Orange Bridge Studios today announced that End Space (2017), the single-player space dogfighter for Gear VR, is headed to Oculus Rift January 25th. The Steam version for HTC Vive and Rift is slated to arrive sometime next month. Orange Bridge says the Rift and Vive version will...

U.S. Ski & Snowboard Association, the national governing body for Olympic skiing and snowboarding, announced a partnership with Menlo Park-based STRIVR Labs to use VR to help prepare for and recover from World Cup and Olympic events. According to the association, both 360 video...

Last year marked HTC's very first Vive Developer Awards (VDAs), which saw tens of thousands of dollars go to VR app developers across a number of categories. Now, submissions for this year's VDAs are open, spanning more categories than last year, including...

Up until now, developers wishing to get their VR app on the Oculus Store had to submit to a manual review process by which their game or experience was washed through two stages; a tech review to see if...

Vive Focus, HTC's first standalone VR headset, has officially launched in China. Based on HTC's new mobile VR platform, which includes a mobile version of the Viveport content store, the headset debuts with more than 40 apps. The Vive Focus...

Facebook announced this week the open-sourcing of Detectron, the company's platform for computer vision object detection algorithm based on a deep learning framework. The company says that its motive for opening up the project is to accelerate computer vision...

Cubism is an upcoming VR puzzle game from indie developer Thomas Van Bouwel that challenges you to think in 3 dimensions. Inspired by puzzles like the Soma cube, or a cube composed of smaller Tetris-like geometric pieces, Cubism tasks...

Eric Romo, co-founder and CEO of AltspaceVR, is joining Facebook's Social VR team. Following financial difficulties, which almost saw the complete shut down of the social VR app, AltspaceVR found new life when it was acquired by Microsoft back in October. Romo, who founded AltspaceVR in January 2013,...

Gallopin’ Gorgons! An updated version of the Harry Potter Universe game for Daydream, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them VR Experience, is arriving today. Not only that, but owners of Vive, Rift and Gear VR will finally be able to get in...

Onward, the tactical multiplayer shooter for Vive and Rift, is getting another free weekend - this time for Rift players on Oculus Home. The free weekend begins January 25th at 1:00 PM ET and goes until the 29th at 3:00 AM ET (your time here). Check out Onward on...

Manipulating objects with bare hands lets us leverage a lifetime of physical experience, minimizing the learning curve for users. But there are times when virtual objects will be farther away than arm’s reach, beyond the user’s range of direct...

Survios, the studio behind Raw Data (2017), announced a closed beta test for Sprint Vector, its multiplayer competitive foot racing game. The closed beta began on January 20th and go through January 28th. Race to find one of 20...

The Sundance Film Festival just kicked off in Park City, Utah, and Oculus announced in a blogpost they're debuting five experiences at the New Frontier section of Sundance—all of which they helped bring to life. Sundance's New Frontier hosts a curated selection of...

Dell and AR headset manufacturer Meta announced a new partnership, allowing Dell to be the first third-party seller of the Meta 2 Augmented Reality Development Kit. Dell says that through the partnership, they'll also be able to provide both the...

In 2017, venture funding of VR/AR companies reached at least $1.9B, ending slightly above 2016. The total number of companies raising venture capital during 2017 outpaced 2016, but the average deal size declined sharply by 35%, according to Greenlight...