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Vive Cosmos Review – A Decent Headset Up Against Stiff Competition
Vive Cosmos has arrived and takes HTC's consumer headset ambitions in a somewhat different direction. Three and a half years after the launch of the original Vive, Cosmos finds itself in a rather strange competitive landscape where it simultaneously...
Report: Apple Acquires Motion Capture Firm IKinema
According to a MacRumor report and regulatory filings with the UK government, Apple may have quietly acquired UK-based motion capture firm IKinema.
The report has thus far gone unsubstantiated by both companies, however a number of filings with the UK government...
‘Avengers: Damage Control’ Revealed as The VOID’s Latest VR Experience, Launching October 18th
The newest experience heading to VR attraction The VOID is Avengers: Damage Control. Due to launch on October 18th, the experience will take players to iconic MCU locations and have them fight alongside the likes of Doctor Strange, Ant-Man, and the...
Cosmos Will Support Vive Wireless Adapter with Additional $50 Add-on
Vive Cosmos, HTC's latest PC VR headset and replacement for the original Vive, launches today for $700. Just like all of company's PC VR headsets to date, Cosmos will be able to use the Vive Wireless Adapter, but you'll...
Watch 9 Minutes of ‘The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners’ Pre-alpha Gameplay
The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners is an upcoming VR survival horror game that places you squarely in the show's apocalyptic universe of zombies. While developing studios Skydance Interactive and Skybound Entertainment lifted the veil on the game's trailer today (see it here), the...
‘LOW-FI’ Kickstarter Comes to a Close After Nearly Doubling Funding Goal
IRIS VR launched a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign last month for LOW-FI, an atmospheric cyberpunk virtual reality game and so-called spiritual successor to TECHNOLUST (2016). The campaign is now over, having garnered $108,191 CAD (~$81,000 USD), a bulk of which came in the campaign's...
Our Vive Cosmos Review is Postponed Until HTC Shines Light on a Potentially Glaring Issue
HTC's latest headset, Vive Cosmos, officially launches today. While we were looking forward to bringing you one of our signature deep-dive reviews, we discovered a potentially significant issue late in our testing, and don't feel comfortable offering a verdict...
‘Synthesis Universe’ is a Musical Sci-fi Experience Coming Soon to PC VR, Trailer Here
French indie developer Olivier JT is finally getting ready to release his long-awaited musical sci-fi experience for VR headsets, Synthesis Universe.
As a VR pioneer, Olivier JT has been working on Synthesis Universe as far back as 2012. Shortly after the...
‘Beach Body Bros’ is a Protein-infused Fever Dream from the Creator of ‘BUTTS’ & ‘Chocolate’
Tyler Hurd is the creative genius that made me write that headline; it's a sentence that never existed until now, and I thank him for letting me bring it into the universe. And while I really can't think of...
Google Releases Highly-polished VR Tour of Versailles for Free
Google Arts & Culture partnered with Château de Versailles to create an extremely detailed VR tour of the iconic French palace, aptly named VersaillesVR - the palace is yours (2019).
The free app, which is now available on Steam with support...
‘Star Wars Vader Immortal – Episode 2’ Review – Shorter Story, Awesome Dojo Action
The second installment of Star Wars: Vader Immortal is here, the narrative-based VR adventure that tosses you back into Darth Vader's mysterious Imperial fortress situated on the lava planet Mustafar. Like the first episode, which we gave a respectable...
Hands-on: Quest Hand-tracking Will be Great for Casual Input, But Core Games Will Still Rely on...
Oculus finally revealed that Quest will get controllerless hand-tracking input. We got to test the feature at Oculus Connect 6 last week and came away impressed. Hand-tracking will open the door to a range of casual use-cases that will...
Oculus CTO: ‘Rift S Still Worthwhile Even After Quest Gets PC-tether Feature’
Oculus CTO and legendary programmer John Carmack took to Twitter recently to explain his reasoning behind why Rift S is still worth buying even though Oculus Quest will soon get the ability to play Rift games via Oculus Link.
A...
Verizon Acquires Jaunt XR’s Augmented Reality Tech
Jaunt, the cinematic VR company that pivoted to AR last year, today announced it has sold its software, technology, and "certain other assets" to American telecom Verizon.
Neither company has disclosed the acquisition price, or if that will include any...
‘Asgard’s Wrath’ Boasts Massive 121 GB File Size Thanks to High-res Textures
Asgard's Wrath is launching exclusively on Rift October 10th, so you know exactly how much time you'll need to either clear out space on your SSD, or buy a new one for what appears to be one of, if not...



















