News

News

Hands-on: Sony’s ‘Blood & Truth’ for PSVR is Aiming for AAA Scope, and Off to a...

Sony's London Studio—who built the well received VR Worlds experiences for PSVR—is back. This time around the studio isn't building a slew of PSVR samples, but rather a AAA scope action shooter in the same vein as the acclaimed...

Smartphone Giant Vivo Announces ‘Vision’ MR Headset, Copying Apple’s Name & Design

Another Vision Pro knock-off is coming to town, and this time it even has the 'Vision' name. While not a household name, China's Vivo is known for its sensible, mid-range smartphones, regularly ranking it in the top five smartphone creators...

Microsoft is Aware of Significant Display Issues on Some HoloLens 2 Units

Microsoft began shipping its latest AR headset, HoloLens 2 in November. After a slow initial rollout, devices are getting out into the hands of more developers and reports have surfaced that many units are exhibiting significant color-consistency issues. Microsoft...

E3 2017 ‘Day 1’ Roundup: Xbox One X, Fallout 4 VR, Doom VFR and Xbox’s VR...

Here’s a quick summary of all the VR-related news from the first day (or more accurately, ‘day zero’) of E3 2017. Following EA’s early keynote on Sunday, yesterday saw presentations from Microsoft and Bethesda, with some surprising no-shows and...

Hands-on: ‘Resident Evil Village’ on PSVR 2 is a Visual Feast of Unprecedented Detail

Resident Evil Village is one of the best looking games on PS5 to date, and its forthcoming VR version will be one of the best looking games in VR to date. During a hands-on with RE8 on PSVR 2 I...

News Bits: Note 4 and Gear VR Compatibility Update Rolling out to Verizon and Sprint

Samsung has reached out to let us know that Note 4 users on Verizon and Sprint can expect an update soon which will enable compatibility with Gear VR. To the excitement of many, Samsung's Gear VR mobile headset went on...

Steam and Oculus Summer Sales Offer Steep Savings on 120+ VR Games

Steam's legendary seasonal sale is now underway, but this year, virtual reality consumers have two competing platforms from which to browse bargains as Oculus joins Valve in a summer VR game sale head to head with some attractive discounts. Strange...

Oculus Extends Free ‘Asgard’s Wrath’ Offer to All Quest 2 Owners Until January 31st, 2021

Oculus announced late last week that, starting on November 20th, new Quest 2 owners would be able to download the award-winning PC VR title Asgard's Wrath (2019) for free until January 31st, 2021. Following public outcry from early customers...
video

‘Neos Core’ Enables a World of Multi-User, Multi-device VR Collaboration

Tomáš 'Frooxius' Mariančík, the man behind the Sightline series has reached what he calls a "major milestone" with his continuing creation and education platform Neos. Today he unveiled a breakthrough framework which allows multiple users to gaze into and collaborate...

5 Million PlayStation VR Units Sold, Sony Announces

Despite the growing age of PlayStation VR, Sony has continued to effectively market and sell the headset, leading to steady sales which have now reached 5 million units total, the company has announced. Sony Interactive Entertainment said today that its...

Without Valve, ‘Half-Life: Alyx’ Wouldn’t be Compatible with Rift or Quest

With the highly anticipated launch of Half-Life: Alyx just days away, it feels like an appropriate time to look at Valve's unique commitment to ensuring that SteamVR remains a hardware-agnostic platform for VR content, and how the company has...

In First Interview Since Leaving Oculus, Founder Palmer Luckey Talks VR’s Mobile Future, Facebook, and Cosplay

Having founded Oculus in 2012 and been an important face for the company throughout its growth from fledgling startup to $2 billion acquisition by Facebook and beyond, it was a shock to see Palmer Luckey leave the company just...

Apple Acquires AR Optics Startup Akonia Holographics

Apple has acquired Akonia Holographics, a startup focused on holographic display and storage technology. The move is the latest development in a years-long string of acquisitions, patents, and hirings by the company focused on augmented and virtual reality technology The...

Samsung Announces Gear 360 Camera with Facebook Partnership for Sharing

Samsung at their Unpacked event today revealed the Gear 360 camera, a new consumer-focused device for shooting 360 video which can also be viewed in VR. On stage at their Unpacked event in Barcelona, Samsung took the wraps off of...

Vive Focus Plus Costs $800 & Will Ship Worldwide Next Month

In February, HTC unveiled its full 6DOF version of the company's standalone VR headset targeted at enterprise users, Vive Focus Plus. Now, the company has officially announced pricing and availability for the headset and controller bundle. Vive Focus Plus is slated...
39,929FansLike
13,574FollowersFollow
66,541FollowersFollow
27,800SubscribersSubscribe

Latest Headlines

Features & Reviews