At the beginning of last year, it was proclaimed by several publications (and wondered by ourselves) that 2016 was to be the “Year of Virtual Reality”, the year that the potential and promise of a virtual future would be realised. While there is certainly debate about how ultimately true, it was clear that 2016 was...
Unique first person action game Superhot VR will receive an update in February to add more challenges, ways of playing and even more difficulty. In an update posted to Oculus’ website, Oculus and the Superhot team announced new modes added to the main story. This included time trials, aiming challenges and faster enemies giving the...
The technology world is always a game of rivals. For every Facebook there is a Twitter. For every Nintendo there is a Sega and for every Apple there is a Microsoft. This latter pair is perhaps the best representation of tech rivals in Silicon Valley. These two monolithic companies have been warring in the personal computer space for...
Welcome to this week’s virtual reality art roundup! This is our chance every week to highlight some of the best VR art that we have seen in the past seven days. Submissions are shown using Sketchfab, an innovative platform for hosting 3D artwork and making it available in interactive 36o degrees. This week’s creations were made using...
It’s hard to be on the web these days and not see something about the impact of virtual reality on just about any industry, or the next big wave in VR in general. Being in the space directly, it’s very easy to get desensitized to it and a little jaded as well. People are shouting...
Vive Studios and Grab Games launched Knockout League this week to bring arcade boxing to virtual reality. Grab Games made the classic boxing game for VR, and Vive Studios is publishing it today on early access on Steam for the HTC Vive. HTC is investing heavily in VR, which could be a $25 billion market by 2021,...
Look, I get it, it’s been a rough start to the year of PlayStation VR. A few weeks of drought finally ended last Tuesday when Resident Evil 7 launched, and the lack of big releases in December have some feeling the headset is starting to get left behind a little. Add to that the closure...
This week the eyes of the virtual reality industry are on a federal court in Dallas, Texas where ZeniMax (and child company id Software) and Facebook (and child company Oculus) have been engaged in legal battle over a dispute which could cost Facebook $4 billion. ZeniMax alleges that a former employee used VR code that it...
Capcom’s latest entrant to its popular Resident Evil franchise is currently being played in VR by almost 10% of its players, according to global statistics from the developer. Resident Evil 7: Biohazard is Capcom’s long awaited sequel to the company’s hugely popular survival horror franchise and it’s been warmly received by fans and critics since...
Virtualitics is new company started by NASA JPL and Caltech alum. offering a new platform to leverage the immersive properties of virtual reality in order to better aid human comprehension and use of ‘Big Data’. You’ve likely heard the term ‘Big Data’. Despite the phrase being coined perhaps as early as the mid nineties, with...
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