After the launch of its First VR initiative in January, Crytek announced the addition of four partners and plans for seven new VR First Labs at the University ofUnited States and Canada. VR First seeks to promote the Foundation of research and development, providing hardware and cutting edge tools to academic institutions around the world. Today, Crytek has confirmed that the list of partners supporting the program in 2016 now includes AMD as exclusive partner for GPUs, Leap Motion, OSVR, and Razer. Carleton University, California State University Monterey Bay, Purdue University, Rochester Institute of Technology, University of Florida,University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts, and Vancouver Film School will be First in the United States and Canada pioneer of VR, following the successful launch of the first program to Bahçe ehir University in Istanbul & # 351; earlier this year. Ferhan Özkan, Senior Business Development Manager & Partnership Alliances of Crytek said: “it was exciting to see the level of interest that VR First aroused in technology partners and inuniversities around the world, since the initiative was launched less than two months ago. Now we are much closer to our goal of forming a global VR community and we are grateful to all those who have undertaken joining us so far. We believe this says a lot about the vision shared by our partners to invest in the potential of VR “.Release date: founded in 1999