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How to Watch the 2022 Winter Olympics in VR

The 2022 Winter Olympics kicked off last Friday in Beijing, but did you know you can catch all of the action from the comfort of you VR headset? We've rounded up three sure-fire ways to get your head in...

Magic Leap Launches Developer SDK, Confirms Eye-tracking, Room-scanning, and More

Today Magic Leap has launched the Lumin SDK, the toolkit which allows developers to build AR experiences for Lumin OS, the operating system that powers the Magic Leap One headset. Announced with support for both Unity and Unreal, the Lumin...

How to Clean Your VR Headset

Would you wear the same pair of underwear multiple months in a row, sitting in the flaked remains of your dried sweat and bodily detritus which has justifiably ejected itself from your filthy human body? Don't answer that! Whatever...

Huawei VR Controller Appears in FCC Filing, Suggesting Mobile VR Headset Launch is Near

Huawei first announced its Mate 10-compatible 'Huawei VR 2' headset back in October, although it wasn't certain if it would ever leave China. A recent FCC filing however confirms the existence of a VR controller very similar to the one seen in...

Facebook to Discontinue Rift Product Line in 2021, Will No Longer Build PC-only VR Headsets

Capping off dwindling interest in the PC side of the VR spectrum, Facebook said today that it will discontinue the Rift product line early 2021 and will no longer build PC-only VR headsets. Though the company says “the Rift...
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VirtualGrasp Aims to Finally Deliver Realistic Hand Interactions in VR

Swedish robotics specialists are working on a system to allow game developers to deliver realistic, realtime and dynamic interaction animations, so that your VR hands can finally grasp in-game objects convincingly. By the end of this year, every major virtual reality...

‘Tetris Effect’ Now Available on PC with VR Support, Exclusively from Epic Store

Tetris Effect (2018), the latest entry in the iconic tile-stacker series, is officially available starting today on PC, which also includes support for VR headsets. Update (July 23rd, 2019): The PC version is finally here, letting Oculus Rift & HTC Vive...
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Update: ZED Mini Turns Rift and Vive into an AR Headset From the Future

Stereo camera company Stereolabs has launched pre-orders for the ZED Mini, a smaller version of their stereo depth-mapping camera which fits on a mount made to attach to VR headsets like the Rift and Vive. When attached, the camera...

A Preview of Oculus’ Newly Licensed Audio Tech Reveals Stunning 3D Sound (download)

After 2 years of Oculus putting their collective brains and talents to solving the "hard problems" of VR displays and low latency head tracking, at Oculus Connect this year, we heard a new topic beginning to garner attention: VR...

Facebook Already Working on Quest 3 & 4, Zuckerberg Talks Key Features for Future Headsets

In an interview with The Information, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg continued to project his bullish outlook on XR as the future of computing, saying that the company is already working on Oculus Quest 3 and 4. He also spoke about...

‘Roto VR’: the Chair That Aims to Drastically Reduce Sim Sickness, Kickstarter Now Live

Roto VR has recently launched a Kickstarter campaign for its rotating chair design that promises to reduce simulator induced nausea, and give the user more control inside the virtual environment without getting tangled up in wires. Roto VR, a London based company,...
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‘Green Hell VR’ Studio Announces New VR Exclusive Survival Game ‘TRACKED: Shoot to Survive’

The studio behind the VR ports Green Hell VR and Bulletstorm VR is going all-in on a new original VR action-survival game, TRACKED: Shoot to Survive. Tracked: Shoot to Survive is planned for launch this Fall on Quest 3 and Quest 3S. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gamD1j-5hMU Here's how the studio...

Snap Acquires Brain-Computer Interface Startup NextMind

Snap announced it's acquired neurotech startup NextMind, a Paris-based company known for creating a $400 pint-sized brain-computer interface (BCI). In a blog post, Snap says NextMind will help drive "long-term augmented reality research efforts within Snap Lab," the company's hardware team...

Review: ‘Technolust’ is a Gritty Cyberpunk Adventure That Leaves You Begging For More

Technolust, like many others in the cyberpunk genre, stands on the shoulders of giants. Taking cues from neo-noir staples like Blade Runner (1982) and William Gibson's Neuromancer (1984), the adventure game makes good on its promise to deliver the lovably gritty 'high-tech, low-life' atmosphere that cyberpunk fans are after,...

HTC Publishes Vive Wireless Adapter Setup Instructions, Suggesting Nearby Launch

HTC's Vive Wireless Adapter, which was first unveiled at CES earlier this year, doesn't have either a price or precise launch date yet (HTC recently said 'late summer'), but now a setup manual has appeared on the company's UK-facing...
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