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2013-era Crowdfunded VR Puzzle-Adventure ‘XING: The Land Beyond’ Finally Launches Today

XING: The Land Beyond (2017), a puzzle-adventure from White Lotus Interactive, is set to ship today—a good 4 years after they initially launched their Kickstarter and successfully stretch-goaled their way to include Oculus Rift support. Of course, back then the team was targeting the...

8 Cool AR Apps to Try Now That Apple iOS 11 is Here

Apple's newest iteration of the iOS mobile operating system is here, and with it comes the ability to turn your iOS 11 compatible device into an honest-to-goodness augmented reality viewer. Thanks to a few months of lead time with...

Promising Intel Proof of Concept Shows SteamVR Game Streaming to Smartphone Over WiFi

Intel is exploring an interesting approach to making VR less expensive and more accessible. The company's so-called 'Portal Ridge' system streams SteamVR content to a smartphone-based headset over WiFi while using the Vive Tracker and controllers for tracking of...

Google Buys HTC Talent & IP for $1.1 Billion, Cash to Support HTC’s Focus on Smartphones,...

Following recent reports of an impending deal with Google to save HTC's struggling business, news broke late Wednesday evening that the companies reached an agreement resulting in a $1.1 billion cash infusion for HTC. Update (9/21/17): Google's $1.1 billion will buy...

‘OpenVR Recorder’ is a Powerful Tool for Capturing Tracking and Input Data

Jasper Brekelmans, a Netherlands-based 3D tech artist, has recently released a motion capture tool offering an easy way to record OpenVR tracking data from headsets, motion controllers and Vive Trackers for both Vive and Rift setups. Called OpenVR Recorder, the data...

Behind the Scenes of Felix & Paul’s Emmy-winning White House VR Documentary

The White House VR documentary People's House by Felix & Paul Studios won a Emmy for the outstanding original interactive, and I had a chance to talk with Paul Raphael of Felix & Paul Studios about the challenges of...

Preview: ‘The Gallery: Heart of the Emberstone’

The sequel to Cloudhead Games' early room-scale VR hit, The Gallery: Episode 1 - Call of the Starseed (2016), is nearly here. We got our hands on a limited preview of the soon-to-release Heart of the Emberstone, and if the little we played...
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Enthusiast Hacks Together Headset & 3D Game for the 34 Year Old Commodore 64

The Commodore 64—a renowned 8-bit home computer system that debuted in 1983—may be approaching antique status at 34 years old, but one enthusiast has seen fit to make sure it doesn't get left out of the VR craze. An enthusiast...

‘Driver4VR’ Emulates Vive Trackers With Kinect for Cheap VR Body Tracking

A new SteamVR mod from the developer behind WalkinVR now allows body tracking by emulating Vive Trackers via Kinect’s motion sensing data, enabling an inexpensive solution for full body motion tracking in VR. The driver, available at the official...
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Pimax Launches Kickstarter Today For 8K & 5K VR Headsets

Pimax, the China-based VR headset manufacturer, just launched their Kickstarter for the hotly anticipated 8K and 5K VR headsets. Update (09/19/17): The rumors were true; Pimax has launched their Kickstarter today. The company is aiming to reach $200,000 in funding, with prices starting at...

Sony is Bringing PS2 Classics ‘Gungrave’ & ‘Zone of the Enders’ to PSVR, Teaser Trailers Here

Tokyo Game Show (TGS) is upon us, and Sony has today shown off some a few brand new teaser trailers at its PlayStation keynote. Among them were two PS2-era franchises getting new life on PlayStation VR: Zone of the Enders: The...

Apple iOS 11 Rolls Out Today, Augmented Reality Apps Now Showing Up on App Store

Apple is rolling out iOS 11 today, its mobile operating system that's compatible with "hundreds of millions of devices" including iPhones going back to the iPhone 5s, and a variety of recent iPads. If your device is able to...

Crytek Adds HTC Vive & Oculus Touch Support to ‘Robinson: The Journey’

Originally launched in November last year as a PSVR exclusive, Crytek’s Robinson: The Journey (2016) made its way early this year to Oculus Rift via Oculus Home and also eventually Steam too. Critically missing however was official support for HTC Vive and any support for motion controllers. Now,...

China’s Largest Messaging App ‘WeChat’ is Creating its Own AR Platform

WeChat, known in China as the app that offers everything from messaging to a ubiquitous payment service, is getting its own augmented reality framework; at over 963 million active users, the popular Chinese app could put AR in the hands...

Sci-fi Survival-Adventure ‘The Solus Project’ Launches Today on PSVR

The Solus Project (2016) is a sci-fi adventure-survival game from Grip Game and Hourences. Once only available for traditional monitors and PC VR headsets like Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, the game is now available starting today on the PlayStation...
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