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Update: Pimax to Send Testers Second “8K” Pre-production Headset Amidst Alleged Quality Concerns
Pimax previously said their upcoming "8K" VR headset was heading into the mass production phase. Kickstarter backers probably shouldn't expect an imminent launch though, as the company today announced they're sending out a second iteration on their pre-production 'M1'...
Facebook Spent Over $88M This Year on Oculus’ Seattle Area Satellite HQ
Oculus has been on quite the hiring spree as of late, with over a hundred positions currently advertised on the company's career website aimed at bringing hardware and software engineers into the Seattle area. Now, a report from real...
‘Subnautica’ to Hit PS4 Holiday Season, PSVR Support Not Included
Panic Button Games, the studio responsible for the PSVR port of Electric Hat's To The Top (2017), are working on bringing popular underwater survival game Subnautica (2018) to PlayStation 4. Although both Steam and Oculus Store versions of the game support...
Researchers Transform Real Soccer Matches into Tabletop AR Reconstructions
The FIFA World Cup finals are nearly here, and while we still live in a time where most everyone interested in the France vs. Croatia match will be glued to a TV set, researchers from the University of Washington, Facebook,...
HTC: Vive Shortage Due to a Key Component, Stock to Return in a Few Weeks
If you've been looking around the web for a HTC Vive, you've probably met with a big 'sold out' sign recently in the US; Amazon, Best Buy, New Egg, and even HTC's own website have been out of stock...
Magic Leap Reveals Developer Demo, Confirms NVIDIA TX2 Hardware
Today during Magic Leap's developer livestream the company offered the first details on the compute hardware that's built into the device, confirming that an NVIDIA CPU/GPU module, and also showed a brief developer sample demonstrating world meshing and gesture...
Echoing Apple’s iPhone Launch, Magic Leap Taps AT&T for Exclusive US Distribution
Magic Leap today announced that AT&T, one of the leading cellular carriers in the US, has invested in the company and solidified a partnership making AT&T the "exclusive wireless distributor of Magic Leap products for consumers in the U.S."
Magic...
Magic Leap Promises to Show a Real Demo and Share Specs on Today’s Livestream
Following the company's last session of 'Magic Leap Live', wherein the company had promised that viewers would get to “meet Magic Leap One”—but then offered no substantive details and dodged the audience's most prominent questions—the company is promising to share...
Review: ‘Seeking Dawn’ Is a Beautiful Sci-Fi Shooter Marred by Too Many Dull Chores
Seeking Dawn (2018) is a sci-fi first-person shooter which puts you in the boots of a space marine who's assigned to carry out a search and rescue mission on a mysterious alien planet. Including a single player campaign, and online...
‘I Expect You To Die’ Studio Releases Educational VR Chemistry Game ‘HoloLab Champions’
Schell Games, the studio behind popular spy-themed VR puzzle I Expect You To Die (2016), today launched a VR chemistry lab practice game that aims to get students excited about chemistry by gamifying an otherwise time intensive (and possibly...
‘Crooked Waters’ to Bring Co-op Pirate Ship Battles to VR, Launching in Early Access This Week
The Netherlands-based Craft Game Studio is bringing Crooked Waters, a multiplayer pirate ship game for HTC Vive and Oculus Rift, to Steam Early access this week.
Pitting would-be pirates in a four vs. four battle on the high seas, the...
‘Luna’ is a Beautiful Introduction to VR for Gaming Novices
A little while back, Oculus issued a $15 credit to many Rift users after an issue which prevented the headsets from working for a day or two. Seeking out something worthy to drop this credit on, I scrolled through...
‘Super Puzzle Galaxy’ Exits Early Access, 24 Additional Levels Released in ‘Warp Ball’ DLC
Super Puzzle Galaxy (2018), a physics-based puzzle game from Vive Studios and 2Bears Studio, has just existed its seven-month stint in Early Access. To boot, the studios have also launched the game's second DLC pack today, dubbed 'Warp Ball', which adds...
Samsung “Anti SDE” Trademark Suggests New VR Display Tech Coming to Market
Samsung filed an interesting trademark with the European Union Intellectual Property Office recently which suggests the company is working on a new AMOLED display for VR that specifically addresses the screen door effect (SDE).
The screen door effect is a visual...
The 5 Best Games for HTC Vive
It was a hard decision, but you've decided to go with the HTC Vive as your first 'serious' VR headset, a room-scale device that released early 2016 as a result of a decisive collaboration with Valve. Here we take a...



















