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‘Budget Cuts’ Sees Two Week Delay, Now Launching May 31st

Two years in the making, Budget Cuts has remained almost completely off the radar after briefly surfacing back in 2016, but this week at GDC 2018 the game has reemerged with fresh details, including a May 31st release date, which,...

Viveport Holiday Sale Offers Big Savings on Select Games, Subscribers Get Up to 40% Off Everything

Looking to gift yourself something special this holiday season? Viveport just opened its Winter Sale, and the storefront is offering up to 95% off on select games  and apps to anyone with an account. Viveport subscribers can get an addition...

Acer: ‘We’re continuing to explore & invest in XR’

Following confirmation of the cancellation of its latest ConceptD OJO VR headset, Acer says it's still in the XR game. Earlier this week Acer confirmed that it decided to cancel its ConceptD OJO headset; it had been 10 months since...
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‘Flipside Studio’ Brings Full-featured Virtual Production Studio to Quest 2 & Rift

Virtual production suite Flipside Studio is now available on Quest 2 and Meta PC, targeting podcasters, vloggers, and anyone looking for a VR studio to produce their own video content. Created by Winnipeg, Canada-based Flipside XR, the Flipside Studio app is packed with...

YouTube’s ‘MRTV’ Launches Kickstarter to Showcase Current VR Headsets to Paying Public

MRTV, the YouTube channel led by Germany-based VR enthusiast Sebastian Ang, launched a Kickstarter recently to create what he calls the MRTV Experience, which will invite the paying public to step in to try out a variety of the...

Oculus Rolls Out Worldwide Refund Policy for Rift & Gear VR Digital Content

Oculus announced its digital marketplace will now include automated refunds for games purchased on both Oculus Rift and Gear VR platforms—effective immediately and across the entire world. Oculus says they will refund many Rift content purchases made on their store "for any...

‘Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond’ Review – War Never Felt so Bland

Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond has seemingly everything going for it. The backing of Facebook's VR publishing arm, Oculus Studios, and development by a world-renowned game studio, Respawn Entertainment. Unfortunately, outside of a competent multiplayer component, the game...
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‘Fantastic Contraption’ Puzzle-crafting Fun is Coming to PlayStation VR

One of our favorite VR games, Fantastic Contraption, is heading PlayStation VR. The gameplay makes great use of motion controllers to allow you to craft solutions to puzzling platforming problems. Fantastic Contraption released originally as one of the launch bundle titles...

New Apple Job Listing Seeks ‘VR/AR Programmer’ to “use VR and AR to… enable development of...

Apple is investing in additional VR savvy, with more job postings trickling out of the multinational tech giant's own internal job site. Although Apple hasn't left us with many clues as to what they might be working on at their Santa...

The Next Version of Crashland Looks Amazing

As my personal favorite Oculus Rift demo, I've been watching Crashland's development closely. The forthcoming version, which will include a ferocious "Hell Worm," among other additions like powerups and new weapons, looks absolutely amazing. Crashland is the hobby project of...
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‘Civilization VII’ is Getting a Surprise VR Version for Quest 3 Soon

Sid Meier's Civilization VII is coming to PC and console on February 11th, but now developer Firaxis and publisher 2K Games say a version of the game is also releasing on Quest this Spring. The Quest exclusive game is said to...

VR Treadmill Company Virtuix Raised Another $3M in Crowd Investments, Now at $200M Valuation

VR treadmill company Virtuix launched a crowd-based investment campaign late last year to further scale Omni One, its consumer-focused VR locomotion device. Now, the campaign’s second phase (Series B-2) has come to an end, garnering the company over $3...

HTC Releases Full Body Tracking Code for Use with Vive and Trackers

HTC Vive Senior Engineer James Xiong has provided a Vive IK Demo on GitHub, which includes a reference source code and Unity demo. Using the HTC Vive headset and controllers combined with three Vive Trackers, the program uses hardware tracking...

‘SUPERHYPERCUBE’ Teases Vive Support, But Developer Protest Could Keep it From Rift

SUPERHYPERCUBE, a spatial reasoning puzzle game for PSVR looks to be soon headed to the Vive through SteamVR. And while SteamVR normally supports the Rift, a developer protest could exclude the headset. SuperHyperCube is most succinctly described as a 'Tetris (1984)...

Valve Kicks Off First-ever Steam ‘VR Fest’ Promotion Today Featuring Discounts & Demos

Leaning further into its 'Steam Fest' promotions, Valve today kicked off its first ever Steam VR Fest which is bringing a load of discounts and demos for VR games. Update (July 18th, 2022): Steam VR Fest is live, offering up...
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