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First ‘StarVR’ 210 Degree FOV Headsets Have Shipped to IMAX
Starbreeze, Acer and the StarVR team are celebrating a milestone this week as the very first headsets, sporting a unique 210 degree field of view, have rolled off the production line and are winging their way to IMAX, who'll...
Ubisoft Confirms “unannounced AAA VR project,” Building New 50 Person Team for the Task
Ubisoft, which has released five VR titles to date, confirmed that it's building a large, 50 person team to develop an "unannounced AAA project" using one of the company's well known IPs.
Ubisoft has confirmed to VRFocus that it's spinning up a...
CCP Games CEO: “We expected VR to be two to three times as big”
CCP Games, the Icelandic studio known for their long-running MMO Eve: Online (2003), shuttered their VR production studios in a surprise move last year, selling off their Newcastle-based branch behind their multiplayer space dogfighter EVE: Valkyrie (2016), and completely shutting down their Atlanta studio behind...
‘The Ark’ 360 VR Documentary, the Story of the Planet’s Most Endangered Species
From the makers of the award-winning documentary Empire comes a 360 degree documentary that aims to put you face-to-face with the most endangered species on the planet: the northern white rhinoceros.
Called The Ark, documantarians Eline Jongsma and Kel O'Neill are bringing their collective...
‘Rocket League’ Inspired VR Sport ‘Ultimechs’ is Going Free-to-Play, Beta Starts Today on Steam
Developers Resolution Games unveiled their upcoming VR sport Ultimechs in late 2021, bringing a very Rocket League-inspired experience combined with missile-firing robots. Now the studio is preparing to launch the futuristic sports game as a free-to-play title on VR platforms starting...
Play Zero-G Sport ‘Echo Arena’ This Weekend on Rift For a Chance to Win Prizes
Oculus is heading into its third week of 'Rift Gold Rush', a prize-winning extravaganza marking the two-year anniversary of Rift's launch. To get a chance to win this weekend, just pop into a public match in Echo Arena (2017) during the...
New Quest Update Brings Big Upgrades to Hand-tracking
Meta has rolled out a new update to Quest that aims to drastically improve hand-tracking performance and reliability.
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The v83 update, which is rolling out now to Horizon OS, is said to increase reliability of hand-tracking in a number...
One Explosion and Three Launch Aborts Later, HoloLens Finally in Use Aboard ISS
NASA has been quite active in experimenting with the latest AR and VR technology to explore how it might be useful for space exploration. They have several ongoing collaborations with Microsoft's HoloLens, including 'Project Sidekick' which aims to aid...
SUPERHOT Team Searching for a Producer for “shiny new VR project”
The team behind the SUPERHOT franchise is looking for a producer for "a shiny new VR project," according to a recent job posting on the company's website.
The core team is working on updates to the studio's latest release, the standalone game SUPERHOT:...
Apple Reportedly Shelves Cheaper & Lighter Vision Pro for Smart Glasses to Rival Meta
Apple seems to be releasing its next Vision Pro with M5 chip soon, but according to a new report from Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, the company may have shelved plans for a follow-up headset that's cheaper and lighter in favor...
Explore Your Own Personal Earth with Outerra and the Oculus Rift
Soon you could be roaming your own virtual reality Earth. Outerra is an in-development 'world rendering engine' which is literally capable of rendering a geographically detailed world -- your own personal planet. The engine uses an impressive combination of real-world data...
Report: Facebook Strikes Deal with Ray-Ban Parent Company to Design “AR glasses”
Facebook is building augmented reality headsets with the intent of eventually bringing one to market, this much is clear from its many job postings, research projects, and forward-looking statements from company execs. Now, a CNBC report contends that Facebook...
Exclusive: Project Holodeck Hands-on Demo and Interview with Director Nathan Burba [video]
Recently I got a chance to meet up with Project Holodeck director Nathan Burba. Not only did we sit down for a detailed interview, but I was also fortunate enough to get a hands-on demo of the system. Project...
‘Phantom: Covert Ops’ Earned $1M in “a few weeks,” Studio Teases “Big announcements” by Year’s End
Phantom: Covert Ops, the latest Oculus exclusive game, has reached the $1 million revenue mark "a few weeks" after launch, according to developer nDreams. The studio has also teased post-launch content planned for the game and dropped hints of...
Google’s ‘Project Tango’ Competition Winners Showcase the Tech’s Potential
Google have announce the winners of their Project Tango innovators competition, designed to draw out original and impressive use cases for the computer vision, environment mapping technology.
Project Tango is a computer vision project by Google designed to use depth...












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