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PSVR Exclusive ‘Paper Beast’ is Coming to PC VR Next Week
Paper Beast, the surreal wildlife simulation first launched on PSVR, is slated to release on SteamVR headsets next week.
Update (July 15th, 2020): Pixel Reef today announced that Paper Beast is coming to PC VR headsets on July 24th, 2020. This will...
Book Reveals the Fate of Two Other Valve VR Games Developed Alongside ‘Alyx’
It was big news back in 2017 when Valve announced that it was working on "three full games, not experiments." It wouldn't be until late 2019 that one of the three was revealed as Half-Life: Alyx. But what of...
Pico Announces 2 New Versions of Its Latest 3DOF VR Headset
Oculus Go's days are numbered, however Pico Interactive seems undeterred by Facebook's move to retire the 3DOF VR headset. Starting today, a new version of its Pico G2 "4K" headset is available; another enterprise-focused iteration set to follow this...
Chinese ODM Goertek Aims to Produce Over 3 Million More VR/AR Headsets Annually
Goertek may not be a household name, but the China-based company is looking to gear up its manufacturing lines to produce a surprising number of VR/AR headsets and lenses soon.
Goertek recently announced a ¥4 billion (~$572 million USD) convertible corporate...
SteamVR Update Finally Makes it Easy to Reorient & Recenter Your Playspace
The latest main-branch update to SteamVR adds a dashboard button which makes it effortless to redefine the 'forward' and 'center' orientation of your playspace, a simple but useful feature for certain games.
SteamVR has been around since the earliest days...
Oculus Improves Iteration Time for Quest Developers Using UE4
Oculus has updated its UE4 Quest development tools so that developers can spend less time waiting and more time testing and iterating on their VR applications. The changes are similar in scope to recent improvements to Unity Quest development.
Because...
Report: Apple Starts Preliminary Production on “semitransparent” AR Lenses
According to a report by The Information, Apple is gearing up to enter a new phase in production on its fabled AR headset. Together with Foxconn Technology, the Taiwan-based contract manufacturer behind many of Apple's mobile devices, the company...
The 20 Best Rated & Most Rated Quest Games & Apps – July 2020
While Oculus doesn’t offer much publicly in the way of understanding how well individual apps are performing across its VR storefronts, it’s possible to glean some insight by looking at apps relative to each other. Here’s a snapshot of...
‘BoxVR’ Studio FitXR Raises $7.5 Million to Expand Operations & VR Fitness Products
FitXR, the studio behind VR fitness app BoxVR, today announced that it has raised $7.5 million to expand its operations and VR fitness offerings.
Following its first raise of $1.25 million at the end of 2018, FitXR has just added another...
‘Superhot’ Studio: No Current Plans for VR Version of ‘MIND CONTROL DELETE’
With the unique ability to control time with your movements, SUPERHOT VR (2016) can make you feel like you're in The Matrix. It's on all major VR platforms, which cemented the studio a whopping $2 million revenue over the 2019 holiday season...
Sony Just Invested $250 Million in Epic Games, Here’s What it Could Mean for VR and...
Sony Corporation announced today that it will invest $250 million in Epic Games, the company well known for its hit game Fortnite and the Unreal Engine game engine that powers it. Unreal Engine is the second most popular game engine for...
HP Affirms Reverb G2 ‘Fall’ Release Date, Says Retailer Dates Are Unofficial Estimates
Back in late May, HP announced its was bringing another VR headset to market, the Reverb G2, which includes a veritable wishlist of improvements to the WMR product ecosystem. Though an official HP retailer was spotted clearly advertising a...
Military Contractor ECS Awarded Grant to Build VR Army Medic Trainer with Advanced Haptics
Military contractor, Engineering & Computer Simulations (ECS), has received a grant from the federal Small Business Innovation Research program—likely ranging from $500,000 to $1.5 million—to pilot a virtual reality training program for U.S. Army medics.
Founded in 1997, ECS is a Florida-based...
Inspired by ‘Mirror’s Edge’, ‘Stride’ Looks to Bring Smooth Parkour Action to VR
In development by studio Joy Way, Stride is a VR parkour action game built atop an impressively smooth and immersive locomotion system. With inspiration from Mirror's Edge (2008), Stride is an intriguing indie project due to launch this Summer.
Update (July 7th,...
‘Ready Player One’ Book Sequel Coming November 24th
Ernest Cline's breakout novel Ready Player One is getting a sequel on November 24th, which is slated to delve back into the massive multiplayer VR world of the OASIS.
Aptly named Ready Player Two, the upcoming book is being published by Penguin Random House...




















