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Meet Bill Nye in VR & ‘TheWaveVR’ Concert, Two Virtual Events Worth Attending This Wednesday

This Wednesday, you can fill up your brain with knowledge in a unique opportunity to meet Bill Nye 'the Science Guy' in the digital flesh, and then melt your brain immediately afterwards at a VR concert, where crowds can interact...

The 20 Best Rated & Most Popular Quest Games & Apps – July 2021

While Oculus doesn’t offer much publicly in the way of understanding how well individual apps are performing across its VR storefronts, it’s possible to glean some insight by looking at apps relative to each other. Here’s a snapshot of...

The White House Highlights 6 Funding Opportunities for VR Education Projects

Got an idea for how virtual reality could revolutionize education? The White House suggests six ways you could get funding to make it a reality. Education is one of the most obvious use-cases for VR; its ability to immerse and...

HTC Announces 6DOF Controller Tracking Dev Kit for Vive Focus

HTC today announced a 6DOF controller tracking add-on for Vive Focus. The add-on, which includes a pair of new controllers, is being released as a development kit. Vive Focus, HTC's standalone VR headset, had a full blown launch in China at the...

Founded by CERN Engineers, CREAL3D’s Light-field Display is the Real Deal

Co-founded by former CERN engineers who contributed to the ATLAS project at the Large Hadron Collider, CREAL3D is a Switzerland-based startup that's created an impressive light-field display that's unlike anything in an AR or VR headset on the market...

Oculus Rift S vs. Oculus Quest – Specs & Features

Oculus has announced Rift S, the headset's fabled hardware refresh that brings with it a modest spec bump and a few other changes to the original Rift that the company hopes will appeal to new entrants in PC VR...

Missed Out on Rift’s Black Friday Deal? It’s Back for a Limited Time

Normally priced at $400, the Rift + Touch bundle has returned to its $350 Black Friday pricing for a limited time. The deal ($50 off MSRP) can be found at Amazon US, Oculus, NewEgg, Microsoft Store, Micro Center, and Best Buy. The Cheapest Deals Oculus is...

Minecraft Creator Develops Experimental WebVR Project

Markus "Notch" Persson, the creator of Minecraft, has published an experimental virtual reality project that takes the form of a ray marching fractal renderer that runs in the web browser. Known begrudgingly to this writer as 'the guy who didn't...

Valve Corrects Steam Survey Data Revealing Latest VR Population Growth

Valve this week updated its monthly Steam Hardware & Software Survey to fix issues resulting in anomalous VR population data. The corrected figures return the survey to being one of the most useful pieces of public data about the...

Immersive Puzzler ‘Infinite Inside’ to Release on Vision Pro & All Major Headsets Next Month

Maze Theory today announced that its upcoming immersive puzzle-adventure game Infinite Inside is set to arrive next month, coming to all major headsets. Initially released as a demo on Quest earlier this year, the full game is set to arrive...

Google’s Daydream Impact Project Aims to Bolster Philanthropic Efforts With VR

Google's newly announced Daydream Impact program is a philanthropy project that provides organizations, nonprofits, and advocates for change with resources, tools, and training to create immersive VR content to support their cause. Instead of just creating advertisements, organizations using...

Oculus’ Michael Abrash ‘Why Virtual Reality Will Matter to You’ Livestream @ 10am PST

Today Oculus' Chief Scientist, Michael Abrash, will take to the stage at Facebook's F8 conference to expound upon virtual reality. As Abrash puts it, "Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but someday and for the rest of your life—this...

‘Hitman 3 VR: Reloaded’ for Quest 3 – A Visual & Mechanical Mess

A rebuilt-for-Quest version of the celebrated stealth-action title Hitman 3 seemed almost too good to be true when we first heard about it earlier this summer. While that version technically exists now with the release of Hitman 3 VR:...
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Relaxing Adventure ‘Arca’s Path’ Launches on All Major VR Headsets, Trailer Here

Arca's Path VR, a single-player VR maze game produced by Rebellion and developed by Dream Reality Interactive, is launching today on all major VR platforms including HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, Windows VR, PSVR, Oculus Go, Gear VR, and HTC Vive Focus. As a controller-free...
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‘Gunjack’ UE4-based Turret-shooter Announced by CCP Games, Affirms Fall Release for Samsung’s Consumer Gear VR

Gunjack is a quite gorgeous looking turret-shooter for Samsung's Gear VR headset. The game is set in the EVE universe, that of developer CCP Games' Eve Online. As an arcade-style shooter, players can collect powerups as they fend off waves...
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