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The Oculus founder took to the HTC Vive stage at the show to tease his new endavour and praise HTC's approach to global markets
Read More »Palmer Luckey announced a new VR studio at the Tokyo Games Show
VR market needs more competition says Sony – Reuters
Quoted by the news agency, the CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc says more competition will drive adoption and development
Read More »How do you test a game like Project Cars 2?
Even if you know how a car drives, would you know what to test to make sure a videogame captured it accurately? Sean Cleaver speaks to Slightly Mad Studios’ Stephen Viljoen and Rod Chong about how Project Cars 2 ‘handles’ the pressure of getting the worlds most exclusive vehicles accurate
Read More »Advir: VR and in-app advertising
With any new medium, advertising causes economic growth. With VR however, that’s harder to accomplish in a non-intrusive way. Develop speaks with Advir CEO, Samuel Huber, to see how the company is working around the issue
Read More »Opinion: The ‘Holy Grail’ of Social VR
Developers are still figuring out the virtual reality market, just as users are figuring out how it fits into their lives. Tanguy Dewavrin, CEO of social VR company Atom Republic, discusses VR’s social potential
Read More »Dublin-based WarDucks gets $1.5million investment
The Sneaky Bears developer ends a new investment round with CEO of Shard Capital joining the board
Read More »Rockstar Games enter VR market with HTC Vive adaptation of LA Noire
The remaster/re-release of the game due to come to Nintendo Switch as well as PS4 and Xbox One.
Read More »‘Now’s the time to drive people into high-end VR,’ says Oculus’ Jason Rubin
When Oculus temporarily dropped the price of its Rift + Touch bundle to £399 to kick off its Summer of Rift sale at the start of July, there were plenty of critics who saw it as another desperate attempt to drum up sales. After all, it had only been four …
Read More »Fast Travel Games raises $2.1m in Series A funding for new VR title
Fast Travel Games, the VR studio founded by ex-EA, Rovio and DICE employees, has announced it’s raised a $2.1m series A funding rounded. The funding was led by leading Nordic venture capital firm Industrifonden, with participation from Creades, Inbox Capital and existing investor Sunstone Capital. This brings the company’s total …
Read More »VR developer Fantom Fathom shows off possible software solution to motion sickness
Hyper Dash works by making the player move more physically to enable in-game movement, lowering visual and sensory dissonance.
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