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Nintendo’s Switch VR Labo Kit Includes a Genius Makeshift 6DOF Controller
Nintendo's upcoming Labo VR Kit for Switch includes a trove of creative VR content along with six 'build it yourself' cardboard accessories which are paired with VR experiences that work together with them. One of the accessories might look like...
Valve Psychologist: Brain-computer Interfaces Are Coming & Could Be Built into VR Headsets
Valve's resident experimental psychologist Dr. Mike Ambinder took the stage at GDC 2019 today for his talk on the state of brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) and how they'll inform the future of game design. In his talk, Ambinder put forth...
Nintendo Shows a Trove of Creative VR Content for Switch VR Labo Kit, Pre-orders Open
None among us can deny Nintendo's penchant for creativity. The limited VR specs of the Switch don't exactly inspire, but the company's creative array of accessories and content in the Labo VR Kit just might. Nintendo has shown off a...
New ‘Asgard’s Wrath’ Gameplay Video Reveals Dungeon Crawling in Action
Asgard's Wrath is an upcoming combat RPG from Sanzaru Games, the studio that created Rift exclusives Marvel Powers United VR (2018) and Ripcoil (2016). It's slated to launch on Rift and the newly unveiled Rift S in 2019, although to whet our...
Rift S Isn’t the Headset Fans Want, But Facebook Wagers It’s What Their Ecosystem Needs
While to some Oculus' announcement of the Rift S represents the newest and best version of a good VR headset, to others it's a far cry from what they hoped Oculus would be able to deliver three years after...
Oculus is Considering an Over-ear Headphone Accessory for Rift S
Oculus announced its next iteration of Rift this week at GDC, Rift S. While there's a few key differences about the upcoming hardware specs-wise, it seems the company has also taken a page out of Go's playbook by including...
Hands-on: ‘Shadow Point’ is a Clever Room-scale Puzzler Narrated by Sir Patrick Stewart
Coatsink, the studio known for VR games Augmented Empire (2018) and the Esper series, unveiled a new puzzle game at GDC 2019 this week that's slated to be a day-one launch title for Oculus Quest. We got a chance to go hands-on...
Epic Games to Award $100 Million to Devs with New ‘MegaGrants’
Epic Games today announced at GDC that the company is set to turbo-charge their long-running developer grant initiative with 'MegaGrants' and the largest pool of funds yet, $100,000,000.
Epic have been running developer-focused funding initiatives for many years now, with...
‘Space Junkies’ Open Beta to Land on All Major VR Headsets Tomorrow with Cross-play
Ubisoft is getting ready to launch its next big foray into VR with the multiplayer shooter Space Junkies, which is set to launch on March 26th. But first, users on PSVR, Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, Windows VR will have a free...
Oculus Rift S Revealed with Inside-out Tracking, Resolution Bump, & New Ergonomics
Oculus today announced the new Rift S headset which ditches external tracking sensors in favor of a five-camera inside-out tracking system. The headset also gets a slight bump in resolution over the original Rift while moving from OLED to...
Hands-on: Oculus Rift S is a Better, Easier to Use Rift (with a Few Tradeoffs)
Oculus has finally taken the wraps off of Rift S, its first PC VR headset release in three years. But there's a reason the company is calling this Rift S and not Rift 2; the changes are mostly for...
Hands-on: ‘Asgard’s Wrath’ Offers Deep Combat, But Not Without a Steep Learning Curve
At a special GDC Oculus media event this week we got a chance to go hands-on with Sanzaru Games' upcoming Norse-themed action adventure game Asgard's Wrath, presented on Oculus' newly unveiled 'Rift S' headset. It's beautiful, difficult, and will definitely require...
Oculus Rift S vs. Oculus Quest – Specs & Features
Oculus has announced Rift S, the headset's fabled hardware refresh that brings with it a modest spec bump and a few other changes to the original Rift that the company hopes will appeal to new entrants in PC VR...
Scope AR Secures $9.7M Series A to Develop AR Training & Remote Assistance Tools
Scope AR, the enterprise-focused AR studio, today announced it has successfully closed a $9.7 million Series A funding round to further develop it cross-platform AR work training and on-site instruction tools.
The company's Series A was led by Romulus Capital,...
Full Reveal of ‘Star Wars Vader Immortal’ Quest Launch Title Coming Next Month
ILMxLab is to finally demo its upcoming Star Wars Virtual Reality series, Vader Immortal at the annual Star Wars Celebration event in April.
We reported on ILMxLAB's latest immersive VR experience way back in October last year, after the studio...




















