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Black Friday Deal Brings Oculus Rift S to $350
Oculus Rift S, the company's mid-generation hardware update to the Rift platform, only just launched a few months ago, but it's already getting its first discount this upcoming Black Friday.
Lenovo has published its 2019 Black Friday ad, and to...
Meta Shows How Quest Pro Uses Shared Point Clouds for Local Multiplayer
Meta hasn't rolled out colocation services for the entire Quest platform yet—meaning a pair of Quest 2 headsets can't automatically 'see' each other in the same physical playspace—although that's not entirely true for its latest headset, Quest Pro.
Meta published...
Mojo Vision Raises an Additional $51M to Fund Smart Contact Lens Development
Mojo Vision announced it has raised more than $51 million in a Series B-1 investment round, something the company says will be used for further development on Mojo Lens, its smart contact lens.
The company's latest funding round was led...
Snapchat Launches Lens Studio for Making AR ‘Lenses’
Lens Studio is a new Mac and Windows desktop app from Snap Inc. for creating, publishing, and sharing augmented reality objects and experiences in Snapchat, as overlays known as ‘Lenses’. The free software has several templates for getting started,...
Steam Frame ‘Ergonomic Kit’ and Modular Design Enables a Wide Range of Comfort Options
Last week Valve revealed Steam Frame, the company's new VR headset. Somewhat lost in the deluge of information is the existence of an 'ergonomic kit' which will improve comfort with the addition of a top strap and knuckles-style controller...
10 Oculus Exclusives HTC Vive Owners Should Play Using Revive Hack
Thanks to ReVive, a hack that lets SteamVR-compatible headsets play Oculus Rift exclusives, anyone with an HTC Vive can enjoy a number of unofficially supported games from the Oculus Store. Here we take a look at 5 of the games...
‘Nuren’ and ‘Apollo 11’ VR Experiences Successfully Funded on Kickstarter
Two exciting non-game Kickstarters projects out of the VR community that we've been watching over the last few weeks have hit their goal.
Nuren: The New Renaissance
Nuren: The New Renaissance is a feature-length VR musical being built in Unreal Engine 4. The experience...
‘Pokémon GO’ Developer Niantic Teases a See-through Headset
Niantic, the studio behind the popular Pokémon GO, today teased some kind of see-through headset.
Following a prototype demonstration of Pokémon GO running on HoloLens 2 earlier this month, Niantic CEO John Hanke today showed a teasing glimpse of a see-through headset...
Sólfar Secures $2.1M to Recreate Everest in VR and Get You to Climb it
Icelandic developer Sólfar Studios have announced that their quest to bring one of the world's greatest natural wonders, Mount Everest, to virtual reality just got a significant boost. They've announced received over $2M in seed funding to bring their mountaineering...
Vision Pro Owners Hopeful Apple Event Will Bring News of Unreleased Panoramic Display Feature
Apple announced in June it was planning to release a wider, higher-resolution version of Mac Virtual Display for Vision Pro. Now, the company says its holding a bevy of Mac announcements starting Monday, October 28th, which many are hoping includes...
Mindshow’s VR Movie-making Helped Me Rediscover the Joy of Play-acting
Frank He rediscovers his childhood and finds a new talent for improvisational performance as he goes hands on with Mindshow, a new virtual reality application that lets you create and act in your own interactive movies.
A childhood experience some of us...
LIV Mobile App Lets You Record Quest Mixed Reality Video with Just Your iPhone, Now in...
LIV develops software for mixed reality video capture, and over the years it's become the de facto method for streamers showing themselves immersed in VR from a third-person perspective. For best results though, using LIV invariably means you'll need...
HTC Partnership Aims to Bring Vive to “hundreds of millions” of Internet Café Users
HTC formally debuted the Vive VR headset to Chinese developers at a packed event last Friday in Beijing, China. The event featured speakers from HTC, Valve, and notable developers working with the Vive. One of the announcements to come...
SoCal VR Conference & Expo Comes to Irvine, CA – Free Admission, Demos, and Talks
Southern California's very own VR conference and expo (SoCal VR) is bringing together devs, content creators, and VR enthusiasts of all stripes to take part in a celebration of all things virtual on the 12th of July.
Supported by a number of...
High-flying Co-op Adventure ‘Windlands 2’ is Finally Coming to Quest 2 Next Month
Psytec Games announced its grappling hook-flavored platforming adventure Windlands 2 (2018) is finally swinging its way onto Quest 2, coming to Meta's standalone for the first time on February 2nd.
Like the original Windlands (2016), which is currently available through...




















