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Hands-on: VR Goes Skydiving at iFLY – The Ultimate Haptic Simulation
iFLY, a leading provider of indoor skydiving facilities, today launched their iFLY VR initiative which combines the company's indoor skydiving experience with immersive visuals powered by a Gear VR headset. I got to try to experience for myself at...
Merging RL with VR Events via SVVR’s Reality Portals & MULTIVERSE
Today is the five-year anniversary for Silicon Valley Virtual Reality meetup, and founder Karl Krantz is announcing a couple of new initiatives as SVVR reorganizes itself as a public-benefit corporation. They're going to be formally announcing their MULTIVERSE initiative...
Newly Revealed ‘Superhot Japan’ Isn’t Getting a VR Counterpart (for now)
SUPERHOT (2016), the massively successful slow-mo shooter for PC and console, already has a built-for-VR version for Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and PSVR—SUPERHOT VR (2017)—but now that the team has licensed the IP to Japanese developers GameTomo, you may...
Valve’s New Site Affirms Role of VR in Company’s Future, Teases “Top secret” Games
"We make games, Steam, and hardware. Join us," says the first line of Valve's newly redesigned website—in big bold red letters—bringing its look more in line with 2010's design language than the previous version that screamed 'late 2000's'. Along...
AntVR’s MIX AR Headset Kickstarter Blasts Past $50,000 Funding Goal in 8 Hours
AntVR, the Beijing-based headset company, has something worth celebrating within only a few hours of launching their AR headset MIX Kickstarter yesterday. After only eight hours on the crowdfunding site, the company has already reached their goal of $50,000, and...
Amazon’s VR/AR Creation Tool ‘Sumerian’ Now Available to General Public
Amazon today announced that Sumerian, a tool that aims to make creating web-based applications for VR/AR and traditional monitors an easy process, is now available to the general public. First announced at last year's AWS re:Invent, Amazon Sumerian touts the ability to...
Konami’s Remastered ‘Zone of the Enders 2’ to Launch on PSVR September 2018
Konami's 4K/VR remastering of Zone of the Enders 2 (2003), called Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner MARS, now has an official street date: September 4th in the US and September 6th in the EU and Japan.
The game is set...
AntVR Launches ‘Mix’ AR Headset Kickstarter, Promising a 96-degree FOV Starting at $500
AntVR, the Beijing-based company known for their 2014 VR headset Kickstarter, launched a new crowdfunding campaign today for an augmented reality headset dubbed 'Mix'. AntVR says the PC-tethered AR headset, which starts at $500 without positional tracking, will have...
Valve Brings Custom Keybinding to SteamVR, Letting VR Apps Support All Compatible Controllers
SteamVR includes de facto support for several VR devices, although sometimes games just don't support a particular controller—or if they do, it may not be configured properly. To remedy this, Valve has introduced a new SteamVR Input system, now in...
16 Minutes of ‘Red Matter’ Gameplay Revealed – a Sci-fi Soviet Retrofuture Adventure
Ahead of its launch later this month, we got a chance to dive into the beginning of Red Matter, an upcoming VR adventure puzzle exclusively for Oculus Rift that puts you in a wonderfully weird Soviet-style retrofuturistic world.
With launch quickly...
WEARVR Announces Winners of $10,000 ‘Remastered’ Competition – Bringing New Life to Old VR Favorites
It's hard to believe it's already been five years since the first Oculus Rift dev kits shipped to Kickstarter backers, many of them developers looking to create for the future of VR consumer hardware. As the medium inevitably marches on...
Playing ‘Beat Saber’ Could Burn the Same Number of Calories as Tennis
According to recent testing by the Virtual Reality Institute of Health and Exercise, Beat Saber (2018) may be more than just a fun way to spend an evening in. With all that block slicing, dodging and leaning, you could burn as many...
‘Onward’ Community Helps Raise Over $7,000 for Deceased Player’s Family
Onward (2017) is a military-style VR shooter with some of the most ardent players who regularly engage in a sort of amped-up version of paintball. It plays host to fierce competition, and with it comes a certain camaraderie that has bound...
INT Announces 2,228 PPI High Pixel Density AMOLED for VR Headsets
When we saw the news that JDI, the Japanese display conglomerate founded by Sony, Toshiba and Hitachi, were developing a 1001ppi LCD display for VR headsets, it was clear that the race for ever-higher pixel densities was still alive...
Google: Don’t Expect 6DOF Controllers for Lenovo Mirage Solo
If you're waiting on positionally-tracked controllers for Google's latest entry into the Daydream platform, the standalone 6DOF VR headset Lenovo Mirage Solo, you probably won't ever see it, at least not from Google.
Google's annual I/O dev conference was strangely...




















