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Today’s Firefox Update Brings Rift and Vive WebVR Support to Everyone
Today is a big day for WebVR as the latest public update to Firefox adds support for the Rift and Vive, making it easy to step into VR experiences that are served directly from the web.
WebVR is a in-development...
Oculus’ New ‘Stereo Shading Reprojection’ Brings Big Performance Gains to Certain VR Scenes
Oculus is calling its latest rendering tech 'Stereo Shading Reprojection', and says that for scenes which are heavy in pixel shading, the approach can save upwards of 20% on GPU performance. The company says the new VR rendering technique...
‘Hitman 3 VR: Reloaded’ Studio XR Games Lays Off Majority of Staff
XR Games, the Leeds, UK-based studio known for Hitman 3 VR: Reloaded (2024) and Zombieland VR: Headshot Fever (2021), have laid off a reported 86 percent of its staff.
The information was shared by María Fernanda Díez Huerta via LinkedIn, who was...
‘EVE: Valkyrie’ Gets Major ‘Wormholes’ Update with Intriguing New Game Mode
CCP Games are updating the sci-fi dogfighting EVE: Valkyrie today with a brand new game mode, a league system, and a number of fixes and improvements. The 'Wormhole' mode creates new combat scenarios, as travelling into an anomaly changes the...
New PSVR Model on the Way Featuring Integrated Audio & HDR Pass-through
Sony today announced that a new PlayStation VR model is in the works focusing on some issues surrounding ease of use.
Update (10/02/17): The updated PSVR model in launch in Japan October 14th. New images have been sourced from the Japanese PlayStation...
‘Mario Kart VR’ Blows Visitors Away at Japan’s Shinjuku VR Zone
IGN's Lucy O'Brien traveled to Japan's Shinjuku VR Zone, Bandai Namco's newly opened VR arcade featuring bespoke VR games from top properties including Dragon Ball, Gundam, Evangelion, and yes, Mario Kart.
O'Brien is seen on video describing her experience with...
NextVR Brings Its Live Streamed Events to Oculus Quest
NextVR, the VR livestreaming event app, is now available on Oculus Quest for free, which is said to come alongside a new technology that promises clearer and sharper video rendering.
The studio calls the new rendering technology 'PAVE', which is said...
Update, Video Removed: See the Behind-closed-doors Oculus Rift CES 2013 Press Presentation [video]
Update (1/14/13, 1:15pm): The video has been removed from YouTube by the user. It is not clear why; Oculus may have asked them to. I'll see if I can track down another video.
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Last week Oculus Inc. demoed their Oculus...
Meta Releases New Audio Ray Tracing Tool for More Immersive Soundscapes on Quest
Meta announced its released a new Acoustic Ray Tracing feature that will make it easier for developers to add more immersive audio to their VR games and apps.
Released in the Audio SDK for Unity and Unreal, the new Acoustic...
Valve, Bossa Studios and Vertigo Games Talk Steam VR at EGX Rezzed, Video Now Up
After HTC's surprise announcement at MWC and the subsequent VR frenzy of GDC, it became apparent some lucky developers had had their hands on early Steam VR hardware for some time. Two of them are Bossa Studios' (Surgeon Simulator)...
Virtual Reality Netflix Prototype for Oculus Rift Built in Less Than 24 Hours During Company’s Hackathon
Netflix Hack Day is a recurring event at the popular video-streaming company where employees spend 24 hours building cool experiments for the platform. One such experiment is 'Oculix' a virtual reality version of Netflix which supports the Oculus Rift...
10 Games Getting Quest 2 Enhancements at Launch
Oculus Quest 2 launches tomorrow, bringing along with it higher resolution, higher refresh rate, and a cutting edge Qualcomm Snapdragon XR2 chipset to drive native VR games on the company's most powerful standalone headset yet.
Although all games out of...
Reflecting on AltspaceVR’s Technical Achievements & Social VR Lessons Learned
AltspaceVR held its final official Good Bye gathering on Thursday, August 3rd after announcing last week that they had run out of money and their investors decided to not invest any more. News of the social VR platform's closing rippled throughout...
‘Beat Saber’ to Get a Multiplayer Mode, Custom Avatars & Sabers Considered
Beat Saber developer Beat Games (formerly Hyperbolic Magnetism), has confirmed work on a competitive multiplayer mode for the popular rhythm game, which may in the future include custom avatars and sabers.
Beat Saber currently offers global, friend, and local leaderboards...
Sony to Close First-party Manchester Studio Making ‘AAA’ PSVR Games
Sony is closing its Manchester, UK-based studio, the very same that was opened in 2015 to produce 'AAA' PSVR exclusives.
While no games came from Manchester Studio throughout its five-year existence, it's clear the team was working on VR up until...







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