RIGS Mechanized Combat League, one of the major launch titles for PlayStation VR, is a combat sports game where you take control of a mech in an open arena with a collection of different modes including the American football-like Endzone and RIGS’ version of the classic deathmatch, Team Takedown. There are many solid experiences to...
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Why Have 2 Arms When You Could Have 3? Stanford Studies Control Schemes for Three-armed Avatars in VR
Researchers at Stanford think that having a third arm in VR could make you a more efficient (virtual) human. So they’ve set out to learn what they can about the most effective means of controlling an extra limb in VR. Thanks to high quality VR motion controllers, are beginning to reach into the digital world...
‘Expanses’ Looks Like A Beautiful And Captivating VR Adventure
Visual fidelity can go a long way in VR experiences. In a non-VR game, you lose a lot of the impact simply by virtue of the game taking place on a limited, flat, screen that’s disconnected from the world it’s displaying, but in VR, it surrounds you. You can really get up close and appreciate...
Edward Snowden Envisions A ‘Beneficial’ But Potentially ‘Dark’ AR Future
Edward Snowden is the infamous former CIA computer professional that leaked classified NSA information in 2013. His leaked reports about global surveillance inspired a great deal of conversation that continues to this day. Snowden has asylum in Russia currently, but many publications and companies speak with him to get opinions on different things. It’s no...
How To Make Money As A VR Game Developer
As we start to move out of the novelty phase of the VR boom and into a real industry, every game developer is asking the big question: How do I make a business out of this? For those folks that don’t have some mysterious benefactor funding their research and development or the backing of a platform looking...
HTC Announces $1.5 Billion VR Investment Fund and Research Institute in China
HTC is making yet more moves in China today, announcing a partnership with the Shenzhen Municipal Government to kick off two new initiatives. The first of these is a new China VR Research Institute. The pair will look to develop breakthroughs in sensors, displays, graphics, data visualization, human-machine interaction and other areas at this site....
Tactical Haptics Raises $2.2 Million to Build Haptic VR Controller Dev Kit
Tactical Haptics, a company pioneering a novel form of haptic feedback which can create compelling sensations that go far beyond rumble, announced today it has raised $2.2 million to create a development kit of a haptic VR controller as a stepping stone to an eventual consumer product. Tactical Haptics is one of the OGs of...
‘EVE: Valkyrie’ Hits HTC Vive Without Motion Controls
Just under eight months after it first launched on the Oculus Rift, CCP Games’ EVE: Valkyrie [Review: 9/10] is finally available on the HTC Vive from today, though it’s lacking some features we’d really hoped to see. Valkyrie on Vive does not support the kit’s position-tracked wands, which are sold with the unit itself. Instead,...
‘V’, The Universal Dashboard for VR, Launches Open Beta
V is a universal dashboard for virtual reality experiences which lets you load websites and webapps like Slack, Spotify, and Soundcloud inside of your favorite VR games. Today the software launches as a free open beta for the Rift. A universal web dashboard that spans every VR experience is an awesome idea on paper, but convincing...
MIT’s MoVR Uses Millimeter Waves For Wireless PC-Based VR
Wireless PC-based VR may not be as far off as we’d previously thought with the reveal of TPCAST’s upgrade kit for the HTC Vive, and other solutions may be coming soon too. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology ‘s (MIT’s) Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory is working on its own wireless system that cuts the...