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‘Ven VR Adventure’ is an Adorable Platformer Coming to SteamVR, Rift & PSVR

Ven VR Adventure is an upcoming title from Poland-based indie studio Monologic Games. Built from the ground-up for VR, the plucky little platformer seems to be channeling some of its contemporaries such as Lucky's Tale (2016), Moss (2018), and Astro Bot Rescue...

Meta Releases New Audio Ray Tracing Tool for More Immersive Soundscapes on Quest

Meta announced its released a new Acoustic Ray Tracing feature that will make it easier for developers to add more immersive audio to their VR games and apps. Released in the Audio SDK for Unity and Unreal, the new Acoustic...

Report: HTC Lays Off 1,500 Employees in Taiwan Manufacturing Division

HTC is reportedly laying off 1,500 employees in its Taiwan manufacturing division, something Bloomberg's Taipei bureau chief Samson Ellis reports to be around 22% of HTC employees. https://twitter.com/samsonellis/status/1013723541760425984 CNET has confirmed that the company is indeed going forward with layoffs in Taiwan, although...

Unreal Engine 4.25 Improves Support for HoloLens 2, Magic Leap, Adds Azure Spatial Anchors

Unreal Engine 4.25 launched this week bringing a host of improvements to the engine's XR functionality. HoloLens 2 and Magic Leap saw the most attention, including the addition of Azure Spatial Anchors, Microsoft's cross-platform system which enables shared augmented...

AltspaceVR, One of the First Social VR Platforms, Is Shutting Down Next Week

This evening AltspaceVR has announced it will be closing its doors for good on August 3rd. Founded in 2013, the social VR platform was one of the first to come online and connected tens of thousands of users monthly...

Pimax “8K” to Begin Shipping By Month’s End, Pimax “5K” Plus Announced

While Pimax has been met with several delays in delivering its ultra-wide FOV headsets, the quest to get headsets out the door to backers of its successful Kickstarter campaign may soon be coming to a conclusion. The company says...

OSVR Announces $399 HDK 2 Headset with 2160×1200 Resolution

OSVR is today launching the HDK 2, the latest in the organization's series of 'Hacker Development Kit' VR headsets. The new HDK 2 will be nearly identical to the prior most recent HDK 1.4, save for a new and improved...

Precision OS Secures $2.3M Series A to Further VR Orthopedic Surgical Software

Precision OS, a Vancouver-based company creating VR surgery simulation software, announced that it has secured $2.3 million in Series A financing. The funding round was led by Davos, Switzerland-based AO Invest, and includes other undisclosed investors. Precision OS builds VR software that...

Oculus Research to Talk “Reactive Displays” for Next-gen AR/VR Visuals at DisplayWeek Keynote

Oculus Research's director of computational imaging, Douglas Lanman, is scheduled to give a keynote presentation at SID DisplayWeek in May which will explore the concept of "reactive displays" and their role in unlocking "next-generation" visuals in AR and VR...

Update: Fitness-focused ‘HTC Vive Air’ is Just a Concept

An apparently never-before-seen HTC headset won an IF Design Award today, which arrived with multiple photos of what was listed as a consumer headset targeting release in 2021. The fitness-focused headset is just a concept, the company says, but...

Here are the Winners of the Vision VR/AR Summit 2016 Awards

The judges at Vision Summit 2016 sorted through nearly 250 applicants to find the top three VR/AR creations spanning a number of categories. The award ceremony represents the best out of these three competing games, experiences, or 360 videos. The Vision Summit...

The 10 Best Oculus Rift Games of 2019

It's been three years since the major consumer VR headsets came onto the scene, with Oculus Rift leading the charge back in March 2016. Now that Rift S is here, and Oculus Link is ushering more users to hook...

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 GPU Priced at $350, Launching January 15th

Having previously launched the high-end versions of their new GeForce RTX cards in the middle of last year, NVIDIA today announced that the entry-level RTX 2060 will launch next week priced at $350. NVIDIA has made a big deal about...
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Oculus ‘Medium’ 2.0 Overhauls Performance and Tools, Allows Exporting to ‘Home’

Medium, Oculus' first-party VR sculpting and modeling tool, today gets a major update in version 2.0, bringing better performance, improved tools, and the ability to export your creations into your own Oculus Home space. Having launched Medium initially back in...

FTC Sues Facebook Over Alleged Monopolization – What it Could Mean for Oculus

The United States Federal Trade Commission today announced it has filed an amended complaint with the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, renewing its effort to sue Facebook over alleged anticompetitive practices. The initial lawsuit was filed in...
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