The VR community was hit with quite a shock yesterday. Guerrilla Cambridge, the Sony-owned developer behind PlayStation VR multiplayer FPS, RIGS: Mechanised Combat League [Review: 8/10], was confirmed to be closing just a few months on from the game’s launch last October. Needless to say, shutting the doors to the studio behind one of the...
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VR as the Most Powerful Surveillance Technology or Last Bastion of Privacy? It’s up to Us.
Virtual reality has the potential to enable so many amazing utopian futures, but it also has the potential to become one of the most intimate surveillance technologies that could create a Big Brother dystopia of political and economic control. But if privacy considerations are built into virtual reality technologies from the beginning, then Accomplice investor...
Intel’s Project Alloy Round 2: RealSense Hand-Tracking and Optimized Software
During last week’s CES conference in Las Vegas one of the largest and most unforgettable booths on the sprawling show floor belonged to Intel. The chip manufacturer occupied a two story main booth, a stage and bleacher for keynotes, with demo stations scattered around as well. Housed inside this labyrinth was Intel’s prized pig for this...
‘vTime’ Is Google Daydream’s First Social VR App
Google’s Daydream ecosystem for mobile VR is slowly checking off a list of the various types of experiences we’ve come to expect from headsets so far. In Gunjack 2: End of Shift, we had the turret shooter, Need for Speed: No Limits VR gave us a cockpit racer, and there’s a wealth of 360 degree...
The Inside Story of Google’s Daydream, Where VR Feels Like Home
In Google’s Daydream VR, you don’t spend your time on a spaceship. You spend it in the woods or your attic. The post The Inside Story of Google’s Daydream, Where VR Feels Like Home appeared first on WIRED. Source: The Inside Story of Google’s Daydream, Where VR Feels Like Home
Qualcomm’s New Mobile Tech Unlocks Impressive Inside-Out Tracking
At CES 2017 Qualcomm unveiled its Snapdragon 835 processor and along with it a solid focus on the mobile VR market. We got a chance to test that new focus by going hands on with Qualcomm’s latest reference hardware and find impressive inside-out tracking using just the phone’s onboard sensors. Qualcomm’s processors and chips power perhaps...
Sounds Good: Valve Acquires 3D Audio Company Impulsonic
The HTC Vive is finally getting integrated headphones later this year, and co-creator Valve’s latest acquisition could help you get the most out of them. The SteamVR maker has picked up 3D audio company Impulsonic for an undisclosed sum, as confirmed on the company’s website. In a statement the team noted that it will use...
Get Free Courtside VR Seats to Spurs vs. Timberwolves NBA Game This Tuesday
Own Gear VR or Daydream View? Then you’ve got access to free courtside seats to this Tuesday’s forthcoming Timberwolves vs. Spurs NBA game live… in VR of course. This Tuesday, January 17th, NextVR is offering a free pass to watch the San Antonio Spurs, currently holding the #2 position in the NBA Western Conference, tip...
Hands-On: Flight Game ‘Ultrawings’ Wants to Be The ‘Pilotwings’ of VR
If you setup a HOTAS control interface, wear a VR headset, and activate voice commands, then Elite: Dangerous may very well be the premiere virtual reality simulation experience available today. That’s likely rivaled only by racing wheel setups with games like Project CARS and DiRT Rally. But if you’re looking for something a bit lighter...
HTC Vive Overtakes VR/AR Outlook In GDC State of the Industry Survey
The Game Developer Conference is an annual gathering of professional devs as they share their various work-in-progress projects, attend networking functions, speak on and observe in-depth panel discussions, and absorb a wealth of knowledge and inspiration across the multi-day event. 2016 was the true birth of the virtual reality industry, so outlook was all over the place...
