Touch “with the sole purpose to see...
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Hue is a Heartbreakingly Beautiful VR Experience About Sadness and Color
Hue is very sad. I know this without a single line of dialogue, narration or exposition. The moment this tall, gangly young man appeared before me inside an Oculus Rift VR headset I could feel melancholy pouring out from every pixel of his black and white frame. Yes, Hue is certainly very sad, but with your...
Theseus’ Version Of The Minotaur Myth Looks Like VR’s God of War
We’ve seen ancient Chinese texts, historic works of art and more adapted for VR, now it’s time for our first Greek myth. Forge Reply, the developer behind Joe Dever’s Lone Wolf and In Space We Brawl, today announced Theseus, a new take of the Greek myth of the Minotaur, coming to VR headsets. This isn’t...
Get A Taste Of Ubisoft’s For Honor in VR With 360 Trailer
Ubisoft launched a big new IP this week in For Honor, an online sword battling simulator from the company’s Montreal studio. But what might the game look like in VR? The French publisher answers that question this week with the launch of a VR trailer for the game. It offers a 360 degree view of...
Paulo’s Wing Is A VR Game Created Using Google’s Tilt Brush
Developed by Google, Tilt Brush lets you create art in an immersive three dimensional space using your own two hands. We’ve seen a lot of amazing things created in the software. We’ve even seen an entire short film created in the app. What we haven’t seen, however, is a game which uses Tilt Brush to create...
See London’s New Waterloo Station Before It’s Actually Built Thanks To VR
London commuters are dreaming of one thing right now; a finished Waterloo station. This central hub of transport is having a bit of a redesign at the moment, and not all of its platforms are in use. It’s going to stay that way until the end of next year. But, thanks to VR, you can...
PSVR’s Starblood Arena Looks Like A Mix Of Overwatch And Descent, Arrives Soon
PlayStation VR (PSVR) didn’t have a big showing as last year’s PlayStation Experience, with just one game announced during Sony’s press conference. We didn’t even think much of that game, Starblood Arena, at the time, but a fresh look at it today provides reason to be excited. WhiteMoon Dreams, the developer behind this PSVR exclusive,...
Mixed Reality: Just One Click Away
Author: Aviad Almagor, Director of the Mixed Reality Program, Trimble, Inc. Though best known for GPS technology, Trimble is a company that integrates a wide range of positioning technologies with application software, wireless communications, and services to provide complete commercial solutions. In recent years, Trimble has expanded its business in building information modeling, architecture and construction, particularly...
Oculus Chief Software Architect to Detail ‘React VR’ WebVR Dev Platform at F8 Conference
Michael Antonov, Chief Software Architect at Oculus, is due to speak at Facebook’s F8 Developer Conference on April 18th about React VR, a framework that builds on Facebook’s React JavaScript library. This web-based framework allows easier creation of VR content that can run on VR headsets from the browser. The F8 developer conference is Facebook’s annual...
YouPorn’s Team YP esports squad is back — and hitting Overwatch
The porn pros still want to play. YouPorn is sponsoring a professional Overwatch esports squad as part of its Team YP esports group. The roster includes several new faces and the surprise addition of Street Fighter V pro Valmaster, who is going to attempt to compete in both Capcom’s fighting game and Blizzard’s class-based team shooter. This marks...
