VR experiences welcome users into virtual worlds for education and entertainment purposes, immersing them into settings of the developer’s own design. Games like the recently announced Dungeon Chess take a simple table-top experience and project it into a VR space with special effects, ultimately providing an intimate gaming experience that brings players together that may...
At a PlayStation VR session today at GDC, Sony stated that first-party PSVR titles with support for the new Aim peripheral are in development. Sony’s curious looking Aim controller may not be the coolest looking peripheral out there (a dubious accolade at any rate), but after our hands-on with the device and its first supported...
At GDC 2017, developers Impulse Gear confirmed that their VR shooter Farpoint has Co-op, and will launch in a bundle with the PS VR Aim Controller on May 16th. An ‘unnerving space adventure set on a hostile alien world’, Farpoint is a free-movement FPS exclusive to PlayStation VR. Build from the group up for PlayStation...
Oculus and Epic Games share a strong and fascinating partnership that’s grown over the past few years. Last night’s Game Developer Choice Awards showed why. Epic Games founder Tim Sweeney was this year’s recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award, recognizing the work he and his company have done building the Unreal Engine development toolkit over...
A few days ago, Experiment 7 revealed their partnership with Wizards of the Coast and the first game to surface from the deal: Dungeon Chess. The game blends the classic chess game with the world of Dungeons & Dragons, using the VR platform to bring the chess pieces to life. Ripstone Games, the publisher behind Pure...
Oculus Rift exclusive title Robo Recall – which launched just yesterday – can already be played on the HTC Vive, using the infamous Revive mod. And, as you can see in this video, the game seems to work remarkably well. Oculus’ approach to encouraging development on their Rift virtual reality platform via funded exclusive (be that timed...
The Google VR team shared some impressive figures at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week – more than 10 million Cardboard viewers have been shipped worldwide. Google’s low-cost smartphone enclosure for viewing VR content has been available since 2014. With media attention on Oculus’ successes in reinvigorating the VR industry in 2014, Google’s surprise...
LG is the first company after HTC to follow the path laid out by Valve for headset makers to bring their wares to SteamVR. That path involves using SteamVR Tracking technology and OpenVR API to create a headset which can tap into the same Steam-powered content ecosystem as the Vive. LG’s step into VR represents...
Sparc (ex-Project Arena) is somewhat of an oddity in the VR space. While some developers are focusing on recreating certain real-world sports like minigolf or tennis, Eve Online studio CCP has gone a different direction by creating an entirely new sport, one that you could call a true “VR native.” After popping into the game, which mostly retains the...
The Gallery – Episode 2: Heart of the Emberstone is coming this spring to Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, and for fans of the first episode, Call of the Starseed (2016), it can’t come a moment too soon. Stepping into the demo at Unity’s booth at this year’s GDC, I got a chance to experience something that not only...
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