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Viveport President Rikard Steiber Departs HTC
Rikard Steiber, Viveport President and Senior VP of Virtual Reality, is departing HTC at the end of the year.
Having joined the company in February 2016, Steiber oversaw the launch of Viveport in over 60 markets, HTC's digital distribution platform...
An Epic Recreation & Guided Tour of the Sistine Chapel is Now Available on Steam for...
Located at the Vatican City in Rome, Italy, the Sistine Chapel is Michelangelo's magnum opus; the chapel's painted ceiling, which includes the famous 'Creation of Adam' along with hundreds of other works which form an epic mural, is a cornerstone of Renaissance...
Valve Confirms ‘Half-Life: Alyx’, Its “Flagship VR Game” – Full Reveal Coming Thursday
Valve has confirmed that that rumored Half-Life: Alyx is indeed real. A full reveal is planned for Thursday.
Valve has been teasing its work on several full VR games for years, but beyond that we had only rumors to go on....
Oculus Releases Beta Support for Link, Turning Quest into a PC VR Headset
Oculus today announced that Link is officially in beta, the company's compatibility software so that Quest users can play Rift titles on PC. If you have an AMD GPU, you're going to have to wait though.
If you have a...
Rumor: Valve to Unveil VR Game ‘Half-Life: Alyx’ at Game Awards Next Month
Although Valve has yet to deliver on its promised three full VR titles (one was supposed to arrive this year), in typical Valve fashion the company's ongoings are fundamentally a mystery to outsiders. Now, a PC Gamer report contends that Valve has...
‘Stormland’s’ Co-op & Cycling World Features Explained in Detail
With Stormland finally launching this week you may find yourself wondering how the game's co-op features work and especially the 'Cycling World', which aims to keep the game feeling fresh from week to week. We went straight to developer...
Lenovo Unveils New AR Headset Prototype Aimed at Business Travelers
At Lenovo's Tech World conference in Beijing, the Chinese tech giant unveiled a new AR headset prototype that aims to appeal to business travelers on-the-go.
Officially called the Lenovo AR Concept Glasses, the headset features a relatively small and sleek...
Glue Collaboration Raises $3.85M Financing to Further Develop Business-focused Social VR Platform
Glue Collaboration, a Helsinki-based company developing remote collaboration tools for AR/VR, today announced that it has completed a new seed round of financing, raising a total of €3.5 million (~$3.85 million) to support continued growth of its business-focused social...
Long-delayed PSVR Exclusive ‘Golem’ to Launch Tomorrow, New Trailer Here
It's been a long, long road for Golem, the upcoming PSVR exclusive title that's been in development since even before Sony's VR headset launched in 2016. After several major delays, Golem is finally due to launch, albeit a little later than previously...
Digital Statues as ‘Stormland’s’ Pre-order Bonus Portend a Curious Future of Virtual Merch
Stormland, the VR open-world adventure from Insomniac Games, is set to launch tomorrow. The studio isn't only offering the chance to unlock virtual collectibles for display in your Oculus Home when you actually play the game (a function made available to...
John Carmack Moves to “Consulting CTO” Role to Make Time for Non-Oculus Ventures
Legendary programmer and Oculus CTO John Carmack today announced he'll be moving to a "consulting CTO" role in order to reduce his time spent at the company to a "modest slice." This, he says, will make way for him...
Oculus & Unity Release Free VR Development Course with 20 Hours of Content
Already have some basic game dev experience and looking to get into VR? Then you may be interested in Oculus and Unity's new intermediate level VR game development course, which is not only free, but can get you some...
‘Stormland’ Review – The New Bar for VR Open-world Adventure
With Stormland, Insomniac Games set out to figure out if an open-world adventure game could really work in VR. The result? Not just 'the new bar', but a rather high one at that (not to mention one of VR's first great co-op games).
Stormland Details:
Official Site
Developer: Insomniac Games
Available On: Oculus...
‘Stormland’ Behind-the-scenes – Insights & Artwork from Insomniac Games
Insomniac Games is no stranger to VR game development. Since 2016 the studio has created three Oculus exclusive VR titles—Feral Rites, Edge of Nowhere, and The Unspoken—but its next (and possibly last Oculus exclusive), Stormland, is unequivocally its most ambitious...
Unity Plugin Aims to Streamline Haptics for VR Developers
RGB Haptics is a new Unity-based tool that aims to make it easier for developers to create and implement haptic effects in VR games.
Haptics are important in games in general, but especially in VR—because the medium gives players significantly...




















