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‘Racket: Nx’ for HTC Vive Gets Early Access Launch Date and Multiplayer
One Hamsa, developers of VR sports game Racket: Nx, announced that the Early Access version will arrive on Steam in late January 2017. This first version will also include "competitive" multiplayer and a new single player mode.
The Racket Nx...
Oculus CEO Steps Down to Head PC Division, Founder Palmer Luckey to Shuffle Too
In a post to the company's official blog, Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe confirms he'll be stepping down from the company's top position to head the new PC VR group. Founder Palmer Luckey will also land in a new role.
Brendan...
‘Raw Data’ Developer Survios Raises $50 Million, Now Top Funded VR Dev Studio
Survios, the VR development studio behind the Vive title Raw Data, has announced a whopping $50 million in funding to further expand its VR content offerings. The new round makes the company the most funded pure VR development studio to date.
Survios'...
‘The Unspoken’ is Getting a Spectator Mode, New Classes, Arenas, and Play Modes in 2017
Insomniac Games have laid out their plans detailing content updates for their Oculus Touch launch title The Unspoken - and there's a lot of stuff on the way.
Insomniac Games have once again provided one of the highlights of an...
VR Metaverse Company High Fidelity Raises $22 Million in New Funding
Uncovered among recent regulatory filings, VR metaverse company High Fidelity has raised $22 million in new funding.
The company, which has reportedly raised $17.45 million across four prior venture investments, has raised a new round of venture capital to the...
What VR Headset Makers (not analysts) Have Actually Said About Sales Expectations
If you're at all involved in the VR space, you likely recently saw a flurry of downtrodden headlines describing "slow," and "modest," holiday VR headset sales, with some even calling VR "the biggest loser this holiday."
The impetus of those headlines...
Get $100 in Free VR Games When You Buy an NVIDIA GPU and HTC Vive
Haven't decided whether to pull out the credit card and buy the VR system of your dreams yet? Well, NVIDIA is making it that much harder this holiday season with a new bundle that includes three highly rated games...
Nikon Turns Attention Toward 360 Video with Expert Panel
Nikon’s foray into 360° video continued at the 'Nikon Innovation Forum: The 360° Video Revolution' event in NYC last week. There the company's recently released KeyMission 360 action camera was the centerpiece among non-360° action cameras of the same...
Deal: Buy an Oculus Rift and Get a $100 Amazon Gift Card
Black Friday has passed, but a few holiday VR deals remain. For a limited time, Amazon is offering a $100 gift card with every Rift purchase.
It might not be the same straight up $100 discount HTC had offered on...
Now with Netflix, HBO, and NextVR, Daydream Rises to Top VR Platform for Video
Google's Daydream Android VR platform just got a lot more watchable. Already the only place you'll find the official YouTube VR app, Daydream just picked up more major content providers.
While Gear VR has been the exclusive home of Netflix...
Magic Leap CEO: “we are making mini-production test runs of our first system”
Following a bout of skeptical press, Magic Leap CEO Rony Abovitz claims the company is already doing production test runs of their first AR "system," which is said to be "small, sleek, cool."
Following an oddly scathing headline from The Verge,...
AxonVR Raises $5.8 Million Seed Investment for Advanced VR Haptics
AxonVR has announced the closure of a $5.8 million seed investment, which is claimed to be the largest secured by a VR haptics company to date. The company intends to use the money to build out their HaptX platform...
HTC Launches ‘Vive Studios’ for First-party VR Game Development and Publishing
HTC today announced that they've spun up an internal development and publishing group called Vive Studios.
Mirroring Oculus' own 'Oculus Studios' effort, HTC has formed an internal VR game studio and publishing group called Vive Studios. Like other first-party studios,...
Hands-on: ‘Pluto’ Makes Every VR App Social
Pluto is a new social app currently in alpha from the Seattle-based startup Pluto VR. Instead of taking its cues from multi-user spaces like AltspaceVR or VR Chat however, which provide users with various shared virtual environments and must be run to...
Leap Motion’s New Mobile Hand-tracking Sensor Brings 180-degree Field of View
The new Leap Motion Mobile Platform consists of hardware and software optimised for VR and AR hand tracking on mobile devices. Building on the success of the original Leap Motion device, the brand new hardware aims to be tightly...




















