New HTC Vive video shows handsome people looking silly in VR
The Oculus Rift is opening up for preorders tomorrow, but that doesn’t mean HTC is going to let you forget about its new Vive...
HP buddies up with HTC to build virtual reality gaming PCs
The hardcore virtual reality headsets are on the verge of release, and everyone is freaking out over whether their PCs will be able to...
To handle VR graphics, gaming PCs have to be 7 times more powerful
The folks at Nvidia, the world’s largest maker of stand-alone graphics chips, are good at numbers. So I talked to them recently about their...
How Pokémon Go will benefit from Niantic’s lessons from Ingress on location-based game design
Niantic Labs was an oddball startup within Google. Conceived by John Hanke to promote exercise and an appreciation of public art, Niantic created a...
SteamVR-powered HTC Vive isn’t coming out until April
HTC and Valve were supposed to kick off the virtual reality revolution this year with the Vive VR headset, but now the device isn’t...
Despite 2015 promise, HTC Vive’s community launch still doesn’t have a release date
It’s starting to feel less and less likely that even the earliest of adopters will have a chance to get one of the big...
AR VR there yet? The experts weigh in on the growth of augmented and virtual reality
SAN DIEGO — The big question among tech investors and entrepreneurs today has to do with how quickly a new computing paradigm will arrive....
Epic Games debuts documentary series to help you understand virtual reality
Over the next few years, virtual reality is going to try to prove that it is a viable platform for gaming and industry, and...
Valve’s and HTC’s Vive virtual reality system gets consumer rollout delay
HTC and Valve announced today that the initial shipments of the HTC Vive VR virtual reality goggles are going to be limited, and consumer...
Epic’s graphics guru Tim Sweeney shares his vision for perfect augmented reality
SHANGHAI — Tim Sweeney, chief executive of Epic Games, is one of the rare seers who understands both technology and games. He’s been pioneering graphics for...