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The first wave of VR headsets isn’t even on shelves and yet developers are already spoilt for choice. Develop gets a grip on virtual reality’s many contenders with the help of Oculus VR’s Jason Rubin, Valve’s Chet Faliszek, PlayStation’s Simon Benson and Razer’s Jeevan Aurol
Read More »Dean Hall: ‘VR could be as accessible as Wii, but don’t bank your studio on it’
DayZ and Ion dev says creating for Oculus and Vive has been ‘a real lesson in ‘back to basics’’
Read More »HTC Vive Steam VR gets $800 price tag
$800. That’s the amount it will take to buy HTC’s Steam VR Vive headset on launch day. It’s a staggering amount of money, even surpassing Oculus Rift’s at-the-time astonishing $600 RRP. That, incidentally, translated to 500 in the UK, so if Vive follows the same pattern we could be looking …
Read More »Independent VR platform Transport raises $25m in funding
Distribution network aims to offer a single route to market for all of the major virtual reality headsets
Read More »Latest HTC Vive Pre dev kit includes front-facing camera
‘Big technology breakthrough’ blends physical and virtual reality
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 »7,000 extra HTC Vive dev kits to be released in early 2016
Commercial launch for virtual reality hardware set for April
Read More »GAME: VR needs us to succeed
If virtual reality is going to change the world of video games, then it will need the High Street. That’s according to UK retailer GAME, which is wary but hopeful about the new technology from PlayStation, Oculus, HTC and Samsung. CEO Martyn Gibbs tells MCV that in order for VR …
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 …
Read More »Valve’s Vive VR headset will only receive a limited 2015 launch
The Vive VR headset will be the first major VR competitor to reach shelves – but only in limited quantities. The Vive, developed by HTC, was scheduled to launch this Christmas ahead of Project Morpheus, which is set for release during for the first half of 2016, and Oculus Rift, …
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