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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...
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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...
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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...

‘Bigscreen’ Brings On-Demand Movies in New ‘Movies & Events’ Update

Bigscreen, the social VR viewing platform, introduced paid movies late last year so you could buy a ticket to join people in watching a number of 2D and 3D films at set times, working more or less like a...

‘Dreams’ PSVR Expansion Now in Final Development Stage, Suggesting Nearby Launch

Dreams (2020) launched out of Early Access on PS4 earlier this year, and while PSVR users have been patiently awaiting any news of the promised VR support, Media Molecule has stayed fairly mum on the subject. Now the studio's creative...

The 3 Most Common Arguments Against VR and Why They’re Wrong

With the recent release of Half-Life: Alyx, VR has been thrust into the spotlight of the mainstream gaming audience. While players and critics alike have universally praised the game, pushing it to become one of Steam's best rated games...
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Oculus’ Multiplayer Shooter ‘Dead and Buried II’ Just Got a Huge Update on Quest & Rift

Oculus just dropped a surprise update to Dead and Buried II and they even saw fit to give its own subtitle: Reloaded. The free update brings new modes, maps, weapons, and characters. Dead and Buried II is Oculus' first-party multiplayer shooter...
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Subscription-based VR Fitness App ‘Supernatural’ Coming to Quest Today

Within, the immersive studio known for some of VR's highest quality experiences, unveiled a new fitness app for Oculus Quest earlier this month that aims to give you a fun, fast, and intuitive cardio workout in VR. Starting today...

‘Half-Life: Alyx’ Was Among the Best Selling Steam Games Released in March

Valve today announced the top 20 best selling games on Steam released in March. And coming as little surprise to anyone, Half-Life: Alyx (2020) has made it on the list. In its monthly top sales list, Valve is accounting for...

XRHealth Secures $7M Investment to Expand Its AR/VR Telehealth Platform

XRHealth, a Boston-based medical company, today announced that it's raised $7 million in funding to expand its telehealth platform targeted at VR headset users. The company announced the funding via a press statement today, stating that the new funding round was led by...

Social VR App ‘VRChat’ is Seeing Record Usage Amidst the Pandemic

Social VR app VRChat is seeing a surge of users thanks to a well timed update and people around the world looking to connect with others while being asked to stay at home. VRChat is a social VR app which lets...
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