Virtual and augmented reality news
If there’s one thing Final Fantasy XV fans should be used to by now, it’s waiting, and the game’s VR experience is going to keep them doing just that. A PlayStation VR (PSVR) tie-in experience for the recently released JRPG was one of a handful of surprises Sony revealed for its headset at last year’s...
Get ready to suit up and head out into space once more: the visually-stunning Homebound is hitting the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive very soon. Sweden-based Quixel, best known for its high fidelity graphics creation tools, recently confirmed that its very own VR experience will be releasing on February 16th via Steam. That’s a little...
Following the news of a $500 million plaintiff award in the ZeniMax v. Oculus lawsuit, a detailed breakdown of the verdict reveals the jury’s specific findings, and who is responsible to pay for the damages. Guest Article by Matt Hooper & Brian Sommer, IME Law Matt is a Partner at IME Law, where he represents...
New footage from upcoming racing simulator Project CARS 2 for PC, PS4 and Xbox One has surfaced on YouTube. Slightly Mad Studios’ new game is expected to launch later this year with support for virtual reality like its predecessor, and hopes to address the criticisms of the 2015 original. We’ve known about Project CARS 2...
The jury has come in on one of the first major lawsuits for the burgeoning virtual reality industry. Facebook’s Oculus VR must pay $500 million to ZeniMax Media, but not because the former stole any proprietary information from ZeniMax (parent company of Fallout and Skyrim publisher Bethesda) to bring the Rift head-mounted VR display to consumers. Instead,...
If you’re having a hard time finding the PlayStation VR, GameStop is ready to help. The retailer announced today that it is receiving more PlayStation VR to sell to customers. It will offer them as a part of two different bundles. Both will come with the PSVR headset, a PlayStation 4 Camera, and two Move...
Crytek’s downsizing continues, and this time it’s the company’s publishing team that is dealing with the pain. The company announced today that it is laying off 15 people from its publishing team in its Frankfurt, Germany headquarters. These staffers worked on Crytek’s Warface free-to-play shooter, which did not caught on with a significant audience. This is...
The largest and arguably most widely known event of its type, especially in the US, the Sundance Film Festival is an annual celebration of independent film—ones made outside the Hollywood system. This year, a new type of experience appeared at the Sundance Film Festival in an installation called “The Journey to the Center of the...
This latest video developer diary from Epic gives a very brief, but insightful overview of how Oculus Touch and Rift tech demo Bullet Train became fully fledged release Robo Recall, and what the developers learned along the way. Epic‘s Robo Recall is heading to Oculus Rift in Q1 of this year for free, but how did...
What many people have suspected to be the case for quite some time turns out to be true: Nintendo is definitely experimenting with VR capabilities on its upcoming game console, the Switch. In an interview with Nikkei, current Nintendo President Tatsumi Kimishima stated that the company was “studying” ways to add VR features to the console....
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