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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 »Oculus Rift will support Mac ‘if Apple ever release a good computer’
Support for the Oculus Rift on Mac will only happen when Apple ups the GPU performance of its machines, Palmer Luckey has said. The Oculus CEO was speaking toShack Newswhen he revealed that the ball for VR support was entirely in Apple’s court, and that Oculus would love to support …
Read More »Sólfar Studios uses Granite for Everest VR
Texture streaming middleware powers virtual reality exploration of world’s tallest mountain
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 »Eight vital VR lessons from NDreams
Find out why your framerate must be 90fps, your GUI needs to be chucked, and you need to render absolutely everything
Read More »McDonald’s is testing a $4 VR headset
‘Happy Goggles’ adopts Google Cardboard-like approach to entering virtual reality with a mobile
Read More »15,000 HTC Vive headsets sold in ten minutes
HTC has revealed some very early sales data for its upcoming virtual reality headset the Vive. The company has said that it sold over 15,000 units in just the first ten minutes after pre-orders went live yesterday. At the US RRP of $800, that’s $12m of revenue – $1.2m per …
Read More »Oculus hires Hulu and Flipboard exec as head of video
Eugene Wei will lead team dedicated to producing VR and 360-degree content
Read More »$3,000 HoloLens Development Edition launches in March
Next month will see developers finally get their hands on Microsoft’s augmented reality platform, HoloLens. An announcement accidentally posted ahead of embargo on Fortune (since pulled, viaReddit) revealed that the HoloLens Development Edition will open for pre-orders later today (February 29th) ahead of a March 30th release date. The kit …
Read More »Starbreeze profits slide as studio moves away from PayDay
2016 will see first fruits of developer's publishing arm and VR initiative hit its stride
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