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The battle to be the world’s most powerful graphics card is always shifting, and today a new beast sits on the throne. It’s called the Radeon Pro Duo, the unit houses two Fiji GPUs, amounting to 16 teraflops of computer performance and 8GB of on board RAM. Also included is …
Read More »Practical Magic, Fox and Ubisoft team up for VR Assassin’s Creed
Surprise – it’s based on the upcoming movie, rather than the games
Read More »VIDEO: ILMxLab unveils Star Wars VR experiment for HTC Vive
Trials on Tatooine is the first official lightsaber simulator in virtual reality. We wonder if it will be popular…
Read More »ILM unveils Star Wars: Trials on Tatooine VR experiment
Let’s face it – if anything is going to sell virtual reality, it’s the chance to prance about with a lightsabre. Industrial Light & Magic and LucasArts have apparently inadvertently unveiled an experimental VR title called Star Wars: Trials on Tatooine. A trailer briefly appeared on the ILM website before …
Read More »Virtual reality demo stations coming to Currys PC World
Consumers are to be given the chance to try the HTC Vive VR experience at branches of Currys PC World. Start Replay reports that an announcement looks likely this week. To date only three outlets are scheduled to get a permanent VR area – London’s Tottenham Court Road, the Reading …
Read More »‘Players won’t want to return to real life’: Colopl pledges dedication to VR
Rune Story publisher appoints former Kabam exec as US CEO
Read More »Elite Dangerous named as Oculus Rift launch title
Any lingering questions about Elite Dangerous’ support for Oculus Rift have been answered. The space sim has been named as an official launch title for the headset. Furthermore, as well as supporting cross-platform play for the VR, PC and console versions, existing owners will get the VR version for free. …
Read More »Sony admits that Oculus will offer better virtual reality than PlayStation VR
Spending a huge among on the very best or a bit less on something that may be good enough – that appears to be the choice that will face VR buyers this year. Sony has in an extensive interview with Polygon said that the Oculus Rift (and presumably HTC Vive) …
Read More »Analyst trims virtual reality sales forecast by 30 per cent
SuperData now reckons the new virtual reality sector will make nearly a third less money this year than it had originally forecast. VentureBeat reports that while its previous prediction pegged 2016 VR sales at $5.1bn, it now believes $3.6bn is more realistic. It says the change is due to an …
Read More »Develop Brighton host reveals new one-day VR event
Develop:VR will take place on November 24th in London
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