Suchworks Ltd, a UK-based VR and AR studio, just released skiing VR games Alpine Ski VR for the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. The controls themselves are easy enough to pick up, as you can see in the first couple minutes of this gameplay video put together by Steve Such, the lead developer at Suchworks...
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Drifter Acquires $2.25 Million to Build Virtual Reality e-Sports Games
Virtual reality e-sports do not exist yet in any sort of marketable form. The writing is on the wall that VR could be the next big wave in competitive gaming, but as of right now the proper combination of content, organization and dedication has yet to occur. One company that could help accelerate the growth...
‘The Assembly’ Developer nDreams Was ‘Blindsided’ By Motion Controls
nDreams’ The Assembly [Review: 7/10] was in development for a much longer time than many of the VR games you’ll have played in the last nine months. I remember first hearing the name of the adventure game all the way back in May 2014, where studio CEO Patrick O’Luanaigh name dropped it ahead of an...
‘ROM: Extraction’ Review
Shooting a gun in VR is a pretty powerful experience, and the feeling of being able to look down the sights and blast away the baddies with a well-aimed shot is pretty cathartic to say the least. With games like Space Pirate Trainer (2016) and Raw Data (2016) at the forefront of the HTC Vive’s commercial release though,...
‘Unearthed Inc: The Lost Temple’ Review: Slick Presentation Staves Off Frustration
Here’s the difference that good presentation makes. When I got stuck in SVRVIVE: The Deus Helix [Review: 4/10] a few weeks ago, the murky, dark environments, bland textures and lack of a hint system meant I quickly lost my patience. When I get stuck in Unearthed Inc: The Lost Temple from Glo Inc, though, the vibrant...
Job Simulator Review – Making the Mundane Magical
The brain is weird. All it takes is a little bit of visual, audio, and physical stimulation and for all intents and purposes we can be tricked into believing that we’re in an entirely different place. What’s even weirder is when you combine all of those stimulations into making the brain think it’s somewhere familiar...
The Future of Mixed Reality Is Much Bigger Than Magic Leap
Over the past three years Magic Leap have been one of the darlings of Augmented/Mixed reality. The Florida start-up was valued at $4.5 billion and attracted nearly $1.4 billion in funding from investors such as Google, Andreessen Horowitz and Alibaba. And with the Augmented and Virtual Reality market projected to reach $162 billion by 2020,...
Second Chances: How Virtual Reality Could Be used To Rehabilitate Convicted Criminals
The concept of rehabilitation is a fundamental part of the prison system, especially in the United States. Most criminals are, ideally, educated and rehabilitated before returning to society — assuming they don’t have a life sentence. For the most part, we operate under the premise that convicted criminals can learn the errors of their ways...
AR in Action | Cambridge, MA | January 17 – 18, 2017
AR in Action is a summit convening top minds of the augmented reality ecosystem for two days of sharing insights and networking. The program is designed to help explore the challenges and opportunities that face inventors, innovators, integrators, investors, and other executives working to bring the benefits of AR to the world. Sign Up You...
Check Out The First Trailer For ‘ARK’ VR Spin-Off ‘ARK Park’
A few weeks ago we reported that a VR spin-off of popular survival game, ARK: Survival Evolved was coming. This week we’ve got a much better look at it. Below is the first trailer for ARK Park, being developed by Snail Games as standalone product to the main ARK made by Studio Wildcard. Rather than...
