Virtual reality is a young industry and, in its youth, many are scrambling to see what best practices will raise this budding market into the strong and healthy grown up industry it needs to become to sustain success. With so many trying different things, best practices can get lost in the shuffle. Khronos Group is...
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The 9 Best Oculus Rift Games That You Can Play Right Now (Touch Update)
The Oculus Rift is amazing. And this month it got even more amazing. Oculus Touch released on December 6 and boy, oh boy, did it bring some fantastic games along with it. In the face of such an incredible innovation we realized we had to update our top Rift games list to include these new...
Why ‘Stifled’ Is A Horror Game That Only Lets You See When You Make Noise
Back at PAX West, I had the pleasure of playing an early build of Stifled by Gattai Games running in VR — it’s a survival horror game with a unique twist. The game’s use of dark blacks and stark white lines to convey its aesthetics is visually arresting. As you move around the environment each step...
‘Untethered’ Is A Fascinating VR Mystery From The Makers Of ‘That Dragon, Cancer’
Google has attracted top talent to make content for its Daydream platform, though it’s not doing the best job of telling you about it. For instance, did you know that a new game from the developers of That Dragon, Cancer was released for the mobile VR ecosystem this month? Well it was, and it’s a...
‘SculptrVR’ Update Adds Hang-Gliding Exploration With More Coming Soon
Almost immediately developers have tried to harness virtual reality’s space for infinite creativity. Tilt Brush and applications like it put various tools in the user’s hands and allow them to run wild with a virtual canvas. SculptrVR is of the same vein and revolves around building with voxels, but the program also offers an additional...
Aerix Vidius HD Drone Review – VR Flight Meets Pocket-Sized Technology
Aerix is making an industry out of selling small-to-absurdly tiny remote control drones. Sized and designed for indoor use, small drones seem like a swell idea for people who don’t want to go outside, but have some distinct disadvantages. Well, one disadvantage really: they are absurdly hard to fly. As one of Aerix’s latest drone,...
Turbo Button’s ‘Floor Plan’ Hits Google Daydream
We’re eager to see what’s next from VR indie developer, Turbo Button, but while we wait you can play one of its earlier games on a brand new platform since Floor Plan [Review: 6/10] has officially come to Google Daydream. The game was originally available for both the Gear VR and Oculus Rift, but now makes...
How We Soar Review: PS VR’s First Underrated Gem Is Here
The phoenix is a symbol we can all easily recognize. It signifies rising again and being born from the ashes of what came before. It’s about making something great from a fresh start. It’s fitting, then, that the first game from UK-based Penny Black Studios, formed by game industry veterans, be about riding on the...
‘Sairento VR’ Mashes Up SUPERHOT & Raw Data for Something Even Cooler
Sairento VR is a new made-for-VR first person action game which manages to distil everything that was cool about SUPERHOT VR, Raw Data and adds its own locomotion system for something which promises to be even cooler than either of them. Guns, swords and slow motion – three ingredients which have transfixed me as a movie-goer...
Senso is a VR Input Glove With Per-finger Haptics and Simulated Temperature
Senso is a new virtual reality glove input device that offers per-finger haptic feedback and the ability to simulate differences in temperature – all tracked via a camera-less IMU-based system. Once a mainstay of fictional virtual reality input, we all once believed that the virtual reality glove would be a dead lock for our chosen...