News
Watch: PS5 DualSense Controller’s Impressive IMU in Action
We talked earlier this week about the impressive haptics and IMU in the PS5 DualSense controller, and now we can show you what it looks like in action.
While the PS5 DualSense controller doesn't currently allow for position (6DOF) tracking,...
Mark Zuckerberg: ‘Oculus Quest 2 pre-orders were five times higher than original Quest’
Oculus Quest 2 has celebrated a pretty successful launch, with some developers saying they've seen a dramatic jump in both sales and engagement across their games since the standalone headset's October 13th release. Now Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has...
Shadow Creator Unveils AR Headset with Snapdragon XR2 & Nintendo Switch-style Compute Unit
Shadow Creator, a Shanghai-based AR/VR headset manufacturer, has partnered with British AR startup PhotonLens to create a new consumer-focused AR headset for gaming and fitness.
Called 'Honghu' in China and branded as 'Photons' for the international market, the device sports a...
‘Half-Life: Alyx’ Update with In-game Commentary Likely to Release Soon
Half-Life: Alyx is likely soon to see an update which would add in-game developer commentary similar to previous Valve games.
Fans of Valve games will likely recall the optional in-game developer commentary first added to Half-Life 2: Lost Coast and in...
‘Blair Witch: Quest Edition’ Review – Real Psychological Thrills Worthy of the Name
Games built on film franchises are rarely good for a reason. Many suffer from comparatively lower budgets and seem to fundamentally lack creative flexibility. More often than not, this ends up leading to a clumsy replication of the source...
AMD Announces Radeon RX 6000-series GPUs with USB-C “for a modern VR experience”
AMD today introduced the Radeon RX 6800, 6800 XT, and 6900 XT graphics cards based on its latest RDNA 2 architecture. With a release date in November and prices starting at $580, AMD is aiming to compete directly with...
Crowdfunded AR Startup Tilt Five Secures $7.5M Series A Investment
Tilt Five, the startup behind the eponymous AR headset for tabletop gaming, today announced it has secured $7.5 million in Series A funding.
The funding round was led by SIP Global Partners with participation from BITKRAFT Ventures, Galaxy Interactive, and...
Ubisoft’s VR Space Sim ‘AGOS: A Game of Space’ Launches Today
Ubisoft is today launching its latest VR title, AGOS: A Game of Space. The made-for-VR space sim is set to support PC VR headsets across Steam and the Oculus Store.
Update (October 28th, 2020): With seemingly little fanfare, Ubisoft is today...
Gorilla Glass Maker Corning & Pixelligent Partner to Develop Optics for Consumer AR Headsets
Corning Incorporated, the makers of Corning Gorilla Glass, announced a new partnership with compound material supplier Pixelligent Technologies to develop optics for the coming age of consumer AR headsets.
The collaboration is said to rely on Pixelligent’s optically transparent compounds...
Hack & Slash Rogue-lite ‘Until You Fall’ Leaves Early Access on Steam & Oculus PC
Until You Fall (2020), the VR sword fighting game from Schell Games, is officially out of Early Access on PC starting today.
Update (October 27th, 2020): Until You Fall is now out of Early Access on SteamVR and Oculus PC. This brings...
‘Elite Dangerous: Horizons’ Now Free to All Owners of the Base Game
Elite Dangerous (2014), one of the first truly massive VR-compatible space sims, is releasing its biggest DLC for free today to all players who own the base game.
Initially announced last month by creators Frontier Developments, the previously separate Horizons expansion has...
Quest 2 Jailbreak Effort Reports Success Bypassing Facebook Services
Calls for a Quest 2 'jailbreak'—a means of freeing the device from Facebook account requirements and other software-based restrictions—cropped up within days of the headset's release. Today, less than two weeks later, the first jailbreak for the headset has...
DecaGear CEO Shares Details on Company Background, Future Plans
With the reveal of the DecaGear headset last week we wanted to learn more about the company behind the project. We got in touch with Or Kuntzman, the founder & CEO of Megadodo Simulation Games (which is building DecaGear)...
Stanford & Samsung Develop Ultra-dense OLED Display Capable of 20,000 PPI
Researchers at Stanford and Samsung Electronics have developed a display capable of packing in greater than 10,000 pixels per inch (ppi), something that's slated to be used in VR/AR headsets and contact lenses of the future.
Over the years, research...
Unity ‘Accelerating efforts’ on OpenXR Support, Preview Expected by End of Year
Unity has long been a public supporter of OpenXR—an industry standard designed to streamline VR development by making it easier for apps to support a wide range of headsets—but the company has yet to deploy support for the standard....




















