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Valve releases free VR creation tool Destinations
Users can create interactive worlds using photogrammetry assets and Source 2 tools
Read More »Oculus Rift exclusives come to HTC Vive thanks to unofficial patch
LibreVR plug-in ‘reimplements functions from the Oculus runtime and translates them to OpenVR calls’
Read More »Devs building with Oculus SDK can sell their games on Steam
Games won’t be pinned down to using IAP or marketplace of Rift headset maker
Read More »Valve wants to lower GPU requirements for VR
The virtual reality market might be opening up to a wider audience than first believed. Both Steam’s HTC Vive and the Oculus Rift have named the Nvidia GTX 970 or AMD 290 as the recommended cards for VR on PC. However, neither has yet specified their minimum requirements. And with …
Read More »Elite: Dangerous shifts focus from Oculus to SteamVR
One of the Oculus Rift’s earliest and brightest talismans has turned heel and backed a rival device. Eurogamer reports that developer Frontier has confirmed that its virtual reality development efforts are now being focused on Steam’s HTC Vive headset. Indeed, Elite Dangerous hasn’t been updated to work with more recent …
Read More »Valve’s HTC Vive VR won’t hit shelves until 2016
The virtual reality revolution has been delayed. With both PlayStation VR (formerly known as Project Morpheus) and Oculus Rift due out in the first half of 2016, Valve’s HTC-made Vive headset stood as the only of the big players scheduled for a limited release in 2015. With just days left …
Read More »Minecraft is coming to the Oculus Rift in 2016
The world’s biggest game will enter virtual reality next year. Brick-building blockbuster Minecraft is one of the games from moe than 200,000 developers that have signed up to create for the Rift platform, Oculus announced at its Connect 2 conference. Slated to launch next year, Minecraft VR will be the …
Read More »VR is currently ‘pretty expensive, relatively primitive’, admits Oculus Rift creator
VR might not be for everyone just yet, but you’d be a luddite to count the nascent technology out for good. That’s according to the 22-year-old creator of the Oculus Rift, Palmer Luckey, who recently candidly told GameSpot that those yet to be won over by headsets such as the …
Read More »Valve’s Vive VR to ship in ‘limited quantity’ this year
Full commercial launch set for Q1 2016
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