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VR Dungeon Crawler ‘Crystal Rift’ Launches Kickstarter Campaign

It's interesting to see genres and themes returning in an entirely new and yet familiar form. Grid-based dungeon crawler Crystal Rift is built from the ground up for virtual reality, yet draws on some very traditional game mechanics....

Amazon Prime Day Deal Offers $50 Discount on Oculus Rift

If you're already an Amazon Prime Member, or looking to become one starting today, there's an Amazon Prime Day Oculus Rift deal waiting for you. Update (July 17th, 1:20AM ET): After being listed as 'out of stock' earlier today, the Rift...
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‘Lone Echo II’ Launch Trailer Debuts Ahead of Next Week’s Release

It's been more than four years since the release of the lauded Lone Echo, but its sequel is finally just around the corner. Ahead of Lone Echo II's release date on October 12th, Facebook's VR studio Ready at Dawn has revealed a launch...

‘Townscaper VR’ Releasing on Quest & Pico Headsets in October

Earlier this year indie developer Oskar Stålberg showed interest in adapting Townscaper to VR headsets, showing off some prototype builds of the cozy, pint-sized town creator game working with motion controllers. Now Stålberg says we can expect to jump into the game on...
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Social VR Platform ‘High Fidelity’ to Host Festival in VR Nov. 17th, Win a Rift &...

High Fidelity, the social VR platform headed by Second Life creator Philip Rosedale, will host its first festival completely in virtual reality, which will feature contests, giveaways and live music shows in VR. Dubbed 'FUTVRE LANDS', the festival will take place November 17th,...

‘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...

Samsung Gear VR Heads to More than 100 Best Buys for Demo and Sale

Samsung is getting a bit more bold with what's so far been a fairly soft launch for the company's first mobile headset, Gear VR. Come March 27th, Gear VR will be available in more than 100 Best Buy locations...

LYNX Has Raised $2 Million for Its R-1 Headset, and Other Background on the XR Newcomer

LYNX is a startup building a standalone MR headset that's primarily focused on passthrough AR scenarios for enterprise applications. The France-based company revealed its R-1 headset earlier this month and expects to deliver the first units this Summer for...
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Logitech Using Vive Tracker to Bring Your Keyboard and Hands Into VR for Efficient Typing

Logitech is creating a new system called BRIDGE which aims to make it possible to bring a properly tracked keyboard into VR while showing the user's hands for accurate typing. Though retail plans haven't yet been announced, the company...

Training AI & Robots in VR with NVIDIA’s Project Holodeck

At SIGGRAPH 2017, NVIDIA was showing off their Isaac Robot that had been trained to play dominos within a virtual world environment of NVIDIA's Project Holodeck. They're using Unreal Engine to simulate interactions with people in VR to train...

CES 2015: Hands-on With the HDK VR Headset From Razer & Sensics

After yesterday's announcement of OSVR and the 'Hacker Development Kit', we met up with creators Razer and Sensics to check out the forthcoming $199 headset for ourselves. See Also: Razer Announces $199 ‘Hacker Dev Kit’ VR Headset as Part of OSVR...

‘Beat Saber’ Earned Nearly $100M in Revenue Last Year Alone

Beat Games, the Czechia-based studio known for VR's most popular game Beat Saber (2018), revealed it's managed to generate nearly $100 million in revenue over the course of last year thanks to the block-slashing rhythm game. Czech language publication CzechCrunch confirmed that Beat...

Hands-on: ‘Beat Saber’ on PSVR Makes a Promising Debut at E3

Beat Saber has been making big waves on the Rift and Vive since its early access launch back in May, having sold more than 100,000 copies in its first month. Now the game is officially headed to PSVR and...

NVIDIA GTC VR Content Showcase to Award $30k in Cash & Prizes to Non-gaming Applications

At NVIDIA's upcoming GTC 2017 conference on May 8-11, the company plans to award $30,000 in cash and prizes to the winners of the VR Content Showcase which is seeking companies focusing on content other than gaming which is using or...

VR Platformer ‘Ven VR Adventure’ Coming to Quest on August 12th

Third-person VR platformer Ven VR Adventure, which launched on PC VR last holiday season, is now set for an August 12th release date on Oculus Quest. The game has been confirmed for PSVR as well, but there's no word on...
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