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Oculus Announces Asymmetric Co-op Heist Game ‘Covert’ for Oculus Go & Gear VR

Los Angeles-based White Elk Studios, a team founded by former members of the God of War team, and Oculus Studios today announced a new co-op game called Covert. The couch co-op game is said to feature asymmetrical gameplay that will let...

Exclusive: Cloudhead Games Goes In-depth with Knuckles EV2 & Predecessors

It’s hard to believe that it’s been almost two years since the SteamVR Knuckles controllers were first revealed using a demo of our game, Call of the Starseed (2016), at Steam Devs Days 2016. Now, at the reveal of...

VRgineers Reveals Improved ‘XTAL’ Professional Headset with Auto IPD Adjustment & Leap Motion

VRgineers, a Czech-based startup building enterprise VR headsets, today revealed their new 'XTAL' headset, an improved version of their prior VRHero "5K" headset, which is smaller, lighter, and builds Leap Motion's hand tracking tech directly into the headset. When I...

‘Oculus TV’ Brings Live & On-demand Video to Oculus Go, Now Available

Announced back at Facebook's F8 developer conference earlier this year, Oculus TV is the company's latest first-party app that pulls a number of flatscreen video options together under one roof. The app is now available for free on Oculus Go. Displaying...

‘Skyrim VR’ PSVR Patch Brings Improvements to Visual Fidelity, Move Controls & More

Bethesda's debut VR title Skyrim VR (2017) recently received its third patch since the hotly awaited game launched on PSVR back in November. According to a studio forum post, the free patch not only fixes a few quality-of-life issues such as...

Valve Shipping Knuckles to “Hundreds” of Developers, Mass Production Could Be Next

Alongside the reveal of the revamped Knuckles controllers that Valve shared last week, third party developers have confirmed they've begun receiving the new EV2 version of the controller. Valve says that "soon, hundreds of developers will get their hands on...

Motion Platform Company ICAROS Takes on ‘Seven Figure Investment’ to Advance VR Heath Device

ICAROS is a Munich-based VR health startup that produces a unique motion platform which simulates flying in the prone position, something the makers say can provide a real workout. The company recently announced it's completed a funding round in...

Telekinetic Puzzle ‘Esper’ to Launch on PSVR & Oculus Go This Week, HTC Vive in July

Coatsink, the studio behind VR titles A Night Sky (2017) and Augmented Empire (2017), announced they're bringing their first mobile VR title, Esper (2015), to PlayStation VR, Oculus Go and Xiaomi Mi on June 29th. Esper is also slated to launch...
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HTC Donates Over 100 Vive Headsets to California & Nevada Libraries

HTC is donating over 110 HTC Vive systems to California and Nevada libraries through its new Vive Libraries Program, an effort to seed local communities with premium VR. In a blogpost announcing the program, HTC's Chris Chin, Executive Director of Education...

Microsoft Affirms No Plans for VR on Xbox Consoles

Back at E3 2016, Microsoft's Head of Xbox Phil Spencer announced on stage that the Xbox One X (then 'Project Scorpio') would become the industry's next VR-compatible console, positioning the platform to compete with Sony's PSVR with what Spencer...

Steam Summer Sale Offers Big Discounts on Top VR Titles

Steam's annual summer sale is back, and heavy discounts are here on hundreds of VR games including a number of top titles that will have you spending those hot days in the cold depths of space, post-apocalyptic warzones, and...

Valve Announces ‘Skeletal Input’ to Give SteamVR Apps More Lifelike Hands Moving Forward

Accompanying the news that Valve has made a critical redesign of its 'Knuckles' motion controller, the company also recently released a new input system in beta that not only aims to create lifelike hands, but make them accessible to...

Valve Reveals Latest Knuckles Dev Kit & New ‘Moondust’ Tech Demo

Since announcing the 'Knuckles' controller prototype all the way back in 2016, Valve has been relatively quiet about its progress outside of a select group of developers who have been experimenting with early development kits. That changed this week...

Apple Details Latest VR Optimizations Coming to macOS Mojave (10.14)

Earlier this month at Apple's annual WWDC conference, the company introduced their latest operating system, macOS Mojave (10.14). Due to roll out as a public beta later this month, and launching widely this Fall as a free update, Mojave...

‘Echo Arena’ Becomes ‘Echo VR’ to Make Way for ‘Echo Combat’, and Maybe More One Day

With the Echo Combat beta opening today, and the full experience launching later this year, Oculus and Ready at Dawn are doing some reorganization to set the stage for the ongoing expansion of the Echo universe. Today, Echo Arena becomes...
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