Virtual and augmented reality news
With so many resources available to us, anyone with the correct amount of ambition and discipline can make a mark in the gaming industry. Developer Frooxius has dabbled a great deal with applications and games and a quick glance at the older work on his site will show you a programming language centered on music...
Oculus Touch will release in less than a month. Upon its launch it will be jam-packed with several new and fascinating titles, but it will also be allowing significant new updates to be made to already existing properties. The Climb (Review 8/10) is an example of a game that is already available on the Oculus Rift,...
Planet Earth II, the sequel to one of the most celebrated nature documentary series of all time, debuted on British TV screens this weekend. The series brings viewers closer than ever to some of the planet’s most exotic wildlife but, with the help of 360 video, you can get close still. The BBC has launched...
In mid-October this year, HTC made a few announcements signaling a major push forward with VR content. Those announcements included a content partnership with the Alibaba Group, a VR arcade publishing model, and the mobile VR platform Viveport M. Later into October we saw the fruits of the VR arcade initiative with the launch of...
A few weeks ago when reviewing Secret Sorcery’s Tethered I noted that there were curiously few god games for VR yet, especially on PlayStation VR. As it turns a great example of one such game has been on the platform since launch, it’s just not available in the west yet. That game is O! My...
Adobe is a software mainstay that serves as the foundation of a lot of creative and business ventures and developments, so it’s no surprise they’ve been quickly getting their foot in the door when it comes to virtual reality. We previously reported on the introduction of VR features to Creative Cloud in April and the...
It seems like it took forever for for Cyan’s anticipated spiritual successor to Myst and Riven, Obduction [Review: 8/10], to come to the Oculus Rift. That’s largely thanks to a last-minute delay for VR support when the standard version launched a few months ago. As of last week, though, Obduction is finally available in VR...
“Eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow we die,” this ancient gladiator quote seems oddly fitting to recall on the eve of the most contentious and, let’s face it, depressing U.S. presidential election in recent memory. This year, voters will have the privilege of choosing between a candidate with so many skeletons in her closet...
Pokémon GO isn’t exactly what we’d call augmented reality—based on the game’s (and smartphone’s) lack of computer vision and environmental mapping—but fans of the megalithic pocket monster franchise aren’t sitting on their hands waiting for Nintendo or Niantic to build a real augmented reality version of Pokémon. Case in point: KennyWdev and Joshua Liew’s imagined AR battle system for...
With its eye-tracking solution already on the market, Tobii could be a big player in VR going forward. Today, the company announced investment plans that it hopes will make that happen. The Swedish company plans to invest around $16.6 million in VR over the next three years using money it intends to raise by offering...
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