VRFocus - The original development kit for the Oculus Rift virtual reality (VR) headset is now sold out. Users trying to pick up a dev kit from the official Oculus VR website will see a message stating: UNITS ARE CURRENTLY OUT OF STOCK. This suspension of sale had been warned by the company last month and occurs just under a week before it gives a Game Developers Conference (GDC) presentation about the hardware.
Full, native Linux support is coming to the CryEngine software development kit, Crytek has recently confirmed ahead of the upcoming Game Developers Conference taking place next week in San Francisco, California.
Could an Xbox One graphical upgrade already be on the cards?.
The Xbox One may not even be four months old, but it seems it may already be in line for some back-end upgrades in the shape of an upgrade to Microsoft's popular graphical API DirectX in a reveal due to take place at this year's Games Developers Conference in San Francisco.
Gamasutra :
"Game Developers Conference has just confirmed a vendor session from Sony Computer Entertainment America that youll want to keep an eye on.
The session, titled Driving the Future of Innovation at Sony Computer Entertainment, is hosted by SCEA RDs director Richard Marks and senior software engineer Anton Mikhailov. Theyll be accompanied by Shuhei Yoshida, president of SCE Worldwide Studios."
Microsoft will debut its DirectX 12 API on March 20, at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, the company has announced.
DirectX 12 will feature in a GDC presentation at 10:00 PST on the day, 'DirectX: Evolving Microsoft's Graphics Platform', which will be led by Windows graphics development manager Anju Gosalia.
"You asked us to bring you even closer to the metal and to do so on an unparalleled assortment of hardware," reads the talk's official description. "You also asked us for better tools so that you can squeeze every last drop of performance out of your PC, tablet, phone, and console."
"Come learn our plans to deliver," says Microsoft. A picture for the talk also includes logos from AMD, Intel, Nvidia, and Qualcomm.
DirectX 12 will be the first major update of the API since Microsoft launched DirectX 11 way back in 2008.
Microsoft will debut its DirectX 12 API on March 20, at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, the company has announced.
DirectX 12 will feature in a GDC presentation at 10:00 PST on the day, 'DirectX: Evolving Microsoft's Graphics Platform', which will be led by Windows graphics development manager Anju Gosalia.
"You asked us to bring you even closer to the metal and to do so on an unparalleled assortment of hardware," reads the talk's official description. "You also asked us for better tools so that you can squeeze every last drop of performance out of your PC, tablet, phone, and console."
"Come learn our plans to deliver," says Microsoft. A picture for the talk also includes logos from AMD, Intel, Nvidia, and Qualcomm.
DirectX 12 will be the first major update of the API since Microsoft launched DirectX 11 way back in 2008.
