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HP’s High-res ‘Reverb’ Headset to Launch May 6th Starting at $600
HP today announced Reverb (formerly codenamed 'Copper') in March, the successor to the company's first Windows VR headset. Reverb's high-res displays raise the bar on pixel density among consumer VR headsets. Sporting a design that's a significant departure from...
Backed by $4.4M in Funding, Devs Behind ‘Job Simulator’ & ‘Fantastic Contraption’ Announce New XR Startup
Developers behind critically acclaimed VR games Job Simulator (2016) and Fantastic Contraption (2016) today announced they're founding a new studio dubbed Absurd Joy. To give them a big push along their quest to "invent entirely new ways to interact, play, and experience immersive...
‘Gorilla Tag’ Sequel ‘Orion Drift’ Launches in Early Access Next Week on Quest
Another Axiom announced that Orion Drift, its follow-up to hit VR game Gorilla Tag, is set to launch in early access next week, coming to Quest 2 and above.
Orion Drift has been in closed early access since late last...
Meta to Open Second Permanent Store in Preparation for Next Wave of Smart Glasses
Meta announced its LA-based pop-up store is returning as a flagship retail location, which is slated to arrive alongside more Meta branded pop-ups in New York and Las Vegas.
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The company opened its first retail store in Burlingame, California...
‘Marvel Powers United VR’ to Launch Next Month on Rift, Black Panther Revealed as Newest Hero
Oculus and Sanzaru Games today announced their upcoming co-op VR game for Rift, MARVEL Powers United VR, finally has a release date. The game, which lets you take on the powers of a number of Marvel superheroes, is slated to launch...
‘Halo Reach’ VR Mod ‘ReclaimerVR’ Shows Progress with Motion Controller Input
Halo Reach (2010), the final Halo game from the series' original developer, Bungie, launched on PC in December, and could now wind up with a VR support through an unofficial mod. Zack "Nibre" Fannon, the creator of the Alien: Isolation VR...
The VOID Opens Downtown Disney Location Today Hosting New Star Wars VR Experience
The VOID, a company specializing in bespoke VR experiences that go beyond what you can achieve with in-home VR hardware, previously announced the development of the Star Wars: Secrets of the Empire VR experience in collaboration with Disney, Lucasfilm, and ILM's...
Report: PSVR 2 Rumored to Release in Early 2023, Missing Holiday Season
It's widely thought that PSVR 2, Sony's next-gen VR headset for PlayStation 5, is expected to release sometime the last half of 2022, which would position it as a pretty tempting gift for this holiday season. Now, a report...
Combining Game & Story with ‘The London Heist’ + Reflections on Exclusive VR Content
Sony's The London Heist is one of the best fusions of narrative VR storytelling with interactive game components. It's structured as a flashback sequence starting with you being confronted within an interrogation room, and there are branching narratives that...
Upcoming ‘Sniper Elite’ VR Game Likely Headed to PSVR With Aim Support
Yesterday Rebellion Developments, the studio behind the Sniper Elite series, announced that a Sniper Elite VR game is in development in partnership with studio Just Add Water. Details have been kept to a minimum, with a full announcement planned for...
Eye Doctors Can Now Prescribe VR Lazy-eye Treatment for Home Use
Vivid Vision offers a virtual reality based treatment for lazy eye disorders. Optometrists have been able to use the company's treatment in their practice since 2015; this week Vivid Vision announced a new offering for the hardware/software-based eye-treatment that...
VorpX v0.9 to Bring ‘Direct Driver Mode’ and Enhanced DX11 3D Support
vorpX, the VR injection driver that lets you to play non VR games in VR, has announced that the latest version will be out this month and will include some major updates including reworked DX11 3D Geometry support and Oculus Runtime...
‘Compound’ Updates Bring New Weapons, Enemies, & More
A series of Early Access updates to Compound have brought a handful of fun new weapons to the game's 8-bit rougelike gameplay, culminating in a "massive overhaul" which introduces new enemies and offers SteamVR Input for custom input binding between controllers.
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4 Interesting New ARCore Apps Hitting Google Play Store
ARCore, Google's augmented reality software development kit for Android devices, was recently made available on 13 flagship smartphones - giving over 100 million devices, the company says, the ability to run AR apps. At GDC today, Google highlighted two upcoming...
VR Treadmill Company Virtuix Raised Another $3M in Crowd Investments, Now at $200M Valuation
VR treadmill company Virtuix launched a crowd-based investment campaign late last year to further scale Omni One, its consumer-focused VR locomotion device. Now, the campaign’s second phase (Series B-2) has come to an end, garnering the company over $3...




















