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It doesn’t look like Sony intends to release any motion controlled games in the near future, but PlayStation Move may yet have its day. The motion controller had by the end of 2012 sold in the region of 15m units – which isn’t bad considering PS3 sales stand at around …
Read More »How Oculus Rift plans to change the world
It may sound preposterous, but Oculus Rift has quite a bit in common with Nintendo’s Wii. The high-tech wizardry of VR may seem worlds apart from the more rudimentary implementation of motion control. Yet like the Wii, the Oculus Rift promises to seriously disrupt the video games market. And like …
Read More »Call of Duty devs open Reload Studios
Former Infinity Ward employees working on virtual reality first-person shooter
Read More »Oculus VR cutting off eBay sellers
Orders cancelled for anyone planning to resell Oculus Rift DK2 on auction site
Read More »Aliens will abduct you in Oculus Rift horror title The Hum
So survival horror is dead, is it? Upcoming indie Oculus Rift game The Hum disagrees. The successfully Greenlit game is set in the aftermath of an alien invasion which was preceded by an inexplicable humming noise. Players star as a survivor struggling for answers. But, something strange starts to happen,” …
Read More »Samsung VR headset pictured, called Gear VR
The next competitor in the increasingly crowded virtual reality sector has been pictured for the first time. It was reported in May that the Korean company was working on a VR device, but now SamMobile claims to have obtained the first picture of what will be called the Gear VR. …
Read More »The nDreams guide to VR design: ‘Treat your player like a real person’
“They’re not playing what you’re designing, they’re experiencing it,” says Patrick O’Luanaigh
Read More »VR support coming to Google Chrome
Google has confirmed plans to add native virtual reality support to its Chrome web browser. Following the news last week that Mozilla is planning on doing the same for Firefox, Google has already has released builds for Chrome that offer functioning Oculus Rift support. Compatibility with Google’s own Google Cardboard …
Read More »Sony is making a ‘significant investment’ in VR
Virtual reality is a serious part of PlayStation’s future, according to Sony’s UK boss Andrew House. "It’s definitely more than an experiment,” he told The Guardian. We’ve made some commitments; we’re putting significant investment into the product. "With Oculus we saw this groundswell of game development that didn’t necessarily have …
Read More »‘I could feel my body tense, my brain saying I’m under attack’: Virtual reality in Alien Isolation
We talk to Creative Assembly’s creative lead Al Hope about the Oculus Rift prototype that will give you nightmares
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