The latest Game Developers Conference State of the Industry Survey has revealed a spike in interest in virtual reality within the games development community. In last year’s survey, seven per cent of developers said that they were working on VR projects. This year, that has more than doubled to 16 …
Read More »$700m invested in VR and AR during 2015
Investment in the nascent technologies has grown continually for the last year and a half
Read More »Number of devs working on VR games doubled during 2015
Annual GDC survey reveals that number of studios building for PC and mobile has fallen, as PS4 and Xbox One gain popularity
Read More »Oculus’ Palmer Luckey to be sued for breach of contract
VR firm's founder accused of using information gained at Total Recall Technologies to accelerate development of Rift headset
Read More »Judge gives go ahead of Palmer Luckey breach of contract claim
The founder of Oculus Rift looks likely to end up in court over allegations that he used knowledge and technologies learned from a previous role in setting up his virtual reality empire. Reuters reports that US District Judge William Alsup has ruled that a breach of contract claim levelled against …
Read More »Crytek launches VR First initiative to encourage grassroots virtual reality development
Studio to offer full source code access to CryEngine for free to students and researchers
Read More »Tokyo VR Startups launches incubator for local virtual reality devs
Group led by CEO of mobile publisher Gumi aims to turn Japanese capital into a global hub for nascent platform
Read More »nDreams targets virtual reality publishing sector
Virtual reality studio nDreams wants to release other developers’ VR games. The firm has only published its own products so far, but now CEO Patrick O’Luanaigh wants nDreams to become the Team17 or Curve of the VR space. We are now looking for third-party titles,” O’Luanaigh said. We’ve seen great …
Read More »Google appoints new VP of virtual reality
Clay Bavor previously led apps division and Google Cardboard
Read More »Inaugural Vision VR/AR Awards announce finalists
Radial Games, Owlchemy Labs, and Kai and Tony Davidson tipped for Best VR Experience prize
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