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How The Medical University of Warsaw trains dentists with Giant Lazer and HTC VIVE

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Giant LazerWrocław, Polandthey help us to understand our errors and learn how to avoid them. But what if those same mistakes caused injury, pain or even death? This concern has plagued medicine and dentistry students for many years, where a slip of the scalpel or needle can result in a very displeased patient. The solution has long been to replace human beings with lifelik

The Atlas Mystery Review: A Trip To The Pictures

VR escape rooms are a dime a dozen; can The Atlas Mystery separate itself from the pack? Read on for our The Atlas Mystery review.

The concept of the real-life escape room has exploded in popularity in recent years, with numerous places in many cities across the world offering various experiences ranging in theme from spy drama to high fantasy. VR developers were quick to pick up on the idea, realizing that an interactive mystery works extremely well in the new medium. Developer Top Right Corne

Zenith Dev Talks Solarpunk And Anime Influences, Future Updates

Developer Ramen VR has attracted a great deal of attention from virtual reality (VR) enthusiasts since the release of Zenith: The Last City, with the game even briefly hitting the top of the Steam player charts.

Though still in Early Access, fans are hopeful that Zenith represents a step towards the fully immersive VR MMORPG popular in fiction. To explore the ideas, influences and future plans for Zenith: The Last City, Upload VR spoke to Andy Tsen, CEO and co-founder of Ramen VR.

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The VR Waifu Problem

There is a commonly cited ‘fact’ that the VHS format won the home videotape format wars because it allowed pornography to use the format, while Betamax would not. This is actually an apocryphal story, but nonetheless feeds into the idea that any new form of video storage and distribution will, inevitably, be used for porn. Inevitably, pornography has begun to appear in virtual reality (VR) and even augmented reality (AR). Along with that has come another trend, something I have dubbed ‘Waifu Sim

Polybius – The Urban Legend Made Real

Developer Llamasoft recently announced that they were launching a new videogame for the PlayStation VR, a ‘trance shooter’ titled Polybius. The title raised some eyebrows among those of us with an interest in videogame history.

Polybius is a gaming urban legend dating back to the early days of videogame arcades. The story has spread amongst videogaming communities since the 1980s, but it was the advent of UseNet that allowed the rumour to explode to such an extent that it is known of all over t

Only Single Player • 15th December 2019

Disco Elysium's Surreal, Table-Top-Style Story Provides an Adventure Like No Other — Single-Player Memories 2019 - OnlySP

The impact that good writing has on video games is often underestimated. Since a lot of games still rely on simplistic plots and cliché character motivations, critics sometimes dismiss the writing in a video game easily. Some games, however, take their words to the next level, and such is the case with Disco Elysium.

Characters in video games usually have fairly direct goals—rescue the princess, defeat the bad guy, find the macguffin, and so on. Disco Elysium tosses all that out of the window.

Revenge of THAC0 — Icewind Dale, Baldur’s Gate, and Planescape: Torment Enhanced Edition - OnlySP

In spring 2003, four geeks sit in a sweltering attic room, playing on cobbled-together PCs and trying to get their heads around the intricacies of Icewind Dale. This task is more difficult than expected, thanks to the game using the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd Edition rules as its basis. Now, modern-day gamers can also have the experience of trying to decipher the 2nd Edition ruleset with the launch of the Icewind Dale, Baldur’s Gate, Baldur’s Gate 2, and Planescape: Torment Enhanced Edition

Fatal Frame Needs To Be in VR - OnlySP

Five years have passed since the last Fatal Frame (a.k.a Zero or Project Zero) game was released on the Wii U. Fans have been clamouring for a revival of the series since then, with many hoping for a new game on the Switch. However, an opportunity exists for the series to go in a new direction, one which could make Fatal Frame even scarier.

Horror in virtual reality (VR) tends to work extremely well. The immersion and immediacy of VR means that the scares feel much more personal, since players

A Beginner’s Guide to Microcomputer Collecting - OnlySP

Last month, OnlySP produced a guide to help those who are thinking of getting into collecting retro video game consoles. As a follow up, here is a guide on getting started with collecting other types of retro hardware: the microcomputer.

The terms thrown around by collectors and fans of retro technology can be confusing, so here is a bit of a breakdown: A games console is defined as a device that can only play video games. A Microcomputer, also known as a home computer, can perform other functi

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2006's Sonic the Hedgehog reboot was Sega's big game for Sonic's 15th anniversary but what was released was a critical failure that did more wrong than it did right. But what went wrong? Skyblaze has the answers...

Do you remember the days of magazines with cover discs? Reminisce with us on this episode of The Hidden Palace as Skyblaze looks back at the various DreamOn discs featuring the hottest games for your favourite 128-bit console!

You might be familiar with the art featured in video gam

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