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AltspaceVR’s New Slack Integration Makes Team Meetings in Virtual Reality a Snap

This week AltspaceVR launched a Slack integration which makes it easy to quickly pull team members into a virtual reality meeting space for some real-time communication. At SVVR 2016 this week, AltspaceVR CEO Eric Romo talked about the company's new VR...
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Hands-on: Intel’s Project Alloy ‘Merged Reality’ Roomscale Multiplayer Demo

At CES 2017, Intel was showing off more of its Project Alloy VR headset, including a roomscale multiplayer demo featuring 'merged reality', where the game environment adapts to your physical surroundings. Project Alloy Project Alloy is Intel's VR headset reference design....

Meta Reveals Next Generation Aria Glasses for Research and Experimentation

Meta today revealed its next-gen glasses, Aria Gen 2, which the company intends to release to third-party researchers working on machine perception systems, AI and robotics. The company revealed its first iteration of Project Aria back in 2020, showing off a...

‘Sword Art Online’ Fan Prototype Brings Bullet Dodging and Blocking to VR with the Razer Hydra

Sword Art Online is a popularly acclaimed modern action-anime based around virtual reality. It's proven inspiring enough for one fan to create an Oculus Rift and Razer Hydra prototype which allows players to dodge and block bullets while firing...

The Best VR Horror Games on Quest, PSVR 2 and PC VR to Play This Halloween

The spooky season is upon us, and there's no better time to rattle 'dem bones in VR. Here we take a look at some of the best VR horror (and horror-adjacent) games across Quest, PSVR 2, and PC VR. Many...
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Latest HTC Vive Promo Highlights Developer Talent

This latest promo video from HTC, highlights the enthusiasm the featured developers have for the Vive's SteamVR powered "room-scale VR". SteamVR developers Cloudhead Games (The Gallery: Call of the Starseed), Owlchemy Labs (Job Simulator), Phaser Lock Ineractive (Final Approach)...

Pioneering VRMMO ‘OrbusVR’ is Shutting Down in April, Removed from Stores Next Month

OrbusVR (2019), the MMORPG for VR headsets, is shutting down, with creator Orbus Online stating it will stop sales on all platforms starting next month and shut down servers completely in April. The studio released the news in a community...

Valve is Showcasing 12 VR Games That Will Ship on the HTC Vive This Year

Today Valve is hosting a SteamVR developer showcase in Seattle, WA. Featured are titles from 12 VR developers, all of which will ship on the HTC Vive in 2016, says Valve. With the HTC Vive approaching pre-orders at the end...

The 20 Best Rated & Most Rated Rift Games & Apps – July 2020

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...

Didimo Announces $6.9M in New Funding to Further Develop 3D Digital Human Capture

Didimo, a Portugal-based firm that creates digital models of humans, today announced that it's raised more than $4.9 million from new and existing investors including Portugal Ventures, Farfetch UK Ltd., Bynd VC, Beta-I and LC Ventures. The funding follows a...

Report: Apple’s VR Headset Delayed to 2023 Amid Development Challenges

Apple's upcoming VR headset was purportedly slated to arrive sometime this year. Now according to a recent Bloomberg report, those launch plans may be delayed by a few months, potentially pushing release to 2023. According to the report, Apple's VR headset was...

HTC Announces 2018 Viveport Developer Awards Nominees, $50K First Prize up for Grabs

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, HTC has announced the nominees for this year's VDAs who will be in competition to...
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Watch 20 Minutes of ‘Stormland’ Gameplay

Stormland, the upcoming single player adventure from Insomniac Games and Oculus, came to PAX West this past weekend where the public got a chance to go hands-on with the open world game for the first time. The demo, presented by Dutch...

Oculus Connect Begins Tomorrow, Live Stream Details, Schedule and Speculation

It's upon us. Oculus Connect, probably the most eagerly anticipated event this year (at least for the VR community) and perhaps Oculus VR's most important event in it's young life, kicks off at the Loews Hotel in Hollywood, CA tomorrow...

Arcturus Raises $5 Million to Expand Volumetric Video Toolset & Streaming

Arcturus, a company building tools for editing and distributing volumetric video, today announced it has raised a $5 million seed investment. Distinct from stereoscopic video, volumetric video is fully three-dimensional and can be viewed from all angles, which makes it...
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