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Hands-on: ‘Phantom: Covert Ops’ Boasts Smart VR Design and Big Potential

At E3 2019 this week, I got a chance to go hands-on with Phantom: Covert Ops, an Oculus Studios exclusive in development by nDreams. The game plays out over the course of a single night, and follows a special operative...

‘Lone Echo II’ Release Date Delayed to Q1 2020

One of the most anticipated Oculus exclusives, Lone Echo II, has been delayed from 2019 to Q1 2020. Released in 2017, Ready at Dawn's Oculus exclusive Lone Echo set an impressive bar for VR interaction, locomotion, and storytelling, and remains one...
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Survios Reveals First ‘Walking Dead Onslaught’ Gameplay Footage

Survios today revealed the first public gameplay footage of their upcoming shooter The Walking Dead Onslaught, showing off some of the mechanics in action that aim to immerse players in the show's zombie-infested world. Unveiled at UploadVR's E3 VR showcase today, the...
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‘Pistol Whip’ Action Rhythm Shooter Announced by Cloudhead Games

Cloudhead Games, the studio behind The Gallery and Aperture Hand Labs, has revealed Pistol Whip. In what appears to be a significant (and quite intriguing) departure from their previous works, Pistol Whip is described as "part first-person shooter, part rhythm game...

‘Beat Saber’ Gets Imagine Dragons DLC Music Pack, New 360 Game Mode Coming Soon

Beat Games today announced that Beat Saber (2018) just dropped a ten-song DLC music pack featuring the music of Grammy Award-winning rock band Imagine Dragons. The studio is also showing off a new '360' level mode at E3 this week,...

Preview: Valve Index is the DSLR to the Oculus Rift S Point-and-shoot

While we offered our initial hands-on impressions with the Valve's new Index headset last month, we've now had many more hours inside the headset, and an opportunity to put it side by side with others. Here's a deeper look...

Analysis: Monthly-connected VR Headsets on Steam Pass 1 Million Milestone

Valve's monthly Steam Survey has long offered useful insight into the share of VR headsets in use on Steam. But the figures provided are relative to the non-static Steam population, which obfuscates the actual adoption trend of VR headsets...

‘Primitive’ Visualizes Complex Code for Collaborative Analysis in VR

Primitive represents one of the most interesting use-cases I've seen for VR so far—it creates 3D visualizations of source code that can be collaboratively explored and analyzed in VR. It's creators believe that bringing a spatial understanding to otherwise...

Apple Offers Impressive Web-based AR Previews of New Mac Pro

Apple is taking advantage of a recent iOS feature called AR Quick Look to allow potential customers to see the company's new Mac Pro and Pro Display XDR at scale in augmented reality right from Apple.com on an iPhone....

Rift S is the Lowest Rated Oculus Headset on Amazon, Quest Vaults Ahead

Though Oculus touts the Rift S as its "most advanced, PC-powered gaming headset," the headset is notably trailing other Oculus headsets (including the original Rift) in customer ratings on Amazon. Meanwhile, Quest has taken the lead as the most...

Apple Announces ARKit 3 with Body Tracking & Human Occlusion

At the company's annual WWDC developer conference today, Apple revealed ARKit 3, its latest set of developer tools for creating AR applications on iOS. ARKit 3 now offers real-time body tracking of people in the scene as well as...

HTC is Now Giving Away 2 Free Months of Viveport Infinity to Rift Owners

HTC's VR app storefront, Viveport, is looking forward to welcoming a host of new VR users with the entrance of Valve Index and Oculus Rift S. To that tune, the company is giving away two free months of Viveport...

Samsung Reportedly to Release “multiple AR and VR products” in Coming Months

Samsung hasn't really said much about VR since the release of Samsung Odyssey+, the hardware refresh to its Windows Mixed Reality headset that came to market in October 2018. However at Augmented World Expo (AWE), the company offered a...

Ultrahaptics Acquires Leap Motion for a Reported $30M

Leap Motion, the pioneer in optical hand-tracking, has been acquired by Ultrahaptics, the enterprise-focused immersive haptics company. According to the Wall Street Journal, Ultrahaptics reportedly acquired Leap Motion for approximately $30 million. The company maintains in a company blog post that...
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‘Super Smash Bros’ Gets Limited Support for Switch VR Labo Goggles

Nintendo today announced that the latest update to Super Smash Bros Ultimate has added a special mode which allows the game to be played with the Switch VR Labo Goggles. Nintendo launched the Switch Labo VR Kit back in April—part...
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