On Monday I found myself in a familiar place: a well furnished, well carpeted room full of amazing new VR games. The orchestrator of all this comfortable setting was Oculus — the Facebook-owned VR company. Within Oculus itself is Oculus Studios, a dedicated VR content producer and publisher committed to facilitating high-quality VR experiences through creativity, studio…
Month: February 2017
First Update for ROM: Extraction Brings New Rifle, Level and Destructible Scenery
December 2016 saw newly formed studio, First Contact Entertainment release its fledgling virtual reality (VR) title, ROM: Extraction for Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. Now the team has released its very first expansion for the videogame called Overrun. The update adds a selection of new features, primarily there’s a new weapon, the two-handed EOS-15 rifle, a new…
‘AR/VR Austin’ 2017 to Explore Political Climate & its Impact on the VR/AR Industry
AR/VR Austin returns for its third successive year, presenting a mini-conference named ‘Alternative Realities’. Taking place as an unofficial event during the SXSW 2017 festival on March 11th, this year’s event will question the impact of social and political change on the AR/VR industry. Following last year’s celebration of technology innovation, the AR/VR Austin event…
GDC 2017: SMI Is Working With Valve To Bring Eye-Tracking To OpenVR
Eye-tracking is arguably one of the most important pieces of VR’s future, and SensoMotoric Instruments (SMI) and Valve are working together to bring the tech closer to reality. As reported by Tom’s Hardware, SMI partnered with Valve to integrate its eye-tracking tech into OpenVR SDK and API, which will allow other companies to implement support…
GDC 2017: Google Daydream Support Coming To Unity On March 31st
At GDC 2017, Unity held a keynote discussing their impact on the gaming industry, future updates to the engine, and much more. The Unity engine and titular company have been very accommodating when it comes to VR development, having added a feature that even allows developers to work within VR and provided the framework that makes it…
Featured 360°: NASA, The Arrival and Heroes from Sundance
Featured 360° is an ongoing series to highlight some of our favorite videos from creators and brands for you to enjoy during the week. For this week’s installment of Featured 360°, explore NASA’S newly discovered planetary system, take a step inside the Arrival’s other worldly spacecraft and get up close and personal with the dancers from Heroes….
Unity/VR developer at Specular Theory (Los Angeles, CA, United States)
Entry-level Unity/VR developer wantedA VR game development studio is looking for an entry-level Unity developer to work on VR games. This developer will… Source: Unity/VR developer at Specular Theory (Los Angeles, CA, United States)
Unity Reveal Details On It’s Growth Since Unity 5 Launch
Unity Technologies CEO John Riccitiello revealed some numbers and statistics regarding the Unity videogame engine’s growth over the past two years during the Unity keynote speech at GDC today. Unity version 5 launched at GDC two years ago. Since then, Unity has added more than 40% more customers to it’s user base, though the number…
Unity Announces Search For First Artist In Residence
During the Unity keynote speech at GDC today, Principal Designer for Unity Labs, Timoni West announced during her presentation that Unity would be commencing the search for their first ever Artist In Residence. West said of the announcement; “Unity is proud to support artists who are pioneering the intersection between technology and art. We’re looking…
Job Simulator Is Getting A Talking JobBot Plushie And Other Merch
Job Simulator’s instruction-giving JobBots might be the most abused characters in all of VR. We throw things as them, tell them to shut up and generally try to ignore them. It must be horrible to actually be them. Now you can do all of those things in real life too. Videogame merchandise company iam8bit today…
Force Field VR Announce Third-Person Stealth and Hacking Game Term1nal
Virtual reality (VR) videogame developer Force Field VR have announced a new game exclusively for the Gear VR called Term1nal. Force Field VR have had previous success with Landfall and are now branching out into action-stealth gameplay. In Term1nal the player has to hack into the controls of an experimental robot and use it to…
AMD GPUs to Support Asynchronous Reprojection via SteamVR
Announced at AMD’s GDC 2017 press conference, Radeon GPUs will support Asynchronous Reprojection on SteamVR in the next update. The technology helps to maintain smooth head motion when framerate drops below the headset’s refresh rate. Roy Taylor, Corporate Vice President – Alliances at AMD took to the stage with some passionate announcements about AMD and…
Unity Announce EditorVR Contest, XR Foundation Toolkit To Aid Developers
Today in a busy keynote speech at Game Developer Conference (GDC) in San Francisco, California virtual reality (VR) as well as other forms of immersive creation were very much on the table for discussion for Unity Technologies. Who revealed a number of announcements, as well as guest speakers (including Job Simulator developers Owlchemy Labs) to…
GDC 2017: Raw Data Studio Announces Sprint Vector – Blazing Fast VR
At GDC 2017, virtual reality gaming studio Survios is announcing Sprint Vector — a brand new experience focusing on one thing above all else: speed. Survios is one of the very few VR studios that we can say definitively have been successful. Since the launch of the HTC Vive headset last year, the team has…
Raw Data Developer Survios Announce New Title At GDC
