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Windows VR Headsets Can Now Play VR Games on Steam

Early adopters of "Windows Mixed Reality" VR headsets can now access a wealth of new content thanks to an official integration with Steam, now available as a public preview, allowing the headsets to play SteamVR content from the platform....
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‘The Exorcist: Legion VR’ First Episodes to Launch on Rift & Vive November 22nd

The scariest time of the year has come and gone, and although we were expecting the first two episodes of The Exorcist: Legion VR in time for Halloween, fans of the film franchise and The Exorcist TV series probably won't mind one bit. Created by Fun...

‘Alvo’ Wants to Be ‘CS:GO’ for VR, Launching with Cross-play for PSVR, Rift & Vive in...

Indie studio Mardonpol, makers of Quiz Night Tonight! (2017), is dialing in on CS:GO territory with its recently released trailer which shows all of the trappings of the popular PC shooter, replete with Italy-inspired map, AWPs, and bomb planting galore. The...
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‘HotStepper’ Gives You AR Directions with the Help of a Silly Half-naked Man

Thanks to augmented reality, the world is about to get weird. Real weird. Thankfully we're not the only ones who think so, because Nexus Studios, the minds behind the inside-out VR tracking solution using ARKit, today launched HotStepper, an iOS wayfinding app that...

HTC Aims to Create a ‘Mobile OpenVR’ in China with Vive Wave VR Platform

On stage at Vive Developer Conference in Beijing, HTC today unveiled their upcoming standalone VR headset, Vive Focus. While HTC isn't releasing a Daydream version of the headset in the West as previously announced, the company is using Vive...
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HTC Announces ‘Vive Focus’ Standalone VR Headset

Today during the Vive Developers Conference in Beijing, HTC revealed the Vive Focus, a standalone VR headset with inside-out positional tracking. The headset is positioned for the Chinese market. Update (11/14/17): HTC has confirmed to Road to VR that the company...

Windows VR Headsets Can Play Oculus Exclusive Games via Revive

The announcement that Steam will support the forthcoming Windows VR headsets was big news which means that owners will eventually have a strong library of VR content to draw from while Microsoft builds up its own library of VR games...

‘From Other Suns’ Review

If FTL: Faster Than Light (2012) and the Borderlands franchise had a baby, the freakishly hard offspring would invariably be From Other Suns, a first-person shooter/spaceship management sim from Gunfire Games, the makers of Dead & Buried (2017), Chronos (2016) and Herobound: Spirit Champion...

PSVR Titles ‘The Inpatient’ & ‘Bravo Team’ Delayed Until Early 2018

Supermassive Games has delayed two of its upcoming PSVR titles originally expected for Q4 releases, Bravo Team and The Inpatient. Both games are now set to launch in Q1 of 2018. Bravo Team, a cover-based shooter, was originally slated to launch December 5th; and The...

LG Patent Shows Unique Split Design for VR Headset

LG revealed its prototype VR headset using Valve's Lighthouse positional tracking earlier this year, and while it isn't certain what will become of the headset—or if it'll be named "UltraGear" as a recent trademark filing suggests—it's clear LG is thinking long and...

Popular SteamVR Shooter ‘Onward’ Launches for Oculus Rift in Early Access With Cross-play

Onward (2016), the popular VR FPS known for serving up its 'no-frills' squad-based action, is now in Early Access on the Oculus Store. The tactical mil-sim shooter, which aims to appeal to fans of traditional shooters like Rainbow Six, Ghost Recon, or Counter-Strike, now...
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‘Haptic Shape Illusion’ Allows VR Controllers to Simulate Feel of Physically Larger Objects

In a study lead by Eisuke Fujinawa at the University of Tokyo, a team of students created a procedure for designing compact VR controllers that feel physically larger. Exploring the concept of ‘haptic shape illusion’, the controllers have data-driven,...

Oculus: EA’s Acquisition of Respawn Entertainment Will Have No Impact on Studio’s VR Title

Titanfall developer Respawn Entertainment has announced plans to join EA, one of the world's largest and most influential videogame publishers. The acquisition of Respawn, which will cost EA up to $455 million, won't impact the studio's recently announced VR...

‘Shooty Fruity’ Coming to All Major VR Platforms December 19th, Launch Trailer Here

UK-based studio nDreams, the minds behind The Assembly (2016) and producer of Bloody Zombies (2017), and Near Light today announced that its upcoming tongue-in-cheek shooting game Shooty Fruity is slated to simultaneously launch on PlayStation VR, HTC Vive and Oculus Rift on December 19th, 2017. Shooty Fruity basically turns you...

Sony Cuts Price of PSVR & PS4 Console by $100 for Week-long Black Friday Sale

With major US retailers already greasing the wheels of their shopping carts in preparation for the yearly scramble we call Black Friday, Sony today announced on the US PlayStation blog that it's temporarily lowering the price of all PlayStation VR...
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