At the conclusion of a tumultuous year-long legal case, a Texas jury yesterday has awarded ZeniMax, parent company of Bethesda and iD Software $500 million dollars. The jury found that Oculus and founder Palmer Luckey had breached a non-disclosure agreement, as well as infringed on ZeniMax’s copyright. The jury did find against allegations that Oculus...
You may not have first thought of submarine simulations when you theorized about the prospects for multiplayer virtual reality games. You probably thought about space-based flight, first-person shooters, and exploration-based puzzle games like the majority of our new industry. When you watch the trailer below though, it all makes sense. In actuality, manning a submarine deep...
Justin Roiland, co-creator of Rick and Morty, loves VR so much he’s prepared to stand up in front of an audience and talk all about it. Roiland is Saturday’s keynote speaker for the 2017 VRLA Expo, which runs from April 14th – 15th at the Los Angeles Convention Center, the same venue in which E3...
Nintendo is looking to add VR functionality to their upcoming home-and-portable console, the Switch. Nintendo president Tatsumi Kimishima recently stated that it could be added once they solve some VR-specific issues. According to games industry consultant Dr. Serkan Toto’s translation of a recent Nikkei interview with Nintendo president Tatsumi Kimishima, the company “will add VR...
Yesterday’s verdict in the Oculus/ZeniMax Media legal battle included some big accusations levelled at Doom creator John Carmack, and he doesn’t agree with them. Moments ago Carmack took to Facebook to give his account of the jury’s verdict, denying that he had destroyed evidence that would allegedly help prove he stole ZeniMax resources when he...
I’m kind of a sucker for board games in VR. The sheer visual spectacle of seeing the entire game world before you coming to life in vivid 3D still wows me, so a game like 5 Min Lab’s Toy Clash has instant visual appeal. It’s less of a board game and more of a tower...
Sony still isn’t releasing sales figures for PlayStation VR (PSVR) yet, but it does insist that it’s performing as expected. The Japanese electronics company today published its financial report for fiscal Q3 and, while profits are down year-on-year for the overall company, it’s good news from the PlayStation division. A total of 9.7 million PlayStration...
Against Gravity has done great things with its social VR app, Rec Room, and today it’s announcing a seed funding round that will help it to do even more. The studio confirmed the closure of a $5 million seed funding round to UploadVR, with the money coming from Sequoia, First Round, Acequia, Vulcan, Maveron, Anorak,...
If there’s one thing Final Fantasy XV fans should be used to by now, it’s waiting, and the game’s VR experience is going to keep them doing just that. A PlayStation VR (PSVR) tie-in experience for the recently released JRPG was one of a handful of surprises Sony revealed for its headset at last year’s...
Get ready to suit up and head out into space once more: the visually-stunning Homebound is hitting the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive very soon. Sweden-based Quixel, best known for its high fidelity graphics creation tools, recently confirmed that its very own VR experience will be releasing on February 16th via Steam. That’s a little...
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