Kat VR, the China-based company behind the original Kat Walk VR treadmill Kickstarter in 2015, has concluded its latest crowdfunding campaign, this time bringing a consumer-focused VR treadmill ‘Kat Walk C' to market. Update (August 3rd, 2020): The Kickstarter for KAT...

Varjo, the Finland-based headset manufacturer, today announced the company's upcoming high resolution VR headset will have AR pass-through capabilities powered by Socionext image signal processors. Varjo’s headset is basically taking what some consider a shortcut to retina resolution with its 'bionic...

Batman: Arkham Shadow (2024) has just topped over 1 million players, evidenced by an in-game achievement that nearly everyone is bound to earn just by booting up the game and playing for a few minutes. Camouflaj's Batman: Arkham Shadow, the Quest-exclusive game...

Following the open-sourcing of the Rift DK1 plans back in 2014, Oculus today released the recipe for the Rift DK2, the company's second development kit headset released in 2014. Under an open-source license, anyone can now freely download the blueprints...

Human Within is a sci-fi interactive VR film coming to Quest in January that explores how AI affects humanity. Departing from standard VR films, which are usually pretty 'one-and-done', the upcoming interactive experience promises to give you the choice in...

On stage at Facebook's F8 conference, the company's CTO, Mike Schroepfer, may have just let slip a hint at the Oculus Rift release date. We don't often give much care to rumors of an Oculus Rift release date, but when the CTO...

Despite its major role in the growing VR space, HTC's overall business continues to struggle financially, posting significant losses over the last two years. Working to turn things around with a restructuring of assets and priorities, the company is...

Valve have just released a new tool to determine if your gaming PC is up to the task of running SteamVR experiences unlocked with the HTC Vive. But, buried in the code of the tool lies some interesting glimpses...

While the Oculus Touch controller is largely designed to tell the computer where a user's hands are, the controller also has an idea of what a user's fingers are doing. New documentation adds to our understanding of the controller's hand-tracking capabilities,...

Resolution Games, the studio behind popular multiplayer VR titles Demeo (2021) and Blaston (2020), today announced it has secured a Series C funding round of $25 million. The Stockholm-based company says the investment will be used to bring "proper...

Kenzan, a Geneva based 3D visual effects company, has recently released a video showing a curious motion capture installation that could have you discovering a pharaoh's tomb in a setting that blends the physical world with the virtual. The...

Virtuix, the company behind the Omni VR treadmill, launched a crowd-based investment campaign in 2020 to fund Virtuix Omni One, an at-home VR locomotion device targeted at enthusiasts. Previously only available to early investors, now the company announced it's opening...

If you've been plugged into the Valve leak-o-verse, you've probably come across the name 'Deckard', the supposed code name of a standalone headset allegedly under development by the one and only. While Valve isn't confirming anything about the storied...

Meta announced a new developer accelerator aimed at kickstarting 'Lifestyle' apps for Quest which make use of mixed reality, AI and hand-tracking. Meta says in the announcement selected participants of its new 'Meta Quest Lifestyle App Accelerator' can apply for seed-stage...

Truth is oftentimes stranger than fiction, but because wide-spread, photorealistic augmented reality is still in the realm of science fiction rather than science fact, we usually defer to the storytellers and visual effects gurus to explore the possibilities. In...