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One of the Oculus Rift’s earliest and brightest talismans has turned heel and backed a rival device. Eurogamer reports that developer Frontier has confirmed that its virtual reality development efforts are now being focused on Steam’s HTC Vive headset. Indeed, Elite Dangerous hasn’t been updated to work with more recent …
Read More »Ubisoft teams with Elijah Wood’s SpectreVision for VR
A production company founded by Elijah Wood, Daniel Noah and Josh Waller is working with Ubisoft to produce virtual reality content. The announcement was made at the Sundance Film Festival. Ubisoft’s FunHouse Studio in Montreal is leading development duties. We’re thrilled to partner with an industry leader like Ubisoft to …
Read More »Developer interest in VR doubles, while Nintendo is in decline
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 …
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