ARM Holdings and Sensormotoric Instruments (SMI) are teaming up at GDC to showcase the potential of powerful mobile GPUs, eye-tracking and foveated rendering technologies in a new made-for-VR demo that will debut at GDC next week. ARM, one of the world’s leaders in microelectronic design and the company behind the enormously successful Cortex mobile CPUs and...
I used to think VR fitness was a dud. We talk about so many potential applications this technology has, but I just never saw the appeal of putting on a Rift or Vive and going for a workout. Surely getting hot and sweaty inside a plastic shell is a recipe for a misty, nauseating mess?...
It’s a new week and we have quite a few highlights that you should be aware of as you add a few more titles to your Vive ecosystem. Housekeeping VR is the biggest standout of the bunch, bringing 80s arcade flair to virtual reality as you completely destroy luxurious apartments with a collection of tools and...
While it might be slim pickings for Gear VR this week (as in, nothing very interesting), the Oculus Rift fights back with a vengeance. There are three new Rift games on Home this week and each is worth checking out in their own right, as well as the usual crop of new Steam titles. If...
Valve is increasingly opening its SteamVR Tracking technology—that which powers the HTC Vive’s room-scale tracking—to the world. The royalty-free system requires no permission from Valve to be embedded and launched as part of third-party products. And now one of the final barriers to entry has been removed: anyone can buy the development hardware to begin building...
Welcome to your weekly round-up of all things PlayStation VR (PSVR)! If I sound chirppy this week, it’s because we’ve actually got some new games to discuss. There’s been a high-profile release over the last seven days, along with an indie launch that might appeal to fans of The Playroom VR’s Robot Rescue. If you...
The 2017 Game Developers Conference (GDC) and accompanying Virtual Reality Developers Conference (VRDC) are right around the corner. Just like last year, they will run essentially concurrently again in and around the Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA. Panels and discussions kick off Monday 2/27 through Friday 3/3, with the Expo hall itself opening from...
You might not have heard of Finger Food Studios before, but the company sits at the cross-section of the Internet of Things, Machine Learning, Augmented and Mixed Reality. With a 25,000 square foot holographic studio, 100+ engineers, developers, creatives and business professionals and clients in various industries, Finger Food Studios is preparing itself for major growth...
Qualcomm and Road to VR are teaming up to kick off next week’s GDC 2017 with a gathering of VR and AR industry insiders. If you’re attending GDC 2017, join Qualcomm and Road to VR Monday evening, February 27th, at the W Hotel’s Living Room Bar, just a step away from the Moscone Center, for...
The world of roleplaying games (RPGs) is dominated by a few select developers near the top of the pile. Studios like Bioware, Bethesda, and Square Enix obviously come to mind as historical pioneers and juggernauts of massive, sprawling, roleplaying adventure titles, but all of those studios have embraced the modern era of RPG development. inXile...
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