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NHL Releases All-Star Game Highlights in VR, Promises More VR Content to Come

America's National Hockey League today announced a new VR video experience, captured during last weekend's NHL All-Star Game, which is now available via the NextVR app. The league is further promising more VR highlights to come from "select 2019...

‘AirMech’ Studio Teases New Multiplayer VR Strategy Game Code-named ‘Cake’

Carbon Games, the studio behind real-time strategy game AirMech Command (2016), is currently developing a new VR project that they say will be a lighthearted, team-based game. Carbon announced the game in an Oculus Developer video which highlights some of the talent behind the...

Vive Cosmos Hits FCC on Its Way to 2019 Launch

Vive Cosmos, HTC's upcoming PC VR headset (which is also likely to support tethering to smartphones), has popped up in FCC listings, suggesting that the company is moving rapidly to bring it to market. The Vive Cosmos headset was only...

VR’s Most Bizarre Game ‘Mosh Pit Simulator’ to Launch into Early Access Tomorrow

Mosh Pit Simulator is bizarre, disturbing, funny and unapologetically crass—the sort of fever dream that could only leak from the brain of Sos Sosowski, the Polish indie developer behind the well-received (and patently ludicrous) bomb defusing game McPixel (2012). Now, Sosowski...

Analysis: Monthly Connected VR Headsets on Steam Have Grown Exponentially

Valve's monthly Steam Survey has long offered some useful insight into which headsets are actively connected to users computers and the share of the Steam population that's using each, but the figures provided are relative to the non-static Steam...
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Classic ‘Rocky’ Universe Characters Come to ‘CREED: Rise to Glory’ in Latest Update

CREED: Rise to Glory (2018), the VR boxing game from Survios that puts you in the shoes of Adonis Creed, just got a new update on all supported platforms that brings a number of classic Rocky characters to the game. Dubbed...

Disney to Develop New “Top Secret” VR Short Film Following Success of ‘Cycles’

Walt Disney Animation Studios has approved another "top secret" VR short after the apparent success of Cycles (2018), the studio's first foray into VR short films. The next project is slated to be directed by Jeff Gipson, the director behind...

Out-of-home VR Destination Sandbox VR Closes $68M Series A Financing

The big investment deals that brought so many VR companies into the limelight have cooled down somewhat over the past two years, although that hasn't stopped the Hong Kong-born VR destination company Sandbox VR from landing a $68 million...
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VR Cameras Now on International Space Station to Capture Space Walks & Missions

Last month, TIME and Felix & Paul Studios launched VR cameras to the International Space Station (ISS) in a new project to bring viewers an intimate look aboard one of the most exclusive places in human existence. Dubbed The ISS Experience, over the...

Magic Leap’s AI ‘Mica’ Won’t Turn Off Your Lights, Play Your Music, or Give Directions

Magic Leap today released a blogpost detailing more motivation behind building Mica, the company's upcoming AI announced at Leap Con last year. And Magic Leap doesn't want Mica to be a run-of-the-mill AI assistant that carries out commands like...

Cloudhead Games Teases Mystery VR Headset in Censored Image

Cloudhead Games CEO Denny Unger recently tweeted what appears to be an unreleased VR headset and motion controllers using SteamVR 2.0 tracking basestations. Cloudhead Games have been at the forefront of VR development ever since the studio brought a 2013-era prototype...

Oculus Just Made It Easier to Screencast Mobile VR Sessions to Your Phone

Oculus released screencasting in beta late last year, and while it's been a great way of letting someone outside of VR see what's happening during a VR session, the company just made this a lot easier in a recent...

Colin Farrell Narrates VR Series ‘Gloomy Eyes’, Debuting at Sundance 2019

Colin Farrell (The Lobster, In Bruges) is lending his voice to a new three-part VR animated series called Gloomy Eyes, the first installment of which is making its premier at Sundance Film Festival 2019, Variety reports. Farrell is narrating all three...

Leap Motion Reveals Updated Project North Star AR Prototype Design

Last year Leap Motion, makers of hand-tracking technology, revealed Project North Star, an open-source AR headset prototype design meant to be a test bed for the kind of specs and features that more compact AR headsets will hopefully one...
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PSVR Horror Shooter ‘Immortal Legacy: The Jade Cypher’ Gets March Launch Date, Trailer Here

China-based Viva Games today announced that their upcoming action-adventure horror title Kill X has now been renamed Immortal Legacy: The Jade Cypher. The shooter, which is exclusive to the PSVR platform, is slated to arrive March 20th. Immortal Legacy was one of the...
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