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Facebook is Offering a Free Quest 2 to Tens of Thousands of Employees

Reportedly according to an internal Q&A, all Facebook employees are eligible for a refund from the company if they purchase a Quest 2 headset. The effort comes as the Facebook continues to justify deep investments in AR and VR...

HTC Teases Reveal of “game-changing VR headsets” at VIVECON

You can now register for HTC's upcoming VIVECON event. The free, online event will be held May 11th & 12th, and the company is promising to reveal "game-changing VR headsets," (yes that's plural headsets), alongside presentations from "industry experts,...

There’s Now a Fully-functional Commodore 64 Emulator for Oculus Quest

Commodore 64, the iconic 8-bit computer from the early '80s, was one of the first home computers for many people back in the day. Its ability to run basic games, office productivity software, and development tools made it one of...

Tundra Tracker Passes $1.1M in Funding with 1 Month Left in Kickstarter

Tundra Tracker, the SteamVR-based tracker in development by Tundra Labs, exploded past its Kickstarter goal in less than 24 hours, securing the company well beyond the $250,000 it initially hoped for back at its late-March launch. The company has...

Bandai Namco Partners with HTC to Bring Anime Content to Viveport

HTC announced it's partnering with Bandai Namco Pictures, the animation studio and production company, to ostensibly bring a number of its properties to Viveport, HTC's VR app store and subscription service. It's not clear in what capacity Bandai Namco's anime...

HTC Partners with iFixit to Offer Parts & DIY Repair Guides for Older Vive Headsets

HTC has made the pro-consumer move of partnering with popular DIY repair website iFixit to offer replacement parts, repair guides, and more for out-of-warranty headsets. The move contrasts with one of the company's major competitors, Oculus, which has opted...
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Campfire Raises $8 Million for MR Headset System Aimed at Product Design & Collaboration

Campfire, a San Mateo, California based startup, emerged from stealth today announcing that it has raised $8 million in venture capital to launch an integrated hardware and software platform aimed at making remote product design and collaboration easy. The...

‘AGAINST’ Preview – Crime Fighting Cardio Fit for Batman

Joy Way, the developers of VR parkour-shooter STRIDE, released a free demo today on Steam for its upcoming rhythm game, AGAINST. It's a strong start; it does an interesting job of mashing up familiar VR rhythm mechanics, tosses in...

You Can Now Sideload Oculus Quest Apps with Your Phone – No PC Required

Oculus App Lab, Facebook's unmoderated app outlet, has largely stolen the thunder from the unofficial Quest app store SideQuest over the past few months. This is largely due to the ease of use that App Lab offers over SideQuest,...

Oculus Begins Rolling Out New Avatars, Eventually Headed to Facebook, Messenger, & Instagram

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...

VR Dungeon Crawler ‘Ancient Dungeon’ Coming “in a few months”

Ancient Dungeon is a rogue-lite dungeon crawler that found success on Kickstarter last year. It's aiming for launch sometime "soon," developer Eric Thullen says, arriving on both SteamVR headsets and Oculus Quest in early access. In a Kickstarter update, Thullen says its...

‘Wraith: The Oblivion – Afterlife’ Review – Frights, Intrigue & Cowering in Closets

Wraith: The Oblivion - Afterlife is a single-player horror-adventure set in the storied 'World of Darkness' universe. You don't need to be a Masquerade fan though to step into the game's sprawling mansion, dodge howling ghosts, and unravel a pretty interesting...

‘Alien: Isolation’ is Free on Epic Games Store Starting Today

Alien: Isolation (2014) is still an awesome horror experience, even if the Xenomorph-filled game of 'cat and mouse' is showing its age when played on modern SteamVR-compatible headsets. Still, you can't argue with free. As one of the first 'AAA' titles...

‘Resident Evil 4’ Port for Quest 2 is Shaping up to Look Like a Native VR...

During its Game Showcase deluge today, Oculus showed off some more footage of the upcoming Quest 2 port of Resident Evil 4 (2005), which is coming exclusively to Oculus Quest 2 (read: not the original Quest). And it's starting to...
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‘Carve Snowboarding’ Coming to VR From Creator of ‘1080° Snowboarding’

1080° Snowboarding (1998) is a classic Nintendo 64 classic snowboarding game that inspired future titles in the genre like SSX Tricky. Now one of the game's original creators, Giles Goddard, is bringing a new, first-person VR snowboarding game, Carve Snowboarding to Oculus. Revealed today during...
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