Next month’s Oculus Rift S software update should bring higher quality ASW 2.0 and Passthrough+ on the latest NVIDIA Turing GPUs. In addition to the RTX cards, this should also work on the GeForce GTX 1660 and 1660 Ti since they have the Turing video encoder hardware. It’s unclear whether it will work on the...
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Swiss Society of Virtual and Augmented Reality
Every Major PSVR Exclusive Game
Sony might be a hardware company first and foremost, but over the years it’s funded dozens of high-quality exclusive games for its platforms. PSVR is no different. There’s a bunch of massive PSVR exclusives out there right now. This article lists every major permanent (fully funded) exclusive title. Note: You’ll notice some games are missing...
Sony ‘Very Happy’ With PSVR Sales ‘But We Know We Can Do Better’
Sony’s PSVR headset is thought to be the most successful of the three major VR devices from 2016. We don’t know that for sure, but the headset has sold 4.2 million units. That might be a lot for the nascent VR industry, but it’s just a fraction of the near-100 million PS4s sold out there....
Garden Of The Sea Is The New Game From Budget Cuts Dev Neat Corp
Neat Corporation, the developer of 2018 VR stealth extravaganza, Budget Cuts, is back. Its next game, however, is something very different. The team’s second VR title is called Garden of the Sea. It’s like a VR version of Stardew Valley or Harvest Moon, mixed with a dash of Pokemon. You start off on an idyllic...
Reclaim! Brings Four-Player Arena Shooting To Location-Based VR
Location-based gaming experiences remove the larger price of admission for more intense and immersive experiences and VR developers have found a lot of success in this market. Video game studio Minority Media is hoping to tap into that with a PvP virtual reality shooting experience that translates a classic arena shooter style to VR called...
Apple starts collecting data for Apple Maps in Canada
Apple has issued a short statement on its website and in various newspapers announcing Apple Maps plans in Canada. The company plans to drive around the country with cars equipped with a ton of sensors in order to improve Apple Maps in Canada. Apple doesn’t say when it plans to finish scanning Canadian roads and...
Asgard’s Wrath — How Sanzaru Is Crafting A 30-hour Norse Saga Game In VR
Asgard’s Wrath is one of the full triple-A games in the works for the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset. The Oculus Studios game is a sword-fighting action adventure title set in the universe of Norse mythology. Mat Kraemer, creative director at developer Sanzaru Games, said the VR title has more than 30 hours of gameplay, anchored by physics-based sword...
Phantom Covert Ops — How nDreams Is Making A Covert Stealth Game In A Kayak
Who makes a covert operations stealth game where you’re in a kayak? It sounds like a dumb idea, but I played a preview of Phantom Covert Ops recently on the Oculus Quest virtual reality headset. And it was fun. nDreams is making the title for Oculus Studios. Coming out this year, the game turns the player into an elite covert...
Shadow Point Review: Patrick Stewart Underutilized In Engaging Puzzler
Patrick Stewart makes everything better. Star Trek, X-Men, Twitter, you name it. Well, okay, almost everything. As it turns out, he’s the weakest element of the latest entertaining puzzler from Esper developer, Coatsink. Stewart is a third wheel in an otherwise promising narrative here. In Shadow Point, you go in search of a missing girl,...
WalkOVR’s $249 Wearable VR Locomotion System Funded In Four Hours
We’ve seen a multitude of practical and impractical solutions pop up for locomotion in virtual reality. Treadmills and the like may offer us immersion similar to VR we’ve seen in science fiction shows and television, but solutions that don’t require massive pieces of equipment are the ideal pathways to households. WalkOVR is doing just that...