Another year has brought another festival of the future in the form of the winter Consumer Entertainment Show. Amidst the curved televisions, 8k, Bluetooth toasters and robots that can do anything from nannying kids to playing Cards Against Humanity, VR had an important presence at CES, with a mix of interesting experiments to technological boosts...
For reasons that stretch beyond what we can think up, Oculus wouldn’t recommend you use any third-party equipment to enhance your Rift setup. Except it does really. In a blog post today, the final in its series looking at getting the most out of Roomscale VR, the company has shared some suggestions for equipment you...
As it stands, the Roman Colosseum is one of the most impressive historical sites you can lay your eyes on. But imagine if you could see it in its full glory, as it was built nearly two thousand years ago. Lithodomos VR wants to give you this kind of experience using headsets and, today, it’s...
Listing off minimum and recommended specifications is one thing, but if you want to know just how ‘VR ready’ your PC truly is you’ll need to benchmark it. To do that, you want professional software. We already saw Futuremark’s VRMark launch last November, but today sees the release of VRScore from Finland-based Basemark, developed with...
Basemark has officially launched its virtual reality performance benchmark, VRScore and the package comes complete with an ingenious, low-cost hardware assisted solution to help ensure results are accurate. I’ve written previously about how tough a problem benchmarking virtual reality hardware and software accurately really is. VR’s tight integration between hardware, application and drivers mixed with...
Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes is an undeniably fun VR party game that you can play together with a big group with only one VR headset. Now the game has added much requested support for both Vive and Rift’s VR controllers. In Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes, the player wearing the VR headset will find...
Achieving a wide field of view in an AR headset is a challenge in itself, but so too is fixing the so-called vergence-accommodation conflict which presently plagues most VR and AR headsets, making them less comfortable and less in sync with the way our vision works in the real world. Researchers have set out to...
According to a report by The Verge, HTC’s VP of Design is leaving the company to join up with Google’s Daydream VR team. Having joined the company in 2008, in recent year’s HTC’s VP of Design, Claude Zellweger, played a key role in the design of the Vive headset, The Verge reports. Now he’s taking that...
Over the course of the last 50 years, capital markets have significantly codified a generational model approach consumer technology products. New “generations” of products are expected to come at a regular pace and provide increased features and reliability at the same prices. But depending upon the product type, the typical life cycle from one generation to...
In news that will delight fans of questionable cyberpunk films from the 1990s, seminal CGI film and VR influence The Lawnmower Man is coming to Virtual Reality as a multiple episode VR series. Inspired by the 1992 film legally proven not to be based on a Stephen King story of the same name, the Virtual...
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