virtual reality

For those of you thinking of taking the VR plunge, Oculus just announced that they are cutting the price of the Rift + Touch contollers by $200. The Rift is now $499 instead of $599 and the touch controllers with the extra camera sensor is now only $99! A third sensor has also been cut from...

https://www.technotaur.com/vr.html/ Offers 33% discount if you're willing to pay with bitcoins. Also free shipping, seems like a nice deal. :)

Fallout 4 is one of the few desktop games I have played in the last few years all the way through to the finish. And as you likely know, Bethesda is still stoking the game with "free upgrades" to keep folks interested. glixel is reporting that Fallout 4 will be playable from start to finish in...

I am not sure that I would call this a game, but almost more of an interactive VR movie. You use voice commands to shape the story, or at least that is what it seems from the video below. The Starship Commander by Human Interact page is here. Introducing STARSHIP COMMANDER, an interactive VR...

While I am not a big Kickstarter guy, and we all know that Kickstarter can be a big gamble, I think this project is worthy of mention. What NOLO VR seems to be doing is first of all, having you use your cellphone for a Head Mounted Display, instead of buying a pricey Vive or Oculus. What you...

I have said since day one that VR will "change the world," and I am still onboard with that. If you think it is just "a fad" like 3DTV was, you are incorrect. Applications like the crossover AR/VR shown below are just beginning to scratch the surface. And VR gaming kicks much ass if you have...

The eagle eyed guys over at IGN have been peering through the Resident Evil 7 stats over on residentevil.net and noticed that almost 10% of all Resident Evil 7 players play in VR. As the IGN folks noted, that's a lot of soiled undies. Personally, I have been waiting for some real AAA titles to...

How would it compare versus a four monitor workstation? Has anyone used it for this purpose?

Our friends over at VRJive have put together a review that covers VR gameplay using the AMD RX480 and the NVIDIA GTX 1060 on the MSI GE62VR laptop! The results might surprise you, or those might not if you have been following all the VR Reviews we have done here at HardOCP.

I'd like to get a consumer VR solution at some point (I currently only have the DK2) and I've noticed the software end of things of the Rift definitely pisses me off. The thing is, I have no idea if it's any better on the Vive. I was hoping some Vive owners could answer these questions: 1...

so i just decided to look up the touch availability, and they seem to be out of stock on amazon, bestbuy etc.. wow! Any idea when next batches will be availible? or maybe in stock direct from oculus?

Serious Sam VR mGPU NVIDIA GTX Pascal Follow Up - Serious Sam VR was the first commercial enthusiast gaming title to include multi-GPU support with AMD's RX 480 GPU. Now the folks at Croteam have added mGPU support for NVIDIA cards as well. We take a look at how well NVIDIA's VRSLI technology...

Today marks the second time I went to lean on a piece of VR furniture in the real world. And I am not talking like I thought I could touch something.....I went to lean on it to hold my weight and damn near ate floor....again.

AMD & NVIDIA GPU VR Performance - Google Earth VR - If you have ever experienced Google Earth, which you likely have, and were impressed with the experience, just imagine having a globe about 6 feet across that you can zoom into so close that you can then stand on the street and look up and...

AMD & NVIDIA GPU VR Perf. - Please State Your Name - Please State Your Name is not a game, it is not really an "experience" either, but rather a short film done in a Virtual Reality world, which puts you right in the middle of the story. This genre of VR is where AMD has been putting a lot of...

Starts in a few hours. Virtual Reality This is the first world championship that will be broadcast in virtual reality. Watch Magnus Carlsen take on Sergey Karjakin in a stereoscopic live video using Google Cardboard or any other VR device. https://worldchess.com/nyc2016/

I was looking at covering this game a couple weeks ago, but saw the devs working on a big patch, so I was waiting....and it hit today finally. While this is usually not my type of game, for some reason I found it engrossing. Interestingly, I saw where the devs were using NVWorks for MRS...

AMD & NVIDIA GPU VR Perf. - The Brookhaven Experiment - If naked mutants from another dimension with horribly bad skin conditions interests you, this is YOUR VR game! The Brookhaven Experiment is a tremendously intense 360 degree wave shooter that will keep you on your toes, give you a...

Tell me what you guys think about this format.

I am leaning red, but you likely know I am a bit biased towards red. Some test footage to check out.

AMD & NVIDIA GPU VR Performance - theBlu: Encounter We are changing gears a bit from Virtual Reality gaming today and are going to focus on a VR experience. theBlu has been around since the inception of the recent VR consumer market. You don't play theBlu, but rather experience it. That said...

