Seismic Games has acquired Los Angeles game developer Grue Games as a way to expand into augmented reality and virtual reality games. Virtual reality software could grow to a $14 billion market by 2020, according to market researcher SuperData Research, but the market is going to bumpy and filled with competition. Seismic is addressing that...
Painting in VR can be an amazingly freeing experience for an artist. You dance, and 3D art appears. But, if you only need to paint on a two-dimensional virtual wall, it doesn’t make sense to move your brush in three dimensions. You could try, but the brush would either go through the wall, or there’d...
Last month we created a list of the five Oculus Rift and HTC Vive games we wanted to see head over to PlayStation VR. Today, one fifth of our wishes came true. Fantastic Contraption, Northway and Radial Games’ wonderful building experience that can be traced all the way back to a 2D browser game, is...
Ticket marketplace StubHub has launched a new ‘Virtual View’ feature which will let users know exactly what the view from their seats will look like before buying tickets. If you’ve ever gone through the process of buying tickets to a sports or concert venue, you’ll know how frustrating it can be to look at a...
Do you remember how you kept your LEGO blocks? For me, I stored all of them in a big box, unsorted and in complete chaos. Every playtime I would tip this box out and cause an almighty mess. I wouldn’t think about the pain of clearing it away until it was time to do so,...
Lucky’s Tale was the first game that I ever reviewed (Review: 9/10). It’s also one of the first VR games that most Oculus Rift owners ever played. Lucky was bundled right in for free with the Rift when it began shipping and as a result the friendly fox with a great big smile was ready and...
Did you find that strange lump of plastic with a hole through it nestled in with your Oculus Touch controllers when you got them last week? Keep hold of it; you might need it early next year. As you probably discovered upon closer inspection, that little add-on is designed for Harmonix’s Rock Band VR. It...
A lot of companies would have you believe 360 degree video is the future of storytelling. It’s why 20th Century Fox just signed a deal with Felix and Paul, and IMAX is bringing VR stations to cinemas around the world. But is ‘VR video’ in its current state really proof of that? That’s what VR...
Rebellion’s Battlezone [Review: 8/10] might use the latest VR technology, but it’s actually based on a very, very old game. A free update next week will pay tribute to that original release. Battlezone is getting a Classic Mode, and it’s designed to look exactly like the original Atari game from 1980, only with the added...
Update: Editor VR is now available to download for free as is an Editor VR Asset Pack. Unity says that its current uses include “laying out a scene in VR”, “Making tweaks to existing VR scenes”, and “Making adjustments to components using the Inspector workspace”. The company also provided an extensive starters guide to help developers get...
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