Every once in a while I go back and watch Breaking Fourth’s Ctrl just to double check that it’s as good as the headline I wrote for it back in June 2016 promises. I see a lot of VR movies that fail to move past the gimmick stage, so it’s always a relief to watch...
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Sports Illustrated’s College Football Preview Issues Have AR-Enhanced Covers
Sports Illustrated announced yesterday that their latest series of issues previewing the upcoming college football season will have covers enhanced through the use of augmented reality technology. Using your phone’s camera and the Life VR app for Android or iOS. you can point your phone at the cover of one of four different Sports Illustrated...
A Standalone Vive that’s NOT Google Daydream Announced (for China)
Image Copyright HTC Corporation, image used under Fair Use Doctrine Not too long ago it was announced that Google had called in the help of HTC and Lenovo to be the hardware partners for its standalone Google Daydream headset. Each company would create its own unique take on the standards drawn up by Google to...
Gorn’s Hilarious Giant Mode Turns You Into An Enormous God Of Death
As if Gorn’s usual brand of skull breaking and sword slashing wasn’t enough of a guilty pleasure, the game’s Experimental branch reveals yet more options for you to toy with your enemies with. If you right click on Gorn in your Steam library, hit properties and then click on the Betas tab, you’ll be able...
Rez Infinite Updated Review: A Sight and Sound Excursion Into VR Cyberspace
Remember Rez? Originally a Dreamcast game way back when, it’s bumped around–mostly on Sony platforms–over the years. A kind of hypnotic, surreal rails shooter-meets-rhythm game, Rez has always been a kind of cult classic. As one of the premiere launch titles for the PSVR and now on Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, however, it’s about...
Watch Robot Spiders Attack in Vortex Ball, an AR Tech Showcase From Sturfee
Going to the bank is hell. You wait in line, the tellers try to upsell you, and the giant mechanical spiders won’t stop skittering out of their inter-dimensional portal. The citizens of Northern California seem unaware their home is under attack in a new video showcasing the AR game Vortex-Ball by Sturfee. Unlike other demos...
Watch Jimmy Fallon And Brie Larson Play VR Pictionary With Tilt Brush
Jimmy Fallon is getting good comedic mileage out of Pictionary, the party game of choice for people with too much dignity to play charades. Last night, for the fourth time in seven months, Fallon played a round of VR Pictionary with his celebrity guests. Fallon teamed up with Brie Larson of Glass Castle, while Tariq...
Rez Infinite Releases on Steam, Surprising Everyone
Image Copyright Enhance Games, Used under Fair Use Doctrine One of the best games currently available for VR, Enhance Games’ Rez Infinite has released on Steam and the Oculus store with no pre-release warning or hype, to the delight and surprise of Rift and Vive users on PC. The game is currently available for £15.99...
Report: PlayStation 4 Firmware 5.0 Adds VR Streaming Notifications
An early leak of the release notes for PlayStation 4 firmware 5.0 indicates that Twitch streaming at 1080p and 60 frames-per-second is coming to Sony’s high-end console, the PlayStation 4 Pro. Until this point, streamers were limited by framerate and resolution when showcasing VR titles. The improvements will allow Twitch viewers to see more accurate...
Lone Echo Post Mortem, Rift SDK Updates And More Sessions Set For Oculus Connect 4
Oculus Connect 4 is just a few months away; the developer conference returns to the San Jose convention center on October 11th – 12th. We’re expecting to see what’s new with the company during a busy keynote speech but, until then, an initial list of sessions and workshops has been revealed for the two-day event....