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VR Studio Behind Movie Tie-in Games Aims to Kick-start Original IP with $2M Investment
UK-based VR studio XR Games, known for its recently released Zombieland VR game, announced this week that it has raised an additional £1.5 million (~$2 million) investment to expand its studio with 20 new jobs and a focus on...
New ‘Chrono Weaver’ Demo Brings More ‘Portal’ Inspired Puzzling to Quest & PC VR
Indie studio Ivory Crow Games have released a new demo for Chrono Weaver, a single player game that lets you make copies of yourself to solve physics-based puzzles.
Set in a mysterious science facility filled with mind-bending puzzles, you use...
First ‘StarVR’ 210 Degree FOV Headsets Have Shipped to IMAX
Starbreeze, Acer and the StarVR team are celebrating a milestone this week as the very first headsets, sporting a unique 210 degree field of view, have rolled off the production line and are winging their way to IMAX, who'll...
‘Skydance’s BEHEMOTH’ Adds Over 700 Fixes in Second Major Patch, Now Live on All Platforms
Skydance's Behemoth (2024) didn't launch without its fair share of issues late last year, something developer Skydance Games hopes to nail down in its latest patch, which is being addressed in over 700 community-sourced fixes.
The latest update, released on February...
China’s Largest Telecom Forms Metaverse Industry Alliance, Including Xiaomi, Huawei, HTC & Unity
China Mobile, that country's largest wireless carier with over 940 million subscribers, has formed a metaverse industry alliance including some of the biggest names in China-based tech.
As reported by Shanghai Securities News (Chinese), China Mobile announced during Mobile World...
Supermedium Raises $1.1M Seed Funding to Further Develop Web-based VR
Supermedium, the team behind the eponymous VR web browser released earlier this year, recently raised a seed investment round of $1.1 million.
As reported by Tech Crunch, funding comes from Y Combinator, General Catalyst, Boost VC, Anorak Ventures, Candela Partners, Social...
‘Bigscreen’ Overhaul to Bring “massive new features” Over Next 3 Months
The developers behind Bigscreen Beta, the social VR app that lets you stream and share your desktop's screen in VR, have been pretty quiet over the past year, although that's about to change in what studio CEO & founder...
Facebook Teases “Mixed Reality” Capabilities of Santa Cruz Headset
Facebook's VP of AR/VR Andrew “Boz” Bosworth showed a quick glimpse of a "mixed reality" game of soccer using Oculus Santa Cruz, the company's 6 DOF standalone VR headset prototype.
This is the first hint that Santa Cruz could have...
HTC Announces Layoffs Amid Coronavirus Pandemic
HTC has confirmed that it's laying off staff in order to streamline its business amid the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
The news was first reported by Taiwan's English language China News Agency, stating that HTC was set to "strategically adjust" its staff and...
Oculus Go to Offer Fixed Foveated Rendering and Up to 72Hz Refresh Rate
Oculus has revealed that the standalone, entry-level mobile VR headset Oculus Go will support refresh rates up to 72Hz and will make use of fixed foveated rendering.
At GDC 2018 Oculus's dedicated hour long session was a treasure trove of...
‘Trover Saves the Universe’ to Launch on PSVR in May, Rift & Vive in June
Justin Roiland's VR studio Squanch Games announced last year that their upcoming game Trover Saves the Universe was exclusively targeting PSVR and PS4 consoles. This week at GDC 2019 though it seems the studio has reversed that decision, as the comedy platformer...
‘Adventure Time’ Game Coming Soon to All Major VR Headsets
Adventure Time: Magic Man's Head Games is a whimsical Gear VR 3D platformer featuring all of your favorite characters from the show. Fans of Adventure Time better keep their eyes peeled in the coming months though, as the game is 'coming soon' to...
New Google Glass Video Shows What It Feels Like to Wear [video]
You'll probably have noticed that Road to VR is rather excited for Google's fledgling Augmented Reality project, codename 'Google Glass'. It's a project shrouded in mystery and it's secrets tightly guarded, as evidenced by the strict NDAs required by...
Bigscreen Says Tariffs Will Not Increase Price of Beyond 2 PC VR Headset
Wide sweeping tariffs levied by US President Donald Trump have led to uncertainty in just how the XR hardware industry will react. Now, Bigscreen says its recently announced Beyond 2 PC VR headset will not see a price increase...
Preview: ILM Uses ‘Star Wars’ Assets to Show Potential of Google’s ‘Seurat’ VR Rendering Technology
Google's newly announced Seurat rendering tech purportedly makes use of 'surface light-fields' to turn high-quality CGI film assets into detailed virtual environments that can run on mobile VR hardware. The company gave Seurat to ILMxLab, the immersive entertainment division...












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