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Preview: ‘Fracked’ is Shaping Up With a Great Art Style and Chunky, Satisfying Combat
Fracked, the upcoming PSVR exclusive from developer nDreams, is now due to launch next month, and today we got our first hands-on time with the game thanks to a new demo that's available today.
Fracked leans clearly into the shooter genre,...
‘A Township Tale’ Quest Review – VR’s Most Immersive MMO-like Yet
MMO-like A Township Tale has been available on PC VR for a few years now, but today's launch on Quest opens the game up to a whole new audience. With support for up to eight simultaneous players and immersive...
‘Sniper Elite VR’ Review – Satisfying Sniping in Need of Some Backup
Sniper Elite VR is the first made-for-VR game in the long running franchise. True to its name, the game delivers satisfying sniper gameplay, including its signature x-ray kill cam. But beyond that, the war stories aren't worth writing home...
Hands-on: Varjo Reality Cloud is a Platform for Capturing & Sharing Physical Spaces in Real-time
Varjo today announced its new Varjo Reality Cloud platform, a device-agnostic VR meeting platform which can scan and share physical spaces in real-time using the depth sensors on its latest XR-3 headsets. The company doesn't have a specific release...
‘Larcenauts’ Review – The Hero Shooter Comes to VR, Sort of
Four years after its acclaimed title Farpoint, developer Impulse Gear is back with a new VR game, Larcenauts. This time around it's something very different: a multiplayer-only hero shooter with strong Overwatch vibes.
Larcenauts Details:
Available On: Oculus Quest & Rift...
Exclusive Preview – ‘A Township Tale’ is Bringing Deep Crafting to Quest
A Township Tale is an intriguing MMO-like VR game that's been in early access on PC since 2018 and is heading to Oculus Quest next month. We got an exclusive tour around the Quest version of the game by...
HTC Vive Pro 2 Review – “Pro” Price with Not Quite Pro Performance
Three years after the original Vive Pro, HTC's Vive Pro 2 is here. With a class-leading price, the "Pro" branded headset is clearly positioned to one-up its contemporaries. Unfortunately the headset's performance doesn't quite justify the Pro price. ...
Exclusive Hands-on: DigiLens is Building Modular AR Glasses to Accelerate Consumerization
DigiLens, creators of waveguide optics, today announced the Design v1, a modular reference headset which the company hopes will accelerate the development and consumerization of truly glasses-sized AR headsets. Road to VR got an exclusive hands-on demo of the...
Intel Researchers Give ‘GTA V’ Photorealistic Graphics, Similar Techniques Could Do the Same for VR
Researchers from Intel's Intelligent Systems Lab have revealed a new method for enhancing computer-generated imagery with photorealistic graphics. Demonstrated with GTA V, the approach uses deep-learning to analyze frames generated by the game and then generate new frames from a...
Vive Focus 3 Announced with Snapdragon XR2, 6MP Resolution, $1,300 Enterprise Price & June 27th Launch
HTC today revealed its latest standalone VR headset, the Vive Focus 3. The enterprise-oriented headset will bring Snapdragon XR2, a whopping 6MP per-eye resolution, 120° field-of-view, new controllers, and more for $1,300. The Vive Focus 3 release date is...
Quest 2 Continues to Grow by Leaps and Bounds Among VR Headsets on Steam
Despite being marketed primarily as a standalone headset, Quest 2 is continuing its meteoric rise among VR headsets used on PC through Steam. Last month the headset picked up another 3.54% of the share of headsets on the platform,...
Have Facebook’s Big Bets on Oculus Exclusive Games Been Successful? A Data-driven Look
Facebook has purportedly spent at least $500 million to bring a wide range of content to its VR headsets. A portion of that investment was bet on big budget exclusive games, like Asgard's Wrath and Medal of Honor: Above...
[Updated] VR Headsets on Steam Hit Record High Three Months Running
For the third month running, the number of VR headsets on Steam has reached a new record high of some 2.9 million, or 2.3% of Steam users.
Update (April 4th, 2021): A prior version of this article reported that monthly-connected...
Case Study: The Design Behind ‘Cubism’s’ Hand-tracking
Hand tracking first became available on the Oculus Quest back in late 2019. Out of enthusiasm for this new input method, I published a demo of Cubism to SideQuest with experimental hand tracking support only a few days later....
Microsoft is the First Major Tech Company to Host a VR Keynote, and it Went Down...
Last week Microsoft became the first major tech company to host a keynote presentation fully in virtual reality. Despite many moving parts, the company managed to delivery a seamless, immersive presentation that could mark the future of this sort...

















