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It will take longer than some people think for VR to hit the big time, the CEO of CCP has said. While excited by the technology, Venture Beat reports that Hilmar Veigar Ptursson told the SlushPlay conference in Reykjavik that disruptive technologies always take longer to bed in than most …
Read More »Valve’s Anna Sweet heads to Oculus VR
Oculus VR has announced the hiring of former Valve member Anna Sweet. Sweet was previously responsible for business development at the Steam firm, covering both software and hardware programs, according to ablog post on Oculus’ website. She has now taken up the role of head of developer strategy and will …
Read More »Valve’s Anna Sweet joins Oculus VR
Former Steam employee new head of developer strategy at virtual reality firm
Read More »Virtual Reality: Face-forward versus walk-around
In the first in a series of articles delving into VR design, nDream's Patrick O'Luanaigh discusses the importance of player position in virtual experiences
Read More »Oculus Rift unlikely to launch this year
Facebook maintains that pioneering VR headset is "very much in the development stage"
Read More »2015 arrival looking unlikely for Oculus Rift
It’s looking increasingly unlikely that the pioneering virtual reality headset Oculus Rift will launch this side of Christmas. We have not announced any specific plans for shipment volumes in 2015 related to Oculus," Facebook CFO David Wehner told analysts, as reported by Gamasutra. Oculus is very much in the development …
Read More »Applications open for Valve’s Vive VR dev kits
Select developers will receive virtual reality tools later this spring
Read More »Ukrainian start-up MM-Company is making a virtual reality gaming chair
There’s another virtual reality chair in the works. As reported by Eurogamer, the MMOne is a gaming chair attached to a crane that allows for three-axis rotation to reflect in-game movement. Developer Ukrainianstart-up MM-Company claims that this is the world’s first interactive VR attraction. It works with Oculus Rift DK1 …
Read More »X-Wing and Crysis devs open new studio
Impeller Studios working on virtual reality title powered by Autodesk’s new Stingray game engine
Read More »Crysis, Saints Row developers form new VR-focused studio
Industry veterans David Wessman, Jack Mamais and Coray Seifert have come together to form Impeller Studios, a new independent outfit focused on developing VR titles. Wessman is known for developing the X-Wing series, as well as deigning Saints Row. Mamais has experience working on titles such as Crysis and Far …
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