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‘Archangel’ Launches on PSVR, Vive and Rift Support Coming in August

Skydance Interactive’s first virtual reality game Archangel has launched with a short timed-exclusivity window on PlayStation VR. The first-person mech shooter is now available on the official PlayStation Store for $39.99, and is due to arrive on ‘other leading...

Crytek’s ‘The Climb’ is The Best Selling Rift Game To Date

Oculus has confirmed that Crytek's The Climb is the platform's best selling Rift game to date, and among a handful of titles that have grossed more than $1 million on the company's VR storefront. When it comes to VR platforms today,...

Closeup With New, Cheaper Rift + Touch Bundle – Ships With Improved Foam Padding

Announced last week, Oculus has finally opted to put the Rift and Touch controllers together into one package, making motion input the new default. The new bundle also includes improved foam padding. The new bundle is currently on sale for...

Lenovo Reveals AR Headset DaystAR

Lenovo today unveiled at the company's annual Tech World conference a new standalone AR headset dubbed 'daystAR'. Revealed on stage by chief technology officer Yong Rui, daystAR is an augmented reality optical display with what the company says has an "independent vision...
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‘Racket Fury’ Bringing Amped-up VR Ping Pong to Early Access This Week

Table tennis is becoming an increasingly crowded area in the world of VR sport, and Racket Fury aims to differentiate itself with a blend of futuristic visuals, unique robot AI personalities, and detailed physics. The game has been in...

Trailer: ‘Blade Runner 2049’ to Get Trio of VR Experiences, Latter Two Coming to Rift

San Diego's Comic-Con always sees a massive fanfare for all things science fiction, so there's no better place for Alcon Entertainment and Warner Bros Pictures to debut the VR experience for their upcoming film Blade Runner 2049, Riddley Scott's sequel to the iconic Blade...
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First Look: ‘MARVEL Powers United VR’ Gameplay & Hands-on

Oculus has teamed up with developer Sanzaru Games (behind titles like VR Sports Challenge and Ripcoil) to bring the world of MARVEL to VR. Marvel Powers United VR is a four-player co-op focused experience that will let you step into the...

Using Experiential Design to Expand VR Presence Theory

Dustin Chertoff has pulled experiential design insights from the advertising world to come up with a more holistic theory of Presence in virtual reality. In 2008, he was in graduate school and was dissatisfied with the major theories of...

Google Glass is Back, Glass ‘Enterprise Edition’ Unveiled

Google Glass, the iconic heads-up display (HUD) introduced back in 2012—known for spawning the portmanteau "glasshole"—is finally back, this time albeit it as a special business model dubbed Glass Enterprise Edition. Before today, fans of the original 'Explorer Edition' could only hope that...

‘ARKTIKA.1’ Gets Companion eBook Penned by NYT Bestselling Author Christie Golden

4A Games, the studio behind the Metro series, has partnered with Del Rey Books and New York Times bestselling author Christie Golden to produce an official eBook novella that lets you dive further into the upcoming Oculus Touch first-person shooter ARKTIKA.1. Update 07/20/17: 4A Games...

This Restaurant is Using Google Daydream to Train Employees

If you've ever worked at a fast food or fast-casual restaurant, you know how the first day inevitably goes. The manager sits you down in some store room, wheels in a TV and makes you watch a training video...

‘Superhot VR’ is Coming to PSVR This Week

Sony's E3 press conference saw a rush of reveals coming to the company's PlayStation 4 headset PSVR, including a full release of Skyrim VR coming in November and a list of VR exclusives soon to follow. Among them is the stylized and the...

Leap Motion Grabs $50M Investment for Class-leading Hand-tracking Tech

Leap Motion, a veteran player in the virtual reality sector (having been founded two years ahead of Oculus), has announced the closure of a Series C investment round totaling $50 million. Led by JP Morgan Asset management, Leap Motion's Series...

Rift Sale Eases Buyer’s #1 Concern, But All-in Cost Still Hinders Mainstream Traction

The six week Oculus Rift sale has made tangible waves within the VR community with its 'best-yet' $400 price point. And while the new price is bringing more early adopters into the fold, mainstream adoption is still hindered in...

WaveOptics Raises $16M to Create Optics For Small Form-Factor AR Headsets

WaveOptics, a UK-based firm involved in designing and engineering optics for augmented reality, has today announced a successful series B funding round amounting to £12.0m ($15.7m). Investors include Touchstone Innovations, Robert Bosch Venture Capital GMBH, Octopus Investments, and Gobi...
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