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‘Pokémon GO’ Developer Niantic Acquires WebAR Company 8th Wall
Niantic, the company behind Pokémon GO, the Lightship AR SDK, and more, announced this week that it has acquired 8th Wall, creators of AR development tools designed to run through web browsers with wide reach across devices.
In what the company calls...
Tundra Tracker Bundles Sold Out in Just 3 Minutes
Tundra Tracker, a SteamVR Tracking puck born out of a successful Kickstarter last year, was sold to the general public for the first time yesterday, March 10th. Tundra Labs says that all available stock was sold out in only...
‘Virtuoso’ Review – Become an Amateur Musician Overnight
Virtuoso bills itself as a "music creation sandbox" but that may be selling it a little short: it's actually a very intuitive set of training wheels for someone who's never made digital music before while at the same time...
Quest Fitness Tracker is Getting Baked into Apple Health & Oculus App
Oculus Move is Quest 2's onboard activity layer that tracks just how much you're moving during gameplay. Now the company says its baking support for Move into both Apple Health and the Oculus App itself. First introduced in November...
Valve: New VR Users on Steam Grew by 11% in 2021, Unique Play Sessions Up 22%
New figures directly from Valve reveal the growth of VR users on Steam in 2021.
Shared by Valve this week, the Steam 2021 Year in Review gives us some fresh official stats about VR usage on the platform.
Valve says "new...
‘Beat Saber’ OST 5 Music Pack Launches Today, Including New Block Mechanics & 6 New Songs
Beat Saber, VR's favorite rhythm game, has been going strong for nearly four years now and shows no signs of slowing. Today the Meta-owned studio behind the title, Beat Games, launched its next free music pack, OST 5, which is introducing...
Quest Team Shooter ‘NERF Ultimate Championship’ to Enter Closed Beta Soon, Signups Here
NERF Ultimate Championship is an upcoming VR arena shooter that's getting ready to launch into closed beta later this month. If you're looking to go hands-on, there's still time to sign up for your chance to wall-run and blast...
Magic Leap 2 Controller May Use On-board Inside-out Tracking, an Industry-first
A new photo of Magic Leap 2 appears to show the device's controller equipped with cameras for inside-out tracking which would be the first time we've seen the approach employed in a commercial XR headset.
Though we learned plenty of...
TikTok Parent ByteDance Partners with Qualcomm on XR Hardware and Software
ByteDance, parent company to TikTok and VR headset creators Pico Interactive, announced at MWC 2022 that it's partnering with Qualcomm, something that could help the chipmaker better diversify as the XR industry continues to expand.
During Qualcomm's keynote at this...
‘Cosmonious High’ Coming to Quest 2 & SteamVR This Month, Gameplay Trailer Here
Google's Owlchemy Labs, the VR studio behind Job Simulator (2016), announced that its upcoming game Cosmonious High finally has a release date for launch on PC VR and Meta Quest 2.
Update (March 4th, 2022): Owlchemy Labs announced Cosmonious High is slated to launch...
‘Vox Machinae’ Review – A Deeply Immersive Mech Sim Hampered by Ambition
It's been a long, lumbering journey for VR mech sim Vox Machinae, but the game has finally hit its '1.0' release out of Early Access, now promising a full 10 hour campaign and a fully-featured multiplayer mode for up to 16...
‘Townscaper’ Developer is Looking into VR, Reveals Early Prototype
Townscaper is a clever little town-building experience that gained fame back when it first launched on Steam Early Access in 2020. Now developer Oskar Stålberg has taken interest in VR design, showing a prototype of the pint-sized town creator...
VR Arcade Pioneer The VOID is Making a Comeback
Out-of-home VR attractions were among the worst-hit during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, which put many fledgling startups on the ropes. Now, one of the early pioneers in location-based VR entertainment appears to be making good on its...
Sailboat Simulator ‘MarineVerse Cup’ Races onto Quest Store
MarineVerse Cup, the VR sailing simulator first launched on Steam early access in 2019, has left App Lab and made its way to the official Quest Store.
Billed as "approachable, but authentic," MarineVerse Cup is a simulator that primarily focused on...
Valve: Steam Deck is a “stepping stone” to Standalone VR
Steam Deck, Valve's handheld gaming PC that launched late last month, doesn't really have the horsepower capable of playing SteamVR games, although Valve chief Gabe Newell calls it a "stepping stone" to what could one day be Valve standalone...


















