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DayZ and Ion dev says creating for Oculus and Vive has been ‘a real lesson in ‘back to basics’’
Read More »Eight vital VR lessons from NDreams
Find out why your framerate must be 90fps, your GUI needs to be chucked, and you need to render absolutely everything
Read More »McDonald’s is testing a $4 VR headset
‘Happy Goggles’ adopts Google Cardboard-like approach to entering virtual reality with a mobile
Read More »15,000 HTC Vive headsets sold in ten minutes
HTC has revealed some very early sales data for its upcoming virtual reality headset the Vive. The company has said that it sold over 15,000 units in just the first ten minutes after pre-orders went live yesterday. At the US RRP of $800, that’s $12m of revenue – $1.2m per …
Read More »Oculus hires Hulu and Flipboard exec as head of video
Eugene Wei will lead team dedicated to producing VR and 360-degree content
Read More »$3,000 HoloLens Development Edition launches in March
Next month will see developers finally get their hands on Microsoft’s augmented reality platform, HoloLens. An announcement accidentally posted ahead of embargo on Fortune (since pulled, viaReddit) revealed that the HoloLens Development Edition will open for pre-orders later today (February 29th) ahead of a March 30th release date. The kit …
Read More »Starbreeze profits slide as studio moves away from PayDay
2016 will see first fruits of developer's publishing arm and VR initiative hit its stride
Read More »Sony patents PlayStation VR motion-tracking glove
VR players may soon be able to have their real-life hand movements accurately recreated in game. A Sony patent is described at length in itsofficial paperworkas: Aglove interface objectcomprising at least one flex sensor configured to generate flex sensor data identifying a flex of at least one finger portion of …
Read More »Sony patents motion-tracking glove for PlayStation VR
Control solution for virtual reality comprises a glove filled with filled flex and contact sensors which translate hand shapes and movements into virtual objects and actions
Read More »HTC Vive virtual reality headset priced at £689 in the UK
A second VR headset now has an official UK price. HTC has announced how the $800 it is charging for Vive in the US will translate on this side of the pond. The number it has produced? 689. By today’s exchange rate $800 is worth about 576, so that’s a …
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