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Virtual reality will have as big an impact on video games as motion controls, says GAME The statement follows last week’s GDC, which was filled with VR products including Sony’s Project Morpheus and Valve’s Vive headset. VR is the next big thing in the industry and as much of a …
Read More »Crytek ‘exploring VR right now’
MD Faruk Yerli says only CryEngine can create "true virtual reality experience"
Read More »Sweeney: VR won’t repeat 3DTV failure
Epic Boss says virtual reality, unlike 3D movies and television, "can be done perfectly"
Read More »Virtual reality gets its own ‘smellovision’ system
Virtual reality has been a major headline-grabber for the past week, but one company at GDC is taking it in a rather unexpected direction: right up your nostrils. Tech company Feelreal has invented a form of ‘smellovision’ for virtual reality users in the form of a mask that emits scents …
Read More »VR will not suffer the same fate as 3D TV, Tim Sweeney says
Virtual reality will not follow in the footsteps of 3D TV and fall by the wayside. That’s according to Epic boss Tim Sweeney, who told Game Informer that VR addresses the fundamental flaw that meant 3D TV was doomed from the start. "3D televisions were this concept that could never …
Read More »Feelreal invents ‘smellovision’ for virtual reality
Battery-powered masks emits scents to tie in with VR experience
Read More »Valve: We’re not saying no to a VR Half-Life
Half-Life 3 could come to virtual reality, says Valve. The latest statement from the firm will reassure fans, who have been eagerly awaiting news on the long over-due sequel. Earlier this week, HTC – which is building the Valve VR headset – said it was ‘working with Half-Life’. But it …
Read More »‘No motion sickness with Vive VR,’ claims Newell
Valve boss insists "zero per cent" of people will suffer from common complaint of virtual reality devices
Read More »Newell: SteamVR headset has 0% motion sickness rate
Valve reckons it has cracked the motion sickness problem that virtual reality headsets cause with a number of players. Boss Gabe Newell admitted to The New York Times that he’d reacted badly to previous demonstrations of VR tech, describing them as the world’s best motion sickness inducers”. However, the company’s …
Read More »AMD reveals new virtual reality tech LiquidVR
Graphics card manufacturer AMD has revealed its VR software development kit. The SDK is called LiquidVR and is designed to deal with some issues virtual reality has had thus far, including motion sickness. The way AMD is doing this is low-latency head tracking – in short ensuring that a player’s …
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