Listing off minimum and recommended specifications is one thing, but if you want to know just how ‘VR ready’ your PC truly is you’ll need to benchmark it. To do that, you want professional software. We already saw Futuremark’s VRMark launch last November, but today sees the release of VRScore from Finland-based Basemark, developed with...
Basemark has officially launched its virtual reality performance benchmark, VRScore and the package comes complete with an ingenious, low-cost hardware assisted solution to help ensure results are accurate. I’ve written previously about how tough a problem benchmarking virtual reality hardware and software accurately really is. VR’s tight integration between hardware, application and drivers mixed with...
Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes is an undeniably fun VR party game that you can play together with a big group with only one VR headset. Now the game has added much requested support for both Vive and Rift’s VR controllers. In Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes, the player wearing the VR headset will find...
Achieving a wide field of view in an AR headset is a challenge in itself, but so too is fixing the so-called vergence-accommodation conflict which presently plagues most VR and AR headsets, making them less comfortable and less in sync with the way our vision works in the real world. Researchers have set out to...
According to a report by The Verge, HTC’s VP of Design is leaving the company to join up with Google’s Daydream VR team. Having joined the company in 2008, in recent year’s HTC’s VP of Design, Claude Zellweger, played a key role in the design of the Vive headset, The Verge reports. Now he’s taking that...
Over the course of the last 50 years, capital markets have significantly codified a generational model approach consumer technology products. New “generations” of products are expected to come at a regular pace and provide increased features and reliability at the same prices. But depending upon the product type, the typical life cycle from one generation to...
In news that will delight fans of questionable cyberpunk films from the 1990s, seminal CGI film and VR influence The Lawnmower Man is coming to Virtual Reality as a multiple episode VR series. Inspired by the 1992 film legally proven not to be based on a Stephen King story of the same name, the Virtual...
Action movie sequel, John Wick: Chapter 2, hits theaters next week, so it only makes sense its anticipated VR tie-in arrives then too. The Steam page for John Wick Chronicles: An Eye For An Eye has been updated, confirming a February 9th release date along with a $19.99 price tag. That’s next Thursday, for those...
Pokémon Go got many people to engage with an augmented reality game for the first time. But Los Gatos startup Get Qurious wants to expose even younger kids to AR games through tactile play. The company has introduced the Get Qurious Maker Box, which combines physical game cards with an interactive digital world. Using AR...
Lots of diversity this week for the HTC Vive on Steam and Viveport. Awaken, a VR puzzle game about getting balls of light into their goals while you shape the level and its music over time just hit Early Access with a level editor and Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, the latest cyberpunk action RPG from...
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