Valve to showcase portal-like VR game
At the Game Developers Conference next week
Valve has sent a brief notification that it plans to unveil a series of free virtual reality “experiments", called The Lab at the upcoming Game Developers Conference, GDC16 that starts next week in San Francisco..
HTC claims to have flogged 15,000 Vive VR headsets
Just 10 minutes of pre-orders
HTC claims it sold 15,000 Vive VR headsets in the 10 minutes after they went on sale.
Sony patents VR “Power Glove”
A bit less bulky and used for VR
Sony has just patented the successor to the 1980's Nintendo Power Glove.
HTC Vive to cost €899 in the EU
Official price, starts selling February 29
HTC has revealed the last piece of its VR strategy and explained how much it plans to sell Vive VR glasses outside the US.
AMD's Roy Taylor teases R9 Fury X2 system for developers
VR and DirectX 12 ready PCs stacked on shelves
AMD's Roy Taylor has been known to use its razor sharp marketing skills to tease the upcoming products and now he took to Twitter to show a shelf fully stacked with "console-sized" Falcon Northwest Tiki PCs with Radeon Technologies Group and AMD badge.
HTC Vive pre-orders begin next week
Launching in April to 24 countries with two bundled games
HTC has finally taken the wraps off pricing information for its highly anticipated virtual reality headset, the HTC Vive, which we mentioned back in December would have a release date sometime in April 2016.
AMD teams up with Associated Press for VR journalism
AP to use AMD Radeon to render VR environments
AMD has announced that it has joined up with The Associated Press in order to create a new virtual reality experience channel and what is described as next-generation journalism.
AMD details CPUs and APUs for VR
Quad core at least
AMD detailed eight of its CPUs and APUs can power a VR headset like the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive.
Oculus announces first "Oculus Ready" PC bundles
Pre-orders begin February 16th
Facebook subsidiary Oculus VR, best known for its upcoming Oculus Rift head-mounted display, has just revealed its first “Oculus Ready” PC bundles from partnering manufacturers, complete with discounts if they are bundled with the Rift.
Consumer-grade EEG could be headed for VR
Must have read your mind
Boffins from the University of Memphis have been looking at the use of consumer-grade EEG equipment to provide meaningful and accurate recognition of the wearer’s mental state.