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‘Echo Arena’ Quest Release Delayed to 2020
'Echo Arena', the popular zero-G arena mini-game that's part of Echo VR, was set to launch on Quest this year but has been delayed into 2020.
Update (November 6th, 2019): In a short announcement on the official Echo VR blog today, developer...
‘Angry Birds VR: Isle of Pigs’ to Get ‘Super Mario Maker’ Style Level Builder Soon
Resolution Games released Angry Birds VR: Isle of Pigs (2019) earlier this year on every major VR platform, bringing the iconic mobile puzzler into the third dimension to pretty awesome effect. Now, the studio announced that there's a custom level...
HTC is Now Selling Certified Pre-owned Vive Systems for $400
HTC has been widely out of stock of the 2016-era Vive basically since the entrance of Vive Cosmos last month, the $700 successor to its consumer-focused PC VR product segment. If you still have your heart set on getting a...
Researchers Develop Method to Boost Contrast in VR Headsets by Lying to Your Eyes
A team of researchers from Cambridge, Berkeley, MIT, and others has developed a novel method for boosting perceived contrast in VR headsets. The method exploits human stereo vision by intentionally mismatching elements of the view seen by each eye;...
Oculus Founder’s Defense Company Could Make Software for Battlefield-ready AR Headsets
Oculus founder Palmer Luckey left Facebook in 2017 to found his own defense technology company, Anduril Industries. It's mostly been in the business of creating AI software, autonomous drones, and threat detection systems, however a Business Insider interview reveals that...
Rumor: Apple Reportedly Partners With Valve to Develop AR Headset
Apple is developing an AR headset; so much is clear from its many AR-specific job listings and even its latest version of iOS, which includes a stereoscopic renderer. The questions of what, how, and when are all patently up...
The Top 20 Best Rated and Most Rated Rift Games & Apps
While Oculus doesn't offer much publicly in the way of understanding how well individual apps are performing across its VR storefronts, it's possible to glean some insight by looking at apps relative to each other. Here's a snapshot of...
Sony Pictures Teams With The VOID on ‘Jumanji: Reverse the Curse’, Launching November 27th
Hot on the heels of Avengers: Damage Control, the next experience heading to VR attraction The VOID is Jumanji: Reverse the Curse, made in collaboration with the Sony Pictures Virtual Reality group. The title will come to select VOID...
Facebook CEO: ‘VR is Taking Longer Than Expected, but We’ll See It to Mass Adoption’
Facebook held its Q3 2019 earnings call late last week, and Oculus again found itself in the center stage as one of the company's most visible of projects. Company founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg acknowledged that although their plans...
‘Panther VR’ Kickstarter Inches Past Funding Goal in Its Final Hours
Wolfdog Interactive, a Netherlands-based studio known for its work on VR titles Skyworld and VR Dungeon Knight, launched a Kickstarter in September to help fund its next VR game, a stealth-action title called Panther VR. It wasn't clear if...
Black Friday Deal Brings Oculus Rift S to $350
Oculus Rift S, the company's mid-generation hardware update to the Rift platform, only just launched a few months ago, but it's already getting its first discount this upcoming Black Friday.
Lenovo has published its 2019 Black Friday ad, and to...
Rhythm Game ‘Synth Riders’ Arrives on Quest, Leaves Early Access on PC VR
Synth Riders, the VR rhythm game that went into Early Access last summer, is now available on Oculus Quest in addition to being officially out of EA on PC VR.
Update (November 1st, 2019): Synth Riders is now live on the...
New Oculus Social Tools Will Help VR Feel More Like a Place, Less Like a Game
Social and Multiplayer VR can be incredibly compelling, but the process of actually 'finding' your friends in VR is still a clunky and often frustrating process. Oculus is developing a new set of social and multiplayer tools which stand...
‘Star Wars Vader Immortal: Episode 3’ Coming to Quest & Rift Next Month
Vader Immortal: A Star Wars VR Series is coming to an end with its third episode soon, which ILMxLab says is set to arrive on November 21st on both Rift and Quest platforms.
Over the course of its two previous episodes,...
FundamentalVR Raises $5.6M Investment to Further Develop VR Surgery Training Tools
FundamentalVR, a company specializing in VR medical training, has closed a £4.3 million (~$5.6 million) Series A funding round in effort to further develop its surgical training and data analysis platform, Fundamental Surgery.
The funding round was led by Downing...




















