Legendary Nintendo game developer Shigeru Miyamoto (Mario, Zelda, Donkey Kong) once said, “A delayed game is eventually good, a bad game is bad forever.” Ubisoft is taking that sentiment to heart as they have delayed Star Trek: Bridge Crew a second time, this time to May 30th, 2017. This delay isn’t specific to Star Trek...
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‘Project CARS 2’ Revealed with PC VR Support, PSVR in Development but Still Unconfirmed
Slightly Mad Studios has begun the promotional campaign for Project CARS 2, revealing a new trailer and some new details. Now due ‘late 2017’, the game has confirmed VR support for PC, while PSVR support is in development but not yet promised. The Project Cars 2 media blowout has begun, with an official ‘announce’ trailer, new...
Ubisoft’s ‘Star Trek: Bridge Crew’ Delayed Again, but You’ll Be Able to Pilot the Original Enterprise
Ubisoft’s upcoming VR multiplayer game Star Trek: Bridge Crew is delayed again, this time to May 30th. The good news? Ubisoft is letting you choose the good ol’ NCC-1701 from ‘The Original Series’ (TOS) so you can play solo as captain, or as an officer in a crew of up to four online players. Star Trek: Bridge...
Weekly Roundup of Market Reports Feb 10 2017
In this weeks’ news there have been many market reports. Firstly, released by Whattech a market report about the Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality apps global market forecast to 2022. This report about 2017 Global Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality Apps Market Report is an in-depth research report based on the world’s major regional market...
Trimble and University of Cambridge using HoloLens in Construction
HoloLens app developer Trimble has been working with the University of Cambridge, UK to find practical applications for Microsoft’s holographic technology in the construction industry. Trimble developed the SketchUp Viewer app, which allows architects to see hologram versions of building models when they’re wearing the HoloLens headset. Along with the University of Cambridge’s Construction Information...
The Big Question: What Are Valve’s Three VR Games?
It’s an urban myth that Valve hates 3’s. The beloved studio has taken us up to Half-Life 2, Half-Life 2: Episode 2, Portal 2, Left4Dead 2, Team Fortress 2, and DOTA2, but it can can never quite bring itself to complete a trilogy. This week, though, the company announced that it’s breaking that curse in...
Get a Taste of WebVR on Vive with ‘Puzzle Rain’
With the news that WebVR is now supported in Google’s official Android Chrome browser and Daydream-supported phones have the ability to pop into virtual reality experiences just by clicking on a simple hyperlink, we’re more impatient than ever for WebVR to make its way to the standard Chrome browser for PC. But did you know you can...
Amazon Shows What Lumberyard Can Do For VR With Free Showcase
Wondering what Amazon’s videogame development engine, Lumberyard, can do for VR? The company has some new examples for you today. Lumberyard might not be the most prominent engine in the industry right now, but Amazon is trying to build momentum, especially on the VR side. To aid this, it’s this week launched the VR Samples...
360-Degree Video Company Blend Media Announces Seed Funding
Blend Media is the curator one of the largest collections of 360-degree videos on Facebook, and is helping companies bring the ideas of brands and publishers to the 360-degree format. Blend told UploadVR they’ve completed a new round of funding and, by the looks of the companies that invested, they could end up tapping into...
Gabe Newell Teases ‘House-Scale’ VR, Three ‘Full’ Valve VR Games
The knowledge that Valve was working on a VR game was enough to get any headset fan excited. But the company’s plans for the future go well beyond that. At a press briefing in Seattle this week, as reported by Gamasutra, company founder Gabe Newell teased what it was working on in VR right now,...
