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Launched as part of Basemark’s VRScore benchmarking software, the Crytek developed VR tech demo Codename: Sky Harbor, is one of the most visually impressive examples of VR cinema around. Direct from our time with Basemark’s promising virtual reality benchmarking suite, VRScore, here’s a full play-through of the included Crytek developed demo Codename: Sky Harbor, a...

Making a compelling strategy game experience is a difficult balance. Creating compelling gameplay mechanics that are fun to perform a thousand times across multiple games and campaigns is hard enough, but then add in the mixture of A.I. opponents, actual human opponents online, and the delicate nature of balancing different factions across their various roles...

With 2015 breaking previous records, industry observers entered 2016 wondering if VR/AR funding would be able to keep pace. Dollars and Deals In 2016, venture funding of VR/AR companies reached $1.8 billion, ending significantly above 2015. Both median deal size and total number of deals in 2016 outpaced those in 2015, with a 58% increase...

Another year has brought another festival of the future in the form of the winter Consumer Entertainment Show. Amidst the curved televisions, 8k, Bluetooth toasters and robots that can do anything from nannying kids to playing Cards Against Humanity, VR had an important presence at CES, with a mix of interesting experiments to technological boosts...

For reasons that stretch beyond what we can think up, Oculus wouldn’t recommend you use any third-party equipment to enhance your Rift setup. Except it does really. In a blog post today, the final in its series looking at getting the most out of Roomscale VR, the company has shared some suggestions for equipment you...

As it stands, the Roman Colosseum is one of the most impressive historical sites you can lay your eyes on. But imagine if you could see it in its full glory, as it was built nearly two thousand years ago. Lithodomos VR wants to give you this kind of experience using headsets and, today, it’s...

Listing off minimum and recommended specifications is one thing, but if you want to know just how ‘VR ready’ your PC truly is you’ll need to benchmark it. To do that, you want professional software. We already saw Futuremark’s VRMark launch last November, but today sees the release of VRScore from Finland-based Basemark, developed with...

Basemark has officially launched its virtual reality performance benchmark, VRScore and the package comes complete with an ingenious, low-cost hardware assisted solution to help ensure results are accurate. I’ve written previously about how tough a problem benchmarking virtual reality hardware and software accurately really is. VR’s tight integration between hardware, application and drivers mixed with...

Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes is an undeniably fun VR party game that you can play together with a big group with only one VR headset. Now the game has added much requested support for both Vive and Rift’s VR controllers. In Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes, the player wearing the VR headset will find...

Achieving a wide field of view in an AR headset is a challenge in itself, but so too is fixing the so-called vergence-accommodation conflict which presently plagues most VR and AR headsets, making them less comfortable and less in sync with the way our vision works in the real world. Researchers have set out to...