The PSVR is compatible with the new PlayStation 5. All you need is to order a free adapter here and go on your merry way. However, PSVR is getting very long in the tooth. It relies on external camera tracking, which is now effectively obsolete and the motion controllers are repurposed from the PlayStation 3 and use a janky … Continue reading The PS5 Haptic System Is An Important Step In Consumer VR
The rumours were true. The Oculus Quest now has a sequel in the form of the Oculus Quest, well, 2. It’s not an imaginative name, but it does make it pretty clear to consumers which one is newer and better. If you don’t want to read through this whole article, let me say right now that … Continue reading The Oculus Quest 2: What You Need To Know Before Ordering
VR games come in all sorts of varieties these days, from sit-down experiences to room-scale games. It’s all coming together nicely. That being said, the absolute best fit for VR games are still those genres that involve a cockpit. Racing games, mech battlers, spaceships or anything you drive and pilot from a seat works wonderfully … Continue reading Star Wars Squadrons VR Experience: A Killer VR Title
Oculus Quest 2 rumours simply will not die down. Despite no official word from Oculus, it seems each week there’s yet more speculation about Oculus releasing an update about their refresh of the popular Quest standalone headset. We’ve seen supposed renders of what the product will look like and some questionable rumours about what sorts … Continue reading Oculus Quest 2 Leaks Point To A Truly Next-gen VR Experience
The Oculus Quest doesn’t yet have a library of games and apps to match the Rift’s PC VR offerings. Yes, these days you can use the Quest as a Rift thanks to Oculus Link, but you can’t play that anywhere you like and need to be tethered to a computer. Vader Immortal, in its three … Continue reading Vader Immortal for Oculus Quest Review
If ever there was something like a fateful tweet, filled with portent, it’s this one. Valve has announced a new Half-Life game, but it’s not the comically-absent Half Life 3. No, it’s a VR game focusing on Alyx Vance, the co-star of Half Life 2. What is Half-Life? In case you don’t really understand why … Continue reading New Half Life Game is for VR?!
Retro gaming is making a massive comeback. As gaming matures as a form of entertainment, studios are digging into their back catalogues and providing us with access to classic titles. For example, the Nintendo Switch is a casual retro gamer’s dream. From almost-perfect Sega conversions by the games M2 studios, to good-enough offerings of classic … Continue reading EmuVR Merges Classic Games with Cutting-edge VR
Although GPU technology has been coming along in leaps and bounds for the last few years, nothing truly revolutionary has happened. We experienced a massive leap in graphical fidelity at the start of the Xbox 360 era, but everything since has been steadily incremental. Then Nvidia came out of left field with real time ray … Continue reading Ray Tracing and VR: A Match Made in Heaven?
No Man’s Sky is a game that people love to hate. A victim of an out-of-control hype train, Hello Games had a real problem on their hands when the game was released. The game that players actually got was actually pretty good, but compared to the game everyone thought they were getting, it was a … Continue reading No Man’s Sky Gets PSVR and PC VR As Part of Massive “Beyond” Update
Few people would disagree that developer Codemasters are the kings of making fantastic racing games. Titles like GRID and F1 2019 are a showcase to the finely-tuned gameplay sensibilities this studio has developed. The DiRT rally games are no exception and this writer has whiled away countless hours utterly failing to complete rally stages on … Continue reading DiRT Rally 2.0 Gets (Janky) VR Support
