Courtesy of Meta BLACKPINK is in your area — this time in virtual reality. A new trailer for the upcoming BLACKPINK: A VR Encore arrived on Tuesday (Dec. 19), catapulting fans right into the heart of Seoul, South Korea, getting a first-hand, virtual look at the BLACKPINK World Tour [Born Pink] finale show at the...
When Oculus Kickstarted the Rift three years ago, it was hard to believe that we’d be able to buy a working, affordable VR headset for our PCs—and now here we are with two seriously impressive VR headsets launching a mere week apart. The Vive, a collaborative effort between HTC and Valve, is now shipping to...
Nvidia’s VRWorks SDK Since we started with AMD, when we talk about Nvidia’s VRWorks, a lot of this is going to be a rehash. Rather than starting with the big differentiating factor, we’re going to quickly cover the similarities first. There’s not a 1-to-1 mapping between LiquidVR and VRWorks, but at a high level there...
VR is finally here. Oculus Rifts are shipping out in waves, and the HTC Vive’s full release is imminent, with units set to land early next week. PC gamers lucky enough to grab their own futuristic HMDs right away are no doubt ready to jack in, forget about their former lives, and start a new one in Lucky’s...
Virtual reality is finally here, with the Oculus Rift shipping to its first customers earlier this week and the HTC Vive coming on April 5. To make sure everything works as it should, the graphics card manufacturers have put out VR ready drivers. Nvidia has put out its GeForce Game Ready 364.72 WHQL drivers that are optimized...
Pollen—officially P.O.L.L.E.N., but we’ll be sticking with the more conventional styling—is a first-person alt-history sci-fi exploration game that drops players into the middle of a “mysterious, mind-bending situation” on the Saturnian moon of Titan. It’s coming to Steam on April 20, and also to the Oculus Rift as a “near-final VR beta,” and the video above...
Real immersion If there’s been one area of gaming that’s been overlooked for years, it’s been audio. We’ve been hard at work trying to bring greater awareness to audio recently, and it’s more important now than ever. End users are now getting their hands on the Rift and Vive VR headsets, and it’s only a matter of time...
It’s pretty clear that Oculus wanted the Rift to be a user friendly device. From the moment you open the box everything is neatly laid out in front of you, ready to guide you into the future of PC gaming without scaring you away with the coils of wires and plugs that lay beneath. With...
NEED TO KNOW What it is: A first-person game in which you’re an astronaut trying to escape from a heavily damaged space station orbiting earth.Expect to pay: $20/£15Developer: Three One ZeroPublisher: 505 GamesReviewed on: Intel i7 x980 3.33 GHz, 9 GB RAM, Nvidia GeForce GTX 960Multiplayer: NoLink: Official Site The first time I reached out and...
Power that’s not painfully expensive Unless you’ve had your head under a rock for the past six months, you probably already know that virtual reality headsets–namely the Oculus Rift and the HTC Vive–are the new hotness when it comes to PC peripherals. VR is all over the media, but what keeps getting repeated over and...
