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E3 2020 Cancelled Over Coronavirus Concerns
E3 2020, the major games industry conference, has been cancelled over Coronavirus concerns. The cancellation is the latest in a string of disruptions to conferences that are important touchstones for the VR industry. The organization that produces E3, the...
BBC Launches ‘Micro Kingdoms’ Experience for Magic Leap, Narrated by Stephen Fry
BBC Studios and AR/VR studio PRELOADED today launched BBC Earth - Micro Kingdoms: Senses, the interactive documentary for Magic Leap 1. Narrated by Stephen Fry, the AR experience brings user into the tiny world of insects and arachnids.
Created in collaboration with the BBC...
A Complete List of Headsets Compatible with ‘Half-Life: Alyx’
With the game just two weeks away, we continue to see questions crop up about which VR headsets are supported by Half-Life: Alyx. So here's the complete list of VR headsets compatible with the game, and we'll also explain what...
Sega Saturn Classic ‘Panzer Dragoon’ is Coming to VR in All-new Game
The Panzer Dragoon series for Sega Saturn, enshrined as an early 3D classic back in the mid-90s, is coming to VR. Japanese studio Wildman Inc. is looking to revisit the series in a VR shooter, tentatively called Panzer Dragoon Voyage...
Varjo Brings Real-time Green-screen Capability to XR-1 for More Seamless Mixed Reality
Varjo, makers of high-end enterprise focused VR headsets, is adding real-time green-screen (aka chroma key) and marker tracking features to its XR-1 headset to make mixed reality applications more seamless.
Varjo's XR-1 headset is a high-end enterprise development kit headset which...
New Valve Index Stock Lasts Less Than a Day, Backorders Reach Eight Weeks or More
After making new Index stock available today after more than a month of the hardware being sold out, most regions saw the headset and other hardware quickly backordered by eight weeks or more.
Update #3 (March 9th, 2020): Shortly after...
HTC Discontinuing Vive Pro and Vive Focus in Favor of Newer Iterations
HTC is discontinuing its Vive Pro and Vive Focus headsets in favor of newer versions of the headsets. The change helps streamline the company's smattering of headsets.
In a recent opinion piece I argued that HTC's VR headset lineup, which...
You Can Now Cast Oculus Quest to Xbox One with AirServer
AirServer, the casting software for Xbox One, received an update a few weeks ago that now lets users cast the view from inside the Oculus Quest to Xbox One without the need of a Chromecast device.
The paid app is...
HTC is Hosting Its Next Developer Conference in VR Amid Coronavirus Concerns
The recent coronavirus outbreak (COVID-19) has stymied many of the industry's most important conferences and expos this year. To avoid this, HTC today announced it will be holding its next Vive Ecosystem Conference (VEC) from within virtual reality.
Update (March...
HTC’s VR Lineup Now Includes 11 Headset Packages and Its Modular Strategy is a Mess
With the re-introduction of the company's Cosmos VR headsets with four different variants, HTC's Vive lineup has become a confusing mess with 11 different headset packages to choose from. Even when just considering the Cosmos lineup itself, the company's...
New SteamVR Home Environments Are Your First Look Inside ‘Half-Life: Alyx’
For those that pre-ordered the game, Valve has brought two Half-Life: Alyx environments to SteamVR Home, giving players their first chance to step inside the game. Even if you didn't pre-order the game, it's still easy to check out the...
‘Sparc’ Comes to Arcade Platform Springboard VR, but CCP Remains Silent on Quest Port
CCP Games, the studio behind EVE Online, was an early proponent of VR and launched a handful of VR games as the industry was kicking off. Though it isn't actively developing new VR titles, the studio has continued to...
‘Lies Beneath’ is a Comic-inspired Survival Horror Game Exclusively for Rift & Quest
Lies Beneath is an Oculus-exclusive survival horror VR game from Drifter Entertainment, the studio behind Gunheart (2018). The studio has honed in on a unique comic book / cel-shaded style which looks like almost nothing else in VR to date.
Lies...
‘L.A. Noire VR’ for PC Gets Minigames Previously Exclusive to PSVR
Rockstar Games brought L.A. Noire: The VR Case Files (2017) to PSVR in a surprise launch last September, bringing along with it some minigames to keep you shooting, punching, and driving with moxie well after you'd interrogated your last suspect. Now,...
SteamVR Gets a New Dashboard, Finally Ditching Steam Big Picture
From very early on, the SteamVR dashboard had adapted Steam's 'Big Picture' mode which was designed for use on big screen TV's rather than in VR. As it wasn't made with VR in mind, much of its functionality is...




















