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Quest Sold $100 Million Worth of Games & Apps in Its First Year

This week marks the first year anniversary of Oculus Quest, Facebook's latest and greatest standalone VR headset. Today the company revealed that $100 million worth of Quest games and apps have been sold to date. Facebook hasn't yet revealed the...

Oculus Quest to Get ‘Playspace Scan’ Feature to Detect Objects Intruding into Guardian

In honor of Oculus Quest's first anniversary today, Facebook announced that the popular standalone VR headset is getting a new 'Playspace Scan' feature to make its Guardian system capable of detecting objects that could trip you up during gameplay. Guardian,...

Valve Releases ‘Half-Life: Alyx’ Steam Workshop Tools for Making & Downloading Mods

Valve today launched new Half-Life: Alyx modding tools which will allow developers and tinkerers to make and publish mods and user-generated content via the Steam Workshop system. Valve says the tools will allow for the creation of new levels, models, textures,...

VR Ears Kickstarter Nears $200K in Last Week for Enhanced Audio on Quest, Rift S, &...

Rebuff Reality has taken its latest VR accessory, VR Ears, to Kickstarter with the hopes of bringing an enhanced audio solution to all major headsets, including those with sub-par or no integrated audio like PSVR, Quest, and Rift S....

‘Bigscreen’ Expands International Availability of On-Demand Anime Films

Bigscreen, the social VR viewing platform, launched on-demand 2D and 3D video late last month. Shortly afterwards, the studio announced it had partnered with Sony Picture's anime distribution company Funimation to bring some of the biggest names in anime to its...

Samsung is Terminating Its VR Video Apps on All Devices

With the end of Samsung Gear VR, it seems the South Korean tech giant is also doing away with its VR video apps as well. The company is ending service for all of its Samsung XR apps across the...

Quest Fitness App ‘Supernatural’ Now Offers Annual Subscriptions, Starting at $149

Supernatural (2020), the VR fitness app for Oculus Quest, kicked off its subscription service late last month, offering up a fun and engaging gameified fitness routine for $19 per month. Now the developers Within have included an annual subscription...

Apple Confirms Acquisition of VR Live Streaming Company NextVR

NextVR, the live event broadcasting platform for VR headsets, has been acquired by Apple in what was reportedly a $100 million purchase. Update (March 15th, 2020): For the first time since reports broke back in April, Apple has confirmed that...

NVIDIA Launches CloudXR 1.0 SDK to Enable AR/VR Streaming Services in the Cloud

NVIDIA today announced the launch of version 1.0 of its CloudXR SDK, a suite of tools which allows network operators to offer cloud-rendered AR/VR streaming capabilities. Nvidia has been steadily readying its CloudXR system in preparation for the proliferation of GPU-equipped...
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Oculus Link Now Works with USB 2.0 Cables, Including the One that Ships With Quest

Oculus Quest can function as a PC VR headset with the Oculus Link feature which was introduced in beta late last year. At launch the feature only supported USB 3.0 cables, which somewhat awkwardly didn't include the cable that came...

‘Tetris Effect’ Arrives on Oculus Quest Today

Tetris Effect (2018) first released on PlayStation 4 and PSVR in late 2018, later coming to PC via the Epic Store, which included support for SteamVR headsets. Now the award-winning stacker puzzle game is available on Oculus Quest starting...

‘Phantom: Covert Ops’ Preview – A Compelling Take on VR Stealth, but Comfort Challenges Could Muddy...

The premise of Phantom: Covert Ops almost sounds ridiculous at first blush: you're a special forces dude in a tactical kayak who is slinking around the waterways of an old Russian base. But don't let the silinees of a...

Co-op VR Cooking Game ‘Cook-out: A Sandwich Tale’ Coming to Rift & Quest This Year

Resolution Games, the Stockholm-based studio behind Angry Birds VR: Isle of Pigs (2019), Bait! (2016) and Acron: Attack of the Squirrels! (2019), today unveiled a short slice of gameplay for its next multiplayer VR game, Cook-Out: A Sandwich Tale. Update (May...

Unreal Engine is Now Royalty-free for the First $1 Million in Revenue

The Unreal Engine 5 tech demo on PS5 wasn't the only news Epic Games revealed today. The company also announced a change to the pricing structure of Unreal Engine which waives royalties on the first $1 million of project...
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Unreal Engine 5 Tech Demo on PS5 Shows Where Next-gen Graphics are Headed

Epic Games today revealed a PS5 tech demo built with Unreal Engine 5, the next-gen version of the company's game engine. With new features for advanced lighting and unprecedented geometric detail, Unreal Engine 5 hopes to enable a generational...
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