head-tracking solutions like TrackIR. The Development Kit 2 is, as the name suggests, a device for developers, not consumers. As such, it is not representative of the final polished product that Oculus still hope to launch in 20…
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We got a chance to try Valve’s VR system at the Game Developers Conference (GDC), and it’s the best VR experience we’ve had yet. This is the closest thing to a modern-day Holodeck there is at the moment. Built in partnership wit…
At E3 2012, John Carmack had a demo room devoted to a custom build of Doom 3 running in VR. It was in that room that many people experienced Oculus Rift for the first time. The headset was literally held together by duct tape. T…
By now you probably know that NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 980 is our favourite GPU for high-end gaming. Whack two of these in your system and 4K gaming isn’t an unrealistic expectation. NVIDIA knows gamers love it, which is why the pric…
Holographic technology is here at last, and it’s going to bring games out of the TV screen and into your actual real-life living room. Yep, you read that right Microsoft recently demoed its vision of next-generation computing, an…
Within the hardware industry there is a lot of noise, competitors constantly try to outdo each other with products that are extremely similar, building up brand awareness, and hopefully loyalty, by prompting good user experiences…
The release of the GTX 960 added another SKU to NVIDIA’s 900 series family. This time, the newest addition replaces the GTX 760 which, in comparison to the GTX 780 and the GTX 770, has been short lived on the market. As you would…
This is one expensive graphics card. Let’s get that out there before we go into the rest of this review. This graphics card is ridiculously priced and this isn’t a South African economy issue. It is expensive everywhere else in t…
W hile Oculus VR ’s Crescent Bay prototype is the near-future of VR , Razer's $200 Hacker Dev Kit, shipping in June, looks very much the present. Putting it on is a lot like wearing an Oculus DK2. The 1080p screen is high eno…
Asus like pushing limits not only in their research, but also in the products they release onto the market. So a device like the Matrix Platinum GeForce GTX 980 graphics card showing up shouldn’t be too surprising. And yet what t…
Microsoft, to great cries of “WHY?”, made Windows 8 tablet-friendly at the expense of desktop usability. Removing the Start menu didn't help either, and the resulting operating system experienced a lower adoption rate than ev…
Rather than pushing newer, faster generations of GPUs, AMD has switched up its game to a more counter approach, firmly focusing on dominating a segment. The R9 285 is a brand new card with a brand new Tonga core GPU that’s positi…
Miniature PCs are usually restricted to less intensive tasks, but Cyberpower reckons it's Fang Mini Pro is an ideal small-form-factor gaming system. That’s because this tiny PC boasts an Intel Core i7-4770R processor and Iris…
There’s no denying that the X99 platform is a powerful one. It’s expensive, but it is immensely more current than the aged X79 chipset it has replaced. Power users from a performance and features point of view have never had it t…
What you see before you is a slim 1.9 kg gaming notebook. At a hair under 2 cm in girth, this is yet again a notebook for those who truly want portability and comfort above all else. From where we sit, there’s really no reason fo…
