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Leading Hand-tracking Company Ultraleap Raises $82 Million Investment

Ultraleap, a leading company focused on hand-tracking interfaces, this week announced it has secured a £60 million (~$82 million) Series D investment, with the goal of expanding its hand-tracking and mid-air haptic tech in the XR space and beyond. Formerly known...

Laughable Article Attacks Oculus Rift and Virtual Reality, “Total Immersion Technology Will Train Future Mass Murderers”

A pathetic article by NaturalNews.com (which I won't link to to prevent feeding their controversy-driven "journalism"), is attacking virtual reality at large and specifically the Oculus Rift, making the claim that "total immersion technology will train future mass murderers." It's...

This is the Beginning of VR Education, and It Will Only Get Better

At a school in the Czech Republic on October 20th, a groundbreaking experiment took place. Instead of pens and paper, students sat down with specially adapted VR headsets (Oculus Rift DK2s) that dropped them into a fascinating, immersive, educational...
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New ‘Arizona Sunshine’ Multiplayer Shooter to Arrive at Nomadic VR Locations Soon

Nomadic, an up and coming location-based VR entertainment facility, today announced that a new spin-off to Vertigo Games' Arizona Sunshine (2016) is coming to their locations sometime this spring. Named Arizona Sunshine: Rampage, the co-op multiplayer shooter is said to arrive in the...

Review: ‘The Mage’s Tale’

Stepping into The Mage's Tale, a first-person dungeon crawler RPG that puts you in the enchanted boots of an apprentice mage, is a bit like jumping into your own personal '80s sword and sorcery flick. With elemental magic at the ready,...

Epic’s MetaHuman Avatar Tool Can Now Import Scans of Real People… Maybe You One Day

Epic Games, the company that makes Unreal Engine, recently released a substantial update to its MetaHuman character creation tool which for the first time allows developers to import scans of real people for use in real-time applications. The improvements...
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‘Carve Snowboarding’ Coming to VR From Creator of ‘1080° Snowboarding’

1080° Snowboarding (1998) is a classic Nintendo 64 classic snowboarding game that inspired future titles in the genre like SSX Tricky. Now one of the game's original creators, Giles Goddard, is bringing a new, first-person VR snowboarding game, Carve Snowboarding to Oculus. Revealed today during...
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Preview: ‘Late Night Shop’ is a Nightmare Where Mannequins Come to Life

Late Night Shop is a first person 'mannequin evader' built by Plymouth, England based studio Total Monkery. The game, which is currently in pre-alpha, is excruciatingly close to a personal nightmare of store mannequins come to life. Much like the...

‘Twilight Path’ Review – Puzzles Missing Purpose

From the makers of FORM (2017), a well regarded indie VR puzzle game, comes Twilight Path. With an entirely new setting, Twilight Path attempts something more ambitious than its predecessor, but winds up feeling like a rushed followup. Twilight Path Review Details: Official Site Developer: Charm...

The 20 Best Rated & Most Popular Quest Games & Apps – April 2022

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 3 Most Common Arguments Against VR and Why They’re Wrong

With the recent release of Half-Life: Alyx, VR has been thrust into the spotlight of the mainstream gaming audience. While players and critics alike have universally praised the game, pushing it to become one of Steam's best rated games...
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20 Minutes of Raw John Carmack on Gear VR Positional Tracking & Much, Much More

John Carmack has a reputation for frank, no holds barred technical discussions in his publish speaking, but he's also known for his generosity with his time and seemingly endless patience. At last year's Oculus Connect, the programming legend who co-founded id,...

This Developer Turned His Apartment Into a VR Game

Playing VR games is a great way to stay active, both mentally and physically. But when all is said and done, you're still only traversing around a pretty small footprint—even smaller if you're stuck in an apartment. Greg...

New Oculus Social Tools Will Help VR Feel More Like a Place, Less Like a Game

Social and Multiplayer VR can be incredibly compelling, but the process of actually 'finding' your friends in VR is still a clunky and often frustrating process. Oculus is developing a new set of social and multiplayer tools which stand...

Interview with Director of the Willow Sweater CAVE Music Video, Filip Sterckx

Back in November I highlighted a cool music video for the song Sweater by Belgium-based band Willow. The video used a CAVE (Cave Automatic Virtual Environment) and a treadmill to allow the singer to stroll through live virtual environments as the video was...
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