Rebellion’s Battlezone [Review: 8/10] might use the latest VR technology, but it’s actually based on a very, very old game. A free update next week will pay tribute to that original release. Battlezone is getting a Classic Mode, and it’s designed to look exactly like the original Atari game from 1980, only with the added...
Update: Editor VR is now available to download for free as is an Editor VR Asset Pack. Unity says that its current uses include “laying out a scene in VR”, “Making tweaks to existing VR scenes”, and “Making adjustments to components using the Inspector workspace”. The company also provided an extensive starters guide to help developers get...
Nintendo continues to play with our emotions. The company has yet to outright state if its upcoming console, Switch, will support VR, but patents uncovered today suggest that it’s certainly possible in the future. NeoGAF user Rösti posted the patent online complete with various images and descriptions that match the new device, which allows games...
What do you get if you take Frank Miller’s Sin City, Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner, 2000AD’s Judge Dredd, and mix them together with the help of VR? The answer might well be Kingdom City Drowning. This is a new cinematic VR series built in Unreal Engine 4 from phoenixmirror. Designed for the Oculus Rift and...
‘Ground Beneath Her’ is about a young woman helping her family rebuild after Nepal’s 2015 earthquake. The post The UN’s New VR Doc Exposes a Forgotten Crisis appeared first on WIRED. Source: The UN’s New VR Doc Exposes a Forgotten Crisis
Welcome to part three in our “epic things Tim Sweeney says” series. In part one the outspoken founder of Epic Games warned us how dangerous collectivization could be for virtual reality; in part two he gave us our best look yet at how much Oculus is spending to fund VR content and now, in part three, Sweeney is...
Two of VR’s scariest games, Dreadhalls and Sisters, are finally coming to PlayStation VR in the 9-game bundle collection, HeroCade. The package is being published by Lucid Sight, a development studio that’s responsible for seven of the nine games included in the collection. Lucid Sight’s six existing titles — PolyRunner VR, 405 Road Rage, Zombie...
In 2016 three major trendsetters in virtual reality – Oculus, HTC and Sony – released consumer headsets. It took at least three years and thousands of developers to explore boundaries of VR technologies, create new interactions patterns and test various game mechanics. No new unique game genre has been created yet, but many existing mechanics...
HTC’s China Regional President of Vive, Alvin Wang Graylin, took to the stage at the Unity Vision Summit in Asia this week and made a series of bold predictions for where we’ll see VR in the next two years. In a presentation this week in Beijing, Graylin, who has been closely involved with HTC’s ‘Vive X’...
Twentieth Century Fox is no stranger to virtual reality or 360-degree media, having used the mediums for promotion of their recent sci-fi blockbuster The Martian. Thus, it’s no surprise that the film studio and distributor and their Fox Innovation Lab is partnering with a company specializing in virtual reality to develop more experiences for the...
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