SSVAR blog talking about virtual reality,augmented reality and mixed reality.
AMD had a press conference at GDC to demonstrate their engagement with the gaming community and had some major VR related announcements. AMD has long supported VR through their own Liquid VR technology and have been evangelizing VR for quite some time. So these announcements at their Capsaicin and Cream event made complete sense. GDC...
The latest version of NVIDIA’s FCAT VR analysis tool is here and it’s equipped with a wealth of impressive features designed to demystify virtual reality performance on the PC. NVIDIA has announced a VR specific version of its FCAT (Frame Capture Analysis Tool) at GDC this week which aims to provide accessible access to virtual reality...
Eye tracking experts SensoMotoric Instruments (SMI) have collaborated with Valve to bring their technology to OpenVR. Eye tracking-enabled HTC Vive units are being shown at GDC 2017, as part of an R&D effort to integrate eye-tracking support into Valve’s OpenVR API. At this week’s Game Developers Conference, along with LG’s ‘next generation’ VR headset prototype,...
Mage’s Tale is a VR Action RPG set in the world of classic fantasy RPG The Bard’s Tale. It is being shown at GDC 2017 for the first time on Oculus Rift and Touch and here’s six minutes of gameplay footage to whet your appetite for the title. As one of six new titles announced...
When it comes to VR, best practices say that the player’s in-game movement should be static, and if the player needs to move, it should be within their physical space, or through some locomotion method that’s comfortable in VR, like blinking or teleportation. Then along comes Sprint Vector, the latest title from Survios, the developer of...
The Oculus Rift is getting a new (and yet familiar) competitive experience. Blade & Soul: Table Arena is a spin-off of the massively multiplayer online role-playing game Blade & Soul from South Korea developer NCsoft. The VR title uses the device’s Touch controllers to have players throwing characters into a battlefield, which march toward the enemy fortress and try...
HTC kicked off the Game Developers Conference with demos of new apps, including a VRSports app that lets you play Ping-Pong in virtual reality on the HTC Vive VR headset. The titles will join the 1,300 that are already available on the Vive, which was voted the top development platform for VR based on a...
Advanced Micro Devices is riding high on the pending introduction of its most competitive processors and graphics chips in years. This week, AMD is launching its Ryzen desktop processors for gamers, and it is unveiling its Vega-based graphics chips in the first half of this year. To make sure those technologies have the proper impact,...
Virtual reality firm Survios unveiled Sprint Vector, a new virtual reality game with an innovative system for moving a character in VR. In the game, you swing your arms to make your character run in the 360-degree VR world. It’s Survios’ second game. Like its predecessor Raw Data, it keeps you active and is meant to...
As many of you already know, NVIDIA is one of the leading purveyors of graphics cards which are heavily used for VR. In fact, NVIDIA is the go-to solution for the majority of users, so it is always a good day when the company launches a new graphics card. This is especially true when they...
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