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• Using virtual reality could make you a better person in real life

  If you’ve ever participated in a virtual reality (VR) experience, you might have found yourself navigating the virtual world as an avatar. If you haven’t, you probably recognize the experience from its portrayal in film and on television. Popular media has brought us characters ...

  • The Conversation

• TNW's mid-2019 guide to virtual reality hardware

  Virtual reality is a booming technology. Like artificial intelligence and blockchain, it's on a meteoric rise and every big tech company on the planet wants in. But there's more to VR than market value and technical specifications. Hardware such as the Oculus Quest and games such ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Review: Penn & Teller's VR experience is hilarious, magical, and decidedly cruel

  Gearbox today launched Penn & Teller VR: Frankly Unfair, Unkind, Unnecessary, & Underhanded. Anyone who remembers the old boxed magician's tool-kits from yesteryear (amaze and astound your friends!) will feel right at home with this hilariously cruel VR experience. P&T: ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Sony's already won the next console war thanks to PSVR

  Sony skipped gaming's biggest event, E3, this year and Microsoft pounced. Xbox stormed the stage with a veritable bevvy of announcements about new games and services, and a slew of details about its next generation console -- dubbed Project Scarlett. It was a fantastic showing ...

  • Tristan Greene

• HTC launches Vive Pro Eye in North America at a massive discount

  HTC today launched its latest and greatest virtual reality headset, the Vive Pro Eye, to the North American market. The new device features Tobii eye-tracking, which gives the headset two keen features: users can navigate menus just by looking at things, and foveated rendering. ...

  • Tristan Greene

• You can now play Smash Bros Ultimate in VR... kinda

  Nintendo just added a limited VR view to Smash Bros via the Labo goggles. It's not a very extensive update, but it's still ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Game of Thrones gets the VR treatment on HTC's Viveport Infinity

  HTC and HBO today announced an exclusive “Game of Thrones” VR experience will arrive on Viveport Infinity on May 31. Dubbed Beyond the Wall, the game is a VR-only experience that “transports users to the northern border of The Seven Kingdoms to fight and defend The Wall. ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Review: Blood and Truth is one of VR's best action games

  Blood and Truth is a decidedly British PSVR game that plays out like a Guy Ritchie flick. It's a grime-filled love letter to the kind of action pieces Vinnie Jones and Jason Statham flourish in – only you get to be the star of this one instead. It's a PSVR-exclusive on-rails ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Review: The Vuze XR handheld camera makes it dead simple to create VR videos

  HumanEyes' Vuze XR is a rare breed of camera. It's pocket-sized, shoots in VR, 360, and 5K formats, and it costs around the ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Review: Everybody's Golf VR (nearly) aces it

  Everybody's Golf VR is a delicious steak in dire need of some potatoes. It's a title that will easily make its way toward ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Sony's proposed full-body gyroscope controller for VR looks incredibly fun

  Sony recently filed a patent for a VR-related input device that, were the company to make it, would potentially allow you ...

  • Tristan Greene

• This ad agency is creating fake worlds to sell real products

  We took a deep dive into the creative process behind the wildly surreal marketing campaigns W+K's Department of New Realities ...

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