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Virtual reality. It’s a phrase that’s often thrown around with both excitement and wariness – some proclaim it as the next big leap in gaming technology, while others question its potential outside of a niche audience. While the current wave of virtual reality may have started as the dream of …
Read More »Raptr launches Plays.tv video sharing service
Gamer-focused social network Raptr has launched a short form video sharing client called Plays.tv, securing a new round of funding to back the new service. Gamasutra reports on the launch of the new platform, which is described as a combination of Twitch.tv and Instagram. Players are encouraged to capture and …
Read More »AMD reveals new virtual reality tech LiquidVR
Graphics card manufacturer AMD has revealed its VR software development kit. The SDK is called LiquidVR and is designed to deal with some issues virtual reality has had thus far, including motion sickness. The way AMD is doing this is low-latency head tracking – in short ensuring that a player’s …
Read More »AMD enters virtual reality space with LiquidVR
Alpha version of SDK now available to registered developers
Read More »DirectX 12 will allows the use of Nvidia and AMD GPUs at the same time, rumours claim
It may not be one of its headline features, but an intriguing rumour concerning Microsoft’s DirectX 12 suggests that users will be able to use wildly different graphics cards in unison. Currently both Nvidia and AMD allow owners to use two or more GPUs in tandem using their SLI and …
Read More »DirectX 12 boosts frames per second by 600% on AMD hardware
An early look at Microsoft’s DirectX 12 graphics API has shown that AMD graphics cards – and potentially Xbox One – could be in line for a significant performance boost. An analysis over at Anandtech shows that AMD’s flagship R9 290X GPU enjoyed a near 600 per cent boost from …
Read More »Three senior execs leave AMD
GPU and CPU manufacturer AMD has parted company with three of its leading executives. Reuters reports that GM of AMD’s computing and graphics business group John Byrne, chief marketing officer Colette LaForce and chief strategy officer Raj Naik have all departed the firm. CEO Lisa Su, who was promoted to …
Read More »AMD: Hardware power must increase 200x for VR photorealism
Despite the promise of photorealism in games, it could be a long wait before it is ever achieved in virtual reality hardware, says AMD’s chief gaming scientist Richard Huddy. Virtual reality is a staggeringly exciting field,” he told Develop as part of our in-depth feature onthe future of game graphics. …
Read More »VR hardware needs to be ‘200 times more powerful’ to achieve photorealism
A look at the numbers behind putting the reality into virtual reality
Read More »‘We’ll have limited photorealism five years from now’
But numerous barriers need to be overcome before full realism can be achieved, says AMD's Richard Huddy
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