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Updated: Vive Deluxe Audio Strap Sells Out at Launch, Vive Pre Requires Conversion Kit

The hotly anticipated Vive Deluxe Audio Strap launched just yesterday and the initial stock has already been nabbed, apparently putting the unit out of stock in both the US and EU regions. HTC has also confirmed that the upgraded...

Oculus Brings Rift to 90 Libraries in California for Public Access VR

Oculus has announced a pilot program to place 100 Rifts and Oculus Ready PCs in 90 libraries throughout the state of California, from the Oregon border down to Mexico. Detailed on the Oculus Blog, the new partnership with the...

Bringing Fun & Whimsey Into Your Home with ‘Woorld’, Winner of Google Play’s ‘Best AR Experience’

Funomena's Woorld won the 'Best AR Experience' category at the recent 2017 Google Play awards. In the game you scan your room with a Google Tango-enabled phone, and then you're encouraged to decorate your space with extremely cute art...

Apple Announces First VR-Ready Computers

Apple has finally made a commitment to VR, announcing on stage today at Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2017 that not only will they offer an external GPU developer kit for MacBooks capable of meeting the graphical demands of VR, but...

Apple Embraces VR: Every Virtual Reality Announcement From the WWDC 2017 Keynote

At Apple's World Wide Developer Conference today, the company made a major shift in their embrace of virtual reality with several new VR announcements during the event's opening keynote. Though well loved, Apple's computer lineup got somewhat left in the dust...

Intel & Major League Baseball Partnership Will Bring Free Weekly Games Streamed in VR

Live VR broadcasts from the world's biggest sporting leagues are steadily becoming easier to find. A major new three year partnership between Intel and MLB, America's leading baseball league, will bring weekly live baseball games streamed in VR for free to...

3 New PSVR Games to Watch: ‘Tiny Trax’, ‘Theseus’ and ‘The Persistence’

After a lull in PSVR quality titles, PlayStation VR owners can now look forward to a handful of genuinely promising titles appearing for the platform in over the next few months. We pick 3 of the most promising PSVR...

‘Testimony’ Uses VR to Create an Opportunity to Heal Sexual Assault Trauma and Raise Awareness

Testimony is one of the most profound and powerful applications of virtual reality that I've seen so far. It's an experimental documentary that captures the stories of sexual assault from five women broken up into five segments. You're completely...
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‘The Mage’s Tale’ Available for Pre-order for Oculus Touch, Launching June 20th

On June 20th, action RPG The Mage’s Tale will launch on the Oculus Store. The dungeon crawler from developer inXile Entertainment is optimised for Rift and Touch, set between the events of The Bard’s Tale III: Thief of Fate...

‘FORM’ Review

The word 'surreal' invariably falls short when it comes to trying to lift the shroud surrounding the VR first-person puzzler FORM. Transporting you to a strange inner universe via an enigmatic black obelisk, you experience what it must feel like to...

New $2,000 Core i9 CPU Isn’t ‘VR Ready’ on Its Own, But Intel Says Integrated Graphics...

While Microsoft's 'Mixed Reality' VR headsets are due to launch with some impressively low minimum hardware requirements that will be met by integrated graphics, the big players presently in the market have a much higher 'VR Ready' bar which...

HTC’s New Link Headset is Using ‘Neon’ Tracking from Ximmerse – Specs & Details

HTC's new mobile VR headset dubbed 'Link'—which curiously does not fall under the company's Vive brand—is also not making use of the same tracking systems employed by the Vive headsets. Instead the company has teamed up with Ximmerse, makers...

HTC and Intel to Show New WiGig Wireless VR Solution at E3 2017 (Updated)

HTC have announced that, in addition to its TPCAST wireless add-on, it's also working with Intel on a WiGig powered wireless VR solution and it's keen to find more partners to work with on further solutions too. HTC seems to...

Oculus Founder Expects No Next-gen VR Headsets From Market Incumbents Before Mid-2018

Oculus' founder Palmer Luckey, who left the company in March, recently opened up on record for the first time in an interview since September 2016. Among a range of topics discussed, Luckey spoke of the timeline of future VR headsets...

Samsung’s New VR Display Has Nearly 3.5x More Pixels Than Rift & Vive

At last week's Display Week 2017 conference, Samsung showed off a new ultra-high resolution display for VR headsets that more than triples the pixel count of the displays in the Oculus Rift and Vive. A new display from Samsung targeting...
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