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Sony Offers More ‘London Heist’-style Cockney Carnage in ‘Blood & Truth’, Teaser Trailer Here
Paris Games Week hasn't officially started yet, but Sony's pre-PGW keynote saw a number of announcements including Sony London Studio's spiritual continuation of the highly popular (and all too short) The London Heist, a demo in the VR Worlds demo disc...
Paris Games Week: ‘Sprint Vector’, ‘Ultrawings’, & ‘Dead Hungry’ Coming to PSVR
Paris Games Week saw the announcement of two newly revealed games for PSVR, and among the rash of PS4 trailers comes the news that Ultrawings, Sprint Vector, and Dead Hungry are all making their way across the aisle to...
Newly Revealed PSVR Titles ‘Megalith’ & ‘Bow to Blood’ Coming in 2018, Teaser Trailers Here
Paris Games Week is starting on November 1st, but Sony's pre-PGW keynote has seen the announcement of two all new PSVR titles today heading to headsets in 2018: Megalith, a hero shooter, and Bow to Blood an airship battle game.
Megalith comes...
Pimax Kickstarter Nears $3.5M With Less Than a Week Left, Free Eye-tracking Module Unlocked
Pimax's Kickstarter has passed the $3 million mark over the weekend, bringing them to $3.2 million and unlocking free eye-tracking module for every one of their backers who chose a VR headset funding tier.
According to an update posted to...
‘Morgan Lives in a Rocket House’ Offers a Peek into a Kid-friendly VR Future
You have a minor infestation of tiny people in your house. They don't pay rent, they don't like to brush their teeth, and they always want to use your stuff—the most important of which is your VR headset (even if...
Google’s AR/VR Chief on Ambient Computing, Conversational Interfaces, & AR/VR Strategy
At Google's big October 4th press conference, the company announced a new Pixel 2 phone and a range of new ambient computing devices powered by AI-enabled conversational interfaces including new Google Mini and Max speakers, Google Clips camera, and...
Gartner’s Brian Blau on the State of the VR & AR Industries
Brian Blau is the vice president of research for personal technologies at Gartner Research where he's in the business of making predictions about the consumer adoption of virtual reality and augmented reality technologies. I last interviewed Blau in 2015...
‘Waltz of the Wizard’ Gets Substantial Update Including New Locomotion Scheme and Combat Area
Waltz of the Wizard, an uncommonly high-quality VR wizard experience from Reykjavik-based Aldin Dynamics, just got an update today introducing a new locomotion system and a "significant" expansion to the potion-mixing magical experience including an entirely new area full of traps and...
ILMxLab’s John Gaeta Joins Magic Leap as Senior VP of Creative Strategy
John Gaeta, known for his work as visual effects supervisor on The Matrix trilogy and for launching Lucasfilm's immersive media branch ILMxLab, is joining the mysterious augmented reality start-up Magic Leap.
As reported by The Verge, Gaeta says he's joined Magic Leap as Senior Vice...
Pimax “8K” Surpasses Oculus Rift as Top VR Headset Kickstarter Project, $2.45M Raised So Far
Pimax, the company aiming to deliver three flavors of its high field of view (FOV) headset via their Kickstarter, have recently blasted past the $2 million funding mark. With only a week left in the crowdfunding campaign and now...
Exclusive: Inside HTC’s Beautiful New SteamVR Home Environment, ‘Driftwood’
Today HTC Creative Labs is debuting a beautiful new SteamVR Home environment—the hub space for when players aren't inside any VR apps—called Driftwood. The environment takes players virtually outside on a beachfront wilderness inspired by the United State's Pacific...
Survival-Exploration Game ‘Space Pirates and Zombies 2’ Launches Out of Steam Early Access November 7th
Space Pirates and Zombies 2, a single player, space-based survival-exploration game from indie studio MinMax Games, is officially heading out of its year and a half-long stint in Steam Early Access on November 7th, including its fully featured VR port that supports the...
Unreal Engine 4.18 Update Brings Native Support for ARKit and ARCore, SteamVR Support for Mac
Epic Game's Unreal Engine is making it easier to create for augmented reality in the newest 4.18 update, now including official support for Apple's ARKit and Google's ARCore software dev kits, and support for SteamVR on Mac.
'Production-ready' support for...
Coatsink Introduces You to the Voices Behind ‘Augmented Empire’ in New Mini-Documentary
Augmented Empire (2017), Coatsink’s cyberpunk RPG, launched earlier this summer exclusively on Samsung Gear VR. Now the studio, which is also known for the Esper puzzle game series, has released a mini-documentary featuring its cast of high-caliber voice actors, including Kate Mulgrew,...
‘Five Nights at Freddy’s’ Room-scale VR Fan Remake Puts You Face-to-face with Freddy Fazbear
Just in time for the spookiest time of year is a new VR fan remake of Five Nights at Freddy's (2014) that brings some of the horror of Freddy Fazbear's Pizza to room-scale VR. Although it only gives you two nights...



















