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Guinness Record Set With 25 Continuous Hours in Virtual Reality

Guinness World Records, an organisation journalling the extraordinary (and often insane) stunts people will pull for notoriety, and now the book has its first virtual reality entry. Watch as Derek Westerman swaps reality for Tilt Brush inside the HTC...
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Exclusive: ‘Audica’ Preview & Track Reveal – Blast the Beat

Audica is the intriguing upcoming VR "rhythm shooter" from veteran rhythm gaming studio Harmonix. Today we've got a preview of the game through an exclusive first look at one of the 10 tracks that will ship with the game's...

4 Ways to Use VR to Connect With Loved Ones on Valentine’s Day

Being far away from the people you love the most is the pits, and it's often times the little things you miss that really wear on your special friendships. This year is different though, as social VR apps are beginning...

‘Bigscreen’ Launches on Oculus Home, Update Brings Custom Avatars and More

Bigscreen, the social VR app which brings you and your computer's desktop into VR with your friends, is launching on Oculus Home today and getting an update with new features and better performance. Bigscreen, which launched on Steam back at...

‘BoxVR’ Studio FitXR Raises $7.5 Million to Expand Operations & VR Fitness Products

FitXR, the studio behind VR fitness app BoxVR, today announced that it has raised $7.5 million to expand its operations and VR fitness offerings. Following its first raise of $1.25 million at the end of 2018, FitXR has just added another...

Oculus Replaces ‘React VR’ Framework With Rebranded ‘React 360’

At Facebook's F8 developer conference, Oculus today announced it's both overhauling and rebranding React VR, the company's open-source JavaScript library that lets developers create cross-platform WebVR experiences. Now dubbed React 360, the company says the framework now "provides clearer prioritization for...

Valve: Steam Frame Doesn’t Support Stereoscopic Rendering of Flat Games but the Feature is “on our...

Valve says that Steam Frame won't be able to display traditional ('flat') games in stereoscopic 3D at launch, but they are looking into the feature for future development. The News The announcement of Steam Frame came with a lot of info...

100+ AR/VR Companies to Gather at This Week’s SVVR 2017 Expo – Save $200

This week's Silicon Valley VR Expo 2017 is set to bring together the core of the VR industry from Silicon Valley and beyond. As VR's biggest industry event, this year's event represents the most diverse group of companies from around...

‘Digital Lens’ Plugin for Eye-tracking Headsets Improves Visual Clarity & Pupil Swim

Imaging company Almalence has released a trial plugin for its Digital Lens technology which makes use of eye-tracking to purportedly increase the resolving power and clarity of XR headsets. Almalense argues that the lenses on most XR headsets today aren't...

Oculus Story Studio and HBO to Talk Immersive Storytelling at VRDC

At VRDC 2016, the VR conference counterpart to GDC, representatives from Oculus Story Studio and HBO will explore their approaches to immersive storytelling. VRDC runs from March 14–15 brings, and brings a VR specific focus alongside the broader GDC 2016...

Google Glass Enterprise Edition 2 Now Available for Direct Developer Purchase

Google Glass Enterprise Edition 2, the company's most recent smartglasses (or rather smartglass), was only available to partner companies when it launched in May 2019. Now Google is allowing its third-party hardware vendors to sell the headset direct to...

AT&T and Magic Leap Partnership is All About 5G, While Selling a $2,300 Headset Without It

AT&T and Magic Leap formed a partnership last year which looked a lot like the one between Cingular (now merged with AT&T) and Apple which led to the launch of iPhone. The idea was that the iPhone was an...

VR Lens Lab Brings Prescription Lenses to Rift and Vive, Kickstarter Now Live

The makers of VR Cover and Gauss Eyewear today announced their newest crowdfunding project which aims to deliver specially-made prescription lens holders for the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. Much like their previous Gear VR lens campaign, VR Lens Lab has...

Trailer: ‘Blade Runner 2049’ to Get Trio of VR Experiences, Latter Two Coming to Rift

San Diego's Comic-Con always sees a massive fanfare for all things science fiction, so there's no better place for Alcon Entertainment and Warner Bros Pictures to debut the VR experience for their upcoming film Blade Runner 2049, Riddley Scott's sequel to the iconic Blade...

‘Dimensional Double Shift’ is Owlchemy Labs’ Fastest Growing Game, Tapping Into Quest’s Latest Freemium Trend

Owlchemy Labs has been a powerhouse of top-selling VR games, so when the Google-owned studio released Dimensional Double Shift in beta last year for free, it wasn't immediately clear why the studio behind Job Simulator (2016) was making its first stride into...
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