Little known fact: Legendary stealth series Thief once had a VR demo, but it never materialized into a full game. Hopefully, Unknightly can fill the void the series has left behind. It’s fitting that this experience from Portal Studios is a stealth game, because it slipped right by us when it launched in Steam Early Access late...
Last week UploadVR wrote about Modbox developer Lee Vermeulen showcasing Valve’s new skeletal input API for SteamVR. Using the original HTC Vive controllers, Vermeulen demonstrated an impressive replication of the user’s thumb movements. After many requests, the developer is back to showcase the same API running with Valve’s new Knuckles controller…Read More Source: SteamVR’s Knuckles controllers...
Valve is slowly starting to roll out the foundations for the next version of its SteamVR platform, and developers are already getting to grips with it. VR Arcade operator Tower Tag this week posted the below video. It shows six people, each wearing an HTC Vive Pro headset, using gun-shaped peripherals fitted to the Vive’s...
This week brought an unexpected surprise for VR fans; Ninja Theory’s excellent adventure game, Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice, is coming to the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive next week. Of course, whenever a PC VR game is announced, we want to know if it’s coming to Sony’s PSVR, too. Sadly, that won’t be happening in this...
Full-body tracking was once the stuff of movie studios and theme parks, but thanks to the proliferation of low-cost motion sensors, gyroscopes, and accelerometers, it’s finally beginning to trickle down to the consumer space. Trackstrap sells a product that works with the HTC Vive virtual reality (VR) headset, as does Perception Neuron. And f…Read More...
SpecialEffect’s third annual fundraiser One Special Day is coming up soon, and the U.K.-based nonprofit is inviting the industry to contribute their sales to the cause. This year’s event will be on September 28. In 2017, SpecialEffect raised $621,777 thanks in part due to publishers and developers who pledged to have 100 percent of thei…Read More...
Details on Magic Leap’s new spatial computing platform are continuing to trickle out as it comes closer to its summer deadline for shipping developer units. This week, we’re getting a first look at Magic Leap One’s 2D and 3D user interfaces, including Landscape and Immersive apps, which were found by TechCrunch in the company…Read More Source:...
For me, summer used to be time to spend outdoors. Big video games didn’t debut when kids like me were growing up and going outside to play. Our parents encouraged us to go outside. But now we can take our games with us anywhere, and I like nothing more than taking them on the big...
GUEST: Ask anyone that has experienced a true, high-production virtual reality experience and nearly all can remember our “first time.” The immersive nature of the technology tends to evoke such a visceral response that it often remains with us long after our dive into the virtual realm. Most people I’ve spoken with recall even mo…Read...
Jeff Minter has made great games for decades, but his reboot of Atari’s 1980 arcade game Tempest made him an international icon — and gave Atari a killer app for the “64-bit” Jaguar console. Now that Atari itself is rebooting, Minter has returned to give the company a crown jewel in the form of Tempest...
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