GDC Europe adds talks on HD Oculus Rift, PS4 shading tech, others

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GDC Europe has added a slew of new talks to the conference taking place from August 19-21 in Cologne, Germany.The creators of Oculus Rift will be giving a talk on the new HD version of their virtual reality device and its impact on the video game industry as a whole. They will also have a sample of the headset available for attendees to check out on the show floor.Sony’s Chris Ho and Richard Stenson will be giving a talk entitled “PlayStation Shading Language for PS4,” in which they will discuss cross-compatibility with PC hardware as well as the advantages of the PS4′s hardware capabilities.AMD developer relations manager Layla Mah’s talk will feature “low-level detail” on how AMD’s Graphics Core Next architecture can be utilized in the next generation of consoles.Finally, Nintendo has announced two talks at the conference focused on developing for the Wii U. First, Svyetoslav Pidgornyy and Martin Buchholz will advise on how to use HTML and Javascript, while James Steele and Wayne Johnson will talk Unity.

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