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Hands On: ‘PlayStation VR Worlds’ is an Immersive Starter Pack for PSVR
Sony's virtual reality gaming and experience compilation PlayStation VR Worlds is a virtual reality taster selection of sorts from Sony's London Studio, designed to show off just what their forthcoming PlayStation 4 powered VR headset is capable of. Frank...
HTC Holiday Sale Discounts up to $300 off Vive PC VR Headsets & Accessories
HTC is doing a week-long holiday sale starting today that is bringing deep discounts to many of its PC VR headsets, as well as accessories such as the Vive Wireless Adapter and Deluxe Audio Strap.
The promo is in effect...
The Good, the Bad and the ‘Meh’ of LG 360 VR
Unveiled at MWC 2016, LG 360 VR has become the newest entry into the world of mobile headsets. Touted as a lightweight solution for on-the-go media consumption, the 360 VR gives us an interesting look at the future of VR headset...
‘Rec Room’ Adds More Flexibility to Avatar System with New Full-body, Animated Costumes
Ever since the social VR platform Rec Room launched in 2016, its avatar system has notably lacked full-body inverse kinematics like you see in its contemporary VRChat, which essentially leaves users with a stylized appearance lacking arms and legs. Now...
JVC to Launch 120-degree FOV XR Headset for Enterprise Next Month
JVCKenwood announced late last year that it was testing the XR waters with a new headset for enterprise users which boasts a wide field of view (FOV) and 2.5k per-eye resolution. Now the company says the device is headed...
Cybershoes for Oculus Quest Now Available on Amazon US
The Oculus Quest-compatible version of Cybershoes, the VR locomotion peripheral, was successfully funded on Kickstarter late last year, and has been available direct from the creators for a few months now. The company has now made Cybershoes for Quest...
‘The Unity Cube’ is the Worst Game on the Quest Store—on Purpose
The Unity Cube is an objectively terrible game that was built to test the limits of what Quest content Meta would allow into its uncurated App Lab program. The experiment continues to prove its worth; now that Meta has dissolved...
‘Facebook Spaces’ Gets Major Functionality Boost Now With PC Desktop Sharing
Facebook Spaces, the company's experiment into social VR, launched to much fanfare back in April. Following a string of updates, the app now supports PC desktop sharing, allowing friends to stream any content from their computer, opening up a...
New Quest Game from ‘Job Simulator’ Studio Surprise-launches This Week, Built Entirely Around Hand-tracking
Owlchemy Labs, the Google-owned studio behind Job Simulator (2016) and Vacation Simulator (2019), surprise announced its next VR title today, a hand-tracking-tastic social co-op game called Dimensional Double Shift. And you can get ready to multiplayer job this week.
Launching for free...
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...
Meta Forced to Furlough After Chinese Lead Backs Out of New Investment
Meta, makers of an AR headset dev kit, was close to raising a new round of funding before a Chinese lead investor backed out, Bloomberg reports. The Chinese investment firm had reportedly put up $20 million for the deal....
Massive ‘Skydance’s BEHEMOTH’ Update Brings New Boss Trial Mode, Arena Mode Out of Beta
Skydance's BEHEMOTH (2024) just got a major update called 'The Rites of Wrath,' which brings two new game modes to the VR adventure game—'The Arena' and 'The Behemoth Trials'.
Arena Mode Leaves Beta
Arena Mode was initially available in beta when the...
Hands-on: ‘Budget Cuts’ Showcases an Impressive Grip on What Makes VR Great
It's been over two years since Stockholm-based Neat Corporation released the initial prototype for Budget Cuts, an upcoming stealth-action game that throws you into a robot-filled office space and arms you with various throwing weapons and a novel portal-based teleporting device,...
‘Jurassic World Aftermath’ Review (Part 1 & 2) – Cretaceous Cat & Mouse with Standout Style
Jurassic World Aftermath unabashedly hijacks the hide-and-seek gameplay of Alien Isolation (2014) while bringing it to VR with a Jurassic Park context and a unique and well executed visual style. With Part 2 now released as paid DLC, the game finally...
‘Bonelab’ Made $1M in First Hour on Quest, Setting Record as Fastest Selling Game on Platform
At its annual Connect developer conference this week Meta revealed that Stress Level Zero’s Quest 2 game Bonelab (2022) made its first $1 million in revenue less than an hour after launch, making it the fastest-selling app in Quest history.
Released late...



















