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You thought the last NX rumour was a beauty? Well get a load of this. As spotted by Nintendo Life, Digitimes reports that the first production for Nintendo NX components has now been pushed back to early 2017, having originally been pencilled in for the middle of 2016. The reason? …
Read More »Superhot VR is an Oculus exclusive for now
The VR version of time-bending shooter Superhot will be an Oculus Rift exclusive, at least for the time being. The game will use the yet-to-be-released Oculus Touch controllers. It has also been confirmed that simply moving will cause time to move forward, so players will be required to stand still …
Read More »Unreal Engine 4.12 introduces VR Editor and Daydream support
Real-time cinematics and animation tool Sequencer also introduced
Read More »Valve to release The Lab renderer for Unity
Full source code included for tool featuring reported 10 directional lights per pass, 8K shadow textures and increased performance in VR
Read More »Starbreeze acquires entire Cinemaware IP library
Payday devs plans to bring Defender of the Crown, Wings and more to StarVR
Read More »AMD announces $199 VR ready graphics card
VR-friendly specs for just $199 – that’s the selling point of AMD’s latest GPU. Until now gamers have faced the prospect of at least an Nvidia GTX 970 or AMD R9 290 if they want to make the jump to VR. They retail for north of 250. While many VR …
Read More »Xbox One VR announcement tipped for E3
Microsoft may have yet another surprise announcement up its sleeve for E3. It has already been suggested that the company will announce a new Xbox One Slim, an upgraded Xbox One and possibly even a streaming device (or two). Now is being suggested that Microsoft will also use E3 to …
Read More »MSI announces a PC, in a backpack, for VR on the move
The idea of a PC specifically designed to be lugged about on your back may seem a bit daft, but when paired with VR the notion suddenly starts to make more sense. MSI has announced the Backpack PC. The idea is that it will allow gamers to tether their VR …
Read More »Forget Vive’s room-scale VR, WorldViz is working on ‘warehouse-scale’ tech
Precision Position Tracking system will support up to 10 users in a 50x50m space, and is compatible with any Unreal Engine 4 or Unity 5 device
Read More »Front Defense is HTC’s first internally developed game
VR platform holder HTC is making its debut as a games developer with new VR title Front Defence. The title will be shown off at Taiwan’s Computex trade show next week, VentureBeat reports. The title is a tower defence game with players holding out against increasingly difficult waves of enemies. …
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