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Latest Version of Touch has Better Tracking & Longer Range, Says Oculus

Oculus revealed Touch, their VR motion controllers, all the way back in June of 2015, but didn't commit to shipping the controllers until the second half of 2016. Since the announcement, the controller has seen several design permutations, but Oculus...

Facebook Offers up $10 Million to Draw Creators to ‘Horizon’

Horizon, Facebook's social VR space built around user-generated content, was announced more than two years ago, but the company still isn't quite ready to send it out the door. Instead, Facebook this week announced it is rebranding the project...
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New ‘Medal of Honor’ Trailer Highlights In-game ‘Gallery’ of Documentary Shorts Featuring WWII Vets

Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond, the next big Oculus Studios game, is set to launch on December 11th. A new trailer for the title highlights the in-game 'gallery' which includes documentary short films featuring World War II veterans. Many...

‘Angry Birds Movie 2’ Couch Co-op Game to Launch on PSVR August 6th

XR Games today announced that the franchise's next Angry Birds VR game is set to launch on PSVR on August 6th; the game was created in partnership with XR Games, Sony's VR team and Rovio Entertainment. Update (July 23rd, 2019): XR...

‘Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024’ Features Detailed, Launching with VR Support in November

The fast approaching Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 is landing on PC and Xbox consoles November 19th. While it wasn't clear at its initial unveiling last summer whether Asobo's next-gen flight sim would include VR support, the studio says it's...
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‘Forestry’s’ Procedural Mesh System Offers Unique VR Crafting & Destruction

Procedural mesh destruction and construction underpins Decoder VR’s first title, Forestry, which just launched on Steam. Built for Vive, Rift and PSVR, the game’s fully destructible world presents a vast forest for the player to cut to pieces, which...

Hands-on: Oculus Touch 2016 Prototype Brings Refinements to an Already Elegant Design

Oculus Touch won't launch until the second half of 2016, but the company continues to iterate on the impressively ergonomic VR controller. We went hands-on with their latest prototype at GDC 2016 last week. This article discusses the changes between...

Virtual Reality Invades IndieCade 2014

The gaming world is pivoting towards virtual reality as more and more conferences and festivals begin playing with VR. This momentum was extremely prevalent at this year’s IndieCade in Southern California as about a quarter of the booths contained...

Promising Intel Proof of Concept Shows SteamVR Game Streaming to Smartphone Over WiFi

Intel is exploring an interesting approach to making VR less expensive and more accessible. The company's so-called 'Portal Ridge' system streams SteamVR content to a smartphone-based headset over WiFi while using the Vive Tracker and controllers for tracking of...

Meta Avatars Finally Get Legs on Quest

Meta released a Quest software update via its public test channel (PTC), which lets users opt-in to try new features before they're pushed out to everyone. Among the v57 PTC update is a feature that's been notably missing from...
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‘Star Wars: Tales from the Galaxy’s Edge’ Gets First Reveal Trailer, Coming to Quest in 2020

Star Wars: Tales from the Galaxy’s Edge is ILMxLAB's next foray into VR gaming. It's been under wraps since it was announced earlier this summer, but today we're getting our first real info dump. The video itself is heavy on concept...

Late to PSVR 2, ‘Beat Saber’ Continues to Dominate Most Downloaded Charts

Beat Saber, VR's favorite block-slashing rhythm game, came to PlayStation VR 2 well past the headset's February 2023 launch, coming to Sony's latest VR headset in late May. And while Beat Saber topped the May charts within only one week...

5 Windows VR Headsets Now Available for Pre-Order Including Samsung Odyssey

At Microsoft's special Mixed Reality event today, the company announced that all of their VR headsets destined to ship this holiday season are accounted for, and are now available for pre-order including headsets from Acer, Dell, HP, Lenovo and...

‘Walkabout Mini Golf’ Releases 36-hole Course Based on ’90s Classic ‘MYST’

Walkabout Mini Golf (2020) developers Mighty Coconut launched the long-awaited course based on the classic adventure game MYST (1993), bringing 18 easy and 18 difficult holes to the game. Update (November 16th, 2022): Myst fans have been able to play the original...

Denny Unger on Developing for SteamVR & HTC Vive: “…there’s no going back”

With just two months to work with early and constantly evolving hardware from Valve, Cloudhead Games had a challenge before them: create a SteamVR-ready demo in time for the HTC Vive reveal at GDC 2015. Denny Unger, President &...
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