The Gulf Between High End Military VR and Consumer VR is Rapidly Shrinking
In this video, the US Army demonstrates their proprietary Dismounted Soldier Training System (DSTS), a wearable VR system used to teach troops tactics and teamwork inside a virtual environment. It...
View ArticleHTC Vive Support and “New Morpheus Features” Coming to Unreal Engine 4
According to Epic’s Unreal Engine roadmap, the company is soon to add support for Valve’s SteamVR / HTC Vive platform as well as new features for Sony’s Morpheus VR headset. With strong existing...
View ArticleHTC Vive-enabled Unreal Engine 4.8 Coming next Week, Devs Can Start Work with...
Epic Games has today announced that the company will be releasing an Unreal Engine 4.8 preview build next week which will offer support for Valve’s highly anticipated SteamVR / HTC Vive. Epic says that...
View ArticleE3 2015 Will Mark Three Years of Incredible VR Progress
Arguably the games industry’s most important annual event, the Electronic Entertainment Expo 2015 begins in LA next week. As the final E3 before the retail release of three major virtual reality...
View ArticleOculus ‘Home’ Brings VR Enabled Games Portal to the Consumer Rift
Oculus showed off their solution for virtual reality enabled software delivery platform today when they gave us a glimpse of the latest version of Oculus Home. Oculus’ press event in San Francisco...
View ArticleThis Full Video of Valve’s ‘Aperture Science’ VR Demo is Wonderful and...
*** Warning: This Video Contains Spoilers *** Watch as an anonymous player works through Valve’s Aperture Science demo, built to demonstrate the capabilities of Valve’s new virtual reality technology –...
View ArticleThe HTC Vive is Coming to Gamescom 2015, Register Now to Try it
The HTC Vive is on the move. As part of the company’s ‘World Tour’, they’re bringing their Steam VR flagship VR headset to Cologne, Germany so that attendees of Gamescom can see what all the fuss is...
View ArticleHTC Vive Nominated for ‘Best Hardware’ in Gamescom 2015 Awards
Virtual reality hardware has set something of a trend at trade show awards over the last few years. Oculus in particular have traditionally cleaned up in the ‘best hardware’ category at shows like CES...
View Article‘Community’ and ‘Rick and Morty’ Co-creator Goes Wild for Making VR Soup on...
Creator of the cult hit comedy show Community, Dan Harmon, has raved about the new HTC Vive VR headset in a recent podcast where he describes his extraordinary experiences … making soup in virtual...
View Article‘GTFO’ Gameplay Reveals VR Fun with Physics and the HTC Vive
I’m a big fan of games which just allow you to enjoy the mechanics of a game space. Give me a virtual room, objects and some well implemented physics and I’ll get lost in my own sandboxed world, as if...
View ArticleHTC Vive VR Headset Gets New Branding as Tour Visits Taiwan
This week, the HTC Vive tour, bringing the SteamVR based VR headset to people around the world, makes a stop in Taipei, Taiwan with the expected suite of VR experiences in tow. Just one thing was...
View ArticleBig ‘Crystal Rift’ Steam Update Includes “Whole Game”
Psytec Games, the developers behind grid-based VR dungeon crawler Crystal Rift, have announced a big update to their Early Access release of the game, stating that all content planned for release is...
View Article7 Ways to Move Users Around in VR Without Making Them Sick
You only need 10 minutes with a keyboard and mouse set-up to find out that moving around in VR is completely different from anything else in gaming. Here we take a look at some of the techniques...
View ArticleVR’s Presence Strong at MWC 2016, Road to VR will be there
Road to VR will be landing in sunny Barcelona, Spain for its very first Mobile World Congress (MWC) this year, bringing you all the latest news to come out of the world’s largest exhibition for the...
View ArticleThe HTC Vive is Available for Pre-order Now
The HTC Vive VR headset is now available for pre-order from HTC’s website. We tell you where you what it is, where you can buy it and how much you can expect to pay. The HTC Vive is now up for...
View Article4 Videos That Take You Inside Valve’s ‘The Lab’
The HTC Vive is here, and we’re finally allowed to show you The Lab, Valve’s Portal-themed playground of VR demos that gives you a beautifully cohesive tour of what’s possible with room-scale VR. To...
View ArticleValve Proclaims “VR IS HERE” to Millions of Steam Users, New Vive Promo...
Valve is pushing the HTC Vive in full force today—no surprise considering it’s the official launch day of the SteamVR-compatible headset. Adding to proclamation that “VR is here,” which is smack dab on...
View Article‘DiRT Rally VR’ Launches July 11th, New Oculus Rift Update Trailer Here
DiRT Rally, the off-road racing sim from Codemasters, just got a brand new Oculus Rift trailer. Even better news: the VR version is officially coming to both the Oculus Store and pushing out to...
View Article‘Dota 2′ Releases Social Spectator Mode ‘VR Hub’
Dota 2 today released free DLC that lets you watch live and recorded matches from SteamVR compatible headsets. The new VR Hub adds a social component to the game that lets you and your friends watch...
View Article‘Tilt Brush’ Brings the Rave to Your Living Room with New Music Visualizer Mode
Tilt Brush, the virtual reality paint application from Google, saw an update today that brought with it a whole new ‘audio reactive mode’—now making your trippy creations pulse to the beat of your own...
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