Croteam did what Croteam does best and burst onto the VR scene last year with a surprise new game in the Serious Sam universe with Serious Sam VR: The Last Hope in Early Access and a port of the original Serious Sam, with added VR support and full locomotion, also in Early Access. Naturally, the studio’s...
This week on ResearchVR we dig deep into the magic behind VR rendering – where and how can we save performance in extremely demanding virtual reality. Dominic Eskofier is the head of VR for NVIDIA in Europe and few other regions, and he joined us on this week’s podcast. He started in the games business...
Oculus is pulling demo stations for its Rift virtual reality headsets form certain Best Buy stores. While this might be seen by some as confirmation that VR and/or Oculus is struggling, it looks to us like an attempt to maximize success rather than run from failure. Let’s start with the facts. Yes, Oculus is removing its demo...
Knockout League (2017) is a single-player, arcade-style boxing game that promises to get your heart pumping as you duck, block, and punch your way to victory. Harking back to NES classic Punch-Out!! (1987), you learn pretty quickly that a storm of punches—the moral equivalent of button-mashing—will get you nothing if you can’t time them correctly to your opponent’s repertoire of...
E3, Gamescom, TGS, PAX are all great shows for exhibiting VR content. But, in the early days of this industry, it is the developer conferences, the places where creators come together to share knowledge and reveal breakthroughs, that are the really exciting events to cover. There’s no better time of the year to do that...
Getting a top tier VR headset into your household is currently an expensive feat whether you’re interested in the full experiences the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift provide or even the slightly more accessible PS VR. Considering the price tag, one could be apprehensive or hesitant to try it out which is where experiences like...
Intel says ‘Project Alloy’ is an open reference platform for companies who want to build advanced, all-in-one VR headsets. But the headset itself still in ong going development. Developers working closely with the headset have shared new details on what’s coming in the next version. Calling Project Alloy just a VR headset is a bit...
HoloLens developer Michael Peters of In-Vizible has released quite a few videos since receiving his HoloLens last year. Many of his experiments are odd and funny, but some include serious potential approaches to data visualization. In the videos embedded below, you’ll specifically see stock market information beautifully rendered in different ways to help understand the...
The Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) is the biggest video game-focused trade show on the planet. It takes place in Los Angeles, CA every year and attracts game publishers, developers, and marketing companies to the nexus of the game industry for an entire week. This year it takes place from June 13-15, right in the middle...
Watching streaming apps inside VR is great, but it’s missing one vital component: your friends. With the help of Oculus, Hulu is looking to change that. The streaming service just announced it is updating its support for the Gear VR headset today with integration added for Oculus Rooms. That means you’ll be able to meet up...
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