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After Multiple Delays, ‘Budget Cuts’ Finally Arrives on PSVR

Budget Cuts (2018) was originally slated to arrive on PSVR back in May, and due to the global slowdown it also fell victim to another delay in June. Starting today though, PSVR users will finally be able to step into the stealth...
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‘Solaris Offworld Combat’ Impressions – Virtual Laser Tag with Competitive Ambitions

Launching today, Solaris Offworld Combat is a team-based VR arena shooter from First Contact Entertainment, the studio behind the lauded Firewall: Zero Hour (2018). This time around, the studio wants to deliver a fast-paced experience that anyone can pick up...

Unofficial Quest App Store ‘SideQuest’ Raises $650,000 From Oculus Founder & Others

SideQuest is an unofficial app store for Facebook's Oculus Quest headset which offers an avenue for developers to distribute apps without being subject to Oculus' approval process. The team behind the project has raised $650,000 in seed investment, including...

‘Gnomes & Goblins’ Review – A Beautiful World Hiding an Inscrutable Game

Four years after the release of a preview of the game, Gnomes & Goblins is finally here. Pitched as a "fantasy adventure VR simulation" with direction by film director Jon Favreau, Gnomes & Goblins delivers a beautiful appetizer with a...

Report: Facebook Acquires Varifocal Startup Lemnis Technologies

It's come to light that Lemnis Technologies, a startup creating varifocal optics for use in VR headsets, has reportedly been absorbed by Facebook in an 'acqui-hiring' move. Lemnis co-founder and CEO Pierre-Yves Laffont released a blog post in mid-August stating...

‘Minecraft’ Gets PSVR Support Starting Today in Free Update

The long wait is over. Starting today, Minecraft will now include support for PSVR, which arrives as a free update to the base game on PS4. Update (September 22nd, 2020): PlayStation sprung a surprise launch of the new Minecraft PSVR update today....

Oculus Quest 2 Already Backordered by a Month in Canada, Three Weeks in US

Oculus Quest 2 won't launch until October 13th, but the headset is already backordered in Canada by a month and by three weeks in the US. Most regions are set to ship the headset within its first week or...

Microsoft to Acquire Bethesda’s Parent Company ZeniMax for $7.5B

Microsoft today announced that it's entered into an agreement to acquire ZeniMax Media, the parent company of game studio Bethesda Softworks. According to TechCrunch, the price was set at $7.5 billion. The acquisition is slated to include all of ZeniMax's properties...

Osso VR Secures $14M Investment to Further Develop VR Surgical Training Platform

Osso VR today announced it has raised $14 million in Series A funding to further develop its VR surgical training platform. The financing round was led by Kaiser Permanente Ventures, with participation from SignalFire, GSR, Scrum Ventures, Leslie Ventures and OCA...

Someone Remade ‘Among Us’ in VR and It’s Strangely More Fun Than the Original

Thought playing the unofficial Fall Guys remake in VR was fun? Now you can sample some of the traitorous mayhem in the hit social game Among Us (2018) in VR too—and it's strangely more fun than the original in a few ways. If you've...

Facebook Lowers Price of Enterprise-focused Quest to $800

With the revelation of Quest 2, Facebook has quietly knocked down the entry price for its business-focused version of the headset. Facebook only just made its Oculus for Business program openly available back in May, which basically let anyone buy...

Project Aria is Facebook’s Prototype AR Glasses Which Start Real-world Testing This Month

Facebook is continuing its push toward delivering AR glasses and it's showing some of its development out in the open; Project Aria is a sensor-rich pair of glasses which the company will use to train its AR perception systems...
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‘Myst’ Remake Coming to Quest & SteamVR Headsets Soon, Trailer Here

Myst (1993), the iconic point-and-click puzzle adventure from Cyan Worlds, is coming to the Quest platform later this year, and on SteamVR headsets "soon." Update (September 17th, 2020): It appears Myst will also be coming to SteamVR headsets in addition...

Quest 2 Announced with XR2, 90Hz, & New Controllers Starting at $300, Pre-orders Open for October...

Today at Facebook Connect the company formally revealed Oculus Quest 2, its latest and greatest standalone VR headset. Although leaks have given away some of the surprise, there’s plenty of new details, like the Elite Strap accessory. Quest 2...

Oculus Link Upgrades Will Bring 90Hz & Full Resolution to Quest 2, Native Interface Integration

Although Facebook is discontinuing its PC-only Rift product line, the company says that PC VR content will live on thanks to Oculus Link, which allows Quest and Quest 2 to tether to a VR ready PC and play high-end...
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