It’s been a very weird week for VR content. Granted its early in the year, but across five headsets (Rift, Vive, PS VR, Gear and Daydream), there’s very little of actual note to play: E McNeill’s Skylight on Gear VR is probably the biggest launch of the week along with VR Nerds’ Lucid Trips on...
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Hands-on: PiMAX’s 8K Headset Proves that High FOV VR is Coming
Frank He goes hands on with PiMAX’s ludicrously high-spec 8k, 200 degree FOV prototype at CES and find the company has some innovative solutions to some of the substantial challenges driving a headset like this poses. While there were many perhaps questionable Chinese VR headsets shown off at CES this year, Pimax’s new 8K, 200...
Robot Heads, The Champ in Action, and a Mysterious Visitor – This Week’s Best VR Art
Welcome art lovers. Pull up a chair. Have some wine, some cheese and please don’t forget to roll your eyes whenever you hear someone say “Oh come on that’s not art! I could do that.” Of course this art gallery is merely digital so all of the wine drinking, cheese consuming and philistine mocking must...
So, You Got a VR Rig. Here’s All the Other Stuff You Need
Here’s a list of devices and accessories to enhance your VR experience. The post So, You Got a VR Rig. Here’s All the Other Stuff You Need appeared first on WIRED. Source: So, You Got a VR Rig. Here’s All the Other Stuff You Need
New HTC Vive Releases For The Week Of 01/08/17
We’re another week into 2017 and the new Vive releases are still a bit lighter than usual. There was no massive list-breaking entries this week, but we do have a game that steps things up in a specific genre. Wave shooters are a dime a dozen in the VR but Drunk or Dead takes the...
New Oculus Rift and Gear VR Releases For The Week Of 01/08/17
The sluggish start to the new year rolls into week two of releases for the Oculus Rift. Gear VR, however, fares much better this week with the launch of two intriguing new apps that should keep gamers satisfied. We’re still waiting for 2017 to kick it into high gear (pun intended) with VR releases, though....
Upload Throws High-Flying VR Party at CES 2017
2016 is over. That in and of itself is a relief, and hot on the heels of the new year was the Consumer Electronic’s Show in Las Vegas. At CES, entrepreneurs, innovators and brilliant minds from around the world invade the Nevada desert, bringing their best and brightest inventions along for the ride. It’s a...
Lots of VR Startups Are Going to Die But Investors Should Relax
On Wednesday, visitors to virtual reality startup EnvelopVR’s website were faced with a blunt announcement, and a sobering one for fans: “EnvelopVR has closed. Please use [email protected] for any inquiries.” One of the earliest VR startups, Envelop launched in 2014 as an effort to bring the traditional Windows desktop experience into VR, and drew the...
Oculus CTO John Carmack On The Stand: ‘I Am Not A Mac User Unless Under Duress’
We’ve had a writer in a Dallas courtroom following the ZeniMax vs. Oculus court case this week and taking notes. Covering a court case as technical as this is new for us, as is the fast paced back and forth of questioning, so we are planning to dive more deeply into the specifics of the...
China Bans ‘Pokemon Go’ and Other AR Games Due to ‘National Security Considerations’
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...
