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Oculus’ Jason Rubin Now Overseeing AR/VR Content & Partnerships at Facebook

Jason Rubin joined Oculus in 2014 and has been a key figure in guiding the company's content investments and strategy. Following the recent Oculus shakeup and deeper absorption into Facebook, Rubin is now overseeing AR and VR content &...

The 5 Best Free Games on HTC Vive

Steam is chocked full of free games that support HTC Vive, but it may be difficult with all that choice to know exactly which games to start out with, especially if all that holiday shopping blew your wallet to...

Valve Reveals Top Selling VR Games on Steam in 2018

As we head into the New Year, Valve has released a look back at 2018’s best selling VR titles on Steam. Alongside the ongoing Steam Winter Sale (concluding January 3rd @ 10AM PT), Valve has published a series of ‘The Best...

HoloLens’ Missing Stock Fuels HoloLens 2 Speculation

For a category-defining first-gen device introduced in early 2015, HoloLens has had a remarkably long lifespan. But it increasingly seems like 2019 could be the year that HoloLens 2 is revealed as official channels have now been weeks without stock...

15 VR Games We Can’t Wait to Play in 2019

This year was awesome for VR gaming, but 2019 is looking even brighter with a slew of highly polished titles coming to PSVR, Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. Here we take a look at 15 tantalizing VR titles confirmed for...

The Steam Winter Sale is Here, Discounts on Bethesda VR & More Top VR Games

If you're expecting a stocking full of Steam Gift Cards this year, Valve has a nifty solution of relieving you of most, if not all of your Steam funbucks. Starting today and going until January 3rd, Steam's annual Winter...

Oculus Winter Wonderland Sale Brings Big Savings to Hundreds of Rift Titles

Even though it's cold outside, things are heating up over at the Oculus Store starting today with the company's 'Winter Wonderland' sale. A staggering number of top-rated Rift titles are currently marked down from 10% - 65%. A majority...
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HapTech is Aiming its Electromagnetic Haptics at Military VR Training

HapTech aiming its impressive electromagnetic recoil system toward military VR training. The company recently demonstrated how their haptic tech can scale all the way up to the Browning M2, a mounted .50 caliber machine gun. HapTech makes an electromagnetic recoil...

AMD’s SteamVR Streaming Tool ‘ReLive for VR’ Won’t Support Oculus Mobile Devices

AMD recently launched an updated version of their Radeon Software suite which brought the ability to stream SteamVR games to standalone and smartphone-based headsets, provided you own a supported AMD GPU. Now the company has put future support for...

Developers Now Receiving Google’s Experimental 6DOF Controller Kits

As applications for the Lenovo Mirage Solo 6DOF controller dev kits come to a close recently, it appears Google has begun sending out its first wave of units, an experimental hardware add-on for Lenovo's Mirage Solo standalone headset that brings...

‘Angry Birds VR’ is Coming to All Major VR Platforms in 2019

Rovio's Angry Birds defined the early days of mobile games. Now, the studio has set their sights on consumer VR with their next installment of their incredibly popular pig-smashing title. Called Angry Birds VR: Isle of Pigs, the game is set to debut early...

Road to VR’s 2018 Game of the Year Awards [Updated]

Consumer VR is a little over two years old now, creeping up on three years next April. There's been plenty to talk about in VR gaming over the course of 2018, with even more ambitious indie studios and AAA...

Facebook Open-sources DeepFocus Algorithm for More Realistic Varifocal VR Rendering

DeepFocus is Facebook's AI-driven renderer that's said to produce natural looking blur in real-time, something that's poised to go hand-in-hand with the varifocal displays of tomorrow. Today, Facebook announced that DeepFocus is going open source; while the company's wide...

VRgineers Want to Build a Cheaper XTAL Headset for Consumers

VRgineers, the Prague-based VR startup behind the enterprise-focused headset XTAL, have announced they're planning on building a version of their wide field of view (FOV) headset for the consumer market. The company revealed its plans to produce the consumer-facing XTAL...

PSVR Exclusive ‘Golem’ Release Date Slips into 2019

For a PSVR exclusive that started development all the way back in 2015—before PSVR was even released—Golem sure has been taking its time. Following several delays, we last heard that the studio planned to launch the game by the...
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