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Collaboration will see games firm and PC manufacturer work together on design, manufacturing, promotion, sales and more of virtual reality hardware to professional and location-based sectors
Read More »Unity Focus: Overcoming VR design quirks in Job Simulator
CEO Alex Schwartz explains how Owlchemy Labs made the tedious terrific
Read More »Six more universities bolster Crytek’s VR First programme
UK’s University College London and Manchester Metropolitan University among new locations to establish dedicated virtual reality labs
Read More »nDreams partners with Paw Print to co-fund and publish first third-party VR game
‘We want to be the Ubisoft of VR publishing,’ says firm behind Oculus and PlayStation VR title The Assembly
Read More »Samsung and Oculus’ Gear VR hits 1m users
Over one million people have used Samsung’s Gear VR headset in the last month. That’s according to Oculus’ blog, which says that in the six months since its mobile VR headset hit shelves over one million people used the new tech. Note – this does not necessarily mean that one …
Read More »nDreams: We want to be the Ubisoft of VR publishing
At the start of the year, nDreams announced that it was going to be publishing third-party virtual reality games. Now it has announced its first partner in this new venture – Paw Print Games and its currently-unnamed VR title.We talk to nDreams CEO Patrick O’Luanaigh about this new deal, as …
Read More »Mike Bithell: VR’s saturation means indie devs should return to mobile
‘Being away from where the herd is has always worked,’ Thomas Was Alone and Volume creator says
Read More »Testronic expands Warsaw QA and testing offices
50 per cent boost in size means capacity now stands at more than 550 stations
Read More »Fitbit exec becomes new Oculus COO
Oculus has a new chief operating officer in the form of former Fitbit COO Hans Hartmann. Hartmann replaces founding COO Laird Malamed, who is relocating to Oculus’ Seattle office to serve as VP and GM. Hans joins Oculus at an incredible time as we grow out of our startup roots …
Read More »Don’t expect much from VR for the next five years, CCP warns
It will take the best part of an entire console lifecycle before virtual reality starts to VR starts to strut its stuff commercially. That’s according to the CEO of EVE Valkyrie developer CCP, who has told Polygon that studios must be prepared for half a decade of hard graft before …
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