Virtual and augmented reality news
When an email crossed my inbox to notify me about a fishing game on Steam that was receiving Vive support — including motion controllers — I got pretty excited. I’m far from a professional fisherman and have in fact not gone fishing in over a year, but it’s something I always enjoy in video games....
Game Cooks is an independent games studio founded in Beirut by two Lebanese brothers – Arz and Lebnan Nader. Since 2011, they’ve released over a dozen successful mobile games on iTunes and Google Play, but HOVR for Gear VR is their first foray into virtual reality. They’re now keen to see how mobile VR can enhance...
Obduction, the highly rated first-person adventure game from Cyan, the makers of Riven (1997) and Myst (1993), has been available on traditional monitors for quite some time now, but what virtual reality enthusiasts have been salivating over is the pre-release VR version we got our hands on back in late August. Now you can rest easy, because Cyan...
On today’s episode, I talk with Dr. Benjamin Lok from the University of Florida about how they’re using Virtual Humans as patients to train medical students. He talks about the key components for creating a plausible training scenario which include both accurate medical symptom information, but also more importantly a robust personality and specific worldview....
Every owner of a VR headset needs a good, quick, easy to pick-up-and-play party game. When you’re showing off your fancy multi-hundred dollar device, you don’t always have time to sit someone down and explain how to pilot a spaceship, or detail the the intricacies of the most riveting VR adventure titles. Sometimes, you just...
Socially conscious virtual reality projects took center stage last week at an event held at the Upload Collective in San Francisco. VR fans, enthusiasts and investors gathered at the SOMA location to hear from several entrepreneurs that are working hard to create immersive experiences that accomplish a charitable good. First to speak was Jacqueline Stein, a...
The supernatural VR series Invisible from Doug Liman, director of The Bourne Identity and Edge of Tomorrow, launched a week ago on Samsung VR, but now you can access the 5-part series across any device via Jaunt. The series is a first-of-its-kind scripted 360-degree video project about a powerful family with an intriguing secret — an invisibility gene. The...
Fruit Ninja has had a long and fun journey from being a mobile hit to one of the most addicting VR attractions around. The game is a sword-wielding party game tasking players with slicing up fruit in various settings. There are several modes, including a Zen Mode for peaceful stress relief with no time limits or challenges,...
Remember those cheesy movie scenes in which a mighty blacksmith uses fires hotter than the sun and hammers bigger than their heads to forge awesome weaponry? In Craft Keep VR, you can be that guy. This new HTC Vive game from developer Arvydas Žemaitis and publisher Excalibur Games was announced this week. It’s a spin-off...
NextVR, the leader in live VR sports broadcasting, today released their full schedule for their live NBA coverage, including 25 games featuring 30 teams throughout the 2016-2017 season. Make sure to have your phone battery charged, your Gear VR lenses cleaned and ready to go tonight though, because the first VR live coverage starts tonight at 10:30...
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