News Bits
HTC Announces Strategic Partnerships With MLB & McLaren Formula One Team
At the Vive Ecosystem Conference (VEC) in Shenzhen today, HTC announced new VR initiatives in partnership with Major League Baseball (MLB) and McLaren Racing, the Formula One racing team.
Looking to take advantage of the growing baseball trend in China, HTC...
HTC & Seagate to Produce External Battery+Data Storage Solution for Vive Focus
HTC and Seagate have partnered to produce an external power & data storage accessory for Vive Focus, ideal for people using the headset for local media consumption.
Dubbed the Seagate ‘VR Power Drive’, the external battery+storage device is said to...
Oculus Brings ‘Boggle’ to Social VR App ‘Rooms’, More Hasbro Games ‘coming soon’
Oculus first announced that Boggle and other Hasbro board games would be coming to Oculus' mobile VR platform back at F8, Facebook's developer conference. Now the day has arrived, at least for Boggle, as users on Gear VR and...
‘WipEout Omega’ For PSVR & PS4 is Getting a Free Demo Tomorrow
Ever since WipEout Omega Collection (2017) added support for PSVR back in March, it became the de facto gold standard of anti-grav VR racing on the platform. Now, users looking to pop their head in to see what all the fuss is...
NextVR Introduces NBA 2017-2018 MVP Highlight Reel in Virtual Reality
NextVR, the VR video streaming platform the brings live events to headset users, is introducing the 2017-2018 season NBA MVP highlight reel on the NextVR app.
The VR highlight reel brings headset users courtside with this season’s MVP favorites, including...
Play VR RTS ‘Skyworld’ This Weekend for Free on Rift, Vive & Windows VR
Vertigo Games is hosting a free access weekend starting now for their VR RTS Skyworld, which will be available through both Steam (Rift, Vive, Windows VR) and the Oculus Store (Rift).
Starting now and going through May 20th at 1PM PT...
Oculus Mobile Store Now Lets Devs Offer DLC, Coming to Rift Store Soon
It appears the age of paid downloadable content in VR is rapidly approaching us. Oculus developers will now be able to add discrete DLC to their games on Oculus Go and Samsung Gear VR. Oculus Rift support isn't far...
HTC Says Watching ‘Ready Player One’ Boosts VR Purchase Intent in China
HTC China President Alvin Wang Graylin tweeted recently that Steven Spielberg's Ready Player One (2018) is projected to have a "significantly positive impact" on VR adoption in China this year.
Graylin presented a few supporting slides this past week during a talk at...
‘Silicon Valley’ VR Experience Lets You Explore Erlich Bachman’s Incubator, Now on Rift & Vive
VR headset users now have a chance to walk into an interactive version of HBO's Silicon Valley house. The Palo Alto home, which is owned by the series' eccentric startup guru Erlich Bachman (T.J. Miller), was lovingly recreated in VR,...
‘Apex Construct’ Gets Free PSVR Demo, Now Available on US PSN Store
Sadly, demos aren't really the norm for VR games, making it tough to know if that tantalizingly polished-looking game really works as well as it looks in trailers. Now, Apex Construct (2018) developers Fast Travel Games have released a demo on...
Multiplayer VR Shooter ‘Oval’ Lets You Create & Share Levels, Coming June to Early Access
Oval is an upcoming VR shooter that lets you create, edit and share your own levels. The game, which is slated to hit Steam Early Access June 8th, will support HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, and Windows "Mixed Reality" VR...
Play Racing Simulator ‘Project CARS’ for Free This Weekend on Rift
In lieu of downloadable demos, Oculus has been offering free access weekends to select games to show off what VR multiplayer is all about. Up this weekend is Project CARS (2015), the VR racing simulator from Slightly Mad Studio that...
Google Confirms Chrome is Coming to Standalone Daydream Headsets
The Lenovo Mirage Solo, the first standalone Daydream headset, launched just last week. In our review we noted it odd that the headset didn't have access to a VR web browser. But that's soon to change, as Google has...
This Custom ‘Beat Saber’ Level on Expert Turns DragonForce up to Eleven
Since indie developers Hyperbolic Magnetism endorsed a few community-made level editors for their hit VR rhythm game Beat Saber (2018), people have been adding their own tracks to the lightsaber-wielding slicefest; it's not only let creators up the difficulty, but also made...
Microsoft Store to Lead Industry in Revenue Share to non-Game VR App Devs
Later this year, Microsoft is increasing the cut developers earn when publishing on the Microsoft Store. The raise in revenue share is slated to affect developers of non-gaming apps, amounting to between 85-95 % of revenue going to the...



















