If events around the world have you in the mindset to escape it all, we don’t blame you. The immersion of VR allows you to escape into many different types of adventures, but this week we’ve got some peaceful experiences to try out. Perfect gives you a collection of beautiful locales to interact with and...
Between Fantastic Contraption, Herocade and the Battlezone update, it’s been a good week for PlayStation VR announcements, but what about releases? There’s a handful of interesting stuff ready and waiting this week, though nothing that will make you want to rush out and buy your own headset. It’s a pretty empty slate, but you can...
We’ve seen 360-degree media permeate into various entertainment mediums and industries. Companies use them for marketing and promotion, documentary creators are testing it out, and even news networks have gravitated to the format for new ways of reporting. We recently wrote about 20th Century Fox partnering with Felix & Paul for 360-degree and VR content for...
Suchworks Ltd, a UK-based VR and AR studio, just released skiing VR games Alpine Ski VR for the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. The controls themselves are easy enough to pick up, as you can see in the first couple minutes of this gameplay video put together by Steve Such, the lead developer at Suchworks...
Virtual reality e-sports do not exist yet in any sort of marketable form. The writing is on the wall that VR could be the next big wave in competitive gaming, but as of right now the proper combination of content, organization and dedication has yet to occur. One company that could help accelerate the growth...
nDreams’ The Assembly [Review: 7/10] was in development for a much longer time than many of the VR games you’ll have played in the last nine months. I remember first hearing the name of the adventure game all the way back in May 2014, where studio CEO Patrick O’Luanaigh name dropped it ahead of an...
Shooting a gun in VR is a pretty powerful experience, and the feeling of being able to look down the sights and blast away the baddies with a well-aimed shot is pretty cathartic to say the least. With games like Space Pirate Trainer (2016) and Raw Data (2016) at the forefront of the HTC Vive’s commercial release though,...
Here’s the difference that good presentation makes. When I got stuck in SVRVIVE: The Deus Helix [Review: 4/10] a few weeks ago, the murky, dark environments, bland textures and lack of a hint system meant I quickly lost my patience. When I get stuck in Unearthed Inc: The Lost Temple from Glo Inc, though, the vibrant...
The brain is weird. All it takes is a little bit of visual, audio, and physical stimulation and for all intents and purposes we can be tricked into believing that we’re in an entirely different place. What’s even weirder is when you combine all of those stimulations into making the brain think it’s somewhere familiar...
Over the past three years Magic Leap have been one of the darlings of Augmented/Mixed reality. The Florida start-up was valued at $4.5 billion and attracted nearly $1.4 billion in funding from investors such as Google, Andreessen Horowitz and Alibaba. And with the Augmented and Virtual Reality market projected to reach $162 billion by 2020,...
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