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Valve Drops Support for SteamVR on MacOS
Valve this week announced that it has dropped support for SteamVR on MacOS to focus on Windows and Linux versions.
For many, I imagine the reaction to this news will be "wait, SteamVR supported MacOS?"
Indeed, though few VR games were...
Major ‘Espire 1: VR Operative’ Update to Add New Weapons, Challenges & More
Espire 1: VR Operative (2019) launched late last year on all major VR headsets, offering up some very Metal Gear Solid style stealth action to VR players. Now developers Digital Lode have announced a major update, called 'Assimilation', which...
Reggie Watts to Kick Off Live Show Series in ‘AltspaceVR’ Starting Saturday
Comedian, lyrical wizard and beatboxer extraordinaire Reggie Watts is set to return to AltspaceVR on Saturday, May 2nd, for an inaugural live show in his newly unveiled multi-week series called 'Reinterpreted Reality'.
Watts is returning to the social VR platform tomorrow,...
Oculus Makes Improvements to Iteration Time for Unity Quest Developers
Oculus has introduced three changes to significantly speed up the iteration process for developers building Quest applications with Unity.
Because Quest is its own standalone headset, testing how an application will run on the requires packaging the application and then...
‘Phantom: Covert Ops’ Taps ‘Metal Gear Solid’ Snake Voice Actor for Main Antagonist
Oculus exclusive Phantom: Covert Ops is on track for its June 25th release date on Rift and Quest, and today developer nDreams has announced that David Hayter, the English voice of Solid Snake from the Metal Gear Solid franchise will voice...
This Fan Brought ‘Quake’ to VR, Including 6DOF Controls & Melee
Quake (1996) from id Software defined the real-time 3D shooter genre, and now you can dive back into the '90s head-first with this fan-built Quake VR mod.
Yes, we know what you're thinking. Quake has been playable in VR at home since at...
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...
VRMMO ‘OrbusVR’ Launches Paid DLC Questline with First Mini Story Pack
OrbusVR, the virtual reality MMORPG, is getting plenty of new content this year, as the studio not only released a continuation of the game's 'Explorer’s League' questline early this year, but also the first of a series of paid...
Facebook’s Non-advertising Revenue ‘primarily driven by Oculus,’ up 80% to $297M
In Facebook's Q1 2020 earnings call today, the company overviewed its latest financial situation and noted that Oculus products were a major contributor to $297 million in non-advertising revenue.
While Facebook makes the vast majority of its revenue from advertising,...
Wireality is an Experimental Haptic Feedback Device Using Shoulder-mounted Strings
Carnegie Mellon University researchers published a paper recently that proposes a novel VR haptic feedback device, which unlike strictly hand-worn haptic devices, lets you feel objects in VR with a measure of 'positional' resistance.
Researchers Cathy Fang, Yang Zhang, Matthew...
John Legend, Tinashe to Play Live Shows in Social VR Platform ‘Wave’
Wave isn't your garden variety social VR platform. With an emphasis on virtual raves, replete with immersive visualizations and regular live performances, it's become the de facto concert platform for VR users. Now Wave says it's bringing more artists this...
Mozilla Launches ‘Hubs Cloud’ on AWS, the ‘WordPress of Social Virtual Spaces’
Mozilla today announced the launch of Hubs Cloud, an AWS-hosted service that allows organizations to run their own private virtual spaces that can be customized to their needs.
You may have heard of Hubs already; it's Mozilla's web-based social VR platform which...
Hand-tracking Text Input System From Facebook Researchers Throws Out the Keyboard (sort of)
A prototype from Facebook Reality Labs researchers demonstrates a novel method for text input with controllerless hand-tracking. The system treats the hands and fingers as a sort of predictive keyboard which uses pinching gestures to select groups of letters.
Text...
Why You Shouldn’t Play ‘Half-Life: Alyx’ Without a VR Headset
Half-Life: Alyx (2020), Valve's made-for-VR entry into the fabled Half-Life series, launched late last month on SteamVR-compatible headsets to near-universal praise. If you don't own a VR headset but still want to play though, I'd caution you against playing it...
‘Alien: Isolation’ on Sale for $2 for a Limited Time, One of VR’s First Great Games
Alien: Isolation (2014) was one of the first truly good games to get support for PC VR headsets. If you're wondering why everyone is still crazy about years later, it'll only take you $2 to find out.
Thanks to Steam's...




















