News Bits
‘Sprint Vector’ Races Onto PSVR Today With 30% Launch Discount for PS Plus Members
Sprint Vector, the VR racing game which makes use of the unique 'Fluid Locomotion System', launched today on PSVR with a bonus launch discount of 30% for PS Plus members (20% for non-members). Developed by Survios, the studio behind Raw...
NBA All-Star and Weekly Regular Season Coverage Comes Live to VR via TNT and Intel
TNT and Intel have teamed up to bring NBA All-Star coverage to VR on Gear VR and Daydream.
Based on Intel's True VR technology, TNT is bringing live and on-demand VR coverage of NBA All-Star events to Gear VR and...
Arcade Boxer ‘Knockout League’ to Land on PSVR February 13th
Sony has finally released word on when PSVR owners will be able to get their hands on the popular VR boxing title Knockout League; it's officially coming to PlayStation VR February 13th. The game has been in Early Access on...
Viacom Shutters VR Studio Viacom Next in Cost-cutting Move
Viacom Next, the company's technology group tasked with producing immersive experiences, is no longer. David Liu, former Creative Director at Next, announced the news via twitter.
As reported by Variety, around 100 employees have been laid off across multiple Viacom divisions in...
Dreamscape Immersive Launches Pop-up Location Featuring ‘Alien Zoo’ Experience
Dreamscape Immersive, the location based VR startup, today announced the public debut of a limited engagement VR experience called Alien Zoo. Now taking reservations at Westfield Century City, LA, California, the multiplayer experience will be open to the public for a single month.
Alien...
Update: ‘Earthlight’ Developer Experimenting With PSVR
Opaque Space, a studio working in collaboration with NASA to build space-themed VR experiences, have started experimenting with PSVR.
Update (02/06/18): In a previous version of this article, it was incorrectly reported that studio's latest experience 'Earthlight: Spacewalk' would be coming to...
Play ‘Eleven: Table Tennis VR’ on Rift for Free This Weekend
For Fun Labs, the developers behind Eleven: Table Tennis VR (2016), are hosting a free weekend for Rift players this week on Oculus Home.
Eleven: Table Tennis VR offers online multiplayer or practice with AI, and features cross-play between both the Steam (Vive & Rift) and Oculus...
Walmart’s Tech Incubator Store No. 8 Acquires VR Startup Spatialand
Wal-Mart, the big-box retail giant, unveiled its Store No. 8 tech startup incubator last year with the aim of researching and investing in emergent tech like AR and VR. Now, Store No. 8 has acquired Spatialand, a startup that has created...
Play VR Sport ‘SPARC’ for Free on Rift This Weekend
Sparc (2017), the VR sport from EVE Online developers CCP Games, is hosting a free weekend for Rift players on Oculus Home. Temporary free access has already begun, and will conclude on February 4th at 11:59 PM PT (local time here).
Initially...
Indie VRMMO ‘OrbusVR’ Now on Oculus Home and Steam With Cross Play
OrbusVR, the indie VR MMORPG, is now on Oculus Home, allowing for crossplay between it and the Steam version which launched last month.
The Steam version of OrbusVR has had support for both Vive and Rift when it started out in...
‘Star Wars: Jedi Challenges’ for Lenovo Mirage AR Gets First Content Expansion Since Launch
If you haven't touched your Lenovo Mirage AR headset since Christmas, now may be the time to jump back in for the latest content expansion to the lightsaber-intensive Star Wars: Jedi Challenges.
The content expansion, which is now available for free,...
A Glimpse of the New Vive Pro Controllers & SteamVR Tracking 2.0 Base Stations
While HTC is planning to launch the Vive Pro headset itself starting in Q1, the full package including the headset, controllers, and new SteamVR Tracking 2.0 base stations won't come until later in the year. Until then, here's a...
Studio Behind ‘SUPERHOT’ Looking for More VR Developers
It's amazing how well SUPERHOT (2016), the unforgettably stylized action game, worked when translated to virtual reality. Now, the developers at SUPERHOT Team are looking to get more hands on deck as they dive deeper into the world of VR development.
Once the...
Wargaming to Develop ‘World of Tanks VR’ for VR Arcades
Wargaming—the company behind free-to-play titles World of Tanks (2010), World of Warplanes (2013), and World of Warships (2015)—has announced development of a new title, World of Tanks VR, under development for deployment into VR arcades.
While the original World of Tanks itself isn't getting VR support...
‘Oculus Start’ Program Aims to Help Indies Jump into VR Development
Providing “access, support, and savings” to qualifying indie developers, the new Oculus Start program hopes to encourage and enable the development of great apps from those just getting started in VR. The program, which was introduced in a brief...




















