While it might be slim pickings for Gear VR this week (as in, nothing very interesting), the Oculus Rift fights back with a vengeance. There are three new Rift games on Home this week and each is worth checking out in their own right, as well as the usual crop of new Steam titles. If...
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SteamVR Tracking HDK Now Available for Anyone to Buy
Valve is increasingly opening its SteamVR Tracking technology—that which powers the HTC Vive’s room-scale tracking—to the world. The royalty-free system requires no permission from Valve to be embedded and launched as part of third-party products. And now one of the final barriers to entry has been removed: anyone can buy the development hardware to begin building...
New PSVR Releases For The Week Of 02/19/17
Welcome to your weekly round-up of all things PlayStation VR (PSVR)! If I sound chirppy this week, it’s because we’ve actually got some new games to discuss. There’s been a high-profile release over the last seven days, along with an indie launch that might appeal to fans of The Playroom VR’s Robot Rescue. If you...
What to Expect From VR at VRDC and GDC 2017
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...
Finger Food Offers 25,000 Square Foot Holographic Studio
You might not have heard of Finger Food Studios before, but the company sits at the cross-section of the Internet of Things, Machine Learning, Augmented and Mixed Reality. With a 25,000 square foot holographic studio, 100+ engineers, developers, creatives and business professionals and clients in various industries, Finger Food Studios is preparing itself for major growth...
Qualcomm & Road to VR Industry Mixer Kicks Off GDC 2017 Next Week
Qualcomm and Road to VR are teaming up to kick off next week’s GDC 2017 with a gathering of VR and AR industry insiders. If you’re attending GDC 2017, join Qualcomm and Road to VR Monday evening, February 27th, at the W Hotel’s Living Room Bar, just a step away from the Moscone Center, for...
The Mage’s Tale is a Breathtaking New Oculus Touch Dungeon Crawler RPG from inXile Entertainment
The world of roleplaying games (RPGs) is dominated by a few select developers near the top of the pile. Studios like Bioware, Bethesda, and Square Enix obviously come to mind as historical pioneers and juggernauts of massive, sprawling, roleplaying adventure titles, but all of those studios have embraced the modern era of RPG development. inXile...
Exclusive: Twisted Arrow is a VR Shooter That Will Make You Feel Like Hawkeye
Phaser Lock has made a name for themselves in the VR scene by being one of the first developers with a fully-realized game concept that was ready for launch with the HTC Vive early last year. Their debut game, Final Approach, put players in the God-like position of an air-traffic control officer as you guided...
‘Bigscreen’ Social VR Desktop App Raises $3 Million Seed Investment Led VC Firm Andreessen Horowitz
Bigscreen Inc, the company behind the social VR desktop app, Bigscreen, last year told us they’d raised a seed round from “Tier 1” VC firms. Today the company has announced details of that round and where they’re heading next. Bigscreen is simple but powerful. It puts you in a virtual space with your own computer desktop floating in...
Bigscreen Raises $3 Million To Succeed Where Envelop Failed
Startup Envelop VR raised around $5.5 million for its platform which promised to use VR to surround you in limitless windows. The company’s VR tech basically extended the Windows operating system so you could theoretically work with a number of apps spread around you in VR. Ultimately, the idea was that legacy apps could eventually use...