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Hands-on: Valve’s Index Headset Sets an Impressive New Bar for VR Fidelity
Valve has finally given Index a full reveal and has announced that the headset will be available for pre-order starting tomorrow and is due to ship by the end of June. We recently visited Valve's offices for a hands-on...
The Simple Guide to Four Major VR Headsets Launching This Spring
If you've been paying attention to the VR space at all in 2019, you've likely noticed the increasing buzz, no doubt thanks to four major VR headsets set to launch over the course of the next few months. Here's...
The Surprising Brilliance of ‘Vacation Simulator’s’ VR Paintbrush Tech
Having released the ever popular Job Simulator as a launch title for the HTC Vive back in 2016, Owlchemy Labs is one of the most veteran VR game studios that exists today. Over the years the studio has built a strong...
‘Vacation Simulator’ Review – A Relaxing Change of Pace Full of Familiar Whimsy
As a day-one launch title for HTC Vive, PSVR, and Oculus Rift's Touch controllers, Job Simulator (2016) was an ideal first VR experience; it's so simple anyone can immediately put on a headset and get to exploring the comically bad interpretation...
AT&T and Magic Leap Partnership is All About 5G, While Selling a $2,300 Headset Without It
AT&T and Magic Leap formed a partnership last year which looked a lot like the one between Cingular (now merged with AT&T) and Apple which led to the launch of iPhone. The idea was that the iPhone was an...
Hands-on: Oculus Quest is Ready and Able to Handle ‘Beat Saber’s’ Highest Difficulty
Beyond being a great VR game, Beat Saber has inadvertently turned out to be an excellent benchmark of controller tracking performance, and thus a great test for the upcoming Oculus Quest standalone headset, the first from the company to feature inside-out...
Valve Teases New ‘Index’ VR Headset Coming in May
After months of speculation, Valve has finally officially confirmed a new VR headset called Index that bears the company's own name and will presumably be a first-party product. A teaser image for the headset may indicate a release date...
Facebook’s Jason Rubin on Quest, Rift S, & the Direction of Oculus
Last week at GDC Oculus revealed their first new PC VR headset in three years, the Rift S. We sat down with Facebook's Jason Rubin, VP of AR/VR Content & Partnerships, to learn more about the strategy behind Quest and...
Rift S Isn’t the Headset Fans Want, But Facebook Wagers It’s What Their Ecosystem Needs
While to some Oculus' announcement of the Rift S represents the newest and best version of a good VR headset, to others it's a far cry from what they hoped Oculus would be able to deliver three years after...
Hands-on: Oculus Rift S is a Better, Easier to Use Rift (with a Few Tradeoffs)
Oculus has finally taken the wraps off of Rift S, its first PC VR headset release in three years. But there's a reason the company is calling this Rift S and not Rift 2; the changes are mostly for...
Hands-on: HP’s Pixel-packed ‘Reverb’ Sets a New Bar for Windows VR Headsets
HP today announced Reverb (formerly codenamed Copper), its new VR headset which aims to deliver enhanced resolution and comfort. With a more thoughtful design and pixel-packed displays, Reverb sets a new bar for Windows VR headsets.
Having jumped into the VR space...
Within ‘Beat Saber’s’ First Music Pack Lurks a Beast Worth Taming
Bust out the sweat bands and tighten your wrist straps. A big update to Beat Saber yesterday added a slew of new content to the PC version. Alongside that update, the game's first paid DLC, Monstercat Music Pack Vol....
Exclusive: ‘Audica’ Preview & Track Reveal – Blast the Beat
Audica is the intriguing upcoming VR "rhythm shooter" from veteran rhythm gaming studio Harmonix. Today we've got a preview of the game through an exclusive first look at one of the 10 tracks that will ship with the game's...
Nintendo Jumps into VR (Again) With Switch VR ‘Labo’ Kit Coming in April
Nintendo is bringing VR to Switch in the form of its latest 'Labo' kit which aims to "combine the innovative physical and digital gameplay of Nintendo Labo with basic VR technology to create a simple and shareable virtual reality...
‘Final Assault’ Early Access Review – a Charming & Engrossing RTS on the Rise
Virtual reality has absorbed a number of traditional mouse-and-keyboard games and turned them into something that can truly only exist in the medium. And while Final Assault, an online multiplayer real-time strategy game, takes some pretty tried and true classic RTS game...
