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‘Star Wars Pinball’ Coming to All Major VR Headsets Next Month, Trailer Here

Star Wars Pinball (2013) has been available on console, mobile, and PC for a while now. Developers Zen Studios recently announced the game is being adapted to VR for all major headsets, and it's landing next month. Star Wars Pinball...

Psychic VR Lab Raises $8.5 Million to Grow Browser-based XR Development Platform

Japan-based Psychic VR Lab has announced the close of an $8.5 million investment to grow its cloud-based XR development platform, STYLY. Psychic VR Lab is the company behind STYLY, a browser-based tool which allows creators to easily build cross-platform 3D...

‘Blade & Sorcery’ Update 9 Makes Combat Even More Brutal

As if shanking someone in the face wasn't brutal enough, Early Access battle simulator Blade & Sorcery just got a little more gory with the new U9 update which landed on Friday. Developers WarpFrog say that the U9 content is "essentially...

‘Virtual Desktop’ Can Now Stream PC VR Games to Quest, Without the Sideloading Workaround

Virtual Desktop, an Oculus Quest app which allows users to control their Windows PCs from inside the headset, now officially offers the ability to stream PC VR games wirelessly to the headset. Facebook had previously not allowed the feature...

VR’s 2021 Outlook: 14 Indicators in One Place

Hard data on the VR market is often difficult to come by, while broad 'industry reports' are often so general that it's difficult to see what things look like 'on the ground'. To get a sense of VR's outlook...

You Can Now Activate Quest Voice Commands Hands-free, But You’ll Have to Say “Hey Facebook”

Oculus today announced that it's rolling out a small but welcomed change to Quest's voice commands feature: the ability to activate it with a wake phrase—"Hey Facebook." Quest got voice commands last year, allowing users to double-tap the Oculus button...

‘Superhot VR’ on Quest Surpasses 1 Million Units Sold, Quest 2 Sales Outperform All Platforms

Superhot VR (2016) has long been held up as one of the 'must-have' VR games. Now the studio announced it's just tipped the one million mark for units sold on the Oculus Quest platform. Superhot VR is a virtual reality success story...

‘VRChat’ Can Now Import Free Customizable ‘Ready Player Me’ Avatars

Ready Play Me, the free avatar maker from Wolf3D, now supports exporting avatars to VRChat, making it quick and easy to get a customizable avatar into one of the most popular social VR applications. While VRChat is host to tons of...

Microsoft to Talk About the Future of XR in Ignite 2021 Keynote Hosted in ‘AltspaceVR’

Microsoft is looking to make good use of its social VR platform AltspaceVR next week as it hosts its first Ignite keynote in virtual reality. Alex Kipman, technical fellow at Microsoft's AI and Mixed Reality team, announced that the virtual...

One of Quest’s Best-rated Experiences, ‘ALTDEUS: Beyond Chronos’ Launches on SteamVR

Sci-fi anime VR visual novel experience ALTDEUS: Beyond Chronos launched on Oculus Quest in December and quickly rose to become one of the best rated titles on the headset. Now the app has launched on SteamVR for PC VR users to...

Hands-on: Impressive PS5 DualSense Haptics Bodes Well for Next-gen PSVR Controllers

The launch of PlayStation 5 brought backwards compatible support for PSVR, but with Sony confirming a new PSVR headset in the works we'd be lying if we said we weren't most excited by what's around the corner. A new...
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Crytek’s Long-awaited ‘The Climb 2’ Coming to Oculus Quest on March 4th

Crytek announced last year that The Climb (2016) would be getting its long-awaited sequel sometime during the holiday season 2020. Although that launch window has come and gone, The Climb 2 is now finally set for a March 4th release date. Update (February...

Next-Gen VR Dev Kits for PS5 Shipping Soon with “completely new VR format”

Sony today announced that its next-generation VR headset is coming—not in 2021, but it's definitely a thing. In an interview with GQ, Sony Interactive Entertainment CEO Jim Ryan says dev kit headsets are close to landing in the hands...

Sony Confirms Next-Gen PSVR is Coming, New Controllers to Feature DualSense Tech

Sony has been awfully quiet about the follow-up to its PSVR headset, which was initially released back in October 2016. Today the company publicly announced it is indeed working on its next-generation VR headset for PS5 consoles. There's only...

nDreams Announces $2M Fund for VR Devs Looking for a Publisher

If you're developing a VR game, you may be able to strike a deal with one of the most senior VR studios out there. nDreams, a developer and publisher of VR games, announced the creation of a $2 million...
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