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Valve’s New Site Affirms Role of VR in Company’s Future, Teases “Top secret” Games

"We make games, Steam, and hardware. Join us," says the first line of Valve's newly redesigned website—in big bold red letters—bringing its look more in line with 2010's design language than the previous version that screamed 'late 2000's'. Along...

AntVR’s MIX AR Headset Kickstarter Blasts Past $50,000 Funding Goal in 8 Hours

AntVR, the Beijing-based headset company, has something worth celebrating within only a few hours of launching their AR headset MIX Kickstarter yesterday. After only eight hours on the crowdfunding site, the company has already reached their goal of $50,000, and...

Amazon’s VR/AR Creation Tool ‘Sumerian’ Now Available to General Public

Amazon today announced that Sumerian, a tool that aims to make creating web-based applications for VR/AR and traditional monitors an easy process, is now available to the general public. First announced at last year's AWS re:Invent, Amazon Sumerian touts the ability to...

Konami’s Remastered ‘Zone of the Enders 2’ to Launch on PSVR September 2018

Konami's 4K/VR remastering of Zone of the Enders 2 (2003), called Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner MARS, now has an official street date: September 4th in the US and September 6th in the EU and Japan. The game is set...
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AntVR Launches ‘Mix’ AR Headset Kickstarter, Promising a 96-degree FOV Starting at $500

AntVR, the Beijing-based company known for their 2014 VR headset Kickstarter, launched a new crowdfunding campaign today for an augmented reality headset dubbed 'Mix'. AntVR says the PC-tethered AR headset, which starts at $500 without positional tracking, will have...

Valve Brings Custom Keybinding to SteamVR, Letting VR Apps Support All Compatible Controllers

SteamVR includes de facto support for several VR devices, although sometimes games just don't support a particular controller—or if they do, it may not be configured properly. To remedy this, Valve has introduced a new SteamVR Input system, now in...
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16 Minutes of ‘Red Matter’ Gameplay Revealed – a Sci-fi Soviet Retrofuture Adventure

Ahead of its launch later this month, we got a chance to dive into the beginning of Red Matter, an upcoming VR adventure puzzle exclusively for Oculus Rift that puts you in a wonderfully weird Soviet-style retrofuturistic world. With launch quickly...

WEARVR Announces Winners of $10,000 ‘Remastered’ Competition – Bringing New Life to Old VR Favorites

It's hard to believe it's already been five years since the first Oculus Rift dev kits shipped to Kickstarter backers, many of them developers looking to create for the future of VR consumer hardware. As the medium inevitably marches on...

Playing ‘Beat Saber’ Could Burn the Same Number of Calories as Tennis

According to recent testing by the Virtual Reality Institute of Health and Exercise, Beat Saber (2018) may be more than just a fun way to spend an evening in. With all that block slicing, dodging and leaning, you could burn as many...

‘Onward’ Community Helps Raise Over $7,000 for Deceased Player’s Family

Onward (2017) is a military-style VR shooter with some of the most ardent players who regularly engage in a sort of amped-up version of paintball. It plays host to fierce competition, and with it comes a certain camaraderie that has bound...

INT Announces 2,228 PPI High Pixel Density AMOLED for VR Headsets

When we saw the news that JDI, the Japanese display conglomerate founded by Sony, Toshiba and Hitachi, were developing a 1001ppi LCD display for VR headsets, it was clear that the race for ever-higher pixel densities was still alive...

Google: Don’t Expect 6DOF Controllers for Lenovo Mirage Solo

If you're waiting on positionally-tracked controllers for Google's latest entry into the Daydream platform, the standalone 6DOF VR headset Lenovo Mirage Solo, you probably won't ever see it, at least not from Google. Google's annual I/O dev conference was strangely...

Exclusive: Designing Single-handed Shortcuts for VR & AR

For new computing technologies to realize their full potential they need new user interfaces. The most essential interactions in virtual spaces are grounded in direct physical manipulations like pinching and grabbing, as these are universally accessible. However, the team...

JDI is Developing a 1,001 PPI High Pixel Density LCD for VR Headsets

Japan Display Inc. (JDI), a display conglomerate created by Sony, Toshiba, and Hitachi, today announced the development of a high pixel density, 3.25-inch 1001ppi LCD created specifically for VR headsets. JDI says in a press release they plan to start...

‘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...
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