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Games label Team17 is making its first foray into virtual reality with a new title from Three Fields Entertainment. Lethal VR is set for a November 8th launch. It is a virtual reality shooting gallery that Team17 says was built from the ground up for HTC Vive. The title is …
Read More »PopcornFX reveal middleware use in PSVR launch title
Persistant Studio's particle effects software used by Sony London Studios
Read More »PlayStation VR pre-orders in the "hundreds of thousands" as stock runs dry
Supplies of the PlayStation VR are running incredibly short after what Sony has described as sales totalling the hundreds of thousands”. The headsets are almost impossible to track down in the UK this week, with nearly all major retailers left out of stock. It’s not yet clear when stocks will …
Read More »Tiny sales forecast for Vive and Oculus in the US this year
Virtual reality may have to wait a while longer before it makes any meaningful impact on the market. VentureBeat reports that a forecast by Strategy Analystics predicts that just six per cent of Americans – that’s 11.4m people – will own a VR headset by the end of 2016. That …
Read More »Develop October 2016: The Virtual Reality Special
Print and digital editions out now, 60-page issue dedicated entirely to VR development
Read More »Carmack says VR can’t rely on novelty for long
Virtual reality developers will need to step up and start offering titles that offer more than just a novelty appeal. That’s according to Oculus CTO and industry veteran John Carmack, who told an audience at Oculus Connect that the appeal of the new cannot be the sole selling point of …
Read More »John Carmack: VR developers need to start judging themselves
Carmack suggests developers are coasting on novelty, should be working hard to lower bar to adoption
Read More »OPINION: Why PlayStation VR is virtual reality’s first real test
In his latest regular column, former Sony Studio London and indie virtual reality developer Dave Ranyard talks about the imminent launch of PlayStation VR. So, this is it. Next week, Sony launches PlayStation VR. This is the first real consumer test of VR. Yes, we have had Oculus and Vive …
Read More »Owlchemy labs unveil mixed reality, changing the way we watch VR
Great news for virtual reality streamers and developers
Read More »Is PlayStation going to dominate VR?
After years of hype and promise, VR finally became a reality for consumers in 2016. The year kicked off with the PC-based and expensive Oculus Rift and HTC Vive headsets rolling out. And in just a few weeks virtual reality is coming to the console space in the form of …
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