Los Angeles-based videogame developer Survios unveiled at GDC today that they are working on a new game called Sprint Vector, which will be available for demonstration at their booth at GDC. Sprint Vector is essentially an athletics competition, though on an extreme scale. Players can expect to find themselves racing head-to-head across deadly inter-dimensional courses,…
VR Cover Launch New Hygiene Product For PSVR
VR Cover, a manufacturer of hygiene products for virtual reality (VR) devices, have just announced a new product designed specifically for the PlayStation VR (PSVR). It will be the first PSVR product the manufacturer has released. The PSVR is generally already seen as one of the most comfortable head mounted display (HMD) units due to…
ROM: Extraction Gets New Level In Free Overrun Upate
ROM: Extraction from First Contact was already one of the more polished shooters for the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, and today it’s getting even more content. The developer, which is comprised of former Call of Duty developers, announced the launch of Overrun, a free update that adds a new chapter. As the name suggests,…
Oculus Reveals 6 New VR Titles for Rift & Gear VR at GDC 2017
Debuted at GDC 2017 and announced via their official blog, Oculus offer a first look at some of the titles coming to Rift and Gear VR in 2017. This includes 6 new game reveals across multiple genres, with 4 optimised for Touch and 2 “must haves” for Gear VR. Having recently teased ‘months of high-profile…
First Look At Gunfire Games Co-Op Shooter From Other Suns
Gunfire Games has announced a new space-based co-operative shooter that combines elements of crew management, first-person shooters and loot gathering. From Other Suns is being demonstrated this week at GDC. The game is still in development and some features are currently missing from the build, such as inter-ship combat, which Gunfire says will be implemented…
Unity 3.6 Dated, Set To Introduce Google Daydream and Cardboard Support
Unity announced at GDC that they will be introducing support for Google Daydream and Google Cardboard for both Android and iOS for it’s unity Game engine. The announcement was made by Lucas Meijer, Technical Director for Unity as part of their keynote speech at GDC today. “Obviously as with every release there’s always some news…
GDC: 2017: New VR Strategy Game Blade & Soul Table Arena From Ncsoft
The most memorable part of Blade & Soul Table Arena wasn’t the game itself — which is a lot like Dragon Front if it leaned toward real-time strategy more than a trading card game. Blade & Soul is a massively multiplayer online game that premiered in Korea from Ncsoft. This Table Arena game, though, is…
Oculus Touch Gets Strategic With New RTS With Brass Tactics
Hidden Path Entertainment have combined elements of traditional table-top wargaming with computer real-time strategy to create Brass Tactics, a virtual reality (VR) RTS exclusive to Oculus Touch. Brass Tactics was premiered at GDC during the Oculus Studios event. Gameplay for the demo involved one-on-one army combat, with each commander at one end of a huge…
NCSoft Announces Blade and Soul: Table Arena
South Korean developer NCSoft have announced that they are developing a spin-off from MMORPG Blade and Soul, which will combine the essence of a collectable card game (CCG) and real-time strategy (RTS) genres. NCSoft are largely known for their work on popular MMOs such as Guild Wars and City of Heroes. They are now venturing…
AngularJS Developer at Toptal LLC (Anywhere)
About Toptal Toptal is one of the most innovative and rapidly expanding tech start-ups from Silicon Valley. With backing from investors such as… Source: AngularJS Developer at Toptal LLC (Anywhere)
Robo Recall High Score Contest At GDC Presents Opportunity to Win Oculus Bundle
Attendees at GDC this week will have the opportunity to win a full Oculus bundle for getting the high score on Epic Games’ Oculus Touch offering, Robo Recall. GDC attendees have the opportunity to take part by going to the Nvidia, Oculus or Epic Games booths in South Hall. Each day the person who gets…
GDC 2017: Here’s Every New Game Oculus Announced Today
Oculus has said before that 2017 is all about content for its VR headsets, and it sure proved it today. As part of its showcase for this year’s Game Developers Conference (GDC), the company revealed a slate of new titles heading to both the Oculus Rift and Gear VR in the coming year. There’s a…
GDC 2017: Landfall Team’s Next Game is Term1nal – A Stealthy Gear VR Adventure
I’ve always wanted to be a hacker. No, not a boring, real life hacker that has to spend hours writing competent code and squashing bugs. I want to be the kind of hacker that types fast and breaks the firewall all while wearing sunglasses and a black leather jacket. Fortunately for me, that’s the exact kind…
GDC 2017: From Other Suns is a Procedurally Generated Multiplayer Starship Simulator
From Other Suns, a brand new VR title by Gunfire Games, draws heavy inspiration from several existing concepts and combines them all together, effortlessly, into a fresh and shiny package. It’s got the ship and crew management of games like Star Trek: Bridge Crew and FTL, it’s got the cooperative first-person shooter elements of games like…
25 Minutes of New ‘ARKTIKA.1’ Oculus Touch Gameplay
Launching exclusively on the Oculus Rift in Q3 2017, ARKTIKA.1’s polish and presentation has quickly risen it up the ranks to one of the year’s most anticipated VR titles. And though it’s still months away, we’ve got a new glimpse at a chunk of the game’s opening mission. From 4A games, the creators of Metro…
GDC 2017: Augmented Empire Mixes X-COM With Mass Effect
Strategy gamers have to keep on their toes. You need a keen tactical mind to prevail in RPGs like XCOM and the original Fallouts, thinking two steps ahead of the enemy at all times, or suffering the consequences. That’s why it’s important to play lots of them, to keep your mind sharp and your wits…