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Preview: ‘Smash Hit’ for Gear VR is a Futuristic, Glass-breaking Gaze Shooter

Smash Hit is a gaze-based shooter from Mediocre Games that has you breaking glass barriers in a futuristic, but deceptively simple environment. Use your glass-smashing metal orbs wisely, because when you run out, that's the end of your forward journey through the...

Next-gen VR Ready Gaming Notebooks Will Start at $1,300 with NVIDIA 10-Series GPUs

Today NVIDIA has revealed that its 10-Series GPUs—the GTX 1080, 1070, and 1060—are coming to gaming notebooks from a slew of major computer manufacturers. The company says the GPUs are not mobile variants, but desktop-class chips which will mean widespread availability of...

Lenovo Unveils ThinkReality VRX Headset for Enterprise Sporting Some Increasingly Familiar Specs

Lenovo today unveiled its next standalone VR headset for enterprise, the ThinkReality VRX standalone. While the company may be pitching its latest headset for businesses, it seems VR hardware is starting to reach a pretty solid consensus on what's...

Vive Hangs Onto Steam Majority Market Share as Windows VR Headsets Enter the Fray

According to the just-released November figures from Steam’s Hardware & Software Survey, the HTC Vive has scraped its way back from nearly losing the majority market share of VR headsets in use on Steam last month, finally ending a months...

HTC Vive Headset Nearing 100,000 Install Base, Steam Data Suggests [Update]

While between HTC/Valve and Oculus, the companies have been coy on official sales figures, Steam data suggests that the HTC Vive install base is approaching the 100,000 mark. Having launched just about three months ago on April 5th, the HTC...

Beginning of the End – Latest Oculus SDK Version Drops Support for Go

The end for Oculus Go is nigh. The latest Oculus SDK (v19/1.51) no longer supports the company's first true standalone VR headset. The company says in the SDK's developer release notes that both Unity and Unreal Engine support for Oculus...

New ‘Sightline: The Chair’ Gets ‘3DCeption’ Binaural Audio, Developer Discusses VR Audio

One of the busiest developers on the scene right now, Tomáš Mariančík (aka Frooxius), has just released a new version of his hit VR experience 'Sightline: The Chair' with added integration with 3DCeption, a "real-time binaural synthesis engine". We asked...

Bigscreen Beyond’s Long-awaited Audio Strap to Begin Shipping Next Month

Bigscreen announced that Beyond, its slim form factor PC VR headset, is finally getting its long-awaited Audio Strap starting next month. Bigscreen Beyond initially shipped in late 2023 with promises that an audio headstrap was soon to follow, with the...

HTC Aims to Fix Vive Cosmos with Tracking Software Update, Beta Now Live

Vive Cosmos got off to a rocky start when it was launched earlier this month. Some pretty questionable low-light tracking actually forced us to postpone our review in fear of having received a defective unit (spoiler: it wasn't). While the company pushed...
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‘Budget Cuts’ Uses Portals to Solve Room-Scale Locomotion Problem

Large tracking volumes, like the type afforded by Steam VR's Lighthouse system, are a godsend for fans of virtual reality. But what about when you reach the edge of the wall? Where do you go then? Neat Corporation, an indie game and tool...

‘Red Matter’ Review – Adventure, Intrigue & a Retrofuture Cold War in Space

Red Matter is a first-person puzzle adventure set in a strange and mysterious alternate universe, which takes old Cold War rivalries and teases them out to an interesting logical conclusion: space bases, astronaut espionage and a healthy dose of intrigue...

12 Oculus Rift DK2 Reactions from GDC 2014 (video)

The GDC tradition continues! Here are 12 reactions and impressions from VR newbies and veterans about their Oculus Rift DK2 experience. Note: If you are at work or with children, there is some unsavory language at the very end of...
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Oculus Research Devises High-accuracy Low-cost Stylus for Writing & Drawing in VR

Using a single camera and a 3D-printed dodecahedron decorated with binary square markers, the so-called 'DodecaPen' achieves submillimeter-accurate 6DoF tracking of a passive stylus. Lead by National Taiwan University PhD student Po-Chen Wu during his internship at Oculus Research,...

‘Driveclub VR’ Confirmed Exclusively for PlayStation VR in 2016

Following the unfortunate closure of developer Evolution Studios earlier this year, the fate of the VR version of their 2014 PS4 exclusive Driveclub was unclear, but thankfully work has continued by an internal Sony team, and the game is...
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Ubisoft’s VR Space Sim ‘AGOS: A Game of Space’ Launches Today

Ubisoft is today launching its latest VR title, AGOS: A Game of Space. The made-for-VR space sim is set to support PC VR headsets across Steam and the Oculus Store. Update (October 28th, 2020): With seemingly little fanfare, Ubisoft is today...
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