Facebook is rolling out its latest avatars, Oculus Avatars 2.0, which it hopes will finally unify virtual identify across Oculus applications and Facebook products. In addition to becoming the default avatars for Facebook Horizon and being optionally integrated into...

Vive Cosmos is HTC's newly unveiled PC VR headset that's slated to release sometime this year. While it's a tethered device meant to support PCs at launch, HTC teased that it could also be driven by a smartphone. At its...

CCP Games, makers of Eve: Online and the upcoming multi-headset title Eve: Valkyrie, are expanding the Eve universe to Samsung Gear VR with their new mobile release Gunjack. The game isn't only jaw-droppingly beautiful, (and despite my penchant for...

Google's event today saw the unveiling of its newest smartphones, Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL. According to the company, the Pixel 2 camera has been "factory calibrated and optimized for AR." Google says its specially calibrated Pixel 2 camera enables robust...

Impact Reality, the VR publishing and marketing firm, announced it's formed a studio dedicated to porting flatscreen games to VR. Called Flat2VR Studios, the venture is aimed at merging traditional video games with immersive VR experiences, and is said to...

Sprint Vector (2018), the VR racing game that uses a unique locomotion system to send you speeding through the world's Mario Kart-style tracks on your own two feet, is finally getting a free access weekend on Rift. Oh, and you...

Storied AR headset unicorn Magic Leap has laid off its entire sales and marketing departments, making for around 75 jobs cut from its rolls. Initially the focus of a Bloomberg report, Magic Leap has now confirmed the layoff round, stating the move...

Alien: Isolation (2014) was one of the first truly good games to get support for PC VR headsets. If you're wondering why everyone is still crazy about years later, it'll only take you $2 to find out. Thanks to Steam's...

Crytek today announced at the Oculus Game Showcase that its solo climbing game for Quest, The Climb 2 (2021), is getting a nice little slice of new content tomorrow. Called the 'Freestyle Expansion Pack', the free update will be landing on...

Fast Travel Games, the Sweden-based VR developer behind Wraith: The Oblivion - Afterlife (2021) and Apex Construct (2018), today announced it's opening a publishing arm which is aimed at helping smaller teams to break into the VR games market. The publishing team will...

Google today released Cardboard Camera, a Google Cardboard-compatible app that let's take 3D panoramic photos with your smartphone and then view them in a VR smartphone adapter. Google is calling the 3D panoramas taken by Cardboard Camera "VR photos," which combines...

SWVR‘s (Southwest VR) inaugural UK event in February attracted a great selection of industry talent to talk on their experiences developing for VR. One of the current hot topics amongst creative thinkers in the VR space is how to...

Insomniac Games is no stranger to VR game development. Since 2016 the studio has created three Oculus exclusive VR titles—Feral Rites, Edge of Nowhere, and The Unspoken—but its next (and possibly last Oculus exclusive), Stormland, is unequivocally its most ambitious...

In an interesting move, Google has acquired Owlchemy Labs, makers of the multi-platform hits Job Simulator (2016) and Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality (2017). As far as VR game studios go, Owlchemy Labs is not only one of the most senior, but...

Schell Games today announced that its long-awaited follow-up to I Expect You to Die (2016) is set to launch on all major VR headsets August 24th. The spy-themed puzzler is already looking like a worthy sequel, offering fun and interesting...