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Exclusive: Designing ‘Lone Echo’ & ‘Echo Arena’s’ Virtual Touchscreen Interfaces
Lone Echo nabbed our 2017 Oculus Rift Game of the Year Award for many reasons—amazing visuals, intuitive locomotion, and a strong story, to name a few—but one of the game's unsung innovations is its virtual touchscreen interfaces. While many...
This Quest Pro Game Recreates Sword Art Online’s Lovably Bad User Interface
Looking to immerse yourself into Sword Art Online (SAO)? While there are plenty of VR games that offer the sort of massive multiplayer immersion fans of the manga and anime series have craved over the years, a game built...
Android XR Is Coming – Just Don’t Expect Google to Shout About It Yet
Google released the schedule for its upcoming I/O developer conference, which includes developer-focused sessions promising to deliver more insight into its upcoming Android XR operating system. At least from the schedule, it doesn't seem Google is getting that vocal...
‘Arcade Legend’ Lets You Run Your Own Virtual Arcade, Free Demo Coming Soon
Arcade Legend is an upcoming arcade simulator for PC VR headsets that not only lets you manage your own arcade, but also collect and play officially licensed arcade games too.
It's been a rough year for arcades, yours included. Now...
bHaptics’ TactSuit Promises Better Actuator-Based Haptics at a Lower Price-Point
Gamescom is one of the few truly gargantuan expos dedicated to gaming, holding within its massive Zeppelin hanger-sized halls all manner of ostentatious booth featuring all the big names in gaming. But it's not all glitz, cosplay, and long...
10 Projects That Have Us Excited About the Next Generation of VR & AR
With leading high-end VR headsets debuting in 2016, we've had about two years to see what the first-generation VR experience looks like. While there's certainly a range of exciting games and other VR software coming soon to first-generation hardware,...
Unity’s Main Branch Now Supports NVIDIA VRWorks for Enhanced Rendering Features
The latest release of Unity, version 2017.1 now officially supports NVIDIA's VRWorks rendering tech. VRWorks contains a number of rendering features unique to the company's GPUs which are designed to improve performance in VR applications.
Update (7/13/17): After several months...
‘Township Tale’ Studio Shows Off Latest Work on Upcoming Dungeon-crawler ‘REAVE’
Alta, the studio behind A Township Tale (2021), showed off the latest work on its upcoming dungeon-crawler extraction game REAVE, revealing more about its various systems in addition to a new dungeon and enemy—all of it very much still a work-in-progress.
The...
Backrooms-inspired PC Adventure ‘POOLS’ is Getting VR Support Soon, Gameplay Trailer Here
Games inspired by ‘The Backrooms’ Internet lore are usually pretty scary, but PC game POOLS (2024) has a different way of getting under your skin. No monsters. Just pools. And soon, you'll be able to play in VR.
Developer Tensori is...
SVVR Con: Ubercast 2014 – With Special Guest, Palmer Luckey
They have each individually done their part to fill your ears, minds, and souls with VR conversations and to help keep the enthusiasm for VR going. Now, at the 2014 SVVR Conference & Expo, Cris Miranda, Matt Carrell, Brian...
Two New ‘Harry Potter’ VR Experiences Launch at Harry Potter New York
Two new Harry Potter VR experiences have launched at the Harry Potter New York retail location. Wizards Take Flight and Chaos at Hogwarts were developed in collaboration with Dreamscape, Wevr, and Keylight.
The Harry Potter New York store, which launched last month as...
Oculus to Talk “Breakthroughs in Spatial Audio Technologies” at Connect Conference
Oculus Connect 4, the company's fourth annual developer conference, is set for October 11th and 12th in San Jose, California. There, Oculus will share with developers some of its latest research and developments, including what's coming to the company's VR Audio...
Crytek’s First VR Game Revealed as ‘Robinson: The Journey’
Crytek, the creators of Crysis (2007) and in-house game engine CryEngine, have announced a VR game called Robinson: The Journey and early impressions are good.
The game's website is still sparse on info at the moment, with only a brief description to tide...
Meta Releases New Audio Ray Tracing Tool for More Immersive Soundscapes on Quest
Meta announced its released a new Acoustic Ray Tracing feature that will make it easier for developers to add more immersive audio to their VR games and apps.
Released in the Audio SDK for Unity and Unreal, the new Acoustic...
Quest Pro Update to Bring MR Passthrough Recording, Quest 2 Support for Pro Controllers
Meta's v47 software update for the Quest platform is packed with quality-of-life features that look to improve the user experience across Quest Pro and Quest 2, offering things like better media sync, an avatar mirror, and the ability to directly...




















