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‘Echo VR’ Launches Out of Beta for Quest, Including Rift Crossplay
Echo VR, the zero-G multiplayer game from Ready at Dawn, is now out of beta for Oculus Quest. Although it only includes Echo Arena, the zero-g team sport and not the team shooter Echo Combat, the free game seems to have struck a...
Oculus Bridge Opens the Door to Rift Web Applications
Oculus Bridge is a free package to get Oculus Rift head tracking data into the browser. With support for Mac OSX and Windows, Oculus Bridge opens the door for Rift integration with web-based applications.
Oculus Bridge was created by Instrument, an...
Owlchemy’s ‘Vacation Simulator’ Launch Pushed Back to Early 2019
Owlchemy Labs, the studio behind breakout VR parody game Job Simulator (2016), announced that their upcoming sequel Vacation Simulator is coming to VR headsets in 2019, and not 2018 as previously planned.
Much like Job Simulator, Vacation Simulator puts you in a...
This Fan-made Star Wars VR Trailer Makes us Want an Official Title from the Franchise
Piloting vehicles, taking down infamous foes, and wielding lightsabers in one of sci-fi's most iconic franchises? The Star Wars universe offers an array of memorable and heroic experiences that we only wish we could live ourselves. VR technology could make...
‘Virtual Virtual Reality’ on Google Daydream Plays on Popular Anxieties of the Near Future
It's the joke everyone in the VR space has made at least once: 'virtual virtual reality—how meta!' But developer Tender Claws has taken the idea and applied it to a new Daydream experience which explores common themes of "VR, AI...
Valve Reveals 2018’s Top Selling VR Games on Steam (so far)
Just in time for the end of Steam's summer sale, Valve has released a list of the top selling VR games of 2018 so far.
Broken down into a series of 'Best of 2018' charts, we got our annual eye-full...
Google’s ‘Project Tango’ Competition Winners Showcase the Tech’s Potential
Google have announce the winners of their Project Tango innovators competition, designed to draw out original and impressive use cases for the computer vision, environment mapping technology.
Project Tango is a computer vision project by Google designed to use depth...
‘I Expect You to Die’ Earns Over $2M in Revenue on Oculus Quest Alone
Schell Games, the studio behind I Expect You To Die (2016), today announced the critically-acclaimed VR spy game has generated over $2 million in revenue on the Oculus Quest platform alone.
This, the studio says, was earned through sales of nearly...
Varjo Raises $54M Financing to Support Its Retina-Quality VR/AR Headsets for Enterprise
Varjo, the Helsinki, Finland-based creators of high pixel density VR/AR headsets for enterprise, today announced it's closed a $54 million Series C funding round. The company says it will use the funds to accelerate the global expansion and development of its...
Oculus Offers Glimpse of ‘Robo Recall’ on Quest with New Screenshots
Drifter Entertainment, the studio behind Gunheart (2017) and Ready Player One: Rise of the Gunters (2018), is taking the reigns of porting Epic's impressive arcade shooter Robo Recall (2017) to Oculus Quest. In an Oculus blog post today, the studio...
Hands-on: VideoStich Unveils ‘Orah 4i’, an All-in-One Livestreaming 4K 360 Camera
VideoStitch, the company behind the eponymous 360 post-production software suite, today announced their first 360 camera, the Orah 4i. The all-in-one solution aims to take the hassle out of creating 360 videos by automatically stitching and transmitting them live...
Researchers Develop Method to Boost Contrast in VR Headsets by Lying to Your Eyes
A team of researchers from Cambridge, Berkeley, MIT, and others has developed a novel method for boosting perceived contrast in VR headsets. The method exploits human stereo vision by intentionally mismatching elements of the view seen by each eye;...
Google ‘Expeditions’ Lets Students Take VR Field Trips to Anywhere
Google today unveiled an educational initiative that leverages virtual reality and the company's low-cost Cardboard VR viewers to let teachers take their students on trips around the world as a classroom—they call it 'Expeditions'.
Virtual reality and education are receiving...
Live Boxing Match Shows Us the Sweet Spot for Virtual Reality Broadcasting
We've seen VR live broadcasting company NextVR cover a range of sports and events, but its latest gig livestreaming a Premier Boxing Champions event was one of the best use-cases we've seen yet for the nascent technology.
It was a matchup...
‘Star Wars: Battlefront II’ Won’t Be Supporting PSVR Headsets After All
Criterion Games, the EA studio that developed the PlayStation VR-exclusive Star Wars Battlefront Rogue One: VR Mission, says Battlefront II won't be getting the virtual reality treatment the developers previously announced, and that no VR missions will be present in the game.
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