Virtual Reality

Almost two hundred years since the release of Half-Life 2: Episode 2, this is the announcement trailer for the March 2020 debut of Half-Life: Alyx, an around 20-hour virtual reality-only gaming experience that's sure to piss gamers off when there isn't a foll…

Will Half-Life: Alyx support SteamVR like Half-Life 2 supported Steam? Valve Yesterday, Valve released a trailer for its upcoming game Half-Life: Alyx the first weve seen of the shooter series since 2007. Valve says Alyx is the next part of the Half-Life st…

Source: Valve It's been 12 years since an official Half-Life game release, so many fans simply gave up hope that Valve would return to the franchise. However, prayers have been answered, and Valve has announced Half-Life is making a return — though not in a …

THE WHOLE history of fiction shows that alternative realities are an attractive and profitable idea. So back in the 1990s, when electronics had arrived at a point where people could build headsets that blocked off actual reality and replaced it with a virtual…

Yesterday, Oculus released Oculus Link Beta for Oculus Quest. It allows you to use your headset with it's gorgeous AMOLED display as an Oculus Rift, essentially. As with any beta software, there a number of issues that you should be aware of going forward. In…

Advanced Micro Devices is launching the AMD Radeon Pro W5700 graphics card as its latest assault on Nvidia’s hold on the workstation graphics market. The new graphics card and its chip are powered by AMD’s RDNA architecture, aimed at providing high performan…

The Oculus Quest delivers an untethered virtual reality experience. It's a liberating way to play VR because you don't have to attach your headset to a PC or phone, or use any external cables. While the headset itself is untethered, the Oculus Touch Controlle…

Valve has announced Half-Life: Alyx. Valve Valve has announced a third Half-Life game, this time using virtual reality. The game will drop on Thursday, Nov. 21, the gaming company revealed Monday afternoon. "We're excited to unveil Half-Life: Alyx, our fla…

A second skin: A soft, wireless skin made out of silicone could let the wearer feel objects in virtual reality. In a paper in Nature today, researchers from Northwestern University in the US and the Hong Kong Polytechnic University describe creating a multila…

VR apps are becoming more powerful as VR technology continues to grow and improve. You can even utilise your smartphone or tablet to create impressive virtual reality experiences, so you don't need to invest in a pricey VR headset to give the experience a go.…