The developers of one of PlayStation VR’s biggest games, RIGS: Mechanized Combat League, are soon to be no more. Guerrilla Cambridge, the UK-based developer behind the high-profile multiplayer FPS, is to close, owner Sony has confirmed to UploadVR today. A statement given to us reads: “Having reviewed and assessed all current projects and plans for the...
Lots of companies have made this claim actually, but Eonite specifically says they have the “world’s most accurate, lowest latency, lowest power consuming software to democratize inside-out positional tracking for VR and AR.” Inside-out positional tracking—the ability to precisely determine where an object is in space using only sensors mounted on the device itself—has been...
At this point in VR’s lifecycle we’ve seen a few different takes on the classic card-based gameplay format. Dragon Front was one of the first, from High Voltage, but it’s exclusive to the Rift and Gear VR’s Oculus Home platform. We’ve also got the likes of Ascension VR, which takes an existing game and adapts...
The road to photorealistic VR is long, but OTOY is helping to shorten it with the integration of its technology into the free version of Unity. The company announced last month that its Octane Renderer would be coming to the world’s most popular game development engine, allowing users to import its ORBX file format to...
In an understated message on its website, the virtual reality productivity application, Envelop VR, today announced that it is permanently closed. “Envelop VR has closed” is now the only thing interested parties will find on the website, along with an email address to reach out with questions. No further information about the closure was given and...
8i is one of the most intriguing virtual reality companies operating today, but for the past several months it has also been one of the most quiet. The New Zealend-based company is working to pioneer new methodologies for creating volumetrically captured, photorealistic holographic humans. Today, the company peeking its head above water just long enough to...
This week on ResearchVR we dig deep into Leap Motion with Alex Colgan, lead writer at the startup. This week’s episode is a little unusual. Considering Upload’s recent hands-on session with TPCAST and the ResearchVR episode on challenges of wireless VR, we start our discussion with a quick recap on this topic. Then we move on to...
By the time I reached my Ximmerse appointment at CES this year, I’d already been taught a lesson in skepticism. Kwik VR’s wireless add-on kit had underwhelmed me, and we’d seen one disappointing standalone demo from Intel. I won’t lie: I wasn’t expecting much from this meeting either, but the Chinese company’s tech actually ended...
Here’s a close look at Sennheiser’s new AMBEO VR microphone in all its glory as demonstrated at last week’s CES 2017 in Las Vegas. It’s the company’s first step into VR audio and it’s just received wide release for a cool $1700. One of the most respected audio companies worldwide, Sennheiser is best known for its...
Moving around comfortably and immersively in VR remains a hurdle for VR game developers. VR studio Huge Robot has created the Freedom Locomotion System which brings together a number of VR movement systems into a comprehensive and functional package which allows for comfortable walking, running, and climbing in VR. Since video games have existed, traversing great distances in...
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