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‘Bigscreen’ Raises $11 Million Series A Funding to Grow, Improve & Expand Services to More AR/VR...
The team behind Bigscreen, the app that lets you view and share your desktop in social VR, today announced they've raised $11 million in Series A financing. The funding round, which comes only a year after their initial $3 million...
Oculus Open-sources Rift DK2: Schematics, Firmware, and More All Freely Available
Following the open-sourcing of the Rift DK1 plans back in 2014, Oculus today released the recipe for the Rift DK2, the company's second development kit headset released in 2014. Under an open-source license, anyone can now freely download the blueprints...
‘ARKTIKA.1’ Behind-the-scenes – Insights & Artwork from 4A Games
ARKTIKA.1, now in development for more than two years, is shaping up to be a gritty VR shooter with a AAA look and feel. Ahead of the game's launch on the Oculus Rift we spoke with the game's executive...
‘Scorn – Part 1 of 2: Dasein’ Kickstarter Reaches VR Stretch Goal with Few Hours Remaining
Scorn - Part 1 of 2: Dasein, the crowdfunded first-person horror game, just passed the €175,000 mark with only a few remaining hours in its Kickstarter campaign, meaning the developers will be including "an immersive VR level for the ultimate experience...
The 5 Best VR Racing Sims for Oculus Rift and HTC Vive
As one of the first game genres to embrace VR, sim racing has successfully transitioned from the ‘very early adopter’ stage (using Oculus development kits) to the ‘early adopter’ stage (the first-generation consumer headsets). Now that the majority of...
‘The Amazing World of Gumball’ Steps into Your Living Room with ARKit Prototype
Now that iOS 11 has officially rolled out and anyone with a recent Apple device has access to augmented reality applications, the massive install base means developers can start appealing to all sorts of people, including those miniature ones that make a...
Dance at ‘TheWaveVR’ Interactive VR Rave Featuring New Album From TOKiMONSTA, Launching October 8th
LA-based DJ and producer TOKiMONSTA and social VR music platform TheWaveVR have partnered to create an interactive psychedelic version of TOKi’s new album that drops today, Lune Rouge.
The multi-user social platform will host the VR version of TOKi's Lune Rouge, called...
‘Goalie VR’ is a Cheap & Cheerful VR Party Game That Brings a Hailstorm of Hockey...
Hailstone Games, a Toronto-based VR studio, just launched their new goalie simulator, Goalie VR, a game that lets a single player defend a hockey goal in VR while up to five players using mobile devices try to score.
It's a shame there...
‘TheatreVR’ Wants You to Play the Role of Hamlet on a Virtual Stage with Real Actors
Acting takes time, courage and a lifelong dedication that very few possess, and even less can do well. But as VR styles itself as an 'experience machine', it was inevitable that a program like Theatre VR would come along, a...
New Magic Leap Video Tells Us Nothing About What the Company Is Working On
Born out of the founder's lifetime love affair with sci-fi, surrealism, and a fortuitous road trip across the US, the story of Magic Leap's founding reads like a beat generation novel about discovering magic in ordinary experiences. The company couches it...
‘ARKTIKA.1’ Gets Launch Trailer Ahead of Next Week’s Release
ARKTIKA.1, the sci-fi shooter from Metro developers 4A Games, is launching on Oculus Rift October 10th. Pre-orders are currently live on the Oculus Store, selling for a 10% discount off of the game's $30 price tag.
Update (10/5/17): Developer 4A Games has released a new Arktika.1 launch...
‘Raw Data’ Launches out of Early Access Today with 25% Discount, Comes to PSVR October 10th
Survios’ stunning VR action game Raw Data (2017) is officially out of its long, but healthy stint on Steam Early Access for HTC Vive and Oculus Rift. The high-flying shooter, slicer, and high-tech beat 'em up will also be available on...
Discovery and Google Announce VR Travel Series ‘Discovery TRVLR’, First of 38 Episodes to Arrive in...
Discovery and Google today announced the launch of a new 38-episode VR video series called Discovery TRVLR, a product of both Discovery and Google’s internal VR teams. The first 6 episodes is slated to launch on Friday, November 3.
Discovery TRVLR comes exclusively...
Udacity Launches a ‘Learn ARKit’ Course Created in Collaboration with Unity
With ARKit already baked into the mobile operating system of "hundreds of millions of iPhones and iPads," the massive potential install base means there's plenty of reasons for developers to start making new augmented reality apps for Apple's App...
Hands-on: Google’s New Daydream View Headset With Pixel 2 & Pixel 2 XL
Google today announced the next iteration of their Daydream View headset for virtual reality on Android. We highlighted the changes and improvements in our announcement article, but how does it handle in practice?
After watching Google unveiled a range of...




















