Lionsgate has announced a partnership with developer Starbreeze for a virtual reality first person shooter based on 2014 action movie John Wick. Starbreeze is to act as publisher for the title, which is in development for ‘multiple’ VR platforms. A ‘teaser’ version will be ready for the launch of Valve’s …
Read More »Time’s VR cover leads to outpouring of disappointment… and genius
If you haven’t seen it already, look below to see how Time chose to depict its cover feature on virtual reality. That’s Oculus Rift creator Palmer Luckey doing… something, on a (presumably virtual) beach, wearing a VR headset. It’s not an inspiring image, is it? In fact, it’s utterly absurd. …
Read More »No Man’s Sky studio considering Oculus Rift, Project Morpheus support
No Man’s Sky may support virtually reality headsets, according to Hello Games founder Sean Murray. Games Radarreports on an interview with Murray in the upcoming issue of Edge, in which he name-drops Oculus Rift and Project Morpheus VR headsets. I don’t know what I’m allowed to say. It’s something we’re …
Read More »Analyst: NX is Nintendo’s ‘social VR’ platform
Digi-Capital believes mysterious new device will help platform holder conquer virtual or augmented reality market
Read More »Someone has made a Star Wars VR demo
Film director Rob McLellan has uploaded a short fan demo for a Star Wars virtual reality game. The short film was put together by McLellans visual effects man Craig Stiff, and was produced by HammerheadVR Studios. It takes place across the original (and better) trilogy, featuring iconic scenes such as …
Read More »Sony: VR devs are not trying to change the world overnight
VR creators don’t expect to change the world overnight, says the head of Sony’s London studio. David Ranyard, who is currently building games for PlayStation’s Morpheus headset, likens the VR shift to when silent movies were replaced by ‘talkies’ – which took several years to take place. VR is such …
Read More »Nokia could be the next firm to launch a VR headset
Next week could see another big player join the ever-intensifying virtual reality fray. Former mobile manufacturer Nokia is set to take the wraps off its very own VR product at a big reveal event in LA, according to sources ‘familiar with the company’s plans’ talking to Recode. The company sold …
Read More »VR collapse is a ‘very real threat’
VR headsets could go the way of defunct game streaming services like OnLive. That’s the warning from Network’s Neil Young, a senior games industry veteran and founder of mobile games publisher Ngmoco. Young predicts that VR headsets will become a popular item, but not for another ‘three to five’ years, …
Read More »LumaPie wins $20,000 Big Data VR Challenge
Data visualisation content organised by Epic Games and Wellcome Trust comes to an end
Read More »Oculus acquires company behind hand-tracking interface
Virtual reality pioneer snaps up Israel-based firm to “advance virtual reality”
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