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This week in VR demos: an Italian opera & flailing a tablet to flap the wings of a devious demon
While you’re waiting with baited breath for the big news out of Los Angeles, we thought why not catch up on the weekend’s crop of outrageous virtual reality demos, which seem destined to encompass every possible human and non-human endeavor. The first up is Senza Peso, a beautiful looking and sound
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Of course someone created The Matrix’s construct scene in VR
We have one word about the famous Matrix scene being refitted for Oculus Rift: Whoa! OK, we have a few more, but that’s a good starting point. There’s just something awe-inspiring about being in the same hollow, boundless white room where a debonair Laurence Fishburne introduces slack-jawed Keanu t
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"Virtual reality is an antisocial tech," Grand Theft Auto publisher says
Obviously, virtual reality is a pretty hot topic in games these days. We dedicated an entire issue to it. But now the head honcho at Take-Two, publisher of GTA and a whole stable of quality games, has put a bit of a damper on the optimism. Speaking to Bloomberg, CEO Strauss Zelnick said that donnin
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Palmer Luckey says VR will save us from our covetous consumerist lifestyles
At present, consumer-grade virtual reality is largely focused on putting you in a game space and blowing shit up, but it may one day be used to sate our appetite for luxury goods like Dior handbags and Audi R8s. That’s what Oculus founder Palmer Luckey said at an expo in California recently, getting
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Film took a century to replicate the world. Have videogames done it already?
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Breaking Immersion
The most overused word in videogames crawls into obsolescence.
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We’re being conditioned to think of virtual reality as “a new medium,” which it may someday be. In the meantime, developers are trying to transmute all that promise into playable experiences. Here are a few of the most exciting.
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