The Oculus Touch is the long awaited peripheral that will take the virtual reality experience of the Oculus Rift to greater heights. The HTC Vive launched with two motion controllers and has supplied us with great examples of what the virtual reality game and application ecosystem could be in the future, but that’s not to...
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The 9 Best PlayStation VR Games to Play Right Now
The age of consumer grade video game console-powered virtual reality arrived early last month with the release of Sony’s PlayStation VR (PS VR) headset. It’s not as powerful as the Oculus Rift or HTC Vive, it’s not as portable as the Samsung Gear VR or Google Daydream View, and it doesn’t really offer fully-featured roomscale...
Community Download: What Are You Thankful For In VR This Year?
It’s that time of year again. The time when your grandma asks everyone at the table to go around and say what they are thankful for this year. Well, for the next 300 words or so just consider me the grandmother of the VR world. So dearies, what are you thankful for? Lay it on...
Play ‘DOOM 3: BFG Edition’ In VR On Vive With Motion Controllers With This Mod
While VR developers are busy working away on their projects, trying to deliver that mythical killer-app that everyone keeps talking about, modders are delivering updates to existing games that bring us all one step closer to the fully-immersive AAA game industry we’ve all been searching for. Earlier today we published a story reminiscing about Alien...
Oscar-Winning Director Kathryn Bigelow Discusses Her First VR Film ‘The Protectors’
Attendees at next year’s Tribeca Film Festival will be the first to experience the debut 360-degree film from Oscar-winning director Kathryn Bigelow titled, The Protectors: Walk in the Ranger’s Shoes. The 8-minute short film was created through a partnership with Here Be Dragons, National Geographic Channel, and Annapurna Pictures. Here Be Dragons creator Imraan Ismail served...
‘Phantogeist’ Turns The Real World Into A Co-Op Shooter Via Augmented Reality
When simplifying the distinction between games played through augmented reality and virtual reality, just consider the environments. While VR video games provide us with fully realized digital spaces that we can maneuver within, AR experiences take our real life spaces and layers the digital creations over them. They both offer unique experiences with their own...
EA Struck Down The ‘Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 VR’ Fan Remake
Just as the internet started to get excited about the prospect of one of the best PC strategy games of all-time, Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2, receiving a fan remake built from the ground-up for VR devices, Electronic Arts, the publisher behind the original game, stepped in to officially strike down the project. According to a...
How To Be Funny In 360 Video According to Andrew And Luke Wilson
Hollywood remains hooked on virtual reality. Brothers Andrew and Luke Wilson are the latest to make the 360-degree plunge. The pair co-directed a behind-the-scenes tour of Shinola’s Detroit factory, using Luke as the “man on the street” focal point for both the humor and the information that viewers will experience as they explore the massive...
HTC Claims It Sold More Than 140,000 Vive Systems
Last month a number started circulating suggesting the HTC Vive had sold 140,000 units. It turns out that in a conference call late last month to discuss earnings the company suggested it has sold more than that number. According to a transcript of the call from Seeking Alpha, the number “of course is higher than...
‘Alien Isolation’ Is The Best VR Horror Game You’ve Probably Never Played
VR and horror are a match made in Heaven (or Hell, depending on who you ask). I’m a horror fanatic, and always have been ever since I played the first Resident Evil on the original PlayStation. It was always that sense of atmosphere, immersion and fear of the unknown that kept bringing me back for...