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‘Boneworks’ Review – A Rich Sandbox with a Side of Game Design

Boneworks, the highly anticipated physics-driven VR shooter from veteran VR studio Stress Level Zero, is finally here. The game is underscored with a rich, physics-based interaction system which aims to make VR more interactive and immersive. Boneworks Details: Developer: Stress Level Zero Available On: Steam...

Report: Magic Leap Sees Sluggish Sales Numbers Amidst Latest Funding Round

Magic Leap is one of the most well-funded startups in history, boasting $2.6 billion in overall funding—and that's before calculating its latest financing round, the amount and specifics of which are still unknown at this time. A new report from...

Musical Gardening Game ‘Fujii’ Launches on PSVR Today

Funktronic Labs, the studio behind funky real-time strategy game Cosmic Trip (2017), launched their latest VR project back in May that brought its so-called "creative gardening” app to PC VR headsets and Oculus Quest. Now PSVR users can get in...

Oculus Quest Hand-tracking Starts Rolling Out This Week, Developer SDK Next Week

Oculus announced today that hand-tracking on Quest will start rolling out sometime this week with basic functionality. A hand-tracking SDK will be made available next week, giving developers the ability to create third-party applications which use the new feature. Oculus...

Quest Dominated Black Friday Search Volume in the US, Tied PlayStation VR Worldwide

Though it's Facebook's newest headset, Oculus Quest may be the company's most popular so far, at least as far as search volume is concerned. Kicking off the holiday shopping season on Black Friday, Quest dominated other VR headsets in...

Adobe Acquires Facebook’s ‘Oculus Medium’ VR Sculpting Tool

Facebook today announced that Adobe—the company behind industry-leading creative tools like Photoshop, Premiere, and Substance—has acquired Oculus Medium, the company's VR sculpting tool. Oculus Medium launched back in 2016 alongside the company's Touch motion controllers, and began as an exploration...

‘Swords of Gargantua’ Gets Rogue-lite Adventure Mode in New Update

Swords of Gargantua (2019), the multiplatform combat arena from Yomuneco and gumi, now includes a new rouge-lite adventure mode that tasks players with going into what the studios call 'The Tesseract Abyss'. The new update is said to put players...

Snapdragon XR2 Chip to Enable Standalone Headsets with 3K×3K Resolution & 7 Cameras

Qualcomm today announced Snapdragon XR2 5G, its latest chipset platform dedicated to the needs of standalone VR and AR headsets. The new platform is aimed at high-end devices with support for 3K × 3K displays at 90Hz, along with integrated...
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Zombie Shooter ‘Arizona Sunshine’ Now Available on Oculus Quest, Trailer Here

Arizona Sunshine (2016), one of VR's early acclaimed titles, launched nearly three years ago on PC VR headsets, bringing with it VR gunplay and zombie-killing like few had ever experienced in the new medium. Arizona Sunshine has finally come to Oculus...
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Medieval Adventure ‘Shadow Legend’ to Launch on PSVR in January, Trailer Here

First launched on PC VR headsets back in March, indie studio Vitruvius VR is only a few weeks away from bringing its medieval melee adventure Shadow Legend VR (2019) to PSVR. Shadow Legend is now set to launch on PSVR on January 21st, 2020,...

The 10 Best Oculus Rift Games of 2019

It's been three years since the major consumer VR headsets came onto the scene, with Oculus Rift leading the charge back in March 2016. Now that Rift S is here, and Oculus Link is ushering more users to hook...
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‘The Climb’ Now Available on Oculus Quest, Launch Trailer Here

Don't look down, because Crytek's aptly-named climbing game The Climb (2017) is headed out of Rift exclusivity soon with its impending launch on Oculus Quest. Update (December 4th, 2019):  The Climb is now available Oculus Quest, which includes cross-buy support, meaning if you...

HTC Launches Viveport PC Streaming for Vive Focus Plus

HTC today announced that it's released support for 5Ghz WiFi streaming for Vive Focus Plus, as well as all 6DOF standalone headsets supporting the Vive Wave platform. Much like Oculus Quest's Link functionality, Vive Focus Plus can now play...

Pimax “8K” Headsets & Accessories Delayed Again, Now Estimated for Late 2019 & Early 2020

Pimax announced back in Fall that it was not only bringing more styles of its "8K" model headsets to market this year with the entrance of the $1,300 "8K" X and the $1,000 "8K" Plus, but that backers would...

‘Angry Birds Movie 2 VR’ Studio Raises $2M to Continue Development on AR/VR Games

XR Games, the studio behind couch co-op VR game The Angry Birds Movie 2 VR: Under Pressure (2019), has secured $2 million (£1.5 million) in a recent funding round, which was led by Praetura Ventures alongside existing investor ACT Capital...
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