Virtual Reality
Can Virtual Reality Make Smartphones The Superior Gaming Device?
Gamers are quite the demanding sorts, and when asked if they can imagine mobile gaming being able to gain a core audience among gamers, they usually scoff the whole idea as being ludicrous. And one can understand why. Though there are some exceptional games on smartphone, the platform poses some major limitations. However, a lot of recent market trends have the experts claiming that smartphones could be overtaking consoles by the end of 2016. While even we were skeptical at first, it got us thinking.. Could it? So lets first talk about what limits true blue gaming on smartphones. The very first thing, ironically, is what makes smartphones so handy in the first place. Their small and compact size. For video games to be immersive and comfortable, there needs to be a large viewing screen, so ...
Ubisoft And Spectrevision Partner For Original VR Content
SpectreVision, the production company founded by Elijah Wood, Daniel Noah and Josh C. Waller, has entered into a partnership with gaming leader Ubisoft to create, develop and produce interactive virtual reality content, it was announced today at the Sundance Film Festival by SpectreVision CEO Lisa Whalen. “We’re thrilled to partner with an industry leader like Ubisoft to explore the innovative and burgeoning technology that is virtual reality,” says SpectreVision’s Whalen. “The diversity of Ubisoft’s portfolio of titles, from Assassin’s Creed™ to Zombi™, makes for an ideal partnership with SpectreVision’s varied creative vision, as evidenced in films such as ‘A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night’ and ‘Cooties.’ Together, we can tell an infinite number of unique stories...
Super Monkey Fun: Developer Interview With Kunal Joshi
With Virtual Reality starting to come to its own, it’s great to see Indian game developers releasing some exciting VR games. At the forefront is Super Monkey Fun, who has already released multiple titles with VR support, the latest of which, called Silent Home, was a big hit with over 50K downloads. We caught up with the talented studio, comprising primarily of the Kunal and Jayati, and they tell us their thoughts on gaming and game development. Gaming Central: Tell us a bit about yourself 🙂 Super Monkey Fun: “Super Monkey Fun” is the brainchild of two young minds Kunal Joshi & Jayati Khulbe. Super Monkey Fun was founded in 2013. Kunal, is a computer science graduate. Kunal has a sound technical knowledge in the gaming space that helps in building great products lik...
Global PC Builders Rally Around NVIDIA to Deliver VR-Ready PCs & Add-in Cards
NVIDIA today unveiled a VR-ready program to help gamers navigate their way to great virtual reality experiences. The company has partnered with PC and notebook makers and add-in card providers to deliver “GeForce® GTX® VR Ready” systems and graphics cards that deliver an immersive VR gaming experience. The program minimizes confusion regarding which equipment is necessary to play the range of VR games and applications increasingly coming to market. Delivering a great VR experience demands seven times the graphics processing power of traditional 3D games and applications – driving framerates above 90 frames per second (fps) for two simultaneous images (one for each eye).1 “For customers, navigating an emerging technology like VR can be daunting,” said Jason Paul, general manager of emergin...
Oculus Rift System Specs
Oculus says these are the recommended specs “for the full Rift experience”: NVIDIA GTX 970 / AMD 290 equivalent or greater Intel i5-4590 equivalent or greater 8GB+ RAM Compatible HDMI 1.3 video output 2x USB 3.0 ports Windows 7 SP1 or newer A build like this would roughly cost you about 51000 rs. Not too shabby a cost for a rig that would be able to run full 3D immersive visuals. Sorry console buddies, only PC Master Race for now. But seriously though it isn’t too bad, if anything it’s good news that the Oculus Rift is able to run in a rig of that price. Some of you guys might also be wondering, “What about plugging the Oculus Rift into a laptop?” Unfortunately, we’ve nothing but bad news for you at the moment: “Almost no current laptops have the GPU performance for the recommended spec” s...
Sony’s PS4 VR Headset Unveiled at GDC 2015
Sony yesterday revealed a new version of their PS4 virtual reality headset, code-named Project Morpheus, and though it isn’t final neither is it ready to go out onto the market, Sony has boasted how much better this one is than the one they showed off last year. Sony said at the GDC presentation in San Francisco, that Morpheus will ship out in the first half of 2016. There is however no word on how much it will cost. The latest version of the virtual reality kit has an OLED display with 1920×1080 resolution. It will also offer frame rate options of 60fps and 120fps. The screen is 5.7 inches, with 360-degree tracking. You can also wear glasses with this version of Morpheus, which is designed in such a way that a single band goes around your head. You have the option of sliding the head...
Virtual Reality mode added to latest Steam beta
Valve is slowly getting very comfortable with the idea of having a huge video screen being mounted to its face, as it was announced that the beta client of Steam is to add a “virtual reality mode” option. The latest beta version of Steam does away with the “-vr” command line option and replaces it with a button in the view menu, which only appears for those with SteamVR installed when a head-mounted display like the Oculus Rift is detected. Virtual reality is really gaining a lot of attention and is probably going to be the next big thing in gaming. Over the year even Valve has realized this and have made virtual reality their focal point as its former head of VR joined Oculus VR’s new Seattle team around a week ago. People at Engadget think that this week, th...
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