Following a prominent lawsuit between ZeniMax and Facebook/Oculus which resulted in a $500 million award to ZeniMax, the company is now seeking an injunction to prevent Oculus from continuing to use code that was found by the jury to infringe upon ZeniMax’s copyright. According to a report by Reuters, ZeniMax filed papers on Thursday, at...
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Facebook Will Respond Soon To Proposed ZeniMax Judgment
ZeniMax filed for a proposed judgment in its $500 million case against Oculus, including a suggestion that: Oculus, its parents, subsidiaries…are permanently enjoined from possessing, publishing, disclosing, or utilizing in any form or for any purpose any of ZeniMax’s copyrighted materials…found to have been infringed by the jury in its verdict, specifically DOOM 3: BFG...
Superpunch Is a Game That Uses Punching for Locomotion
Superhot [Review: 9/10] is easily one of the best Oculus Touch titles available today. The beautiful art direction, ingenious gameplay mechanic of time only moving when you do, and creative puzzle environments all add up to one of the most memorable and enjoyable adaptations for VR we’ve seen thus far. Naturally, when the Make it...
Dungeon Chess is Like Harry Potter Wizard’s Chess Meets D&D
The VR ecosystem is flush with experiences that can completely shatter our perceptions, bringing us into incredibly realistic or fantastic worlds and giving us devastating weapons or abilities. Other more quaint experiences can project a sense of comfort so solid, we can forget that we’re even wearing a VR headset altogether like one of our...
New Six Flags VR Coaster Is Interactive, Uses Passthrough Camera
I’m scared of roller coasters. Not heights, not speed, not intricate examples of mechanical engineering: roller coasters. I am specifically, and dreadfully, terrified or riding roller coasters. This is the story of me riding a roller coaster. Gulp. Last week, my wife and I were invited by the folks over at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom in Vallejo...
Virtually Drive Audi’s New Q5 Through Your Own Sandbox Creation
Many concept vehicles over the years have teased the idea of utilizing augmented reality in the windshields, glass dashboard panels, and even side windows. When it comes to VR, Faraday Future is one of the most recent that have flirted with the technology by using the platform to design their connected car. Audi wants to...
Steam Audio Promises More Realistic Sound For Games And VR
Valve today released a new tool called Steam Audio that represents the fruit of its purchase of Impulsonic in January. The tech promises sound which very realistically responds to a virtual environment and would serve as an improvement over the standard 3D audio. In the demo video below you can hear the audio change as...
Valve Launches Free Steam Audio SDK Beta to Give VR Apps Immersive 3D Sound
Valve today announced the Steam Audio SDK, a spatial audio plugin that the company says is made is designed to “enhance all interactive products, specifically VR applications.” The company has launched a beta of the SDK today supporting Unity, and support for Unreal Engine is on the way. Realistic sound is an important but often...
Samsung’s In-house Incubator to Showcase New VR/AR Experiments at MWC
Although the Samsung Galaxy S8 may not make its big entrance at Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona next week, the company will however be presenting a few new VR/AR projects coming direct from their in-house incubator Creative Lab (C-Lab). Just recompense? Maybe not, but there’s at least two in the bunch that ought to raise an eyebrow—and all...
Zappar Gets $3.75 Million To Help Make Developing Mobile AR Easier
Augmented reality company Zappar wants to make it easy for developers to deliver AR and VR content on mobile. Today, it’s raised a significant amount of funding to help it do so. The company announced the closure of a Series A round of funding in which it raised $3.75 million. Investors included iDreamSky, a China-based...
