Australian startup Immersive Robotics are poised to deliver what they claim is a truly universal wireless solution for PC VR headsets that delivers tether-free virtual reality with minimal compromises in quality and extremely low latency. I’ve always found it fascinating to observe how the advent a new technology can accelerate the development of another. The...
VFX professional Kert Gartner has been pioneering new ways to make capturing virtual worlds as compelling as filming in the real world. His latest technique makes a real virtual camera out of an extra Vive controller and a smartphone. You may have actually seen Gartners work before, he was a major part of the new Space Pirate...
I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve written about a VR wave shooter. At their core, they’re all the same. Most of them don’t let you manually move yourself around, locking you in place. Enemies attack from a multitude of angles, racking up the stress and intensity. You often have an assortment of weapons...
NPR predicts that the number of global refugees will surpass 60 million individuals by the end of this year. To put that in perspective, the entire state of California has a population of 39 million people. The crisis has become too large and the stakes too high for this reality to be ignored. At least one organization is working...
Every once in a while you get to see not one but two legends occupy a single stage. It happened for music lovers when Billy Joel went on tour with Elton John. It happened for sports fans when LeBron James joined Dwayne Wade in Miami (he came back so I can talk about it again without retching)....
Mojang’s Minecraft has evolved in a lot of different ways over the last five years, but adding support for the Oculus Touch controllers should have been its most dramatic departure from the original survival formula yet. Sadly, that’s not quite the case. An update to the ever-popular game earlier this week brought Touch support two...
Tabletop Simulator (2015) and Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes (2015) are the two virtual reality-enabled games nominated for the very first Steam Awards. The winners will be announced on New Year’s Eve after a period of public voting. Introduced during the Steam Autumn Sale, Valve invited the community to nominate their favourite games for the first...
AxonVR, the company currently working on a full-body haptic solution for VR, are on their way to bringing their technology to an ever-widening audience. Announced today via an official NVIDIA blogpost, AxonVR says that the company’s fledgling haptic engine is actually built on top of NVIDIA’s PhysX, a middleware SDK that provides GPU acceleration for complex, real-time physics simulations....
For a gaming-focused headset, PlayStation VR already has a surprisingly large number of 360-degree video apps available on the PSN Store, but it’s been missing the biggest one: YouTube. That appears to be changing. Several Reddit users and a handful of Facebook and Twitter users are reporting that support for Sony’s headset landed on the YouTube...
Childbirth is universally recognized to be one of the most painful and stressful experiences that a human being can endure. One doctor, however, is beginning to use virtual reality headsets to calm his patients during delivery and create a more bearable childbearing experience. Managing discomfort during delivery is an ever evolving process for OBGYNs according...
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