The phoenix is a symbol we can all easily recognize. It signifies rising again and being born from the ashes of what came before. It’s about making something great from a fresh start. It’s fitting, then, that the first game from UK-based Penny Black Studios, formed by game industry veterans, be about riding on the...
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Swiss Society of Virtual and Augmented Reality
‘Sairento VR’ Mashes Up SUPERHOT & Raw Data for Something Even Cooler
Sairento VR is a new made-for-VR first person action game which manages to distil everything that was cool about SUPERHOT VR, Raw Data and adds its own locomotion system for something which promises to be even cooler than either of them. Guns, swords and slow motion – three ingredients which have transfixed me as a movie-goer...
Senso is a VR Input Glove With Per-finger Haptics and Simulated Temperature
Senso is a new virtual reality glove input device that offers per-finger haptic feedback and the ability to simulate differences in temperature – all tracked via a camera-less IMU-based system. Once a mainstay of fictional virtual reality input, we all once believed that the virtual reality glove would be a dead lock for our chosen...
HTC Vive Is $100/£100 Off Again This Week
Unwrap a shiny new Vive yesterday? Well whoever bought it for you isn’t going to like this news (unless they got it on Black Friday): the headset has had its price temporarily slashed again this week. You can currently get the Vive for $100/£100 off, making it £659/$699 and there’s free shipping to boot. The...
Oculus’s Jason Rubin on VR: ‘The next 12 to 24 months are where the real creativity is going to happen’
Every once in a while you get to see not one but two legends occupy a single stage. It happened for music lovers when Billy Joel went on tour with Elton John. It happened for sports fans when LeBron James joined Dwayne Wade in Miami (he came back so I can talk about it again without retching)....
Pocket Strafe has a different solution to moving around in VR
Locomotion in virtual reality experiences and games is something that hasn’t been figured out entirely just yet. With headset tracking and sensors, players can move around defined spaces that reflect the rooms they inhabit to a degree, but you’re limited by the size of your physical space. And while there are options like teleporting to...
Snap reportedly acquired augmented reality startup Cimagine Media for up to $40 million
Snap has reportedly made an investment in augmented reality, purchasing the Israeli-based startup Cimagine Media in a deal that’s said to be worth between $30 million to $40 million. Originally reported by Calcalist News, through this purchase, Snap will establish a development center in the Middle East, one where it will eventually employ more than...
PokeScout Mapped Out Every Single ‘Pokemon GO’ Gym On The Planet
If you are planning a trip for the holidays, you now have a resource to find gyms in Pokemon Go before you arrive at your destination. PokeScout, an interactive map website for tracking the location and status of gyms in Pokemon Go, has finally added every single gym in the hit mobile game. Using this tool, Pokemon...
How Improbable’s SpatialOS Will Use Google’s Cloud To Democratize MMO Development
Last week, Google teamed up with the London startup Improbable to enable even the smallest developers to develop massive online games at low costs. Improbable has created SpatialOS, software that enables small companies to create massive, cloud-based simulations for online games, mobile devices, and virtual reality projects. In doing so, it hopes to change the economics of...
Insomniac’s The Unspoken once had a different name and direction
The Unspoken is a multiplayer virtual reality video game that was released earlier this month as a launch title for the Oculus Touch platform. The game turns you into a modern, urban wizard tasked with battling others of your kind for arcane supremacy. In The Unspoken you can blast fireballs from your hand, hurl police...