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‘Star Wars: Vader Immortal – Episode 2’ Will Focus on Force Powers
Star Wars: Vader Immortal is a three part VR "narrative adventure" and Oculus exclusive. Episode I launched on Quest and Rift earlier this year. Little is known about Episode II, including its release date, but this week the creators shared a...
American Museum of Natural History’s T. Rex VR Experience Comes to Viveport
HTC and the American Museum of Natural History announced early this year that the Manhattan-based institution's 'T. rex: The Ultimate Predator' exhibit was getting a VR experience that would let museum-goers collaborate to build a Tyrannosaurus rex bone-by-bone in...
Surgery Training Platform ‘Osso VR’ Now Used by 1,000 Surgeons Monthly
The team behind Osso VR, the VR surgical training platform, says that the software is now in use by more than 1,000 surgeons a month around the globe.
The platform, which was created to provide surgeons with an immersive, repeatable...
Knight Foundation Offers $750K in Grants for Immersive Tech in the Arts
The Knight Foundation, focused on journalism and the arts, is opening a call-for-ideas from creatives and organizations using immersive technology to bring art to their audiences. Selected projects will be awarded a share of a $750,000 grant pool, as...
‘ASTRO BOT’ Behind-the-scenes – Insights & Artwork from Sony’s JAPAN Studio
From the very first time we previewed an early build of ASTRO BOT Rescue Mission, it was clear that there was much care and craft behind the work. At its October 2018 launch, the finished game not only didn't disappoint,...
Tyler Hurd’s ‘Beach Body Bros’ Experience Looks Patently Absurd as Ever
Tyler Hurd, the creator behind patently ridiculous VR experiences Butts (2016) and Old Friend (2017), has just joined the Oculus Medium team. Now, Hurd says, he's developing a new VR project called Beach Body Bros using Medium.
Beach Body Bros is a four-minute room-scale...
Elon Musk Details ‘Neuralink’ Brain Interface Tech, Oculus CTO Calls It “very bold work”
Elon Musk unveiled Neuralink earlier this week, a startup that aims to not only revolutionize the growing field of brain-machine interfaces (BMIs), but eventually wants to make neural implants as common as LASIK outpatient procedures are today—that's the long-term...
Hands-on: ‘Iron Man VR’ Shows Huge Potential with Innovative Flying Mechanics
I have to say, when I first saw the announce trailer for Marvel's Iron Man VR, I wasn't exactly blown away. Now that I've actually had a chance to try the game for myself, my tune has totally changed—there's...
‘Gadgeteer’ Early Access Review – Tinker to Your Heart’s Content
In all the time I’ve spent mucking around in Oculus Home and Rec Room—both physics-based sandbox environments that promise to let me do as I please in VR—I always felt like there was a significant time gap involved with...
Pirate Ship Battler ‘Battlewake’ Heads into Closed Beta This Weekend
Survios, the studio behind Raw Data (2017) and Creed: Rise to Glory (2018), is getting their upcoming nautical battler Battlewake into ship-shape for this weekend, which marks the beginning of the game's closed beta.
Update (July 17th, 2019): Battlewake is headed into closed beta...
Quest Teardown Shows How Oculus Crammed Cooling & Cameras Inside
Oculus Quest is the company's first mobile headset to offer full positional tracking, and also its first to be able to run a handful of top PC VR titles that have been ported to work with the headset. To...
5 Great Ways to Celebrate the Moon Landing’s 50th Anniversary in VR
Exactly 50 years ago today, Apollo 11 took off from Kennedy Space Center with the mission of putting the first human beings on the Moon. And although humanity has only visited our celestial neighbor a handful of times since then,...
Disney Animation Studios to Debut VR Short Film ‘A Kite’s Tale’ Later This Month
Disney Animation Studios is set to debut its second VR short film, A Kite's Tale, late this month at the SIGGRAPH conference in Los Angeles.
Following the debut of their first VR short film, Cycles, last year at the same conference, Disney...
Amazon Prime Day Slashes Prices on VR Headsets
Amazon's annual deal day for its 'Prime' members is on, and there's a handful of deals on VR headsets. Here's the breakdown:
Amazon Prime day offers exclusive deals to Prime members (you can get a free trial here). The deals...
SDCC 2019: ‘Doctor Who VR’ Game Lets You Pilot a Fully Functional TARDIS
At San Diego Comic Con (SDCC) this year, Oculus and BBC Studios are giving US crowds their first chance to demo the upcoming VR game Doctor Who: The Edge of Time.
The demo will be available at the BBC AMERICA Booth...



















