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NVIDIA is Making GTC Online-only Due to Coronavirus Concerns

NVIDIA's GPU Technology Conference (GTC) isn't taking place as planned this year due to coronavirus (COVID-19) concerns. The company says it will still offer up a livestreamed keynote by founder & CEO Jensen Huang and recorded talks from various...
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Watch 19 Minutes of New ‘Half-Life: Alyx’ Gameplay Footage & Trailers

The first Half-Life: Alyx gameplay footage was released today by IGN and Valve in the form of three gameplay trailers and a nine minute stretch of gameplay footage. This is the best look yet at how Valve's first full fledged...

HTC Announces New Vive Pro Eye Packages for Enterprise, Reduces Base Kit to $1,400

HTC Vive today announced it will soon be offering two new business bundles for Vive Pro Eye, its enterprise-focused VR headset with integrated eye-tracking. Additionally, the company is reducing the original 'all-in' Vive Pro Eye kit to $1,400 from its...

NVIDIA Adds VRSS Support to Five More Games Including ‘Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners’

Last month NVIDIA introduced a Variable Rate Supersampling (VRSS) feature for its RTX graphics cards. The feature applies supersampling in supported VR games only where it matters most to save GPU resources. A new driver released today adds VRSS...

Facebook Cancels F8 Developer Conference Over Coronavirus Concerns

Facebook today announced that its annual F8 developer conference isn't happening this year due to concerns over the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). Facebook's Konstantinos Papamiltiadis released word today via a Facebook blog post, stating that the company has cancelled the "in-person component...

Mind-bending VR Art Showcase ‘Museum of Other Realities’ Exits Early Access

The Museum of Other Realities (MOR) first launched into Early Access on PC VR headsets in June 2019, bringing with it a curated selection of multi-sensory art pieces from some of the medium's most talented illustrators, animators, and engineers. Now,...

Sketchfab Launches Public Domain Program so Museums Can Share Cultural Relics in 3D

Sketchfab is a great resource for developers looking for a place to share and download 3D models—all of which can be viewed in VR headsets. Now, the company has launched a new program that makes it easier for museums...

Microsoft Says it Hasn’t Given up on the VR Side of Windows Mixed Reality

While Microsoft has been full steam ahead on the augmented reality side of Windows Mixed Reality via HoloLens, the company has had very little to say in the last year about the VR side of its platform. While it...

Facebook Acquires the VR Studio Behind ‘Asgard’s Wrath’, Sanzaru Games

Just a few months after the acquisition of Beat Saber studio Beat Games, Facebook today announced the acquisition of Sanzaru Games, the studio behind the Oculus-exclusive Asgard's Wrath and a handful of other VR titles. Sanzaru will join Facebook's...

Qualcomm Reveals New Reference Designs for XR2-powered VR & AR Headsets

Qualcomm today revealed new reference designs for VR and AR headsets powered by its new Snapdragon XR2 chip. Complete with hand-tracking, magnetic controller tracking, eye-tracking, and more, the Qualcomm reference designs are a glimpse of what's to come in...

‘FREEDIVER: Triton Down’ Arrives on PSVR & Quest Today in New ‘Extended Cut’

Archiact, the studio behind VR games Evasion (2018) and Waddle Home (2016), today launched its underwater adventure FREEDIVER: Triton Down (2019) on PSVR and Oculus Quest in a new 'Extended Cut' edition. Update (1:15 PM ET): In a surprise turn of events, it appears...

More Than 100 VR Games Have Exceeded $1 Million in Revenue

While VR is still young, it crossed an important milestone at the start of 2020: more than 100 VR games have exceeded $1 million in revenue. In an analysis published earlier this month, VR Fund investor Tipatat Chennavasin made the case...

Preview: ‘The Room: A Dark Matter’ Sets a New Bar for VR Puzzle Games

The Room: A Dark Matter is an upcoming VR puzzler from Fireproof Games, the same minds behind The Room (2014), its beloved predecessor for PC and mobile, and VR shooter-adventure Omega Agent (2016). With the fresh VR entry in franchise, Fireproof has...

Vive Cosmos Elite Pre-orders Start Today, Release Date Set for March 18th

Last week HTC announced the full Vive Cosmos lineup which saw the introduction of three new variants which each use faceplates with different capabilities. Cosmos Elite, the high-end variant which uses SteamVR Tracking, opens for pre-orders as of today, with...

Oculus ‘Designing for Hands’ Document Introduces Best Practices for Quest Hand-tracking

Hand-tracking on Quest rolled out as an experimental feature in late 2019, but Oculus is letting it gestate before it will accept third-party apps with hand-tracking. In the meantime, the company has published fresh developer documentation which establishes best...
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