It was a hotly contested category, but DiRT Rally [Review: 9/10] easily drove away with the racing game of the year award in UploadVR’s ceremony a few weeks back. Now it’s arriving on another headset. Developer Codemasters is bringing the previously Oculus Rift-exclusive racer to PlayStation VR, it announced on Twitter today. As with the...
When presented with the potential of VR as a new medium for video games, first-person shooters may immediately come to mind. But the prospect of being able to stand atop a battlefield, looking down at units, and commanding forces as an all-seeing god-like being is just as exciting. We’ve seen a few interpretations of the...
The outward perception of VR to the less initiated is that the headsets foster a very isolated or anti-social experience. Unbeknownst to those same people, virtual reality headsets are opening up worlds of potential when it comes to engaging with our fellow humans. Facebook IQ is the social network’s window into the people that power...
After a successful jump to virtual reality last year on Oculus Rift, developer Codemasters is bringing the VR experience to the PS4 version of DiRT Rally. It will be available as a standalone retail game or via DLC for existing owners. DiRT Rally is the best video game representation of the spectacular sport of rally...
Fans of FOX’s 24 are getting a healthy helping of new this year, with a new series and a new protagonist. For Gear VR owners, there’s a new way to watch it, too. FOX partnered with Samsung to launch what has to be one of the biggest and most lavishly produced 360 videos yet seen...
We saw a lot of inside-out solutions at CES last week, but it wasn’t until today that we could talk about one of the most impressive offerings from Eonite. This computer vision company, based in Palo Alto, California, is working on its own Vantage Head Tracker system that brings positional tracking to any VR headset without...
Previous: Part 3: Augmented Reality Software is Here to Stay As I discussed in a LinkedIn Pulse post about AR apps, we cannot expect users to run a different app for each real world target they want to use with AR or one monolithic AR application for everything in the physical world. It is...
PlayStation VR has gotten off to a slow start in 2017, with two weeks of no new games, but the Asia region will at least be getting one intriguing release next week. We’ve written about Unearthing Mars from Taipei-based developer Winking Entertainment a few times. It’s a Mars-set adventure game that promises both exploration and...
The developers of one of PlayStation VR’s biggest games, RIGS: Mechanized Combat League, are soon to be no more. Guerrilla Cambridge, the UK-based developer behind the high-profile multiplayer FPS, is to close, owner Sony has confirmed to UploadVR today. A statement given to us reads: “Having reviewed and assessed all current projects and plans for the...
Lots of companies have made this claim actually, but Eonite specifically says they have the “world’s most accurate, lowest latency, lowest power consuming software to democratize inside-out positional tracking for VR and AR.” Inside-out positional tracking—the ability to precisely determine where an object is in space using only sensors mounted on the device itself—has been...
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