Today at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Samsung announced the brand-new Gear VR with Controller, with 70 titles coming soon. The controller is said to add a deeper level of immersion, using motion sensors, and an intuitive touch pad and trigger input. Announced today at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, and revealed on the...
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Papo & Yo’s Creator Reflects On Forbidden Love For New VR Game
Papo & Yo was received well by critics, recognized for its emotional narrative that followed a boy and his sometimes moody best friend that was also a monster. In that game, players had to learn to recognize the monster’s mood and move forward accordingly. Vander Caballero is the creative director of Minority Media, the creators of...
New Gear VR Revealed, Controller Confirmed
It’s been about six months since the launch of the last Gear VR but Samsung is already readying the next iteration of the device. The new Gear was revealed today by Oculus just before Samsung’s 2017 Mobile World Congress event in Spain. It comes in the same black color that debuted with the last device...
Sony Sells Nearly 1 Million PSVR Headsets
Sony revealed official sales figures for the PlayStation 4-powered VR headset, PSVR. Through Feb. 19 the company sold 915,000 headsets, Sony revealed in an interview with the New York Times. The figure joins the previously revealed number of 5 million Samsung Gear VR headsets sold so far as the only solid data we have about...
Report: Vive Users Are 95 Percent Male And Spend 5 Hours Per Week in VR
HTC has been conducting surveys about VR in China and now the results are in. The following data was sourced from “2,5000+ participants including 62 percent Vive users and 32 percent non-Vive users,” according to the company. Keep in mind, therefore, that many of the findings will be Vive specific. There are over a dozen reported...
Community Download: Who Will Have The Best VR Games at GDC 2017?
Welcome to the community download. This is a place for people from all different walks of life to come together as one and disagree on the room-scale capabilities of different VR headsets. In all seriousness though, this is a post meant to inspire thoughtful, informed discussion about virtual and augmented reality. Today we stand on the cusp...
GDC 2017: The 3 VR Tools That Got Us In
There’s beauty in the chaos of a startup’s early days when the team decides to roll the dice. For virtual reality entrepreneurs there are some amazing tools which help amplify this mindset, allowing you to move fast and, hopefully, make things. With these tools, a little luck, and a lot of tenacity, our six-month-old VR...
GDC 2017: What to Expect From VR at VRDC and GDC
The 2017 Game Developers Conference (GDC) and accompanying Virtual Reality Developers Conference (VRDC) are right around the corner. Just like last year, they will run essentially concurrently again in and around the Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA. Panels and discussions kick off Monday 2/27 through Friday 3/3, with the Expo hall itself opening from...
HoloLens is Helping This Medical Company Design Better Operating Rooms
Microsoft is talking for the first time today about a new customer of its HoloLens augmented reality headset: publicly traded medical device company Stryker. Stryker sells forceps, drills, nasal dressings, and hip replacement systems, but it also sells equipment for operating rooms. The HoloLens is a tool that Stryker can use to help hospital employees...
Along Together Is An Adventure Game Where You’re The Imaginary Friend
In January of last year, indie developer Turbo Button took to the world of Adventure Time and gave VR gamers a solid adventure title. Our writer declared it a trip worth taking, only being disappointed that it was such a short experience at about 90 minutes. Nevertheless, Adventure Time: Magic Man’s Head Games and Floor Plan...