FuturLab sets out to develop a virtual reality game that its motion-sensitive staff can actually play. Development director Kirsty Rigden talks about the problem of sickness and explains how they beat it
Read More »Leap Motion raises $50million investment for hand racking tech
Series C funding for the VR/AR tech company with J.P. Morgan staff joining the board
Read More »Analysts on Oculus’ rumoured $200 VR headset: ‘smart’ or a ‘loss leader’?
Hot off the heels of Oculus’ temporary price cut to its Rift headset last week, a report surfaced on Friday that the company might also be preparing an even cheaper model of the Riftas a kind of budget successor. Currently code-named ‘Pacific’, the headset will allegedly bridge the gap between …
Read More »Oculus preparing cheaper $200 Rift successor
VR will make a big stride towards the mainstream in 2018 when Oculus releases a $200 standalone VR headset. That’s according to Bloomberg, which says that the new headset is designed to bridge the gap between cheaper entry-level smartphone based VR and high-end headsets that plug into PCs. Not only …
Read More »nDreams to recieve a further £2.7million investment
A follow-on investment from Mercia Technologies and private investors will help expand VR content creation
Read More »inXile Entertainment to get investment for new RPG VR game
gumi VR to provide funds for development of the new title from the Wasteland 2 developer
Read More »New studio Virtual Arts opened by ex ARM and Guerrilla Cambridge devs
New studio wants to revolutionise VR, AR and MR on all devices and will be creating technology as well as developing
Read More »Callum Underwood leaves Oculus, joins Raw Fury
Oculus’ senior developer of strategy has left the company after over three years. Callum Underwood confirmed via a blog post that he is joining indie publisher Raw Fury, where he will join former DICE CEO Karl Magnus Troedsson and former Destructoid head Hamza Aziz. At Oculus he was a key …
Read More »Report: Unity boss says VR/AR development is for those in for the long haul
PCGamesN's Julian Benson spoke Toni Parisi who said that getting in to VR was not a choice for an "economic argument"
Read More »Starbreeze believes VR success will come from outside the home
The early focus on virtual reality in the home has distracted from where its real success will come. That’s the belief of Starbreeze’s chief technology officer Emmanuel Marquez, who told VentureBeat that dedicated gamers will not be the catalyst of the technology’s eventual rise. Since day one I knew it …
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