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Quest & Rift S Update Brings Controller Tracking Improvements
Oculus Quest and Rift S use similar inside-out tracking which relies on cameras on the headsets to not only track the user's head but also their hands. While this works well in many cases, at launch there was something...
‘Angry Birds Movie 2’ Couch Co-op Game to Launch on PSVR August 6th
XR Games today announced that the franchise's next Angry Birds VR game is set to launch on PSVR on August 6th; the game was created in partnership with XR Games, Sony's VR team and Rovio Entertainment.
Update (July 23rd, 2019): XR...
‘Tetris Effect’ Now Available on PC with VR Support, Exclusively from Epic Store
Tetris Effect (2018), the latest entry in the iconic tile-stacker series, is officially available starting today on PC, which also includes support for VR headsets.
Update (July 23rd, 2019): The PC version is finally here, letting Oculus Rift & HTC Vive...
‘Lion King’ Director’s VR Film ‘Gnomes & Goblins’ is Back From the Dead, Now “Coming Soon”
Back in 2016, director Jon Favreau, in association with immersive studio Wevr, released the Gnomes & Goblins preview, a demo of an (at the time) ambitious VR film project. While it was well received, it lay nearly forgotten as the years passed with...
‘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...



















