The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim VR is available now for PSVR and PC. With hundreds of hours of gameplay between the core campaign, side content, and three expansions players will be able to lose themselves once again in the frosted wastelands of Skyrim. When Skyrim originally released all the way back in 2011 it was...
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Zynga lets you show off your CSR 2 race cars with augmented reality
CSR Racing 2 has been popular as a mobile game because it offers car racing fans the fantasy of collecting and owning their own cars. And now game publisher Zynga is announcing an augmented reality feature that allows players to bring those cars to life in the real world. Using Apple’s ARKit platform, Zynga’s developers...
CloudGate’s Virtual Self turns Vive Trackers into full-body motion capture devices
When game developer CloudGate Studio got its hands on HTC Vive Tracker peripherals earlier this year, it led to players kicking dinosaurs in virtual reality. It was a fun use case, but the company has much bigger plans for this tech. Its Virtual Self plugin enables developers to use one to three Trackers to provide full-body motion-capture...
Polyarc’s post-E3 mission: Making Moss’s cute VR hero feel real
Polyarc‘s adorable virtual reality adventure Moss stars Quill, an intrepid mouse heroine who fits in the palm of your hand and wields a sword. She embarks on a journey within the pages of a book of fairy tales, and as the Reader, your role is to help her out. You guide her throughout her journey, enabling...
What is wrong with Star Wars: Battlefront II? GamesBeat Decides
Star Wars: Battlefront II comes out this week, and a lot of people are already playing it and yelling about it on the internet. Numerous fans don’t like its business model and progression system, and they are letting publisher Electronic Arts know it. On the GamesBeat Decides podcast, host Jeffrey Grubb and Mike Minotti got...
Unity and Lionsgate find horror film’s VR ad can get your blood flowing
Unity Technologies and film studio Lionsgate have created a virtual reality advertisement for the launch of the Jigsaw horror film, and an analysis shows that, no surprise, a horror VR experience can really rattle your emotions. Unity created a VR experience to serve as an advertisement for the film, which debuted in late October. It...
Disney Pixar takes first step into virtual reality with the skeleton world of Coco VR
Disney Pixar is launching Coco VR, the company’s first virtual reality experience and a promotion for the upcoming animated film Coco. The VR app debuts today as an exclusive on the Oculus Rift, and it’s one more example of a large media company embracing the new medium of VR. Pixar has a reputation for excellence...
HTC Vive Studios unveils Super Puzzle Galaxy and Front Defense: Heroes
HTC continues to invest in new software for its Vive virtual reality headset, as the company today unveiled two new titles: Super Puzzle Galaxy and Front Defense: Heroes. The two new first-party VR games are coming to the Vive in early December 2017. Developer 2 Bears Studio created Super Puzzle Galaxy as a physics-based VR...
Tobii says eye-tracking could improve manufacturing safety
Tobii created its eye-tracking technology for controlling games and virtual reality applications. But it has since come up with another idea: tracking industrial manufacturing workers’ alertness in the name of safety. Tobii’s research division, Tobii Insight Pro, is today releasing an eye-tracking study it performed at the metal foundry of H&H Castings, a maker of aluminum...
MekaMon is a $300 battle robot that fights in AR and your living room
MekaMon is a real-life robot battler. Players use a mobile app on their iOS or Android devices to control a physical machine that looks something like a tiny Protoss Dragoon from Starcraft. An augmented reality mode in the app also creates a virtual world for the robot to inhabit. Developer Reach Robotics is launching it...
