Hue is very sad. I know this without a single line of dialogue, narration or exposition. The moment this tall, gangly young man appeared before me inside an Oculus Rift VR headset I could feel melancholy pouring out from every pixel of his black and white frame. Yes, Hue is certainly very sad, but with your...
Tag: virtual reality
Theseus’ Version Of The Minotaur Myth Looks Like VR’s God of War
We’ve seen ancient Chinese texts, historic works of art and more adapted for VR, now it’s time for our first Greek myth. Forge Reply, the developer behind Joe Dever’s Lone Wolf and In Space We Brawl, today announced Theseus, a new take of the Greek myth of the Minotaur, coming to VR headsets. This isn’t...
Get A Taste Of Ubisoft’s For Honor in VR With 360 Trailer
Ubisoft launched a big new IP this week in For Honor, an online sword battling simulator from the company’s Montreal studio. But what might the game look like in VR? The French publisher answers that question this week with the launch of a VR trailer for the game. It offers a 360 degree view of...
Paulo’s Wing Is A VR Game Created Using Google’s Tilt Brush
Developed by Google, Tilt Brush lets you create art in an immersive three dimensional space using your own two hands. We’ve seen a lot of amazing things created in the software. We’ve even seen an entire short film created in the app. What we haven’t seen, however, is a game which uses Tilt Brush to create...
See London’s New Waterloo Station Before It’s Actually Built Thanks To VR
London commuters are dreaming of one thing right now; a finished Waterloo station. This central hub of transport is having a bit of a redesign at the moment, and not all of its platforms are in use. It’s going to stay that way until the end of next year. But, thanks to VR, you can...
PSVR’s Starblood Arena Looks Like A Mix Of Overwatch And Descent, Arrives Soon
PlayStation VR (PSVR) didn’t have a big showing as last year’s PlayStation Experience, with just one game announced during Sony’s press conference. We didn’t even think much of that game, Starblood Arena, at the time, but a fresh look at it today provides reason to be excited. WhiteMoon Dreams, the developer behind this PSVR exclusive,...
Oculus Chief Software Architect to Detail ‘React VR’ WebVR Dev Platform at F8 Conference
Michael Antonov, Chief Software Architect at Oculus, is due to speak at Facebook’s F8 Developer Conference on April 18th about React VR, a framework that builds on Facebook’s React JavaScript library. This web-based framework allows easier creation of VR content that can run on VR headsets from the browser. The F8 developer conference is Facebook’s annual...
Hands-On: Resident Evil 7’s ‘Banned Footage Vol. 2′ Is a Mixed Bag of New DLC
The second pack of new DLC content is finally out for Resident Evil 7: Biohazard [Review: 9/10] in the form of the Banned Footage Vol. 2 compilation. The first Banned Footage DLC offered up an excellent replayable Nightmare mode and an escape-the-room style experience called Bedroom, both of which featured VR support. The tougher Ethan...
Microsoft Conference Could Set The Tone For E3 With Move To Sunday
E3 hype is already in full swing and companies are starting to share bits of information about their appearances at the expo this June, even though GDC still hasn’t even happened yet. Perhaps most notably thus far, Microsoft has moved away from their typical conference showing. Usually, we’d get Microsoft’s conference early on Monday with...
‘SYREN’ Review
SYREN (2017) is a single-player, survival-horror game that will have you sneaking around corners, hiding under virtual desks, and flailing helplessly as you’re mauled to death by the world’s ghastly “Syrens,” a terrifying amalgamation of human/robot/awfulness. Despite some pretty distracting bugs in the game, it’s safe to say that people with high blood pressure or heart...
