After a long wait, Cyan’s Obduction [Review: 8/10] finally came to the HTC Vive yesterday, complete with motion controller support. Fans had been patiently waiting for this version of the game since the Rift edition launched last year but, sadly, it appears lots of people are having issues with it. Multiple users have taken to...
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Australian Man Wants To Set World Record For Longest Time Spent In VR
A lot of people can’t spend more than four or five minutes in VR without getting tired and needing to come out, but Australian YouTuber Jack McNee wants to spend well over a full day inside an HTC Vive. Why? For the same reasons anyone does something for a stupidly long amount of time; to...
Quark VR Shows Its Wireless Vive Streaming
All the way back in August last year we reported that Bulgaria-based Quark VR was working on a wireless prototype for the HTC Vive with some help from SteamVR creator Valve. At the time is was hard to believe but since then we’ve seen a flood of wireless adapters announced. Now, Quark is finally ready...
Wonderglade Gets French Restaurant-Destroying Game In New Update
Been a while since you’ve visited the colorful world of Resolution Games’ Wonderglade? You might want to take another look today; it’s getting a new update that brings in a rather unusual new mini-game. That mini-game is Bistro Basher, which sees players visit a French restaurant and then proceed to smash all of the produce...
IKinema’s Orion Offers Full Body MoCap On Vive With Trackers For $500 A Year
One of the most promising early applications for the HTC Vive Tracker we’ve seen is full-body tracking. Using two Vive controllers, the headset, and three Trackers attached to feet and torsos, you can get a pretty accurate representation of where your real body is in the virtual world. It’s great for gaming, but IKinema is...
‘Drop Dead’ for Oculus Touch Review
When Gear VR games are ported to the Rift, you usually end up with is more of the same; a game with nicer graphics and the added benefit of positional tracking, but more or less the same experience. However with Drop Dread (2017), Pixel Toy’s port of their critically acclaimed Gear VR on-rails arcade shooter, the...
Rock Band VR Review: Rocking Out Like Never Before
I was apprehensive about the premise behind Rock Band VR. As someone that has played every entry in the Guitar Hero and Rock Band franchises — as well as lots of DLC — it felt strange to me when I learned Harmonix would shake up the fundamental formula that makes Rock Band tick. Ever since...
Viro Media Is A Tool For Creating Simple Mobile VR Apps For Businesses
One of the biggest roadblocks to VR content creation right now is how complicated it can be, but there’s a small subsection of the industry developing platforms that make creating VR content a bit easier. Not every application demands the experience that more complex applications and games require to make and developers of these more...
You Want It Darker: What the Tribeca Immersive Lineup Tells Us About the State of VR
In recent months, a handful of speakers and leaders in the VR community have started positing that the medium can serve as a time capsule for future generations to interact with the current moment in a more interactive way, certainly besting those rotting boxes we buried in schoolyards in the eighties. If this does come...
‘Drop Dead’ Review: A Fun Arcade Shooter for Rift and Gear VR
Update: This review was originally published on 11/2/2016 and specifically focused on the Gear VR version of the game. As of tomorrow, 3/23/2017, it will be releasing on the Oculus Rift as well with a large update that also improves and expands the game for Gear VR. This review has been updated by Games Editor...