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Insomniac Games Teases New VR Project, Promising an Open World Adventure

Insomniac Games, developers behind The Unspoken (2017), Edge of Nowhere (2016), and Ratchet & Clank, showed off a sneak peek of their next VR game. While still unnamed, the studio is aiming to break boundaries with what they say is 'an...

BBC to Stream World Cup 2018 Matches in UK on PSVR, Cardboard, Oculus Go & Gear...

The BBC is bringing live coverage of all 33 of its licensed World Cup 2018 matches from Russia to a new dedicated app, dubbed BBC Sport VR - FIFA World Cup Russia 2018. The app will support Gear VR, Oculus...

Pimax Starts Shipping Pre-production “8K” Headsets Today, Kickstarter Version Slated for June

Pimax today updated their "8K" headset Kickstarter page to announce that pre-production units of the 200-degree field of view headset, dubbed M1, are now shipping to a handful of closed beta testers. The company says 10 of the Pimax...

Varjo Reveals Add-on for High Quality Pass-through AR, Launching in 2019

The first version of Varjo's 'bionic display' enterprise VR headset is due out later this year (see our latest hands-on), and the company has announced plans to offer an add-on upgrade in 2019 which brings high-quality pass-through AR capabilities...
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Action RPG ‘Swords of Gargantua’ Demo Now Available on Vive & Rift

We had a chance to go hands-on with Gumi and Yomuneco's Sword of Gargantua at GDC back in March, and while an official write-up never materialized out of the hectic game-filled dev conference, a demo for the studio's upcoming online action RPG...

Oculus Go Launches in China Under Xiaomi Branding

Oculus previously announced earlier this year that Oculus Go, the company's 3DOF standalone headset, would officially launch in 23 consumer markets, although China would be receiving its own version with Xiaomi branding. Now, at a conference in Shenzhen, the...

Hands-on: Varjo’s Latest ‘Beta’ Prototype is a Promising Shortcut to Retina Resolution

Today's VR headsets may have relatively high resolutions on paper, but when the pixels are stretched across a wide field of view, the effective angular resolution is far lower than what you might expect from a typical 1080p TV or...

‘Oculus Venues’ Live Event App Now Available on Go and Gear VR, Event Schedule Here

Oculus Venues, the social app that allows 'thousands of users' to watch live events en masse in VR, is now available on Oculus Go and Gear VR starting today. The company has also published a full list of upcoming...

Review: ‘Downward Spiral: Horus Station’ is a Visual Feast, But Skimps on Story & Gunplay

Downward Spiral: Horus Station is a sci-fi adventure that puts you aboard a vast, abandoned space station that was cleared out of all life after military-grade robots turned on the station's human inhabitants. There's a lot to admire about the full...

Vive Eye-tracking & Corrective Lens Add-on Confirmed Compatible with Vive Pro

7invensun, one of the latest companies accepted into HTC's Vive X accelerator program, is launching an eye-tracking add-on made specially for the Vive headset. The device, which went on sale last year, uses a series of IR LEDs and...

Snapdragon XR1 is Qualcomm’s First Dedicated Chip for AR/VR Headsets

When it comes to mobile VR and AR headsets, Qualcomm's Snapdragon chips are dominating the space, with every major mobile headset launched so far this year built on the company's Snapdragon 821 or 835 chips. And while those existing...

Sony to Offer Big Discounts on PSVR, PS4 & Games in ‘Days of Play’ Sale

Sony is getting ready to offer big discounts in their 11-day 'Days of Play' sale, which will see price reductions on PSVR bundles, controllers, games, and the introduction of a limited edition PS4. From June 8th to 18th, you can...

LG Develops AI-based Tech to Reduce Latency & Motion Blur in VR Displays

South Korean tech giant LG Display and a team from Sogang University in Seoul have collaborated on a new AI-based content creation technology that's designed to address the issue of latency and motion blur in VR headsets - well...

HTC’s New Vive Focus Headset Locker Aims to Put VR at the Forefront of Education in...

HTC has been making inroads into the education system in China with its startup VIVEDU, which centers around both University-level and K-12 education programs using HTC Vive and now HTC Vive Focus, the company's 6DOF standalone VR headset. In a...

‘Beat Saber’ Sells 100K Units in First Month for $2 Million in Revenue

In its first month, Beat Saber has sold 100,000 copies across Steam and Oculus, generating $2 million in revenue—another big milestone of success for a game still in early access and made by a three-person indie studio. Update (05/28/18): Hyperbolic...
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