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Team Shooter ‘Contractors’ Releases on Oculus Quest, Trailer Here

Contractors (2018), the team-based competitive multiplayer shooter, is finally available on the Oculus Store for Quest. The game, which has been available on the PC VR platform for two years now, first launched on Steam and then on Oculus Store for Rift,...

$1,550 Vive Pro McLaren Edition Further Confuses Headset’s Positioning

HTC today launched the Vive Pro McLaren Edition, which includes a limited edition Vive Pro with 2.0 peripherals and colored accents, a themed box, a copy of racing sim rFactor 2 McLaren Edition, and the McLaren Garage VR Experience. Priced...

WaveOptics Secures Additional $13M to Expand AR Optics Manufacturing

WaveOptics, a designer and manufacturer of waveguide optics for AR displays, announced it's raised a total of $39 million (£30m) in Series C funding, something the company says will help scale its business operations in the UK, US and...
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Oculus Brings ‘Slo Mo Guys’ 3D Mini-series to Quest and Go, but not Rift

With the help of Oculus, YouTube sensation The Slo Mo Guys has launched an eight-part mini-series on Oculus Quest via Oculus TV. The mini-series brings the channel's signature high-speed footage into the 3D realm. In the latest example of Oculus' unfortunately...

HTC Vive Pro Full Kit Now Comes with ‘Half-Life: Alyx’ for Free in Europe

It looks like HTC is making a final push to relieve itself of Vive Pro stock in Europe, as the company is including a copy of Valve's critically-acclaimed VR title Half-Life: Alyx (2020) with purchase of the full kit. The Europe-only...

Update: KatVR Scraps ‘Mini’ VR Treadmill Kickstarter, Sets Price at $3000

Kat VR, the China-based company behind the 2015 Kickstarter-funded KAT Walk VR treadmill, announced last month that a new mini-version of the low-friction VR treadmill would be hitting Kickstarter soon, and that above all it would be "affordable." Today...

STRIVR Secures $16M Series A Financing to Expand Enterprise VR Training

STRIVR, the immersive VR training company, announced a $16 million round of financing led by GreatPoint Ventures (GPV) that is said to advance the company’s further expansion into the enterprise market. With this investment, GPV Managing Partner Ray Lane...

Apple Shows VR Could Help Fight Motion Sickness & Boredom in Self-driving Cars

When you're driving a car, you're invested with a sense of purpose: stay alert, don't crash, optimize your route for the fastest and most comfortable experience. But what about when self-driving cars become the norm, and we're no longer...

HTC Invests $5 Million in VR Game Developer Steel Wool Studios

Steel Wool Studios has picked up a $5 million investment from HTC. The studio was formed in 2011 by Pixar and LucasArts alumni. Steel Wool Studios, which today announced a $5 million Series A investment from HTC, was founded in...

The Problem With Projections and What Makes the Just-released ‘2016 VR Industry Report’ Different

Today we publish the 2016 Virtual Reality Industry Report. Co-authored with VR business intelligence firm Greenlight VR, the report is a distillation of years of experience, research, and analysis into an accessible and comprehensive foundation of the virtual reality landscape, with the...
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This is What Star Wars Looks Like Running on Magic Leap

This is a quick demonstration video released by ILMxLab and Magic Leap to mark the announcement of the two company's newly announced collaboration. They've set up a "collaboration lab" in order to work on immersive experiences using Lucasfilm IP...
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‘Ghosts of Tabor’ Studio Unveils Fresh Look at Next Co-op Shooter ‘Silent North’

Ghosts of Tabor studio Combat Waffle today showed off a closer look at Silent North, the studio's next VR shooter published in partnership with Beyond Frames Entertainment. Silent North takes multiplayer action to the Swiss Alps, where players will bundle up...

Quest Users Can Play a Library of Top PC VR Games for Free for a Month...

Looking for some free PC VR games to play on Quest? Viveport, HTC's storefront for VR games and apps, is throwing out free promo codes to owners of Oculus Quest and Quest 2 which will let you play all...

The Most Interesting Thing About Quest Tethering is What it Says About Next-gen Oculus Headsets

Oculus announced last month that Quest will soon be able to play Oculus games on PC via a new feature called Oculus Link. Though Oculus Link will immediately add big boost in value to existing Quest headsets, perhaps even...

Preview: ‘Alice VR’ is a Reality Bending Sci-Fi Puzzler for Rift and Vive

Alice VR is a sci-fi exploration puzzle game from Carbon Studio coming out soon for Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and OSVR. I was taken through three levels of the game, which studio co-founder and Art Director Aleksander Caban says is more...
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