News Bits
‘Plex VR’ App Comes to Gear VR, Social VR Viewing to Arrive ‘in a few weeks’
Plex, the media server software that lets you stream your own video, music, and photos to a bevy of devices, has landed on Gear VR with its latest app Plex VR. The app, which includes support for 360180-degree and 3D videos,...
Oculus Now Lets Gear VR Devs Post Notifications to Better Communicate With Players
For developers, it's not easy grabbing a player's attention when their game is getting a big update, or an important in-game event is about to happen. In effort to remedy this, Oculus is opening up Notifications on Gear VR...
Kat VR Details Upcoming VR Treadmill KAT Walk Mini in New Video
In response to curiosity from the community, Kat VR, the China-based VR treadmill company, released a new video showing their upcoming small form-factor KAT Walk Mini in action.
"The KAT Walk mini is not only smaller than its predecessors, ...
Facebook is Using Target Tracking to Unlock AR Experiences From Movie Posters and More
Facebook is expanding its augmented reality platform to make it possible for developers to create AR content tied to physical objects such as logos, signs and posters.
The company has already integrated a few examples of its 'AR Target Tracking'...
Dev Behind ‘Mario AR’ Brings ‘Street Fighter II’ to Life with ARKit
You might know developer Abhishek Singh from his HoloLens version of Super Mario Bros. (1985) that went viral back in June 2017, or maybe his more recent AR recreation of the iconic scene from The Ring (2002) where the horrifying ghost girl emerges...
HTC Launches $300 SteamVR 1.0 Tracking Bundle for Vive Pro Users
HTC today announced they're launching a hardware accessory bundle for $300 that will include all necessary bits for new Vive Pro customers starting from scratch (besides the headset, that is).
The tracking bundle includes two SteamVR base stations and two...
‘Gran Turismo Sport’ Update Brings Time Trials to ‘PSVR Mode’
Gran Turismo Sport (2017), the VR-compatible PS4 racing sim, just got an update that lets PSVR owners take a crack at all available circuits in time trial mode.
GT Sport isn't exactly a fully fledged PSVR title as such, since you...
Sony Drops PlayStation VR Price by $100, Bundles Now Starting at $300
Sony has announced a $100 price drop to their PlayStation VR headset across the board. The PSVR Doom VFR bundle now starts at $300 and the PSVR Skyrim bundle runs $350.
Bringing prices that haven't been seen since temporary sales...
‘Wipeout: Omega Collection’ PSVR Support Now Available in Free Update – Full Game & All Modes
PlayStation's legendary anti-grav arcade racer can now proudly display the 'PSVR-compatible' badge thanks to a free update pushed out today to WipEout: Omega Collection for PS4.
Update (03/28/18): Announced via a PlayStation blog post, Wipeout's PSVR update is finally here. For...
‘Island Time VR’ to Launch on All Major Platforms April 3rd, ‘5 Ways to Die’ Launch...
Island Time VR, a room-scale survival game from Flight School Studio, is launching April 3rd on PSVR, Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and other Steam VR-compatible headsets for $15. In preparation for your inevitable death ahead, Flight School also released a launch trailer...
Oculus PC SDK Adds NVIDIA Lens Matched Shading to Boost Performance
Oculus' PC SDK version 1.19 now supports NVIDIA's VRWorks Lens Matched Shading (LMS) technique, offering "a performance boost and a slight quality improvement" on supported GPUs.
Lens Matched Shading is part of NVIDIA's VRWorks toolset, and takes advantage of the...
New Jersey Utility Uses Augmented Reality to Visualise Underground Infrastructure
vGIS, a new geographic information system (GIS) visualisation platform from the Environmental Systems Research Institute (Esri) partner Meemim, is being used to view underground infrastructure while wearing Microsoft Hololens. Piloted by Toms River Municipal Utilities Authority in New Jersey,...
HTC Releases 3 ‘Ready Player One’ VR Experiences in ‘OASIS Beta’, Now Free on Viveport
HTC showed off eight Ready Player One-inspired experiences at the film's debut event at SXSW. Now, the company has released three of these experiences on Viveport in a single download called Ready Player One: OASIS Beta.
Here's the full list of mini-games...
Sony Highlights 30+ PSVR Games Launching This Spring
Over on the US PlayStation Blog, SIEA Social Media Manager Justin Massongill has compiled a list of 34 PSVR games targeting a Spring 2018 release. The article details some of the more anticipated titles: Ark Park, Crisis on the...
Report: Facebook to Launch Oculus Go Standalone Headset at F8 Developer Conference
Oculus Go, the company's upcoming $200 standalone VR headset, doesn't have an official release date yet, but a recent report from Variety contends Oculus will be launching Go at Facebook's f8 developer conference this May.
Variety cites "multiple sources familiar with...



















