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New Pimax Artisan Headset to Include Optional NOLO VR Tracking & Controllers

Before the holiday season, Pimax announced a new VR headset called Artisan that looks to fill the low-price gap in the company's product offerings. Although the headset is able to use Valve's SteamVR tracking standard, a model is set...

Latest NVIDIA GPUs Get Foveated Supersampling Feature for Sharper VR Games

VR gamers running NVIDIA's newest RTX graphics cards will be able to take advantage of a new 'Variable Rate Supersampling' (VRSS) feature designed to increase the sharpness of VR games without reducing performance. The feature uses a foveated rendering...

With New Headsets & Big Games in 2019, VR is Poised for an Even Better 2020

After a slow start, 2019 rounded out to be an undeniably strong year for consumer VR, setting up a springboard into a big 2020. Here's an overview of the major happenings in VR over the last year, and a...

MasterpieceVR Launches ‘Studio’ Suite for Sculpting & Animating Models in VR

MasterpieceVR recently released its latest set of VR creation tools which aim to get artists quickly sculpting and animating characters by hand from the comfort of their VR headsets. Called Masterpiece Studio, the 3D content creation suite combines the 3D...

‘Quill Theater’ Brings Incredible Immersive Artwork & Stories to Quest

Oculus quietly released Quill Theater on Quest last month as a way to bring immersive art and animations made in VR to more of its VR userbase. The free app offers up a curated selection of content, including the...

Feelreal VR Scent Mask Hits Roadblock Amidst Crackdown on Flavored Vaping Products

Although the Feelreal scent mask for virtual reality isn't a nicotine vaping system or e-cigarette, it does vaporize aromatic liquids for user inhalation, which according to the company puts it in same FDA certification bracket as those devices. While...

‘Boneworks’ Outpaces ‘Beat Saber’ to 100K Units, Earns an Estimated $3M in First Week

Action-physics adventure game Boneworks released earlier this month to a strong reception despite little formal marketing. The title surpassed 100,000 players in its first week, reeling in an estimated $3 million in revenue despite being available on just one of...

‘Superhot VR’ Grossed Over $2 Million in Only 1 Week This Holiday Season

We knew Superhot VR (2016) was doing extremely well when Superhot Team announced the VR adaptation had generated more revenue than the original PC game back in April. Now the studio has set one of the most impressive benchmarks of success for the...

‘Beat Saber’ Ranks Among Steam’s Top Sellers in 2019

Beat Saber had an awesome year in 2019, launching out of Early Access on the platform in May with multiple music packs following behind it, which featured bands such as Green Day, Imagine Dragons, and Panic at the Disco. It...

15 VR Games We Can’t Wait to Play in 2020

We loved 2019 for its bounty of VR games and emphasis on new hardware, but 2020 is looking to bring a host of big budget titles and polished indies alike that should not only keep us all happily strapped...

‘Snow Crash’ TV Series Coming to HBO Max, Neal Stephenson to Executive Produce

Neal Stephenson's classic cyberpunk novel Snow Crash (1992) is an oft referenced starting point for many in the VR scene. Now, a Deadline exclusive holds that HBO Max is officially developing a TV series out of the novel. According to Deadline, Michael...
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Tested Goes Hands-on with ‘Half-Life: Alyx’ Using 8 Major VR Headsets

Valve let Tested's Norman Chan and Will Smith into their headquarters recently for a multi-hour session with Half-Life: Alyx, the studio's famed flagship VR game coming out in March 2020. Chan and Smith couldn't reveal plot details and some of...

Road to VR’s 2019 Game of the Year Awards

Every year is the biggest year for virtual reality. It seems more developers are delving into VR to explore the medium, hone their techniques and find out what works and what doesn't. Virtual reality fans walk a similar path;...

HaptX Secures $12M Financing to Produce Next Generation of Haptic Gloves

HaptX, a producer of haptic VR gloves, today announced it's secured $12 million in its Series A financing round. The company has additionally signed a strategic partnership with Advanced Input Systems, which the companies say will include shared product...

Logitech’s VR Stylus for SteamVR Now Available for Pre-order for $750

Logitech's enterprise-focused VR stylus is now available for pre-order. The $750 'VR Ink Pilot Edition' uses SteamVR Tracking and offers up a more natural and precise input modality for a handful of art & design focused VR tools. Logitech revealed...
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