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Sony London Studio, Rocksteady and Rockstar devs joins VR studio
Read More »nDreams receives £2m in investment
Virtual reality firm nDreams has secured a 2m investment round and has invested in senior hires. The company has received 2m from tech-centric investment outlet, Mercia Technologies. These funds are to be put to further expansion. This follows the company receiving 1.75 at the start of 2015. nDreams has also …
Read More »Over half of stores think VR is not going to take off in 2016
Virtual reality is finally being released, but over half of UK games stores think that it is not going to take off in 2016. 55 per cent of shop managers believe that the new tech is not going to be a hit in 2016, with many saying that they predict …
Read More »John Lewis has started stocking a VR headset
Straight-laced, stiff upper-lipped, very-sensible middle class British High Street retailer John Lewis has got all modern, like, by adding a virtual reality headset to its shelves. It’s called the Freefly VR. It costs 49.95 and can be found on the fifth level of the store’s flagship Oxford Street outlet. The …
Read More »Why new VC firm Presence Capital is focused on virtual reality start-ups
$10m inaugural funding will be investing in VR and AR projects that could 'transform the world'
Read More »Valve’s HTC Vive VR won’t hit shelves until 2016
The virtual reality revolution has been delayed. With both PlayStation VR (formerly known as Project Morpheus) and Oculus Rift due out in the first half of 2016, Valve’s HTC-made Vive headset stood as the only of the big players scheduled for a limited release in 2015. With just days left …
Read More »7,000 extra HTC Vive dev kits to be released in early 2016
Commercial launch for virtual reality hardware set for April
Read More »Ubisoft Fun House’s Eagle Flight VR demo is now a full game
Fun House, the Ubisoft development arm founded to create more quirky titles, has revealed its first full game. Led by Child of Light creative director PatrickPlourde, Fun House was created as a spin-off of Ubisoft Montreal earlier this year in August and initially revealed Eagle’s Flight, an air-bound tech demo …
Read More »Ace Combat 7 to take flight in PlayStation VR
Latest in 23-year-old franchise is exclusive to PS4
Read More »Ubisoft Fun House’s Eagle Flight VR prototype becomes a fully-feathered release
Title features VR 'technology breakthrough' to combat motion sickness
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