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A big new player will enter the virtual reality arena next week. Valve has confirmed that it will use GDC to reveal what is described as a "previously-unannounced SteamVR hardware system". Although nothing is known of the new hardware as of yet, Valve’s dominance in the PC games sector means …
Read More »Virtual Reality will reach 11m users by 2016
Superdata research suggests significant early adoption of VR headsets in the coming year
Read More »Bill Gates: HoloLens is ‘the start of virtual reality’
But former Microsoft chief believes its will be "a few years" but potential of new headset is realised
Read More »VIDEO: See Microsoft’s concept for its Hololens VR headset
Hololens represents Microsoft’s long-awaited foray into the world of virtual reality, although interestingly the company has chosen to focus instead on augmented reality. In a demo at last night’s Windows 10 reveal, Hololens was revealed as part of the operating system’s push away from the desktop and tablet market and …
Read More »VR firm nDreams secures £1.75m investment
nDreams has secured 1.75m in investment to continue expanding its plans for virtual reality game development. The company aims to use the funding from investment business Mercia Technologies to explore publishing and acquisition deals for other VR titles. nDreams currently has five of its own VR projects in development, including …
Read More »AMD: Hardware power must increase 200x for VR photorealism
Despite the promise of photorealism in games, it could be a long wait before it is ever achieved in virtual reality hardware, says AMD’s chief gaming scientist Richard Huddy. Virtual reality is a staggeringly exciting field,” he told Develop as part of our in-depth feature onthe future of game graphics. …
Read More »Razer wants in on the potential VR boom with new OSVR headset
Yet another virtual reality headset has been announced – Razer’s OSVR. Razer is hoping to carve out its share of the increasingly crowded market by trying to construct an industry standard. Indeed, OSVR actually stands for Open Source Virtual Reality. At the centre of it is a VR headset going …
Read More »Oculus VR acquires start-ups, expands research team
13th Lab and Nimble VR now owned by pioneering virtual reality firm
Read More »French health agency says children shouldn’t view 3D games or video
The French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety (ANSES) has issued a worrying warning for parents concerning the use of 3D screens. A report advises that children under the age of six should never view 3D films or play 3D games, while those under the age of …
Read More »Technology is destined to ‘sit directly on our face’… which sounds potentially uncomfortable
Facebook’s VP of content and media partnerships has offered a somewhat unsual assessment of what the future of technology has in store. "If you think about the trends in computing technology over the last 50 years, we went from mainframe computers – which were very impersonal and distant – to …
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