Tag Archives: virtual reality

Epic Boss says virtual reality, unlike 3D movies and television, "can be done perfectly"

Virtual reality has been a major headline-grabber for the past week, but one company at GDC is taking it in a rather unexpected direction: right up your nostrils. Tech company Feelreal has invented a form of ‘smellovision’ for virtual reality users in the form of a mask that emits scents …

Virtual reality will not follow in the footsteps of 3D TV and fall by the wayside. That’s according to Epic boss Tim Sweeney, who told Game Informer that VR addresses the fundamental flaw that meant 3D TV was doomed from the start. "3D televisions were this concept that could never …

Battery-powered masks emits scents to tie in with VR experience

A close-up look at the latest contender in VR

Valve boss insists "zero per cent" of people will suffer from common complaint of virtual reality devices

Valve reckons it has cracked the motion sickness problem that virtual reality headsets cause with a number of players. Boss Gabe Newell admitted to The New York Times that he’d reacted badly to previous demonstrations of VR tech, describing them as the world’s best motion sickness inducers”. However, the company’s …

Graphics card manufacturer AMD has revealed its VR software development kit. The SDK is called LiquidVR and is designed to deal with some issues virtual reality has had thus far, including motion sickness. The way AMD is doing this is low-latency head tracking – in short ensuring that a player’s …

A brand new GeForce Titan graphics card has been announced by Nvidia. The company took to the GDC stage to reveal its Titan X, which packs a massive 12GB of video memory. Current high-end GPUs typically offer between 3GB and 6GB of VRAM. Little else is known about the specs, …

Prototype of strange device features two wand-like controllers