Virtual & Augmented Reality news

Firewall: Zero Hour is just around the corner with only a few weeks remaining before launch. In preparation for the game we’ve rounded up all of the information we’ve got so far on this highly anticipated release. Once Firewall is out on PSVR, you’ll already be locked and loaded to jump in.
So here’s everything you need to know about PSVR-exclusive shooter, Firewall: Zero Hour!What Is It?
Firewall: Zero Hour is a PSVR-exclusive tactical, team-based first-person shooter. I

VR continues its mainstream invasion as a new pack of virtual content makes its way to the prestigious award ceremony.
This September the Primetime Emmy Awards will celebrate its legendary 70th ceremonies, once again honoring the absolute finest in U.S. television entertainment. For the last two years, VR content has quickly began infiltrating it way into the awards through various interactive categories.
This year marks a record seven nominations for virtual reality content spread across two ca

A survey conducted by VR Intelligence and SuperData questioning nearly 600 VR and AR professionals offers a glimpse into the health of the industry and its overall direction.
One question asked about the major barriers to mass consumer adoption of the technology, with 62 percent of respondents saying lack of content was a barrier in 2017. This year, only 52 percent of respondents listed that as a concern. Likewise, the share of respondents who thought the price of HMDs was a barrier to increased

Not a song, but a whole movie is now available to play along to on Beat Saber. Yeah, you heard that correct. Players on the game will be able to smash some blocks around Shrek, donkey, the princess, and the whole crew.
Usually, songs last around 3 to 5 minutes on Beat Saber but this will be taking it to a whole new level. Shrek itself is around 90 minutes long so you will be having to smash beats for a very long time (think of it as an endurance race).And to prove that it’s real, BennyDaBe

Vertigo Games’ first attempt at a third-person experience makes its debut at Gamescom 2018 in Germany.
Vertigo Games, the talented developer behind zombie-shooter Arizona Sunshine and turn-based strategy game Skyworld, announces its foray into third-person VR with A Fisherman’s Tale, a mind-boggling VR puzzler in which players must break the laws of physics in order to succeed.Developed by Vertigo Games in collaboration with INNERSPACE, players step into the lonesome boots of Bob, an

Having been acquired by Bethesda parent company, ZeniMax Media, back in 2017, Escalation Studios this month became a bigger part of the publisher.
Escalation has been renamed to Bethesda Games Studios Dallas, it was announced during Quake Con this weekend. The studio is known for its work helping Bethesda bring two of the biggest games in the industry, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and Fallout 4, to VR headsets in 2017. Before Bethesda picked it up, it also created a VR version of Please, Don&rsqu

Khronos Group’s anticipated VR/AR standard API, OpenXR, is finally getting its first ever public demo at Siggraph 2018 this week.
The platform, which was announced at GDC last year, will be shown running an Unreal Engine VR demo inside both the StarVR and Microsoft’s Windows ‘Mixed Reality’ VR headsets at the event in Vancouver, Canada, from August 12th – 16th.
OpenXR is designed to streamline development of VR and AR applications for studios working across the broa

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Leading motion capture company Vicon is jumping deeper into VR with a new tracking system for location-based solutions.
You may have seen Vicon’s tech at work in hit movies like Blade Runner 2049 and Gravity as well as games like the VR-compatible Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice, but its work in VR opens up a new avenue for the company. Using a combination of new hardware and software the new platform, named Origin, is designed to offer ‘unbreakable’ tracking to VR arcades a

While Nintendo has lent its Mario Kart IP to a arcade VR experience, the company has so far steered clear of VR on its consoles. It seems it hasn’t been completely off the their radar though, as a Nintendo Switch ‘Test VR Mode’ has reportedly been uncovered in the system’s software by modders.As reported by UploadVR, Nintendo Switch modder @random666_kys attempted to execute a ‘SetVrModeEnabled(bool)’ flag that was uncovered by modder @OatmealDome. The re