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Everything You Missed From Today’s Facebook Connect 2020 Event
Today’s Facebook Connect kicked off with a two-hour keynote that detailed the company’s latest virtual and augmented reality developments. There were product announcements, new apps and games on display, and compelling peeks at some speculative technology. We’ll recap the highlights for those who couldn’t catch the…Read more… Continue Reading at https://lifehacker.com
Splinter Cell And Assassin’s Creed VR Games Coming From Ubisoft
A whole slew of virtual reality games were announced as part of today’s Facebook Connect broadcast, including upcoming entries in Ubisoft’s Splinter Cell and Assassin’s Creed series that will be exclusive to Oculus. Read more…
Leaked Vids Reveal The Oculus Quest 2, A VR Headset That’s Gonna Get Dirty
Last year, Facebook untethered virtual reality fans from their computers with the standalone Oculus Quest, one of the best ways to experience VR. Earlier today a pair of videos originally uploaded to the Facebook Blueprint website revealed the Oculus Quest 2, a higher-resolution, more powerful standalone virtual…Read more… Continue Reading at https://kotaku.com
Here’s Who’s Liable For Cleaning Up The Mauritius Oil Spill In The Indian Ocean
Airports are looking for a new business model, Michigan reinvents bus lanes again, oil prices will stay low, and who has to clean up the major oil spill in the Indian Ocean? That and more in The Morning Shift for Friday, August 14, 2020.Read more… Continue Reading at https://jalopnik.com
See it: deadmau5 teases new VR project
In the age of COVID-19 and social distancing, musicians have been forced to get creative with performances, largely relying on digital festivals and live-streamed sets to share music with fans. Several artists, however, have taken their virtual experimentation to the next level, creating entire digital landscapes for viewers to explore. Soon, deadmau5 will join the […]
In VR You Can’t Escape The Loading Screen
Loading screens are something we all deal with while playing video games. As long as they are brief many of us will just grab our phone and check Twitter or grab a bite to eat. But in virtual reality, with a headset strapped to your face, you are trapped and forced to awkwardly stand and […]
Iron Man VR: The Kotaku Review
Iron Man feels like a perfect fit for virtual reality. In the movies, Tony Stark’s advanced armor operates like VR, with a virtual screen projected inside his helmet. So when I put on my PSVR headset and started playing Iron Man VR I felt like that famous, armor-wearing superhero. Unfortunately, I didn’t have to just…Read […]
Amazing Emulator Turns 2D NES Games Into Fully 3D Worlds
Last week, a strange new product appeared on Steam: a Nintendo Entertainment System emulator that translates the 2D pixel graphics of classic 8-bit games into 3D worlds built with voxels. It’s called 3dSen, it has standard and standard+VR versions, and it lets you experience a select slice of the NES library from…Read more… Continue Reading […]
Here’s a First Look at the Tech Behind Sony’s Finger-Tracking VR Controllers
Thanks to a few patent filings that have surfaced over the last two years, we’ve had an idea that Sony’s been tinkering with finger-tracking technology for a line of new VR motion controllers. It’s still unclear whether these controllers are intended to be a successor to PlayStation Move or part of the kit for the…Read […]
Here’s a First Look at the Tech Behind Sony’s Finger-Tracking VR Controllers
Thanks to a few patent filings that have surfaced over the last two years, we’ve had an idea that Sony’s been tinkering with finger-tracking technology for a line of new VR motion controllers. It’s still unclear whether these controllers are intended to be a successor to PlayStation Move or part of the kit for the…Read […]
Sensorium Galaxy shoots for the stars with EDM virtual-reality space voyage
Dance music and VR become one as the Sensorium Galaxy virtual spaceship launches for its first nine month audio-immersive orbit. Partnering Yann Pissenem, the founder of of the infamous Ibiza nightclubs, Ushuaïa and Hï, the new virtual venture will extrapolate on the live music experience by projecting fans and top DJs across the a digital […]
Sensorium Galaxy shoots for the stars with EDM virtual-reality space voyage
Dance music and VR become one as the Sensorium Galaxy virtual spaceship launches for its first nine month audio-immersive orbit. Partnering Yann Pissenem, the founder of of the infamous Ibiza nightclubs, Ushuaïa and Hï, the new virtual venture will extrapolate on the live music experience by projecting fans and top DJs across the a digital […]
How to Take a Virtual Vacation
Between fielding conference calls and tearing through quarantine snacks like we’re running some kind of pandemic stress-marathon, many of us could use a break. That’s not exactly the easiest thing to find when you’re stuck at home—especially if you love to travel. If your preferred form of self-care is venturing to…Read more… Continue Reading at […]
Virtual Reality Is My Favorite Way To Leave The House Right Now
At this point, we’ve heard how good virtual reality can be for walking around imaginary environments and interacting with worlds up close. But what I never saw coming was how my frivolous, cool tech distraction would become my new favorite way to leave my apartment in the midst of a worldwide pandemic.Read more… Continue Reading […]
Virtual Reality Is My Favorite Way To Leave The House Right Now
At this point, we’ve heard how good virtual reality can be for walking around imaginary environments and interacting with worlds up close. But what I never saw coming was how my frivolous, cool tech distraction would become my new favorite way to leave my apartment in the midst of a worldwide pandemic.Read more… Continue Reading […]
Half-Life: Alyx Players Are Using VR To Teach Math Classes, Kiss Headcrabs
Virtual reality means options. If you own a high-end VR headset like the Valve Index, you likely have money and, therefore, options that those less fortunate than you do not. Also, you can do funny things with headcrabs.Read more… Continue Reading at https://kotaku.com
How To Get Access To Over 700 VR Games, Like Arizona Sunshine and Creed: Rise To Glory, For Free
With the upcoming release of Half-Life: Alyx it seems like a lot of folks are buying VR headsets or dusting off their old ones. But we still have a few days left before Alyx is released, so you probably need something to play. You might even be stuck at home because of the virus. So […]
Silent Hill VR Demo Gets A Big No Thank You From Me
As has been established repeatedly on this website of record, I am a coward, and so maybe this fan-made Silent Hill 2 virtual reality demo is not for me. Perhaps it is for you, though.Read more… Continue Reading at https://kotaku.com
Ubisoft Resurrects Prince Of Persia… As A VR Escape Room
It’s been nearly a decade since Ubisoft released a triple-A Prince of Persia game. But if you’d like to jump back into the dusty tombs and elaborate palaces of the once-popular series, you can do that in the company’s latest virtual reality escape room: Prince of Persia: The Dagger of Time.Read more… Continue Reading at […]