AMD & NVIDIA GPU VR Performance: Serious Sam VR:TLH - If battling Gnaars, Kamikaze dudes, Crazy Frogs, Kleers, Lava Monsters, and Bomb Spawners is on your list of things you want to do more of, then Serious Sam VR: The Last Hope might be right up your alley. We see how AMD and NVIDIA do with...

AMD & NVIDIA GPU VR Performance: H3VR - Hot Dogs, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades is more of a firearms simulation than it is a game. H3VR certainly does have some gaming and scoring modes of play and the developer is has been very busy increasing the H3VR content depth. If you have never handled a...

AMD & NVIDIA GPU VR Performance: Pool Nation VR - If shooting pool is a passion of yours, then Pool Nation VR should be on your list if you own an HTC Vive. Even if you are not a pool shark, this title will likely lure you in to spending many hours shooting stick. But to make it look stunning...

A lot of really good stuff announced today. Oculus Touch Is $199, Shipping December 6th, Final Design Revealed Three new previously unannounced Touch game Lone Echo from Ready At Dawn Games Robo Recall from Epic Games Arktika 1 from 4A Games A -very- brief look at Oculus Quill How...

AMD & NVIDIA GPU VR Performance: Sword Master VR - Do you want to fight the Black Knight in a sword fight? There is not exactly a "Black Knight" in Sword Master VR, but you can certainly get that feeling. In fact, you can fight him and a couple of his friends at the same time if you are up to...

Been listening to you guys and thinking that maybe an addition such as this might be welcomed? Feedback please.

AMD & NVIDIA GPU VR Performance: Trickster VR - Arm yourself with a bow and arrows, a magic sword that flies, or if you prefer, a handful of throwing darts. Then get ready to take on the procedurally generated fantasy world full of cartoonish Orcs, and more Orcs, and some other Orcs. Headshots...

Bruce Dell of Euclideon & Holoverse Interview - It's been five years since we last heard from Bruce Dell of Euclideon about its Unlimited Detail Technology and how he saw it changing the gaming world. Since then Bruce has not been sitting on his hands, and are now delivering the Holoverse VR /...

AMD & NVIDIA GPU VR Performance: Project Cars - If you like racing games then it is likely that you are familiar with Project Cars. This racing game can push a system to its limits when you turn up the visuals, and that is just what we are doing today while using our HTC Vive VR headset. And...

How many of you think VR is the next "BIG THANG?"

How many of you think VR is the next "BIG THANG?" Please feel free to add your comments. Not that I thought you would not.

AMD & NVIDIA GPU VR Performance: Google's Tilt Brush - We are changing gears a bit with our VR Performance coverage and looking at an application that is not as GPU-intensive as those we have looked at in the recent past. Google's Tilt Brush is a virtual reality application that makes use of...

AMD & NVIDIA GPU VR Performance: Valve's Robot Repair - Robot Repair is a mini-game that you can download for free from Steam to use with your HTC Vive VR system. It is highly likely that anyone using a new HTC Vive will play the mini-games inside Valve's The Lab. This is a Source 2 engine...

AMD & NVIDIA GPU VR Performance in Trials on Tatooine - Anyone that buys into an HTC Vive headset will almost assuredly want to wield a lightsaber...for free. This short VR demo built by Lucasfilm’s ILMxLAB aims to put you in a photo-realistic Star Wars environment. Trials on Tatooine is not...

AMD & NVIDIA GPU VR Performance in Call of Starseed - We are back this week to take another objective look at AMD and NVIDIA GPU performance in one of the the top selling games in the VR-only realm, The Gallery Episode 1: Call of Starseed. This is another GPU-intensive title that has the...

While I personally have been officially denied access to AMD executives, Raja Koduri (Senior Vice President and Chief Architect, Radeon Technologies Group) was kind enough to respond to HardOCP via Twitter late last night, here and here. Thanks Raja! We found that both the Fury X and RX 480...

Ubisoft (everyone's favorite gaming publisher) is not quite doubling down, but investing more money to push some of its triple A titles into the VR realm. That is a very good thing in our opinion. It's huge I tell ya...

AMD and NVIDIA GPU Vive VR Performance in Raw Data - Both AMD and NVIDIA have had a lot to say about "VR" for a while now. VR is far from mainstream, but we are now seeing some games that are tremendously compelling to play, putting you in middle of the action. Raw Data is one of those, and it...