Game engine maker Unity Technologies has announced its Unity Without Borders program, which supports developers who are affected by President Donald Trump’s restrictions on travel from six Muslim countries. A few weeks back, San Francisco-based Unity expressed support for developers worldwide in response to the travel ban that primarily affected Muslim game developers. “As part...
The Venture Reality Fund reported that the landscape of companies it tracks in the virtual reality market grew more than 40 percent in 2016. The largest area of growth was in content companies that create apps for head-mounted VR displays, said Marco DeMiroz, cofounder of The Venture Reality Fund with Tipatat Chennavasin. The fund invests...
The American Dream is an upcoming VR game that takes a long, hard look at American’s gun problem. We played a short demo at PAX West and interviewed the developers last year and came away impressed with how well the team at Samurai Punk were able to blend the sardonic parody premise with rewarding gameplay. In...
Microsoft’s HoloLens is still very much in an early stage, and interesting new ideas and uses for the device are being discovered by the week. This most recent example turns your phone into a controller for the mixed reality headset. Currently, HoloLens is mainly controlled through gestures with your hand, though can also be navigated...
The Oculus Rift and HTC Vive each released almost a full year ago, with the Samsung Gear VR predating them by quite a bit and the younger, more fresh PlayStation VR (PSVR) headset from Sony just releasing a short few months ago in October. It’s been a whirlwind of a a year for the budding...
I have to admit I didn’t expect much going into Dying: Reborn PSVR. Publisher Oasis Games’ previous efforts on PlayStation VR (PSVR) have ranged from the mediocre (Ace Banana) to the downright terrible (Weeping Doll and Pixel Gear), so you could forgive me for being skeptical that this would be a different story. Much to my...
Since its reveal at E3 2016, we’ve watched Sony’s new Aim Controller for PlayStation VR (PSVR) with much intrigue. Last month we reported on a release date for the kit and, today, we’ve got an initial price as part of a bundle. The Aim Controller will arrive with its first compatible game, Farpoint, on May...
In a reverse engineering exercise, two students at Utah State University have hacked positional tracking onto a Gear VR headset using SteamVR Tracking technology. Mobile VR solutions like Samsung’s Gear VR currently employ rotational tracking only. The popular forms of mobile VR headsets, such as the Samsung Gear VR and Google Daydream View and Cardboard,...
Hyphen Labs is a immersive design collective made up of women of color, and they were showing a sci-fi VR experience at Sundance this year called Neurospeculative Afrofeminism. Their VR experience features black women as some of the pioneers of brain optimization, and you get to experience a futuristic neurocosmotology lab where you can receive...
Ripstone Games, makers of Pure Chess (2012), are bringing their upcoming sequel Chess Ultra to PlayStationVR, Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. The classic chess game features a number of beautifully rendered environments that will finally make you feel like the rich and magnanimous Grandmaster you always knew you’d become—or a streetwise criminal who’s broken into a closed museum to...
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