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Survios’s Next VR Title is ‘Creed: Rise to Glory’, a Boxing Game with Ambitious Mechanics

Hot on the tail of Survios' latest release, Sprint Vector (2018), the studio today announced their next VR project, Creed: Rise to Glory, a VR boxing game being developed in partnership with MGM as a complement to the upcoming Creed II movie. While there's...

Meta Pushes Back on Reported Outsourcing of XR Headset Designs

A recent report from The Information maintains Meta has started outsourcing some design for upcoming headsets amid a shift to move part of its production out of China. Now, Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth refutes those specific design claims, saying...

Hands-on: Oculus Quest is Ready and Able to Handle ‘Beat Saber’s’ Highest Difficulty

Beyond being a great VR game, Beat Saber has inadvertently turned out to be an excellent benchmark of controller tracking performance, and thus a great test for the upcoming Oculus Quest standalone headset, the first from the company to feature inside-out...

Inexpensive GTX 1050 Ti Gets Official Thumbs-Up for Oculus Minimum Spec

Following the launch of the more powerful GTX 1060, 1070, and 1080, NVIDIA revealed the latest in their low-end GeForce GPUs, the GTX 1050 and 1050 Ti in October 2016. While not the first in line for a premium VR...
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Dave & Buster’s Hosts Wireless VR System from VRcade, ‘Time Zombies’ and ‘Interstellar Marine’s Bullseye’

Dave & Buster's Milpitas, CA location is now playing host to the restaurant arcade chain's first wireless VR system, an optically tracked solution created by VRcade. VRcade, a gaming and entertainment-centric division of VRstudios, have launched two titles on their...

New ‘Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond’ Trailer Shows a Full Slate of Multiplayer Game Modes

We've known Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond would include a multiplayer component, but with just a little over a week left before its December 11th launch, it wasn't clear if developer Respawn Entertainment would offer much detail ahead of...

PlayStation’s ‘Big Games, Big Deals’ Sale Kicks off, Including Discounts on Some Top PSVR 2 Games

PlayStation has kicked off its big 'Big Games, Big Deals' promotion today, putting a massive number of PS5 and PS4 games on deep discount. While there are only a handful of PSVR 2 and PSVR games among the lot,...

HTC Teases Vive with Improved Resolution, Debut at CES Next Week

HTC today shared a teaser image which appears to indicate a forthcoming new model of the HTC Vive with improved resolution. The image, which was shared on the official Vive twitter account, shows the words "New Year's Resolution;" the first...

PlayStation Summer Sale Brings Big Discounts to Top PSVR 2 Titles

PlayStation's annual summer sale just kicked off, tossing a ton of deep discounts your way on some of the best PSVR 2 games out there. There are a ton of great games currently on sale—available between today and July 29th—many of...

Acclaimed Oculus Shooter ‘Dead and Buried’ to Come Bundled With Touch

Oculus has announced that the first-party VR game Dead and Buried will come bundled for free with Oculus Touch (for all purchases, not just pre-orders), bringing the Touch bundled content count to three games. Dead and Buried joins the Touch...

Oculus Founder Says Rift “Works fine” for Room-scale VR

Over the weekend, Oculus founder Palmer Luckey "Threw Oculus Sensors in opposing corners of this room for the hell of it," replicating a 'room-scale' VR setup like the HTC Vive. The result? "Works fine," he says. The notion of 'room-scale'...
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Snapchat Reveals Latest Spectacles AR Glasses with Attractive Pricing for Developers

Today Snap Inc, the company behind Snapchat, announced the latest version of its Spectacles AR Glasses which the company is calling Spectacles '24. The new device makes notable improvements to field-of-view, resolution, and hand-tracking, and overhauls its software stack....

Tencent Reportedly in Talks with Meta to Bring Quest 2 to China

Chinese tech giant Tencent is reportedly shuttering its XR development team, ostensibly putting a hold on its home-grown VR ambitions. That may not mean Tencent is hanging up the XR towel for good though. As reported by Chinese language publication 36Kr,...

‘Astro Bot’ Director Nicolas Doucet Takes Over as Head of Sony’s JAPAN Studio

Nicolas Doucet, the Creative Director and Producer behind PSVR exclusive ASTRO BOT Rescue Mission (2018), has been promoted to Director of Sony Interactive Entertainment's JAPAN Studio. As first reported by Gematsu, Doucet is said to continue his work as a creative director...

‘High Fidelity’ Refocuses on Enterprise Market, Lays off 25% of Staff

High Fidelity, the VR platform from Second Life creator Philip Rosedale, announced that the company has laid off 25 percent of its staff in a new shift that will put a much heavier emphasis on enterprise usecases. Rosedale announced the...
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