VRScout

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

When done well, these systems could enable virtual displays that respond to natural, even subconscious, cues from the user. It could be the beginning of a truly immersive virtual experience. In January of 2017, FOVE, a Japanese VR startup, released the first eye-tracking VR headset. Industry Is Changing. Seamless Identification.

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JANUARY 26, 2017

Sword Art Online is a virtual reality massively multiplayer online role-playing game that isn’t really a virtual reality massively multiplayer online role-playing game. The real game doesn’t exist, then, but the premise has had VR fans begging for an adaptation for headsets for some time. Okay, back up.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

FOVE has announced that their first eye-tracking VR headset, the FOVE 0, will open for pre-orders on November 2nd, and has also released the final specifications of the device. Much like Oculus, FOVE began as a successful Kickstarter which raised $480,000 , nearly twice its goal, back in mid-2015. FOVE 0 Specifications.

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MARCH 6, 2017

Dinosaur kicking for $300 is certainly funny, but it’s also a great example of a broad effort by developers and hardware manufacturers to make virtual worlds more responsive to human behavior. New Tools For Game Designers. The purple lines represent what caught my eye in that virtual world over that length of time.

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JANUARY 17, 2017

As one of the first developers to release a game for Gear VR and helping to bring multiplayer classic Gang Beasts [ Review: 7/10 ] to Rift, Coatsink is one of the UK’s biggest VR devs, and 2017 sounds like it will be a significant year for the company. It sounds like we could see our first Coatsink games on Vive and PS VR, then.

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VRScout

JUNE 26, 2016

Movement is a big issue in virtual reality, and developers have to be careful to make sure users are not nauseated by vestibular mismatch (your brain/eyes say “I’m moving” in the virtual world which contradicts your inner ear/balance which say “I’m stationary” in the real world).

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