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The addition of a camera system has been revealed as the technological ‘breakthrough’ that has held up the launch of the HTC Vive virtual reality headset. HTC revealed just before Christmas that the Vive would miss its 2015 launch date due to what was described as a very big technological …
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GTX 970 is minimum graphics card needed for VR, Nvidia reveals
‘VR Ready’ badge introduced in effort to make nascent technology more accessible
Read More »HTC Vive was delayed due to ‘very big technological breakthrough’
One of the big three players in virtual reality claims to have made a big tech discovery worthy of delaying the product. HTC said earlier this week that its Vive headset, being made in collaboration with Valve, would miss its late 2015 release date and instead ship commercially in April …
Read More »PlayStation VR requires near ‘Wii size’ processing unit
Update: The external processing unit has actually been part of the PlayStation VR demo set since the device was first unveiled to the world. Original Story: Sony’s VR revolution will require additional hardware alongside the PlayStation VR headset and the PS4. Polygon reports that the headset will in face plug …
Read More »7,000 extra HTC Vive dev kits to be released in early 2016
Commercial launch for virtual reality hardware set for April
Read More »Analyst predicts 70m VR headset sales by the end of 2017
The jury remains out on the real market potential of virtual reality but analyst Superdata thinks it’s going to be a BIG hit. VG247 reports that the company has predicted that a whopping 70m VR headsets will have been purchased by the end of 2017. This represents around $8.8bn in …
Read More »What exactly was PlayStation up to in Paris? Find out in the latest issue of MCV
Whismical animal titles, make-it-yourself games, interactive movies, VR: PlayStation was certainly playing with fire at Paris Games Week. Will it pay off? Read this week’s MCV and find out. We also speak with HTC as the phone maker prepares to release its Vive virtual reality headset in a potentially market-changing …
Read More »‘The idea that VR must get you sick is b******t’
Valve writer Chet Faliszek has said that virtual reality does not inherently cause motion sickness. Instead, Games Industry reports that Faliszek told an EGX audience that the blame for any sickness experienced by players must lie with developers, as the hardware itself is now good enough to avoid such problems. …
Read More »Samsung Gear VR headset costs $100, out this November
One of the first consumer-grade virtual reality headsets to make it to market has set a potentially market-changing price. The Samsung Gear VR was co-developed with Oculus, the firm behind the Rift headset. Unlike that device, which harnesses PC power, the Gear VR focuses on offering virtual reality provided by …
Read More »Free update brings SteamVR support to Elite Dangerous
Frontier’s Elite Dangerous will soon add compatibility with a second virtual reality headset. The space sim is already one of the few mainstream releases to already offer Oculus Rift support. Now it has been confirmed that the game will support SteamVR’s HTC Vive headset at launch. We’re thrilled to announce …
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