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Oculus Revamps ‘Rooms’ for Go, New Apps ‘Oculus Venues’ & ‘Oculus TV’ Coming Soon

Following today's Oculus Go launch announcement at Facebook's annual F8 dev conference, the company also revealed that Rooms, the social VR space first launched on Gear VR, is getting revamped to inaugurate Go. The company announced two upcoming apps...

Exclusive: ‘Beat Saber’ Creators Break Down Every Track – Soundtrack Now Available

Beat Saber (2018), the unbelievably slick VR rhythm game that tasks you with slicing blocks in mid-air with a pair of lightsabers, released today in Early Access. We've got our Early Access review here so you can learn more about...

‘Beat Saber’ Early Access Review – a VR Rhythm Game for Budding Jedi Knights

Beat Saber is a single player rhythm game in Early Access that puts two lightsabers in your hands and tasks you with one of the funkiest, most stylish Jedi training regimes this side of Alderaan. Slicing incoming blocks to...

Oculus Go Pre-order Page Hits Amazon, Best Buy Stocks Shelves

Oculus Go, the company's upcoming standalone VR headset, may already be waiting in the wings at Amazon distribution centers—they're certainly already on Best Buy shelves, as both retailers are gearing up for what appears to be an imminent launch. The...

VR Quiz Game ‘Go Guess’ Uses Google 360 Captures to Make You Guess Where You Are

Go Guess (2018) is a new interactive VR quiz game from developers Oblix that tosses you into Google 360 captures and makes you to guess where you are. The twist? You're playing against other people, and you can hobnob...

Lytro Website Goes to Life Support Mode as Company Winds Down After Google Acquisition

Lytro, the company that pivoted to enterprise-focused applications of its light-field technology after leaving its commercial camera business, is shutting down after a reported $40M acquisition by Google. Now the company is apparently winding down its business by reducing...

Google Demonstrates Promising Low-cost, Mobile Inside-out Controller Tracking

A number of standalone VR headsets will be hitting the market in 2018, but so far none of them offer positional (AKA 6DOF) controller input, one of the defining features of high-end tethered headsets. But we could see that...
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Researchers Exploit Natural Quirk of Human Vision for Hidden Redirected Walking in VR

Researches from Stony Brook University, NVIDIA, and Adobe have devised a system which hides so-called 'redirected walking' techniques using saccades, natural eye movements which act like a momentary blindspot. Redirected walking changes the direction that a user is walking...

Report: Apple Developing AR/VR Headset with 8K Resolution Per-eye Slated for 2020

According to a report by CNET, citing an anonymous "person familiar with Apple's plans," the company is working on an AR/VR headset targeting 8K resolution per-eye, scheduled for launch in 2020. As Apple continues to hire, file patents, and buy up...

‘Beat Saber’ Developer Confirms Plans for Color Blind Mode, Soundtrack Release

Beat Saber, the hotly anticipated VR rhythm game launching May 1st, relies heavily upon colors to guide players in striking the correct notes. For those with color blindness, this could make the game more challenging. Fortunately the developer has...

Mozilla’s ‘Hubs’ is the One-click VR Meeting Space I’ve Been Waiting For

As part of Mozilla's ongoing efforts to make VR a first-class citizen on the web, the company today announced Hubs, a WebVR-based social experience which makes for effortless, one-click creation of virtual spaces which anyone can join—from smartphones desktop browsers...

Virtual Builds is Offering SteamVR Tracking Development Kits & Expertise

Virtual Builds, a company spinning out of ASIC engineering firm Noisefigure Research, is a new entrant now selling SteamVR Tracking development hardware. With a full DIY kit starting at $200, Virtual Builds aims to make SteamVR Tracking more accessible...
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‘Echo Arena’ Update Overhauls Social Lobby, Makes Way for ‘Echo Combat’

Echo Arena, which ranks among our 5 favorite Rift sports games, has seen the release of patch 9.0, which totally overhauls the game's social lobby, a place where players can socialize and participate in a number of activities while...

VR World Creation Engine ‘NeosVR’ to Launch Open Beta May 4th

Developer Tomáš ‘Frooxius’ Mariančík, known for his work on the early Oculus experience SightLine, recently announced that NeosVR, the multiuser VR world creation engine, is headed into open beta starting May 4th. Update (04/25/18): Mariančík recently released a video announcing the open beta's...

Leap Motion Teases Prototype ‘Collapsible’ User Interface for AR Headsets

Leap Motion, the company behind the hand-tracking depth sensor, recently tweeted out another through-the-headset view of a prototype UI, this time centered on how some simple elements might work in the "augmented office" of the near future. Using the company's prototype...
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