SSVAR blog talking about virtual reality,augmented reality and mixed reality.
Tuesday night, I heard my UploadVR editor, Ian Hamilton, say something he’s never said before: “Hey, man I think we should go to a bar.” Once I’d finished administering the necessary Voight-Kampff Test to confirm he was not a replicant, I grabbed my jacket and joined him on this noble quest. Our destination was Caesars Palace Hotel and Casino in...
You could say that Nvidia is at its high-water mark. The company’s stock price has tripled in the past year. It has transformed itself from a maker of graphics chips to an artificial intelligence company. And CEO Jen-Hsun Huang gave the opening keynote speech at CES 2017, the big tech trade show in Las Vegas...
Arizona Sunshine by Vertigo Games is a great game. We liked it so much, in fact, that we awarded it the designation of our favorite VR game of 2016. The complete single player campaign mode, cooperative multiplayer support, and addictive horde mode delivered a lot of content to a game that was already overflowing with fun and...
Naughty America was tucked away in the back of the cavernous South Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center at CES 2017, the big tech trade show last week in Las Vegas. There were no signs or images to advertise the near-secret meeting room. But people found the only porn company at the show anyway....
Maybe you’ve noticed. PC gaming is hot, and every company with any presence in the computing market wants to establish itself as a brand for people who like (and spend a lot of money on) video games. Hardware manufacturer Lenovo is no different. Above: Will Fu of Lenovo wants to talk to you about video...
CES ends today and children around the world are singing happy songs. The massive consumer electronics convention is an absolute marathon for technophiles, businessmen and journalists alike. All of that effort culminates in some of the biggest tech announcements of the year and this year, for virtual reality, that meant one thing: the Vive tracker....
Imagine being able to visit a world you’ve already explored in VR in real life. Would it feel like you’ve already been there? Would you know it inside out? You can put those questions to the test this month. We’re just a few weeks away from the launch of Resident Evil 7, arguably the biggest...
Google continues to make its interest in virtual reality more and more apparent. Last year, the Silicon Valley super giant formed an official VR division within its secretive walls and appointed Clay Bavor as its head. Fast forward to today and Google’s VR platform, dubbed Daydream is in full swing. The Daydream View headset hit the...
An HTC Vive phone has been spotted in a promotional video leaked ahead of a scheduled press conference on January 12th. But what should we expect from a Vive branded phone? In another in a series of leaks from Internet tipster Evan Blass over the CES period, two promotional videos which have allegedly leaked ahead of...
We’ve long wondered what mobile VR meant to HTC, and now we might know — a Vive-branded smartphone. The Taiwanese smartphone maker is hosting an event titled ‘For U’ on January 12th. We didn’t think it would have much to do with its VR headset, the HTC Vive, especially after the bevy of reveals the...
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