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Brilliant Sole Wants to Put a VR Controller in Your Shoes

Moving around in VR environments usually means you'll need to press down on a thumbstick or a touchpad. That's all well and good for now, but it's really not the most immersive way of getting around in large virtual spaces....

Funomena Launches ‘Luna: Moondust Garden’ for Magic Leap One

Funomena, the indie studio behind VR puzzle game Luna (2017), today launched their first app for Magic Leap One. Called Luna: Moondust Garden, the AR game is billed as "a playful extension" of it VR big brother, allowing players to plant a...

Valve Promotes Latest Knuckles Controller from Prototype to Dev Kit

Valve this week revealed the newest version of their upcoming 'Knuckles' VR controllers which have graduated from the 'EV' prototype distinction to 'DV' dev kits. While Valve has yet to offer any indication of launch timing, the latest refinements...

Oculus Go Holiday Sale: Black Friday Pricing is Back for a Limited Time

Oculus Go, the standalone VR headset, is returning to Black Friday & Cyber Monday pricing for a limited time. The deal is set to last until December 23rd, and knocks $20 off both the 32 GB model (MSRP $200) and...

Palmer Luckey’s Oculus Go Mod Offers a Wishlist of Hardware Features

Oculus co-founder Palmer Luckey may have left Facebook in 2017, but as the designer behind the Oculus Rift and its two developer kits, he has unique insight into what makes VR headsets tick. In his latest project, he's whittled...

Big Savings on PlayStation VR Return Just in Time for the Holidays

If you missed out on the great PlayStation VR deals around Black Friday, you're in luck. The very same PSVR sale is back in time for holiday 2018, including the newest PSVR bundle. Now through December 26th in the US,...
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VR Adventure ‘A Fisherman’s Tale’ Gets January Launch Date, New 360° Trailer Here

Vertigo Games, Innerspace and ARTE today announced that their upcoming VR puzzle adventure A Fisherman's Tale is headed to all major VR headsets next month. Update (December 14th, 2018): A Fisherman's Tale now has an official launch date: January 22nd, 2019. To...

Viveport Holiday Sale Offers Big Savings on Select Games, Subscribers Get Up to 40% Off Everything

Looking to gift yourself something special this holiday season? Viveport just opened its Winter Sale, and the storefront is offering up to 95% off on select games  and apps to anyone with an account. Viveport subscribers can get an addition...

IMAX to Close Down All Remaining IMAX VR Centres Soon

IMAX shut down a number of its out-of-home VR Experience Centres a few months ago with the proviso that the company wouldn't be making further investment into VR during 2019. What wasn't certain at the time was the fate...

AMD ‘Radeon ReLive for VR’ Streams SteamVR Games to Standalone Headsets

AMD today launched an updated version of their AMD Radeon Software suite which now includes the ability to stream SteamVR games to standalone and smartphone-based headsets, assuming you have a compatible AMD GPU. But until mobile headsets support the full head/hand...

‘Borderlands 2 VR’ Review – An Ok Version of a Good Game

Borderlands 2 VR is a PSVR exclusive port of the popular 2012 title. The core tenants of the franchise has always been: 1) shoot stuff, 2) loot stuff, but now the big question is whether or not VR adds...

Facebook & ZeniMax Settle Major Legal Dispute Over VR Intellectual Property

Facebook and ZeniMax Media have officially settled the long-running lawsuit that alleged Oculus stole intellectual property developed by the company’s current CTO John Carmack back when he was employed by ZeniMax’ child company id Software. ZeniMax took Oculus to court...

‘Elite Dangerous: Beyond’ Chapter 4 Update Available Now

Elite Dangerous (2014), the popular (and VR supported) sci-fi space-faring simulator, this week saw the launch of the Elite Dangerous: Beyond – Chapter 4 update, the final chapter of the game's third season of DLC. Update (December 12, 2018): Elite Dangerous: Beyond...

‘ViewR’ Lets You Watch a VR Session in Action From the Comfort of Your Phone

Brisbane, Australia-based group #include today released a new app called ViewR that lets you observe a PC VR session in action from an Android mobile device. ViewR essentially inserts another camera into the VR game, letting a spectator hold up their...

Russian Startup DEUS Reveals OpenVR-compatible Headset ‘Odin Pre’

The Moscow-based VR headset manufacturer DEUS announced the latest version of their Odin VR headset that incorporates support for SteamVR content and higher resolution LCD displays than Oculus Rift or HTC Vive. Update (11:00 AM ET): Deus tells us that the Horus...
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