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HTC Vive and Steam VR has Google, HBO and Lionsgate as Content Developers
Yesterday, Valve and HTC revealed the ‘Vive’ VR headset, and there’s some pretty big names already working on content for the headset. According to the Vive website, Google, HBO, and Lionsgate are...
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Rev VR Podcast: GDC 2015 Recap – Day 2
Time to check in with our pals Ben Lang and Scott Hayden right outside the GDC showroom floor for another update on all of the exciting VR news from today. Rev VR Podcast: GDC 2015 Recap – Day 2...
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First-Time Reactions from Oculus’ Crescent Bay and HTC’s Vive VR Headsets, 24...
After months of hearing about Oculus’ latest prototype VR headset, Crescent Bay, and pining after a session with the bleeding edge device for so long, I finally secured a demo with the Crescent Bay...
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Rev VR Podcast (Ep.99): Discussing the HTC Vive with Developers Jon Hibbins...
Fresh from their experiences at EGX Rezzed in London, Jon and Nick join my on the podcast to discuss, and debate their findings about the Valve/HTC Vive virtual reality solution. Rev VR Podcast –...
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Up Close and Personal with the HTC Vive at the VRLA Spring Expo
VR production team WEVR made a splash at the recent VRLA Spring Expo last week when they turned up with SteamVR and the HTC Vive headset to demonstrate the VR platform to attendees. It was an...
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Rev VR Podcast (Ep. 105): My SVVR Expo 2015 VR Headset Breakdown with OlivierJT
Many of you have asked me, “When are you going to give us your opinion on each of the VR headsets you tried at SVVR Expo 2015?” Well, here it is. OlivierJT, developer of the award-winning Synthesis...
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HTC Vive World Tour Makes 6 Stops in August, Your Chance to Try ‘Room Scale’...
Want to step inside the HTC Vive and SteamVR? HTC continues their ‘Vive World Tour’, hauling the headset around the US and beyond to give folks a chance to try out the new headset. The tour makes five...
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Vive Dev Kit Signups Closed, “Hundreds” of Kits May Still Be Pending Shipping
As the Q4 2015 launch of the consumer version of the HTC Vive draws near, signups for the Vive Developer Edition have officially ended. Valve says that Vive development kits will continue to ship...
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Where to Try Vive, Rift, and Morpheus and What’s Playing at PAX 2015 This...
The annual PAX Prime gaming festival starts today in Seattle and VR will be one of the highlights of the show for many gamers. The major players are out in force, and we’ve got a quick guide to where...
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The Collaboration Between Valve and HTC to Create the Vive & Room-scale VR
Daniel O’Brien is the Vice President of Business Planning and Management for Virtual Reality at HTC. I had a chance to catch up with him at PAX Prime in the HTV Vive private demo area. Daniel talks...
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Open-world Building and Minimalist Game Design with Fantastic Contraption
Sarah Northway & Colin Northway talk about the process of converting an open world building game of Fantastic Contraption to a room-scale VR experience with the HTC Vive. The gameplay is very...
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Designing the 6DOF Controller Gameplay for Final Approach
John Nagle is the CTO at Phaser Lock Interactive, who is developing a Vive game called Final Approach. The gameplay of Final Approach involves selecting miniature planes flying through the air and then...
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Jason Storey on Colosse’s Gaze-Controlled Narrative & Echo Red’s Motion Controls
Jason Storey (aka apieceoffruit) is a VR developer, Left-Handed VR podcast co-host, and all-around VR enthusiast who has worked on number of different VR experiences. He talks about working on the...
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VR Minigolf is Here and Real Minigolf Should be Scared
Virtual reality has an amazing capacity to make you feel like you are somewhere else, and to step into new worlds. But as far as actually being an accurate stand-in for most real life activities, VR...
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15,000 HTC Vives Pre-Ordered in 10 Minutes, Now Backordered to May
The pre-order countdown for HTC Vive is over, but if you’re still on the fence on whether to get that shiny new VR headset, you’re still not too late to pick one up for May shipment. What’s more,...
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Valve’s Jeep Barnett on Designing ‘The Lab’ for HTC Vive
Jeep Barnett is a programmer at Valve Corporation who has been on the VR team for the last couple year. He was at GDC showing off The Lab, which is a series of mini-games demonstrating different design...
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Surreal Experimental Art &‘BLARP!’s Unique Physics-Based Game Mechanic
VR has the capability to take us into completely new realms, and experimental artist Isaac “Cabbibo” Cohen has been creating some of the most surreal and transportive experiences that I’ve seen. I had...
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Combining Interactive Exploration & Sports with ‘#SelfieTennis’
VR Unicorns is a Copenhagen-based development collective that developed #SelfieTennis. They were working on Julie Heyde’s RagnarökVR until they stated experimenting with room-scale sports experiences....
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HTC’s VP of Content on VR Industry Verticals & Game Genres
Joel Breton is the Vice President VR Content at HTC, and I had a chance to catch up with him at the Casual Connect conference in July to talk about the different industry verticals that they’ve...
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Valve Move to Kickstart the VR Cybercafé with New SteamVR Licensing Model
Valve has announced a new ‘Site Licensing’ model which allows businesses interested in providing VR experiences to customers as an out of home experience. It seems the company have their sights on...
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