With Google, Facebook and Samsung all making forays into VR and AR technology, virtual reality is on the brink of breaking into mainstream culture. But long before it was available to the masses, VR was just another experimental technology only few had access to – and it goes all the way back to the 1990s,…
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Xiaomi may reveal a VR headset today
[Update] Instead of launching the VR headset, the company has launched a teaser video for the upcoming device on Chinese video sharing website, YouKu. The video doesn’t seem to reveal much about the device except for the fact that that headset will be launched on August 4. Xiaomi may be planning to launch a new…
How To Make A Dark Souls of VR
“The Dark Souls of X” is such a common cliche that there’s an entire Twitter account dedicated to mocking it. The phrase is usually an unnecessary substitute for saying a game is hard: Super Hexagon is the Dark Souls of mobile games, Super Meat Boy is theDark Souls of platformers, Homefront: The Revolution is the Dark…
Oculus: exclusive games are good for VR
Exclusivity is a complex issue for the gaming industry, and has been for quite some time. Although platform exclusivity of first- and third-party titles creates competition between the console makers, it also fragments the user base and forces gamers to either put up with the fact that they’re going to miss out on major triple-A…
HTC Vive prototypes – Revealed by Valve Engineers
If I had seen the below video as a child, I may have eagerly chosen engineering as my career. Make Magazine has not only uncovered the top secret prototypes hiding in Valve’s VR labs, but their interview with engineers Alan Yates and Monty Goodson is downright inspiring. The pair behind a significant majority of the…
OSVR wants its new headset to be a cheaper Oculus Rift
OSVR, the open source virtual reality initiative that launched early last year, is announcing a new headset it hopes can rival the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. Called the HDK 2 (for “hacker development kit”), the headset looks very much like OSVR’s original kit. But where the previous-generation HDK used a single screen, its successor…
HTC is selling a ‘business edition’ of the Vive VR headset
HTC is announcing a business-focused version of its Vive virtual reality headset. The Vive Business Edition will offer the same hardware as the consumer version, but come with a dedicated support line and the option to buy the systems in bulk. In return, customers will be spending quite a bit more: the system will sell…