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‘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...
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‘Rec Room’ Exceeds 3M User-created Levels with 40M Monthly Visits, Creator Monetization in the Works

Rec Room has grown significantly since it first came to prominence on PC VR headsets in 2016. It's since added a slew of first-party multiplayer games as well as the ability for users to create their own spaces, which...

Vanishing Realms Review

Garret Bullard hacks and slashes his way through the Zelda-esque, HTC Vive exclusive action RPG Vanishing Realms from one-man development team Indimo Labs, and finds one of the most engrossing room-scale VR experiences out there. Vanishing Realms Details: Official Site Developer: Indimo Labs LLC Available On: Steam (HTC...

Analysis: Latest VR Ready GPUs Benchmarked and Compared with NVIDIA ‘FCAT VR’

While it's been possible to run basic benchmarks on VR-capable GPUs for a rough understanding of performance, NVIDIA's new FCAT VR tool allows detailed logging and analysis of runtime data captured from any VR app on any GPU. We've...

Enterprise Social XR Platform ‘Glue’ at Risk as Developer Declares Bankruptcy

Glue Collaboration, the Helsinki-based startup creating remote collaboration tools for XR, announced it has filed for bankruptcy, putting the future of its business-focused social platform Glue at risk. CEO Jussi Havu announced the news on April 10th, stating that Glue Collaboration...

Sony’s VR Pioneering London Studio Says Next Project Isn’t a VR Game

Sony's London Studio, the team behind trailblazing PSVR content PlayStation VR Worlds (2016) and Blood & Truth (2019), are making a new online co-op combat game that the studio calls its "most ambitious title to date," but it doesn't feature VR support. Co-studio head Tara...

VR Lens Lab Brings Prescription Lenses to Rift and Vive, Kickstarter Now Live

The makers of VR Cover and Gauss Eyewear today announced their newest crowdfunding project which aims to deliver specially-made prescription lens holders for the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. Much like their previous Gear VR lens campaign, VR Lens Lab has...

Wireality is an Experimental Haptic Feedback Device Using Shoulder-mounted Strings

Carnegie Mellon University researchers published a paper recently that proposes a novel VR haptic feedback device, which unlike strictly hand-worn haptic devices, lets you feel objects in VR with a measure of 'positional' resistance. Researchers Cathy Fang, Yang Zhang, Matthew...

Admix Secures $7M Funding to Bring “non-intrusive” Ads to VR & AR Games

Admix, the in-game advertisement platform, today announced it's raised $7 million in its series A financing round. The news was first reported by TechCrunch. Update (June 18th, 2020): It was previously stated that the source of the Series A funding...

Report: ZeniMax Wants Compensation for Tech it Says Carmack Stole to Oculus

ZeniMax, parent company of Bethesda, Arkane Studios, Zenimax Online Studios, and, John Carmack's former employer, id Software, is seeking damages for tech it says Carmack stole away to Oculus. "It was only through the concerted efforts of Mr. Carmack,...

Felix & Paul Studios Secures Multi-Million Dollar Financing for Next Location-based VR Experience

Felix & Paul Studios, the Emmy Award-winning XR studio, announced it has secured funding for its next location-based VR (LBVR) experience based on what it says will be a brand-new IP. The studio hasn't released the exact figure of the...

Apple Vision Pro Will Have an ‘Avatar Webcam’, Automatically Integrating with Popular Video Chat Apps

In addition to offering immersive experiences, Apple says that Vision Pro will be able to run most iPad and iOS apps out of the box with no changes. For video chat apps like Zoom, Messenger, Discord, and others, the...

‘FastHands’ Brings Parkour Action to Quest in May, Aiming to Level-up Hand-Tracked Locomotion

Indie studio X82 announced it's releasing a parkour game next month that's throwing in a veritable buffet of unique locomotion styles, hoping to put Quest's hand-tracking on par with controller-based movement. Called FastHands, the multiplayer game offers up endless procedurally...

Sony Slashes PlayStation VR + ‘Gran Turismo Sport’ Bundle to $200, Black Friday Bundle Prices Return

After announcing the company sold over 2 million PSVR headsets to date, Sony is now temporarily lowering the price of one of its latest bundles to just $200, which includes PlayStation VR, PS Camera, and a copy of Gran Turismo Sport...

Lucky’s Tale Developer Playful Gets $25M Investment

We've been tracking Playful since E3 2014, when the developer behind virtual reality platformer Lucky's Tale blew away the pre-conception that VR was reserved only for first person games. Now, the developer is to receive $25M to accelerate the game's...
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