When we interact with computers today we move the mouse, we scroll the trackpad, we tap the screen, but there is so much that the machines don’t pick up on — what about where we’re looking, the subtle gestures we make and what we’re thinking? Asteroid is looking to get developers comfortable with the idea...
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DeMagnete VR Is A Magnetizing Puzzler Coming To All Major Platforms This Year
DeMagnete is an upcoming VR puzzle game that has seemingly appeared out of nowhere. In development by a medium-sized indie team called BitCake Studio of about 11 people in Brazil (according to a Reddit post) DeMagnete is an adventure about solving physics puzzles using magnets. At the start of DeMagnete you wake up in a...
Shadow Legend VR RPG Releases On Rift And Vive Feb. 21
Shadow Legend has quickly become one of the most anticipated upcoming VR RPGs of the year, despite the small team and limited budget. When the game was first announced, then expanded on in a subsequent trailer, it clearly looks to scratch a very specific itch a lot of people seem to have for fantasy-themed adventure...
‘So…What Really Did Happen With Palmer [Luckey]’
A book out next week tells the story of the founding of Oculus VR based on hundreds of interviews across several years. I read an early version of the Harper Collins book by Console Wars author Blake Harris. We’ve decided to refrain reporting certain elements of the book until we verify information, or until we...
Audica Is A VR Rhythm Music Shooter From Harmonix Coming In March
Harmonix announced a brand new VR rhythm game on Twitter today called Audica. Based on the footage it looks like it’s a mixture of first-person shooter mechanics with the same style of rhythm-based music gameplay the developer has become known for. Other than the announcement tweet and debut trailer we know basically nothing about Audica...
Asgard’s Wrath Gameplay Video Has Swords And Frog-Men
Asgard’s Wrath’s cinematic intro trailer was great, but it left us with plenty of questions. This single-player fantasy role-playing game (RPG) promises 30+ hours of action, but how does it actually play? This new gameplay video gives us some idea. Oculus Studios Executive Producer Mike Doran posted the clip on Vimeo over the weekend. It’s...
Steam Awards 2018 Finds Its VR Game Of The Year
After months of user-voting, Valve finally announced its Steam Awards 2018 winners this month. It was Bethesda’s Skyrim VR that took home the award for VR Game of the Year. Skyrim VR fought off some stiff competition in this year’s category although, sadly, most other entries were from other years. VR Chat, Superhot VR and...
Why did Apple wait 20 months after ARKit shipped to name a lead AR marketer?
Augmented reality has had a rough start, and remains modestly adopted years after early hardware and software launched. But Apple could change that.Read More Source: Why did Apple wait 20 months after ARKit shipped to name a lead AR marketer?
Glitch and Mozilla launch WebVR starter kit for building VR websites
If you thought that creating VR content was too difficult, Glitch and Mozilla now have a free tutorial series that will teach you how to make a VR website.Read More Source: Glitch and Mozilla launch WebVR starter kit for building VR websites
PlayStation US Boss: PSVR’s Change In 10 Years ‘Will Be Dramatic’
PlayStation’s Shawn Layden has us hopeful that PSVR 2 will happen. And maybe even PSVR 3 and 4, for that matter. In a recent interview with Game Informer, Layden, who heads up Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) US, said that PSVR’s change over the next 10 years will be “dramatic”. Talking about the future for the...
