Trixi Studios have released a video demonstrating their latest project leveraging the AR and mixed reality power of Google’s Project Tango platform. The video features Star Wars: The Force Awakens character BB-8 and a gaggle of stormtroopers projected into reality and is one of the coolest things we’ve seen via Project Tango thus far.
Microsoft’s 5th Avenue flagship store has begun allowing select developers to demo the latest iteration of its HoloLens AR headset. This is the latest and longest stop on Microsoft’s HoloLens demo tour through the US and Canada.
Mike Gallagher is the CEO of the Entertainment Software Association, which is the political arm of the interactive industry. The ESA established the Entertainment Software Ratings Board in 1994 in response to criticism of violent content found in video games. They also won a Supreme Court case that established video games as a form of protected speech under the First Amendment. Mike suspects that VR will face a lot of political pressures similar to what video games have faced in the past.
HTC formally debuted the Vive VR headset to Chinese developers at a packed event last Friday in Beijing, China. The event featured speakers from HTC, Valve, and notable developers working with the Vive. One of the announcements to come from the event was a partnership to bring arcade-like Vive stations to China’s massive internet café market.
Having previously announced that the consumer Oculus Rift and Touch controllers would be available for pre-order in 2015, Oculus Founder Palmer Luckey today confirmed that pre-orders will hit “soon after New Year.”
Lunar Flight from Shovsoft, is one of those OG’s of virtual reality gaming, and a damned fine one too. We’ve not heard too much from the developer recently, but the game work on the game does continue. These new shots of the newly remodeled WIP cockpit have us itching to get back to the game.
Epic Games founder Tim Sweeney dropped a major tease about what we’re likely to see from the company’s ongoing VR efforts.
This what the retail version of 3DRudder, a unique motion controller designed that aims to “free the hands and lets the user do more”, looks like. And this is how much it’ll cost when it finally goes on sale at retail in March 2016.
On the path to eventually releasing the STEM VR motion controller, Sixense has released the Sixense Core API and SixenseVR SDK with support for the still-kicking Razer Hydra. Included in the release is 5 STEM demos which are playable with the Hydra.
Don’t put it off another minute, because today is the last day to order a Samsung Gear VR to get it in time for Christmas.
The Manus VR team demonstrate their latest experiment, utilising Valve’s laser-based Lighthouse system to track their in-development VR glove.
Oculus has announced via their official blog that “early builds of final Rift hardware” are shipping this week to developers alongside the Oculus SDK 1.0.
Today NVIDIA announced a new driver release bringing compatibility with its latest Gameworks VR 1.1, which in turn brings with it multicast GPU acceleration for OpenGL applications.
Futuremark, one of the biggest names in PC benchmarking software, has added VR rendering to their 3DMark program.
Survios, one of the earliest companies to spin up in this new era of VR, is today debuting gameplay from a new VR title that’s coming to the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. Inside, players battle robots in an “environment rich with interactive and destructible objects.”
