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Humble Store VR Sale Offers up to 66% off Top VR Titles This Weekend

The Humble Store is having a big VR sale currently, putting some of the best-rated games for HTC Vive and Oculus Rift on deep discount. There's not much chaff in the list below, so we hope you still have...

How to Watch the 2018 Winter Olympics in VR

The 2018 Winter Olympics is about to kick off in PyeongChang, South Korea today, and this year you'll be able to watch a total of 30 events in VR, shared across live and on-demand 360/180 recordings. NBC has partnered with...

Apple’s Latest VR Patent Describes a Compact VR Headset with Eye Tracking

In a patent filed in 2017 and issued today by the United States Patent Office, Apple describes a VR headset designed to be compact and comfortable. Spotted by Patently Apple, Apple's patent titled Optical System for Head-mounted Display makes it clear...
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‘Quill’ Gets Animation Tools to Bring Your VR Paintings to Life

Quill, Facebook's VR painting tool, has been a great way to sketch in VR since its launch back at the end of 2016, but today a new update transforms it into something entirely new. Now, with tools for animating Quill artwork...

‘ARK Park’ to Launch March 22nd on PSVR, Vive & Rift

ARK Park, the VR multiplayer adventure game based on the world of ARK:Survival Evolved (2017), was originally slated for a December release on PlayStation VR, but then production studio Snail Games delayed the game as it was "still in development." Now,...
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Compact Motion Simulator ‘Yaw VR’ Reaches Kickstarter Funding Goal

Claiming to be “the world’s most compact and affordable VR motion simulator,” Yaw VR is a 3DoF motion system using a spherical dome design that allows for unlimited, 360-degree yaw movement and 50 degrees across the horizontal axes. The...

NextVR’s Latest Tech is Bringing New Levels of Fidelity to VR Video

NextVR, a company specializing in live VR broadcasting of sports and entertainment content, has debuted its latest broadcast technology this week at CES 2018. Parallel with new, more powerful and higher resolution VR headsets, improvements to NextVR's technology are...
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‘Beat Saber’ is a Fusion of DDR and Lightsaber Combat That We Never Knew We Wanted

If you've used virtual reality, you've probably deampt up a million cool game ideas that the platform's infinite possibilities could be used for. But did you dream up a rhythm game where you use dual lightsabers to slice blocks...

Vreal Closes $11.7 Million Series A Funding, Chet Faliszek Signs on to Board of Directors

Vreal, a VR livestreaming and social broadcast platform, today announced the closure of a $11.7 million Series A funding round led by Axioma Ventures, along with new investors Intel Capital and AET Fund. Existing participating investors include Upfront Ventures, Vulcan Capital and...
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Multiplayer Sci-fi Adventure ‘Downward Spiral: Horus Station’ to Launch This Spring on PSVR, Rift & Vive

Downward Spiral: Horus Station is an upcoming sci-fi adventure game from 3rd Eye Studios, a Finish studio featuring industry veterans from games such as Alan Wake, and Halo 5, and movies including Wall-E, Gravity, and Prometheus. While Horus Station is technically the second installment in the series following last year's Downward Spiral:...
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‘Accounting+’ for PSVR Gets New ‘Waterpark’ Level in Latest Update

Squanch Games (formerly Squanchtendo) and partner studio Crows Crows Crows have just added a new level to their PSVR game Accounting+ (2017). Called 'The Waterpark Update', the level is a free update that also includes a free theme. Update (02/07/18): Squanch Games...

Google Brings AR Mode to ‘Motion Stills’ Android App

Google recently launched an augmented reality mode for the Android version of its video capture app Motion Stills, which brings the ability to insert AR objects into the world so you can record GIFs and video. Much like Google's AR...

Vive Focus’ Western Launch Hinges on Success in China

Having initially announced that their Vive Focus standalone VR headset would operate as part of Google's Daydream VR platform in 2017, HTC later scrapped those plans ahead of the headset's recent launch in China under HTC's own 'Wave Vive'...

Valve’s ‘Steam Audio’ Spatial Sound System Gets Support for AMD TrueAudio Next, FMOD

Steam Audio, Valve's free made-for-VR spatial audio system, has added support for AMD's GPU-based TrueAudio Next technology, as well as the popular FMOD audio software. AMD TrueAudio Next Today Valve announced the release of Steam Audio 2.0 beta 13 which now...

360 Film ‘Dinner Party’ is a Symbolic Exploration of Race in America Wrapped in an Alien...

Dinner Party is an immersive exploration of Betty and Barney Hill's widely known 1961 alien abduction story that premiered at the Sundance New Frontier film festival. Rather than using normal alien tropes, writers Laura Wexler & Charlotte Stoudt chose to...
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