MMOne announced that the commercial version of its insane gaming chair mimics the motions that happen in a virtual reality game and makes you feel every twist and turn in a physical way. The Ukraine-based company wants to turn your VR world upside-down with a giant simulator arm that spins you around 360 degrees to match what...
The GAConf is a new one-day conference that will take on the subject of making games more accessible to gamers with disabilities. The event takes place on February 27 in San Francisco at the Mission Bay Conference Center. The host is the Game Accessibility Special Interest Group of the International Game Developers Association. It features a dozen...
This week, Travis and Stewart continue their Web Summit series of interviews with the fascinating Katia Beauchamp of Birchbox, the original box subscription service. We find out how the company has signed more than one million subscribers, and four million customers, in such a short time. We also hear how mobile has changed everything, and...
Virtual reality game creator Survios said today that its action VR game Raw Data will debut in VR arcades around the world in 2017. “The resurgence of arcades is a welcome development in the virtual reality arena,” said Survios vice president of business development Ben Kim, in a statement. “VR arcades provide an easy entry point...
One of gaming’s biggest trials in underway, with billions on the line. ZeniMax, which owns Fallout publisher Bethesda and Doom developer id Software, is reiterating its claim in a statement released today that Oculus stole from it to create the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset. ZeniMax is seeking $2 billion in damages. That’s the same...
Virtual reality may very well take us beyond such input devices as game controllers and joysticks. That’s where Hypersuit comes in. The Hypersuit is like an exoskeleton, a suit that makes you feel like you’re flying in virtual reality. You lie on it in a flying position, and you can move your arms about in...
Getting VR headsets into the casual user’s hands and households is one of the ongoing struggles of the industry. Other than the mobile solutions, additional peripherals are not at consumer friendly price points yet and likely won’t be for a while, but there are events being held around the world and even some advertising and...
China as a nation has a checkered past with the video game industry. For example, for almost a decade and a half, home video game consoles themselves were banned in the country, but due to cultural differences, internet cafes and VR arcades have all been booming as of late. As a result of this trepidation...
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will testify in court on Tuesday, January 17 for a potentially explosive lawsuit that claims the Oculus VR startup he acquired for $2 billion was based on stolen technology. The more than two-year-old suit against Facebook by game maker Zenimax has culminated with a public trial by jury in a Dallas...
The VR community was hit with quite a shock yesterday. Guerrilla Cambridge, the Sony-owned developer behind PlayStation VR multiplayer first-person shooter Rigs: Mechanized Combat League, was confirmed to be closing just a few months on from the game’s launch last October. Needless to say, shutting the doors to the studio behind one of the biggest titles...
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