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VR Golf Online Brings ‘Real Physics’ To Simulation Experience

VR Golf Online was released Wednesday on Steam, enabling users to experience 36 different golf courses in virtual reality. After the HTC Vive headset is placed over the user’s eyes, the simulation game gives the player the option to select whether they want to play single or a match and choose from a cast of five character designs […]

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Middlesbrough FC Launches Virtual Reality App For 360-Degree Experiences

Middlesbrough FC has released a new virtual reality app that gives fans a chance to go behind the scenes at Riverside Stadium. The Boro VR 360 experience app is designed with Teesside-based emerging technology company Spearhead Interactive and gives fans a unique insight into a Riverside match day by following the players’ perspective from the time they […]

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B.League In Japan Embraces Basketball In Virtual Reality

The NBA announced in October that it had partnered with NextVR to deliver a game every week in virtual reality on its NBA LEAGUE PASS subscription service. Now, Japan is upping the ante by bringing virtual reality to its own basketball league, the B.League, with an All-Star introduction. The B.League earlier this month offered a look at […]

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Ski Jump VR Looks To Take Flight With Funding

The developer of the virtual reality game Ski Jump VR has launched an Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign in order to get the game off the ground. The Ski Jump game in a previous version was available on mobile for Android and iOS, and developer Dariusz Pietrala is looking to take it into virtual reality. The gameplay […]

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Tottenham Hotspur Players Experience New Stadium In Virtual Reality

Tottenham Hotspur F.C. is building a new, sleek stadium. It will hold 61,000 people that will all be packed closer to the pitch the create a “wall of sound.” While the stadium is being constructed, the players were able to experience it in virtual reality. In between gasps of “wow” and “this stadium is massive,” players […]

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