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Fable Studio Pivoting to “Virtual Beings,” Building Stories Around Persistent AI-powered Characters

Fable, founded by former Oculus Story Studio alumni, today announced a distinct pivot in their focus, moving from an immersive storytelling studio to a "virtual beings" company which plans to build persistent, AI-powered, characters which can interact naturally with...

All GeForce RTX Laptops Are VR Capable, But Optional VirtualLink Branding Could Breed Confusion

Earlier this month NVIDIA announced that slew of hardware partners will be launching GeForce RTX gaming laptops which will include the company's newest Turing-based RTX graphics. While the company has confirmed that all models with RTX 2060, 2070, and 2080 GPUs will...
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VR Thriller ‘Area of Darkness: Sentinel’ to Land on Rift, Vive & Windows VR Soon, Trailer...

Area of Darkness: Sentinel is an upcoming VR psychological thriller adventure that just emerged from the shadows, arriving with a pretty slick trailer that's promising quite a stack of features. Rematch Studios, the Karachi, Pakistan-based developers, unveiled Area of Darkness today,...

Live Planet Launches All-in-one System for 360 3D Livestreaming

Live Planet today announced the launch of the Live Planet VR System, an end-to-end pipeline for 360 stereoscopic livestreaming and distribution, including a custom camera & content management tools. The company claims that creators can go "from box to...

‘Beat Saber’ Studio Plans on Bringing More Free Songs, Paid DLC Still TBA

Fans of the block-slashing rhythm game Beat Saber (2018) want to know: when are more songs coming? Well, the developers Beat Games say that they still need more time to work on it, but that users can at least look forward...

[Update] Meta Founder Confirms Insolvency & Asset Sale to Unnamed Buyer

Meta, the company behind the Meta 2 tethered AR headset, has suffered its fair share of growing pains since its founding in 2012, although a lack of outside investment and a recent patent infringement lawsuit seem to have proven...

‘A Fisherman’s Tale’ Review – A Delightful, But Brisk Encounter with Untapped Potential

A Fisherman's Tale puts you in the boots of a curios puppet-man named Bob who lives in a strange, recursive world centered around a dollhouse-sized lighthouse. Looking above, you see infinitely Big Bob. Looking below, infinitely Small Bob. It...

OpenXR Chair Shifts from Epic to Intel, Progress Update Planned for March

Intel's Brent Insko has taken over as the Chair of the OpenXR working group after Epic's Nick Whiting passed the torch. The pair say the OpenXR effort is still going strong, and a progress update is planned for March. OpenXR...

‘Apex Construct’ Studio: Big Boost in PSVR Installs Thanks to Recent Increase in Headset Sales

Headset manufacturers are notoriously secretive about sales numbers, so finding out how well one specific VR headset is doing in the marketplace at any given time can be a bit of a guessing game. Now, Fast Travel Games, the...

‘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. Compound...

Scape Raises $8M for Visual Positioning System Which Could be a Key Component of the AR...

Scape Technologies announced last week that it has raised an $8 million seed investment for a visual positioning system that it says can provide centimeter-accurate location data at city-scale. Such a system could be a key component in enabling...

PSVR Gets ‘Demo Disc 3’ Showcasing 9 VR Titles

PlayStation VR Demo Disc 3 is now available on the PlayStation Store, including demos for nine hit VR titles. Like the previous two demo discs, the third installment is free of charge. You can check out the PlayStation Store listing here. Games...

Magic Leap Job Listing Points to Future Platform Support for Mobile AR

It looks like Magic Leap could be gearing up to jump into the world of mobile AR, as the company recently published a job listing for a senior software engineer who will be tasked with building "a cross-platform framework...

Report: Microsoft Holding a HoloLens 2 Press Event Next Month

According to a report from The Verge, an upcoming Microsoft press event is likely to offer the first glimpse of HoloLens 2. Microsoft sent out press invites this week to an event that it will host just ahead of MWC 2019...

Hands-on: Dell Mobile Connect Brings Your Smartphone into VR With a Few Caveats

Keeping an eye on your phone when you're in a VR headset is an absolute chore: place it in on vibrate in your pocket, glance at the screen through the gap between your nose and facial interface when it...
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