Virtual and augmented reality news
Stifled is an upcoming first-person horror game from Singapore-based studio Gattai Games. Heavily featured at this year’s Gamescom, in no small part thanks to their partnership with Sony Interactive Entertainment that’s seeing a number of Asian-born titles coming West, we got a chance to pop in and see just what the five-person developer team have accomplished. Experiencing an...
GeneGames, makers of the VR Strategy Game MonkeyKing VR, announced the completion of an angel round of fundraising with ‘Hundreds of thousands of yuan,’ and that they intend to develop products in Europe and America according to Japanese VR site MoguraVR. Based on the original Chinese wording (数百万元), the exact amount raised could be between...
Skyworld, a turn-based strategy game from Arizona Sunshine (2016) developers Vertigo Games, was initially introduced to the world as a demo during HTC Vive’s first public showing back in GDC 2015. At this year’s Gamescom, we got a hands-on with the ostensibly near-finished game, which should be releasing soon if the developers want to hit their...
Yesterday, HTC Vive stated that the highly-anticipated Fallout 4 VR would be launching “exclusively” on its headset this December, seemingly confirming that the game was destined to remain on Vive only. A few hours on, though, the company backtracked on that statement. Vive posted the below tweet a short while after making the initial statement....
VR design is still in the very early stages, but something that we know leads to immersion in VR is interactivity. One developer is taking interactivity to the extreme with Chroma Lab, a VR experience now available on SteamVR that lets you play with hundreds of thousands of simulated particles in real-time. Update (8/23/17): Chroma Lab...
Described as the ‘ultimate superhero experience’, Megaton Rainfall tasks the player with preventing a global alien invasion, with a full-scale Earth as the destructible backdrop. Programmer Alfonso del Cerro’s wholly ambitious project for PS4 and PC was recently confirmed to have a September 26th release date on PS4 and PSVR. In an unfortunate turn of...
GUEST: Last month, AltspaceVR, one of the most beloved startups in the burgeoning, albeit struggling, VR consumer industry announced it was shutting its doors due to what they described as “unforeseen financial difficulty”. This is by no means an ordinary player in the VR community. The California-based startup is one of the earliest pioneers in the...
If you can’t get enough of cats in actual reality, you can now obsess over kitties in virtual reality, too. The adorable Cat Sorter VR is exactly what it sounds like: a game where you sort cats. It hits Steam and Viveport, the HTC Vive content platform, on August 29. The Cat Sorter demo was chaotic...
Everyone agrees: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) is a maddeningly good film. It is too good to tolerate, nearly. There is no one who does not think this; it is True. But everyone knows it’s missing something, and Kevin Cornish knows what that something is: aliens. But Cornish not only knows this, he’s...
While IKEA is collaborating with Apple for its ARKit furniture app, Marxent is ready to help the rest of the interior decorating and home improvement crowd with their apps. The company already counts Ashley Furniture, Lowe’s Home Improvement, and AZEK among the companies that use Marxent technology in their augmented reality apps. The VisualCommerce 3D...
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