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‘Rick and Morty VR’ Tops the Charts for Most Downloaded PSVR Game in April
Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality (2017) seems to have done well enough to rate it the number one most downloaded game this past month on PSVR, beating out the VR stalwarts Job Simulator (2016) and Superhot VR (2017).
Rick and Morty: Virtual...
Soviet Retrofuture Adventure ‘Red Matter’ to Launch This Month on Rift
When we saw Red Matter at a Oculus Connect 4 last year, we were immediately taken in by the adventure puzzle's wonderfully weird, retrofuturistic vibe. Now, Madrid-based studio Vertical Robot tells us pre-orders are open today for Red Matter, with launch coming later...
Standing VR Motion Controller Platform ‘Alto100’ Campaign Hits Indiegogo
Visospace, a Sydney, Australia-based team of engineers, recently launched their standing VR motion controller platform Alto100 crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo in effort to tempt developers, beta testers, and early adopters to a unique style of locomoting through VR games...
‘Star Trek: Bridge Crew’ Expansion to Bring TNG’s Enterprise-D, Romulans, Borg, and More
Don't abandon ship just yet, because Ubisoft is pushing out its first DLC for Star Trek: Bridge Crew (2017). If you're a TNG fan, now is probably the time to toss out the synthehol and crack that hidden bottle of...
‘Budget Cuts’ Sees Two Week Delay, Now Launching May 31st
Two years in the making, Budget Cuts has remained almost completely off the radar after briefly surfacing back in 2016, but this week at GDC 2018 the game has reemerged with fresh details, including a May 31st release date, which,...
Google ‘Tour Creator’ Lets You Build VR Tours Using Streetview & Your Own 360 Photos
Google today launched Tour Creator, a web-based tool that lets you easily build a VR 'tour' using imagery from Google Street View and even your own 360 photos. The company released the tool as a part of Teacher Appreciation...
Report: Samsung & Microsoft Boost “MR” Partnership, Samsung Builds Wireless AR/VR Headset
Samsung appears to be making a strategic partnership with Microsoft as it produces what Korean Times reports is a "powerful cordless headset that supports both augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR)." The headset is said to make use...
Google to Support Multi-user Shared AR Apps with ‘Cloud Anchors’ in ARCore
Today at Google I/O 2018, Google announced upgrades to its ARCore augmented reality technology, including a new feature called Cloud Anchors which will let developers create multi-user applications where devices can share an augmented environment.
ARCore launched earlier this year,...
Google Teases AR Maps Integration to Help You Navigate By Sight
Aparna Chennapragada, VP of Product for AR/VR at Google, took to the stage at Google's I/O developer conference today to tease some of the work the company is doing to integrate augmented reality into Google Maps.
Chennapragada says the team...
Flight Simulator ‘X-Plane 11’ Now Natively Supports SteamVR Headsets
X-Plane 11 (2017), the highly-touted and expansive flight simulator for PC, now has a few new badges under its Steam listing, which includes support for Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, and Windows "Mixed Reality" VR headsets.
Developers at the South Carolina-based Laminar...
‘Obduction’ PSVR Support Arrives Today, From The Creators of ‘MYST’
Obduction (2016), the VR puzzle adventure from Cyan, the studio behind the ’90s point-and-click classics Myst (1993) and Riven (1997), is finally making its way to PSVR today.
Update (05/08/18): The PSVR patch for Obduction is now available, which should automatically push an update to the PS4...
VR Mining Game ‘Cave Digger’ Coming to Steam for Free This Week, Launch Trailer Here
Cave Digger is an upcoming room-scale mining game for SteamVR-compatible headsets that places you deep into the Earth using your handy mining elevator and a number of mining tools and devices to extract valuable resources.
Created by Finland-based indie studio...
Oculus Research Becomes ‘Facebook Reality Labs’, Creating “further and faster” Leaps in AR/VR
Oculus today announced it's rebranding Oculus Research, the company's R&D lab, to the newly created Facebook Reality Labs (FRL). The shift, the company says, better addresses the increasingly important role of research and development in AR/VR while emphasizing collaboration...
Google Open Sources Seurat, a ‘Surface Light-field’ Rendering Tool for 6DOF Mobile VR
Google announced Seurat at last year's I/O developer conference, showing a brief glimpse into the new rendering technology designed to reduce the complexity of ultra high-quality CGI assets so they can run in real-time on mobile processors. Now, the...
‘I AM A MAN’ Puts You at the Heart of the Civil Rights Struggle, Now Available...
I AM A MAN is an interactive VR experience that lets you participate in the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike and the events leading up to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination. Created by Dr. Derek Ham, an assistant professor...




















