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‘Gadgeteer’ Brings Its Rube Goldberg-inspired Contraptions to PSVR Today
Gadgeteer, the Rube Goldberg-inspired physics VR game, left Early Access on PC VR headsets and Oculus Quest back in August of last year, although it wasn't certain when PSVR users would get a crack at gadgeting. Now developer Metanaut...
‘FitXR’ Update Adds Formula One-style High Intensity Training Exercises
FitXR, the subscription-based VR workout app for Oculus Quest, launched its third in-game exercise regime which brings High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) to the mix.
HIIT is the FitXR's third 'studio', which follows the addition of in-game Box and Dance...
Latest Lumus Waveguide Shows Retina Resolution & 50° FOV in AR Glasses Form-factor
Waveguide optics are increasingly looking like the best near-term solution for creating AR glasses that are truly glasses-sized. Lumus is one such waveguide company and recently let their latest waveguide prototype, the 50° FOV 'Maximus', be examined under the...
New Apple Watch Feature Could Form the Basis of the Company’s XR Input Strategy
This week Apple debuted new accessibility-focused features for iOS. Among them, the AssistiveTouch feature for Apple Watch allows for single-handed control of the watch by detecting clenching and pinching of the hand, as well as accelerometer-based control. The system...
Snap Acquires AR Display Startup WaveOptics for Over $500M
Snap Inc is making some definite strides into augmented reality territory as of late. It not only announced yesterday that its next-gen version of Spectacles will be a AR device, but it's now come to light that the company...
‘No Man’s Sky’, ‘Into the Radius’ & ‘Wrench’ Among First VR Games to Support DLSS
NVIDIA’s Deep Learning Supersampling (DLSS) is a technology native to RTX cards which, through the power of onboard AI, can intelligently increase the resolution of rendered frames in games. DLSS has been available for VR for a few months now, and...
Snapchat’s 4th-generation Spectacles Are Its First to Support AR
Snap Inc, the company behind Snapchat, today announced its 4th generation Spectacles glasses. While the prior generations included only cameras for capturing first-person footage, the 4th generation Spectacles are the company's first to include a display for real-time AR.
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Google’s Project Starline is a Light-field Display System for Immersive Video Calls
This week Google revealed Project Starline, a booth-sized experimental system for immersive video chatting, purportedly using a bevy of sensors, a light-field display, spatial audio, and novel compression to make the whole experience possible over the web.
This week during...
‘Puzzle Bobble VR’ Review – a Bright, Bubble-shaped Diamond in the Rough
Puzzle Bobble (1994), also known as Bust-a-Move in the West, pioneered the tile-matching puzzle genre, not only inspiring generations of mobile games like Candy Crush Saga, but also spawning uncountable clones throughout the decades. The 2D game is known for its simple but...
‘A Rogue Escape’ to Release June 10th, Splicing Mech Combat & Escape Room in VR
Developer Spare Parts Oasis and publisher Armor Games Studios announced that A Rogue Escape, a VR reimaging of PC puzzle game Nauticrawl (2019), is coming to PC VR headsets on June 10th.
Update (May 20th, 2021): It's been six months since we last saw A...
VR Locomotion Device ‘DecaMove’ Attracts $350K in Preorder Campaign
Megadodo Simulation Games, the Singapore-based startup behind the upcoming PC VR headset DecaGear, announced that its hip-based VR locomotion device DecaMove has generated over $350,000 in sales over the course of its month-long preorder campaign.
The small puck-like device was...
Quest 2 Delisted on Amazon EU Due to a Skin Irritation Issue, Oculus Says it Will...
Since last week Oculus Quest 2 had disappeared across a range of Amazon EU websites. Oculus says it was due to previously reported skin irritation caused by the facepad on a small number of units. While the company says...
Facebook’s Previous Head of Oculus & Reality Labs Partnerships Leaves Company
Hugo Barra, one-time head of Oculus and VP of Facebook Reality Labs partnerships, has announced that he's left Facebook.
Barra announced the news in a Facebook post, saying that May 17th was his last day at the company. Barra says...
Arena Shooter ‘Solaris Offworld Combat’ Comes to PSVR Today
First Contact Entertainment is finally bringing its most recent team VR shooter, Solaris Offworld Combat (2020), to PSVR today.
First launched on Oculus Quest and Rift late last year, the 4v4 arena shooter has struggled to replicate the same level of...
Exclusive Hands-on: DigiLens is Building Modular AR Glasses to Accelerate Consumerization
DigiLens, creators of waveguide optics, today announced the Design v1, a modular reference headset which the company hopes will accelerate the development and consumerization of truly glasses-sized AR headsets. Road to VR got an exclusive hands-on demo of the...




















