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The 5 Best Free Games on HTC Vive
Steam is chocked full of free games that support HTC Vive, but it may be difficult with all that choice to know exactly which games to start out with, especially if all that holiday shopping blew your wallet to...
Oculus Launches ‘Quill’ Tutorial Series for Aspiring VR Artists
Oculus has created a series of tutorial videos for newcomers to Quill, the company's VR paint app. Available for free with every Touch purchase, Quill is an artistic creation tool designed for virtual reality and motion controllers.
The recent launch...
Magic Leap Raises $793.5 Million Series C Investment to Accelerate Adoption of Secretive AR Tech
Magic Leap today announced the closure of a massive $793.5 million Series C investment led by Alibaba. The company has kept their supposedly revolutionary AR tech under wraps to the public, but seem to have no trouble convincing investors...
Vive Focus Dev Kits Cost €650 in Europe, Devs to Receive €200 Discount Until June 4th
Vive Focus dev kits are headed outside of China today to international developers looking to create for the company's standalone VR headset, which first arrived to Chinese consumers back in January. Apparently HTC is lowering the price for some...
VisionOS Update to Bring Ultra-wide Screen & Higher Resolution to Mac Virtual Display
Apple today announced its 2.0 version of visionOS, which is bringing alongside it a number of new features including a wider and higher-resolution version of Mac Virtual Display.
The feature, which is set to launch sometime later this year, will...
Meta Layoffs Affect VR Teams at ‘Lone Echo’ & ‘Onward’ Studios
Meta is the midst of a second large round of layoffs, and this time a number of employees in its internal VR studios have been affected.
Business Insider reported earlier this week that Meta was increasing its focus on gaming-related projects...
Quest 2 Jailbreak Effort Reports Success Bypassing Facebook Services
Calls for a Quest 2 'jailbreak'—a means of freeing the device from Facebook account requirements and other software-based restrictions—cropped up within days of the headset's release. Today, less than two weeks later, the first jailbreak for the headset has...
nDreams Acquires VR Veteran Near Light, Studio Behind ‘Shooty Fruity’ & ‘Perfect’
nDreams, the VR studio and publisher behind titles such as Fracked (2021) and Phantom: Covert Ops (2020), today announced it's acquired long-time partner studio Near Light.
This marks the first such studio acquisition by nDreams, which follows a $35 million...
Now Available – Light-field Captured ‘Hallelujah’ is a Stunning Mix of Volumetric Film and Audio
Hallelujah is a new experience by VR film studio Within that's captured using Lytro's latest Immerge light-field camera which captures volumetric footage that makes for a much more immersive experience than traditional 360 video. Hallelujah is a performance of Leonard...
WEARVR Weekly Top Ten VR Downloads – February #2
Looking for something fun to play in VR? We’ve got the top 10 downloads from the last week on the WEARVR app marketplace, a cross-platform repository of virtual reality experiences.
A VR experience inspired by 'The Shining'.
You're the new caretaker at The...
BigBox VR Secures $5M Financing to Further Develop VR Battle Royale ‘POPULATION: ONE’
BigBox VR, the VR studio behind the critically-acclaimed multiplayer shooter Smashbox Arena (2016), today announced that it has secured $5 million in a seed funding round led by Shasta Ventures, with additional funding from GSR Ventures and Pioneer Square Labs...
Razer Hydra Sale: 50% off for Oculus Rift ‘VR Promo’ Through April 25th
Peripheral manufacturer Razer has launched a sale offering 50% off its motion controller the Hydra through April 25th. Oculus included the promo in its latest email update and indicates the promotion was organised in association with them, presumably to...
Understanding Predictive Tracking and Why It’s Important for AR/VR Headsets
In the context of AR and VR systems, predictive tracking refers to the process of predicting the future orientation and/or position of an object or body part. For instance, one might want to predict the orientation of the head...
Amazon Brings Augmented Reality Product Previews to iOS App
'Try it before you buy it', the old adage goes. Well, an AR preview might not exactly be 'trying it', but Amazon's new 'AR View' function aims to help you figure out if a crock-pot clashes with your marble counters,...
Audi Has Deployed 1,000 VR Showrooms in Dealerships Worldwide
German car maker Audi was quick to see the potential of VR and has been experimenting since the early days of VR's resurgence to see how the tech could be used to enhance the car buying experience. Having introduced...



















