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The 5 Best VR Games to Trick Yourself Into Working Out
It's been nearly a year now since we've had to stay indoors to stem the tide of the COVID-19 pandemic, and you'd be forgiven if you've become a lot less active as a result. There's no better time than...
Exclusive: Striker VR Raises $4M to Bring Its Haptic VR Gun to Consumers – First Look
Striker VR, maker of high-end haptic VR gun peripherals for the out-of-home market, announced today it has raised a $4 million investment and plans to use the funds to make its first move into the consumer VR space.
Striker VR's...
‘Realworld’ Aims to Bring a Multiplayer ‘Google Earth VR’ Alternative to Quest & More
Google Earth VR, which is available today on PC VR, is a breathtaking way to explore our fascinating planet. But one major missing feature is the ability to do so with friends. With Google unfortunately abandoning many of its...
VR Arcade Startup Hologate is Going Big This Year with Its First Large-format Facility
Last year saw the location-based entertainment industry grind to a halt, however now it seems there may be light at the end of the tunnel for at least one VR arcade startup. HOLOGATE, the Germany-based company creating VR arcade...
Where to Find Unlisted ‘App Lab’ Games & Apps for Oculus Quest
App Lab is a new, official path for developers to distribute their games and apps on Quest without being subject to Oculus' curation process. But there's one big catch: App Lab apps aren't discoverable through the main Quest store,...
‘Rec Room’ Studio Estimates Facebook Sold 2-3M Oculus Quest 2 Headsets in Q4
Rec Room isn't just one of the best free social VR apps out there. In the absence of hard sales data, it makes for an excellent watermark for how things are moving in the industry. Now, according to Rec Room's downloads...
Tundra Tracker Kickstarter Pushed to March, First Deliveries Expected in July
Tundra Tracker, the upcoming SteamVR tracker alternative to the Vive Tracker, was originally expected to hold a Kickstarter in January, but the company behind the project, Tundra Labs, says the crowdfunding campaign has been pushed back in light of...
‘MultiBrush’ is a Multiplayer Version of ‘Tilt Brush’ for Oculus Quest
It's been about a week since Google announced it had stopped active development on VR creation suite Tilt Brush (2016) and made the app open source. Now that it's in the hands of the developer community, we've seen Tilt Brush clones...
Valve, OpenBCI & Tobii to Launch VR Brain-computer Interface ‘Galea’ in Early 2022
Valve co-founder Gabe Newell previously revealed Valve was working on a brain-computer interface (BCI) with OpenBCI, the minds behind open source BCI software and hardware solutions. Now Tobii, the eye-tracking firm, announced it's also a partner on the project...
Oculus Quest v25 Update Brings Messenger, Guardian Improvements, Bluetooth Mice & More
The latest update to Oculus Quest and Quest 2 began rolling out this week with a range of improvements, including the addition of Facebook Messenger, an improved stationary Guardian boundary, support for bluetooth mice, interface improvements, and a navigation...
Report: Apple’s First VR Headset Rumored to Cost $3,000 & Include 8K Displays
According to a report by Bloomberg, Apple may be planning to release a VR headset with limited AR capabilities as soon as 2022, which is said to be a precursor to its long-rumored, full-fledged AR device. Now, a follow up report...
Quest 2 Leaps to 2nd Most Used on Steam as Headsets Hit Record High of 2.6...
Although Quest 2 is a standalone headset, it can also be plugged into a PC to play PC VR games through Oculus PC and Steam. The headset's holiday success has clearly bled through into the PC VR landscape, as...
Vertigo Games Acquires VR Arcade Game Distribution Platform SpringboardVR
Vertigo Games, the studio behind Arizona Sunshine (2017) and upcoming VR shooter After the Fall, today announced that it has acquired SpringboardVR, creators of the eponymous location-based VR content distribution platform.
The acquisition amount was undisclosed, however the move is slated...
Facebook Messenger Comes to Oculus Quest in New Update
Facebook announced that the v25 software update for its Quest platform is set to include Facebook Messenger, which will be available to anyone who is logged into their Facebook account on either Quest or Quest 2.
This will allow users...
Oculus App Lab Lets Devs Distribute Apps on Quest While Bypassing Curation Process
Oculus today introduced a program called App Lab, a new effort which will allow developers to distribute their VR apps on Quest without being subject to a quality review 'curation' process. Though apps still need to meet Oculus' technical...



















