Rock Band has never really made me feel like a rock star on the account of my being rather poor at it. Sure, I could rack up some five star ratings on Normal mode after a few weeks’ practice, but anything on Hard difficulty or above, where the note structures best resemble the songs you’re...
Tag: virtual reality
10 Prominent Developers Detail Their 2017 Predictions for The VR/AR Industry
Unless overuse of VR headsets has granted them telepathic super powers, it would have been pretty hard for any one person to predict everything that happened to the VR industry in 2016. We’ve recapped what happened to each of the major headsets last year (for Rift, Vive, and PS VR), and it was pretty exhausting...
First Look at The New High-Flying Essence Faction for ‘Dragon Front’ (Update)
Dragon Front is an addictive, free-to-play virtual reality trading card experience from High Voltage Studios for the Oculus Rift and Gear VR crafted in the same vein as industry stalwarts Magic: The Gathering and Hearthstone. In the game, you choose one of several factions to play as. Each faction has its own unique cards, abilities, and inherent strategies. So...
HTC Vive GM on the New Vive Tracker & Privacy in VR
The most significant VR announcement from CES 2017 was the Vive Tracker, a modular Lighthouse-tracked ‘puck’ attachment that will enable users to track additional objects within VR experiences. It has the potential to drive a lot of new innovative applications and gameplay for consumers, to kickstart a lot more mixed reality livestreams, but also grow...
SteamVR Tracking Could Be 2017’s Most Important VR Technology
Valve’s SteamVR Tracking could have a huge impact on the mixed reality industry this year and next. 5 million Gear VRs sold is a major milestone for Facebook and Samsung, as is $3 million in sales for Job Simulator, a best-selling room-scale game. Sony is going to try to put PS VR’s in 53 million homes this year...
First Look at The New High-Flying Essence Faction for ‘Dragon Front’
Dragon Front is an addictive, free-to-play virtual reality trading card experience from High Voltage Studios for the Oculus Rift and Gear VR crafted in the same vein as industry stalwarts Magic: The Gathering and Hearthstone. In the game, you choose one of several factions to play as. Each faction has its own unique cards, abilities, and inherent strategies. So...
Two Years After Release ‘Elite: Dangerous’ Players Finally Make First Contact With Aliens
The space exploration genre has seen a resurgence in the last couple years and some of those games remain as the most technologically impressive feats in gaming no matter what the reception may be. No Man’s Sky‘s near-infinite procedural world and Star Citizen‘s lofty ambitions have come under fire for various reasons, but they both...
Epic Games CEO: “HTC Vive is outselling Oculus Rift 2-to-1 worldwide”
Tim Sweeney, founder of Epic Games and creator of Unreal Engine, has a unique position in the virtual reality industry. As an active supporter of VR and head of one of gaming’s most important VR-compatible game engines, when Sweeney speaks, we tend to listen. In a recent interview with Glixel’s Chris Suellentrop, besides giving his predictions of where...
HTC is Working With Intel To Create A WiGig Wireless Solution for The Vive
CES has now officially come to an end and it was relatively light on virtual reality news when compared to the previous few years. However, HTC — the creators of the Vive high-end, PC powered VR headset — were on hand for a press conference that teased and revealed an intriguing road map of new...
CyberPowerPC and AMD Unveil VR-Ready Rig That’s Only $499 When Bundled With a Rift
At Oculus Connect 3, the Facebook-owned VR company revealed a new minimum specification for VR-ready PC rigs that would take advantage of its Asynchronous Spacewarp (ASW) technology. In doing so, the company has also partnered with CyberPowerPC to debut an AMD-fueled VR-ready rig that will come in at the low-price of $499 when bundled with...