Announced at AMD’s GDC 2017 press conference, Radeon GPUs will support Asynchronous Reprojection on SteamVR in the next update. The technology helps to maintain smooth head motion when framerate drops below the headset’s refresh rate. Roy Taylor, Corporate Vice President – Alliances at AMD took to the stage with some passionate announcements about AMD and...
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Oculus Reveals 6 New VR Titles for Rift & Gear VR at GDC 2017
Debuted at GDC 2017 and announced via their official blog, Oculus offer a first look at some of the titles coming to Rift and Gear VR in 2017. This includes 6 new game reveals across multiple genres, with 4 optimised for Touch and 2 “must haves” for Gear VR. Having recently teased ‘months of high-profile...
GDC 2017: Raw Data Studio Announces Sprint Vector – Blazing Fast VR
At GDC 2017, virtual reality gaming studio Survios is announcing Sprint Vector — a brand new experience focusing on one thing above all else: speed. Survios is one of the very few VR studios that we can say definitively have been successful. Since the launch of the HTC Vive headset last year, the team has...
‘From Other Suns’ is an ‘FTL’ Inspired Co-op VR FPS for Oculus Touch That’s Different Every Time You Play
Returning to an earlier era of gaming, Chronos (2016) was an unforgiving third-person action adventure game that launched alongside the Rift. Inspired by FTL (2012) developer Gunfire Games is now applying their lauded old-school game design principles to new-school game tech, with a procedurally generated ‘rougelike’ that lets up to three players experience a galaxy full of unexpected...
ROM: Extraction Gets New Level In Free Overrun Upate
ROM: Extraction from First Contact was already one of the more polished shooters for the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, and today it’s getting even more content. The developer, which is comprised of former Call of Duty developers, announced the launch of Overrun, a free update that adds a new chapter. As the name suggests,...
With 6,000 Downloads, Unity’s Editor VR Is Making VR Dev Accessible To All
Unity launched its Editor VR service in an alpha form late last year, and the engine-maker appears to be pretty happy with the results so far. Editor VR is an in-VR section of the larger Unity engine that lets you edit virtual scenes in games and more. Taking to the stage at the company’s GDC...
Oculus Reveals 6 New VR Titles for Gear VR & Rift at GDC 2017
Debuted at GDC 2017 and announced via their official blog, Oculus offer a first look at some of the titles coming to Rift and Gear VR in 2017. This includes 6 new game reveals across multiple genres, with 4 optimised for Touch and 2 “must haves” for Gear VR. Having recently teased ‘months of high-profile...
How AR Boosts Workplace L&D
A report by Cognizant says that technology is boosting learning and development (L&D) in the workplace. The report discusses innovation being constant in the information technology industry as it is continuously changing the way services are delivered to the business and to end users. The report states “From the mainframe era on to the Internet stage, we’re now experiencing...
GDC 2017: Epic CEO Tim Sweeney on How we Get to Mass VR and AR Adoption
We’re not even one year into the release of the current crop of VR HMDs and mobile headsets, and while sales are in the millions, it’ll still be a while before every household has a VR device or every person walks around the city with AR-equipped glasses. So what will it take for VR and...
GDC: 2017: New VR Strategy Game Blade & Soul Table Arena From Ncsoft
The most memorable part of Blade & Soul Table Arena wasn’t the game itself — which is a lot like Dragon Front if it leaned toward real-time strategy more than a trading card game. Blade & Soul is a massively multiplayer online game that premiered in Korea from Ncsoft. This Table Arena game, though, is...
