This week marks the arrival of one of the pivotal VR gaming experiences, EVE: Valkyrie, on HTC Vive. Valkyrie is an immersive, visual feast with intense combat that you shouldn’t miss out on, despite the high price tag. We have a couple soccer games that mix up the formula a bit as well with Header...
Late night talk show host Conan O’Brien visits YouTube Space New York to check out their mixed reality VR lab. Although he can’t avoid the low hanging fruit of VR porn jokes (NSFW), he does seem to have a good time. Conan gets a tour of the HTC Vive filmed with a mixed reality setup. He...
Most high-end virtual reality headsets today use what’s called outside-in positional tracking. This means that they require some sort of outside camera, sensor or other location sensing aid in order to determine their location in 3D space. This system makes the headset dependent on static hardware, however, and so top engineers at Oculus, HTC and...
Yesterday, Google shook up the virtual reality scene by both announcing and releasing a brand new immersive experience: Google Earth VR. The response from enthusiasts was instantaneous and joyful. Earth VR is powerful, beautiful and provides the freedom of exploration that so many desire within VR. However, soon after the news broke it quickly became clear...
RIGS Mechanized Combat League, one of the major launch titles for PlayStation VR, is a combat sports game where you take control of a mech in an open arena with a collection of different modes including the American football-like Endzone and RIGS’ version of the classic deathmatch, Team Takedown. There are many solid experiences to...
Researchers at Stanford think that having a third arm in VR could make you a more efficient (virtual) human. So they’ve set out to learn what they can about the most effective means of controlling an extra limb in VR. Thanks to high quality VR motion controllers, are beginning to reach into the digital world...
Visual fidelity can go a long way in VR experiences. In a non-VR game, you lose a lot of the impact simply by virtue of the game taking place on a limited, flat, screen that’s disconnected from the world it’s displaying, but in VR, it surrounds you. You can really get up close and appreciate...
Edward Snowden is the infamous former CIA computer professional that leaked classified NSA information in 2013. His leaked reports about global surveillance inspired a great deal of conversation that continues to this day. Snowden has asylum in Russia currently, but many publications and companies speak with him to get opinions on different things. It’s no...
As we start to move out of the novelty phase of the VR boom and into a real industry, every game developer is asking the big question: How do I make a business out of this? For those folks that don’t have some mysterious benefactor funding their research and development or the backing of a platform looking...
HTC is making yet more moves in China today, announcing a partnership with the Shenzhen Municipal Government to kick off two new initiatives. The first of these is a new China VR Research Institute. The pair will look to develop breakthroughs in sensors, displays, graphics, data visualization, human-machine interaction and other areas at this site....
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