When simplifying the distinction between games played through augmented reality and virtual reality, just consider the environments. While VR video games provide us with fully realized digital spaces that we can maneuver within, AR experiences take our real life spaces and layers the digital creations over them. They both offer unique experiences with their own...
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EA Struck Down The ‘Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 VR’ Fan Remake
Just as the internet started to get excited about the prospect of one of the best PC strategy games of all-time, Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2, receiving a fan remake built from the ground-up for VR devices, Electronic Arts, the publisher behind the original game, stepped in to officially strike down the project. According to a...
How To Be Funny In 360 Video According to Andrew And Luke Wilson
Hollywood remains hooked on virtual reality. Brothers Andrew and Luke Wilson are the latest to make the 360-degree plunge. The pair co-directed a behind-the-scenes tour of Shinola’s Detroit factory, using Luke as the “man on the street” focal point for both the humor and the information that viewers will experience as they explore the massive...
HTC Claims It Sold More Than 140,000 Vive Systems
Last month a number started circulating suggesting the HTC Vive had sold 140,000 units. It turns out that in a conference call late last month to discuss earnings the company suggested it has sold more than that number. According to a transcript of the call from Seeking Alpha, the number “of course is higher than...
‘Alien Isolation’ Is The Best VR Horror Game You’ve Probably Never Played
VR and horror are a match made in Heaven (or Hell, depending on who you ask). I’m a horror fanatic, and always have been ever since I played the first Resident Evil on the original PlayStation. It was always that sense of atmosphere, immersion and fear of the unknown that kept bringing me back for...
HTC Confirms Each Vive is Sold at Profit, “Much More” Than 140,000 Units in Sales
In the company’s most recent earnings call, HTC confirmed it’s making a profit on each Vive headset sold, and that the company has sold “much more” than a widely reported 140,000 units. Following recent financial troubles from the tumbling smartphone portion of the company’s business, HTC points readily to their relatively new VR business as...
Oculus Touch Global Backorder Has New Orders Shipping 10 to 15 Days After Launch
The long anticipated Oculus Touch controllers launch on December 6th. If you’re just putting in your pre-order with Oculus today, you may not have your hands on the device until later in the month. Other retailers may still have unordered stock. Oculus opened pre-orders for Touch all the way back on October 10th. The $200 pair...
Daydream-ready Phone Minimum Requirements Detailed in Android Documentation
The latest Compatibility Definition Document for Android includes a new section specifying what’s required from a ‘Daydream-ready’ phone. Daydream VR is Google’s new high-end mobile VR platform, built directly into Android, but it only works with specially designed phones. For every major release of the Android platform, all the way back to 2009’s ‘Donut’ (1.6),...
‘Pinball FX2 VR’ Coming to Vive and PSVR Along with Walking Dead Table on November 29th
Pinball FX2 VR’s timed exclusivity with Oculus shortly comes to an end, with the game due to arrive on HTC Vive and PlayStation VR on November 29th. At the same time, the popular Walking Dead-themed table shuffles its way onto all VR versions of the game. As one of the launch titles for the Oculus...
Oculus Touch Day-one Launch Lineup Soars to More Than 50 Titles
Oculus today has confirmed that there’s more than 50 Touch-supporting titles ready for the controller’s launch next month. Photo courtesy Oculus Last we heard from Oculus, there were some 35 “full, made-for-VR games” launch titles that would be ready for Touch and Rift by the end of the year. Now the company says that the...