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Magic Leap Founder Rony Abovitz to Step Down as CEO
Magic Leap pivoted to the enterprise space recently after an extended lukewarm reception by consumers for its $2,300 AR headset. Amid the coronavirus pandemic, company founder and CEO Rony Abovitz then announced layoffs last month that were slated to...
Pico Neo 3 Specs Revealed: Snapdragon XR2, Physical IPD Adjustments & More
Pico Interactive announced last week that Neo 3, the Beijing-based company's next standalone VR headset, is slated to arrive to consumers in Asia starting May 10th, 2021, and to enterprise in the West sometime this summer. We had only...
E3 2017 ‘Day 1’ Roundup: Xbox One X, Fallout 4 VR, Doom VFR and Xbox’s VR...
Here’s a quick summary of all the VR-related news from the first day (or more accurately, ‘day zero’) of E3 2017. Following EA’s early keynote on Sunday, yesterday saw presentations from Microsoft and Bethesda, with some surprising no-shows and...
‘Alien: Rogue Incursion’ is Getting a Non-VR Version Later This Year
Survios announced it's bringing a flatscreen version of Alien: Rogue Incursion (2024) to PC and PS5 in a new 'Evolved Edition'.
Released on PSVR 2 and PC VR headsets late last year, and then Quest 3 in early 2025, Alien:...
Gameface Launches nVidia K1 Based VR Head Mounted Console, the EP1
Gameface labs, a company who are focusing on mobile virtual reality, have announced their latest VR headset, to be based on the powerful mobile SoC (System on Chip) the nVidia TK1 and sporting a 1440p Samsung fabricated Super OLED...
Hands-on: Google’s New Daydream View Headset With Pixel 2 & Pixel 2 XL
Google today announced the next iteration of their Daydream View headset for virtual reality on Android. We highlighted the changes and improvements in our announcement article, but how does it handle in practice?
After watching Google unveiled a range of...
Bowshooter ‘In Death’ Launches Out of Early Access With ‘Paradise Lost’ Update on October 2nd
Sólfar Studios, the Iceland-based studio behind roguelike VR archery game In Death, has announced that the game is set to launch out of Early Access on October 2nd, accompanying the 'Paradise Lost' update which will bring new enemies and...
‘Viral Invasion’ Aims to Be ‘Job Simulator’ Meets ‘Mars Attacks!’
We're all so busy looking at our smartphones and vying for likes on social media that we didn't bother to check whether we were invaded by a hostile alien species or not; that's at least the basic premise behind Viral...
Hilarious Card Game ‘Exploding Kittens’ is Coming to Quest Next Month, Trailer Here
Casual card game Exploding Kittens is coming to VR for the first time next month, promising to bring all of the hilarity of the original game with more than a touch of added VR madness.
Launching October 3rd on Quest...
The Cyberith Virtualiser – a New Virtual Reality Locomotion Device
A video has just been released demonstrating a new device offering gaming locomotion, i.e. translating the actions of walking into in-game actions. It's called the Cyberith Virtualiser.
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Not much is known about the device currently, but from the video...
Boost VC Invests in 15 More VR Startups in Latest Accelerator Class
Boost VC, a startup accelerator based in San Mateo California, announced its seventh accelerator 'Tribe' with 15 new investments in VR companies, bringing its total VR portfolio to 34 startups.
Boost VC, which invests in bitcoin and VR startups, has...
‘Dumb Ways: Free For All’ Brings a Massive Slate of Multiplayer Mini-games to Quest 3 in...
'Dumb Ways to Die' isn't just a railway safety campaign with odd little bean-people. Soon, it will be a VR game too packed with a ton multiplayer mini-games.
Called Dumb Ways: Free for All, the game lets up to six Beans...
Prototype Meta Headset Includes Custom Silicon for Photorealistic Avatars on Standalone
Researchers at Meta Reality Labs have created a prototype VR headset with a custom-built accelerator chip specially designed to handle AI processing to make it possible to render the company's photorealistic Codec Avatars on a standalone headset.
Long before the...
Custom Levels Coming to ‘Beat Saber’ on Quest
Beat Saber (2018) players on PC have a certain luxury of choice that their PSVR and Quest-owning counterparts simply don't: easy access to user-created mods that indefinitely expand the game's number of playable tracks, and now, an official level editor...
‘Rec Room’ Raises $20 Million Series C Investment, Crosses 2 Million Annual VR Users
Following its expansion onto new VR and non-VR platforms alike, social virtual world Rec Room is seeing serious growth. Today the company behind the project announced it has raised a $20 million Series C investment to support its growing population.
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