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PlayStation VR to see greater demo presence at GameStop
CEO Paul Raines says "I expect we'll have a lot of demos in stores, unlike the Oculus or HTC"
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Why Insomniac is committing to VR
Ted Price discusses his studio's plan to release three VR games this year, including two just-announced exclusives for Oculus Rift
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GameStop unveils publishing label GameTrust
Retailer officially moves into publishing, initially only with smaller indie titles, Mark Stanley tells us
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Oculus "don't condone" HTC Vive software hacks
Don't plan on playing Lucky's Tale on your Vive for too long...
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"I don't want a world where games try to be more like Hollywood"
Chair Entertainment's Donald Mustard talks Spyjinx, JJ Abrams and how there could be a "bloodbath" in the VR market
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GREE launches $12 million VR investment fund
Augmented and mixed reality companies will be considered, in gaming and beyond
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Oculus: "We've taken steps to address the component shortage"
VR company apologizes again for the bigger-than-expected delays that many of its customers have been seeing since launch
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Free-to-play not viable on VR just yet - Palm
Resolution Games CEO explains why his Gear VR game Bait! runs on microtransactions anyway, and why VR is in for some bad press
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Lucky's Tale: Why third-person games are a vital part of VR's future
First-person may be the intuitive path for VR devs, but Playful CEO Paul Bettner believes "the entire industry is going to wake up" to a new perspective
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US legislator presses Oculus on user privacy
Sen. Al Franken asks Brendan Iribe for answers on company's collection and sharing of user location, physical movements, and communications
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VR devs "have a responsibility to be considerate" of the player
Ubisoft Red Storm Creative Director David Votypka on the psychology and potential of VR
Opinion
How will developers make money from VR?
Price pressure is going to set in early for the all-digital platforms; game creators will need to explore how people are willing to pay
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Oculus Rift tops awareness among VR headsets - Nielsen
Still, only 22% of gamers have heard of the Rift, with awareness for the Vive and PSVR even lower
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HTC acknowledges Vive shipping problems
Company working to resolve "multiple issues" since it began sending out VR headset, but insists nothing is delayed
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Crytek's VR First initiative partners with IEEE
"Collaborating with the IEEE dramatically broadens the potential reach of VR First"
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Oculus apologises for "unexpected component shortage"
Delays in shipping headsets caused by supply line issues, says firm
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Two Sony presidents, one VR revolution
Two executives are better than one when it comes to talking pricing, strategy and VR games of the future
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Starbreeze invests $750K in VR/AR studio
Freeform Labs is based in Santa Monica, working on VR title ElemenTerra
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Sony open to PSVR on PC
Company delayed PS4 VR headset in response to increased sales projections, expects to ship up to 2 million this year
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Oculus VR: Touch games "need more time"
Jason Rubin has pointed to software as the reason the Rift's hand-tracked controllers won't launch until later this year
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Visionary VR raises $6m in Series A
“Today, only expert-level developers can create VR stories, we're going to change that”
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Fove VR raises $11 million from Colopl, Hon Hai
Japanese company specialising in eye-tracking tech will go into full production later this year
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Oculus: "We don't believe the consumer has space" for room-scale VR
Jason Rubin explains why the Vive's key feature is not an important aspect of the Rift's messaging
Opinion
Roundtable: What we learned about VR at GDC
Virtual reality is a current reality, but its future remains a question mark - the GI.biz team reflects on VR we saw during GDC