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Sony Japan Studio Announces VR Platformer ‘Astro Bot Rescue Mission’ For PSVR, Teaser Trailer Here
Sony Japan Studio today announced a new platform action game for PSVR starring the cute little robots made famous in Sony's The Playroom (2013) and The Playroom VR (2016). Called Astro Bot Rescue Mission, you take control of Astro, the Bot captain of a ship...
Sci-fi Shooter ‘Evasion’ to Arrive on PSVR This Fall, AIM Support Confirmed
Evasion, an upcoming sci-fi bullet-hell shooter from Vancouver-based studio Archiact, was previously confirmed for release on Oculus Rift and HTC Vive this Fall. Archiact today announced that PSVR owners will have a chance at the robo-bug killing adventure too,...
Sony: PS4 Enters “final phase of life cycle,” Next PlayStation to Come in 3 Years
Sony's PlayStation 4 is entering its 'final phase', according to a recent tweet by Wall Street Journal reporter Takashi Mochizuki, citing a talk with PlayStation Chief Tsuyoshi Kodera. But the console's wind-down may last longer than you think—three years before the next...
Open-World Survival Game ‘The Forest’ Gets Beta VR Support in New Update
The Forest (2018), a first-person open world-survival game from Endnight, launched out of a four-year stint on Steam Early Access last month. Starting today, The Forest has a few new badges on its Steam listing, including support for Oculus Rift and...
Microsoft Releases Free Preview For ‘Remote Assist’ & ‘Layout’ Enterprise AR/VR Apps
Microsoft appears to be seeing strong traction with HoloLens in the enterprise space, and the company continues to expand its "Mixed Reality" platform in that sector, promising businesses time and money savings. Two new applications to address this, Remote...
Lucid & RED Partner to Build Next-Gen 3D Camera With Dual 4K Sensors
Lucid, maker of the stereoscopic point-and-shoot LucidCam camera, is partnering with RED, the professional-use camera company, to produce a 180-degree stereoscopic camera for 8K video and image capture.
The camera is said to give users the ability to capture 8K...
Google & LG Detail Next-Gen 1,443 PPI OLED VR Display, ‘especially ideal for standalone AR/VR’
Ahead of SID Display Week, researchers have published details on Google and LG's 18 Mpixel 4.3-in 1,443-ppi 120Hz OLED display made for wide field of view VR headsets, which was teased back in March.
The design, the researchers claim in the paper,...
AntVR Announces First Stretch Goal For MIX AR Headset, a VR Visor Add-on
AntVR, the Beijing-based VR headset company, recently blew past the $50,000 Kickstarter funding mark for its MIX AR headset, which means the campaign is fully funded. Now well on their way to $150,000 (currently at ~$138,000), the company says...
MIT Researchers Build VR Testing Ground to Safely Train Autonomous Drones
Training autonomous drones to fly around complex indoor environments inevitably means crashes, not to mention a constant cycle of repair and replacement. To remedy this, MIT engineers created a VR training system that allows drones to "see" virtual imagery...
Crowdfunded 3D Headphone Startup OSSIC is Shutting Down, 99% of Orders Go Undelivered
OSSIC, the headphone company known for its massively successful 3D headphone crowdfunding campaigns, is shutting down due to lack of capital. The company says in an update announcing its closure that the OSSIC X 3D headphones required "significantly more capital to...
Report: Google is Developing a Standalone AR Headset to Rival HoloLens
Google is allegedly developing a standalone augmented reality headset that aims to offer users a tethereless AR experience, German tech publication WinFuture reports.
WinFuture maintains they've obtained documents proving the existence of the Google AR headset project, which internally carries the code name...
Humble Bundle Spring Sale Offers up to 75% Off Top VR Titles, Ends May 24th
Humble Bundle just started their big Spring Sale, which is now offering between 10-75% off on over 20 top VR titles.
Notable games at $20 or under include Superhot VR, Star Trek: Bridge Crew, GORN, Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality, Werewolves...
‘Gears of War’ Creator Cliff Bleszinski Reveals VR Concept Titles Amidst Studio Shutdown
Boss Key Productions, the North Carolina-based developer behind the unfortunately ill-received first-person shooters LawBreakers (2017) and Radical Heights (2018), is out of business. While both games failed to spark commercial interest, leading to the closure of Boss Key, the studio...
Oculus & ESL Partner on eSports VR League with $220,000 in Prizes, Including ‘Echo Combat’
After launching the VR 'VR Challenge League' last year, Oculus and ESL are partnering once again for what they're calling "Season 2" of their VR eSports initiative. Rebranded as 'VR League', the new season is offering $220,000 in prizes...
‘Sacralith’ Review – a Superb VR Bowshooter With High Action & Real Narrative
Moscow-based indie developer Odd Meter isn't a household name in VR development yet, but with their latest game Sacralith: The Archer's Tale (2018), that may change somewhat. It's a surprisingly clever bow shooting game draped in impressively polished visuals...




















