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‘Animal Company’ Tops 100K Reviews on Quest, Striving to Beat ‘Gorilla Tag’ as Most Popular Game
Animal Company, the free-to-play early access game on Quest, has been at the top of the platform's highest-earning games multiple weeks in a row own, with long-time favorite Gorilla Tag sitting right behind it. And the Lethal Company-inspired game isn't showing any signs of waning...
Oculus Move is a System-level Fitness Tracker Coming to Quest Later This Year
Facebook Connect was dense. There were a bunch of game reveals, insights into new research into AR, and the revelation of Oculus Quest 2, the company's latest and greatest standalone. Now it seems Facebook is squeezing out some interesting...
‘Township Tale’ Studio’s New VR Extraction Dungeon Crawler Launches Open Playtests This Week
Alta, the studio behind A Township Tale (2021), is getting ready to launch open playtesting for its upcoming dungeon-crawler extraction game REAVE.
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While Reave has technically had a number of playtests starting earlier this year, they've required users to sign up for the game's...
Visualizing the Latest Features Found in Oculus SDK v0.6.0.0
A clever set of visualizations covering some of the major changes to Oculus' new software developers kit (SDK) has surfaced, and may help the non-developers among us get a better grip on exactly what these changes mean for VR.
Thanks to...
Oculus Rift Easter Egg in Sony’s Morpheus Presentation
Little icons accompanied many of the slides during Sony's Morpheus announcement presentation at GDC 2014. One slide in particular included a nod to Oculus.
For those not familiar, the eye icon used on the slide is the same used for...
Meta 2 Adds Initial SteamVR Support, Soon to Work With Vive Controllers
The Meta 2 AR headset SDK now supports SteamVR, making it easy for developers who have built SteamVR applications to add support for the headset.
With support for the Vive, Rift, and soon the Windows VR headsets, it seems that...
GDC 2018 ‘Day 1’ Roundup – Vive Pro Pricing, Magic Leap SDK, Nvidia RTX, and More
Here’s a roundup of news from ‘day one’ of our GDC 2018 coverage. Vive Pro date and price, Magic Leap announcements, Nvidia's real-time ray-tracing, and Budget Cuts resurfaces.
Vive Pro headset launches April 5th for $800, original Vive drops to...
GDC 2014: Oculus Session ‘Working With the Latest Oculus Rift Hardware and Software’ Live Blog @...
We're here at GDC 2014 waiting for Oculus VR's first session 'Working With the Latest Oculus Rift Hardware and Software' to begin at 11am PST. Join us as we live-blog the talk!
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Oculus Quest Successor Reportedly Being Readied with Faster Refresh Rate, New Controllers
Oculus is reportedly readying a Quest successor which will iterate on the existing headset with a smaller form-factor, faster refresh rate, and new controllers. Rather than an outright Quest 2, it seems Oculus may be aiming first for a Quest...
Watch World Cup 2018 Matches for Free in ‘Oculus Venues’ Starting This Weekend
The World Cup is due to kick off today, and Oculus announced that US residents will be able to watch select matches of the quadrennial football championship for free in Oculus Venues, the company's social VR event viewing app...
‘Firefox Reality’ VR Web Browser Comes to Oculus Quest
Mozilla has finally brought its made-for-VR web browser, Firefox Reality, to Oculus Quest.
In September of last year, the company initially released Firefox Reality on Oculus Go, Lenovo Mirage Solo, and Vive Focus (and other Vive Wave headsets) for free.
Now, according to a...
Meta Releases Quest Camera Access for Developers, Promising Even More Immersive MR Games
Meta has finally released the long-awaited Passthrough Camera API for Quest, which gives developers direct access to the headset's passthrough RGB cameras for better scene understanding—kickstarting the next generation of more immersive mixed reality experiences on Quest.
Until now, Quest's...
Immersed Visor’s First Big Showing Heightened Concerns About Deliverability
The Immersed IRL event, held yesterday in Austin, Texas was the company's big moment to showcase its upcoming headset and build confidence that it was on track to deliver on the promise of an ambitious headset. But a botched...
Hands-on: CREAL’s Light-field Display Brings a New Layer of Immersion to AR
More than four years after I first caught wind of their tech, CREAL's light-field display continues to be one of the most interesting and promising solutions for bringing light-fields to immersive headsets. At AWE 2023 I got to check...
6 VR Experiences Nominated for 2017 Emmy Awards, Oculus Receives Multiple Nominations
The 69th Emmy Awards nominations are out, and while it's true the Emmys were created to recognize excellence in the television industry, virtual reality as a medium has been lauded with six total nominations this year, three of which are thanks to...




















