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Watch All of Facebook’s GDC 2020 Developer Talks Here

The Game Developers Conference (GDC) was supposed to take place this week at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, however it was postponed amidst the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) alongside basically every conference relevant to the industry this year. Facebook...

10 Apps to Hang Out with Friends in VR

Stuck indoors? Well, you should know that your VR headset is way more than just a Beat Saber machine. You can actually chat, play, and watch movies with your friends, almost as if the world wasn't thrust into a global...

SteamVR Update Improves Tracking Performance for Oculus Quest

A SteamVR beta update today improved tracking when used with Oculus Quest via Oculus Link. Oculus Link allows Quest to be used just like a PC VR headset. While this makes it easy to play Oculus PC games, it also...

Gabe Newell on Brain-computer Interfaces: ‘We’re way closer to The Matrix than people realize’

Gabe Newell, co-founder of Valve, sat down with IGN for a chat about the company, the promise of VR, and Newell's most bleeding edge project as of late, brain-computer interfaces (BCI). "Personally, the area I'm spending a lot of time on has...

‘Phantom: Covert Ops’ Coming to Rift & Quest in Late June

Phantom: Covert Ops, the unique kayak-based VR shooter from nDreams, is officially headed to Rift and Quest in June. If you were wondering what the game looked like on Rift, check out the new release date trailer nDreams just dropped. Update (March 18th,...

Vive Cosmos Elite Comes with a Free Copy of ‘Half-Life: Alyx’

HTC's Vive Cosmos Elite ships out today, and if all you were expecting in the box was the hardware itself and maybe a few free months of Viveport, you'd be wrong. Everyone who buys a Cosmos Elite is getting...

Sony to Detail PlayStation 5 Tomorrow in ‘Deep Dive’ Info Dump

Sony is bringing its next-gen PlayStation console to market in time for holiday season this year, but there's still plenty of question marks left. That's hopefully about to change tomorrow. In the wake of GDC getting effectively canned this week, PlayStation...
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VR Action Game ‘Sword Reverie’ is a Love Letter to ‘Sword Art Online’, Trailer Here

Isekai Entertainment, a Seattle-based indie studio, released the first trailer for its upcoming action game Sword Reverie, a JRPG-inspired title that feels like a heartfelt love letter to the popular anime/manga Sword Art Online (SAO). Drawing from Japanese games and anime such...

OpenXR Coming to Quest & Rift Developers Soon in Prototype Release

Facebook today announced that a prototype version of OpenXR, the royalty-free open standard from The Khronos Group, will be available to Oculus Quest and Rift developers in an update coming later this month. OpenXR is a work-in-progress standard that aims to...

More Than 20 Oculus Quest Titles Have Surpassed $1M in Revenue

Facebook today announced that 20 Oculus Quest games have broken the $1 million revenue mark, a big milestone for the VR industry as a whole. Oculus Quest famously sold out during the holiday season, and then promptly fell victim to...

Oculus Quest System Update to Make Multitasking Easier, Experimental Features Coming Soon

In place of GDC this year, which was postponed due to the coronavirus, Facebook is announcing some of its news via the decidedly more sterile environment of the Oculus blog, starting today and going until Thursday, March 19th. Today,...

Facebook’s Game Developers Showcase Starts Today, Promising New Oculus Reveals

The 2020 Game Developers Conference (GDC) would have started today had it not been canned like basically every major expo from here until summer. To compensate, Facebook is hosting what it calls its Game Developers Showcase, and it's starting...

Cosmos Elite & External Tracking Faceplate Review – Better Tracking, Same Core Issue

HTC's Vive Cosmos Elite headset is set to ship on the 18th and we've been testing the unit to bring you a full review. Cosmos Elite is the same base headset as Cosmos, but equipped with a faceplate that...

Cosmos External Tracking Faceplate Delayed Due to Coronavirus, Cosmos Elite Still on Track to Ship

The supply chain slowdown due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) has affected a few notable VR companies, including Valve and Facebook with their respective flagship headsets. Now it seems HTC is experiencing similar issues with its upcoming SteamVR External Tracking...

Report: AR Startup Magic Leap is Looking for a Buyer

Magic Leap, the multi-billion dollar AR startup, could be exploring the possibility of a sale, a Bloomberg report maintains, citing people familiar with the matter. Other options reportedly under consideration are potential partnerships and a stake sale. The Plantation, Florida-based company...
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