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‘Star Wars: Beyond Victory’ Review – Podracing Comes to Quest, But Loses Speed in Mixed Reality

Star Wars: Beyond Victory - A Mixed Reality Playset feels like a pretty clear directive to make a high quality MR game that showcases Quest 3's passthrough capabilities. In that respect, it's a partial success, as the MR/VR hybrid...

Case Study: The Design Behind ‘Cubism’s’ Hand-tracking

Hand tracking first became available on the Oculus Quest back in late 2019. Out of enthusiasm for this new input method, I published a demo of Cubism to SideQuest with experimental hand tracking support only a few days later....
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‘Bonelab’ Dev Reveals How Custom Avatars Drive Unique Gameplay

Bonelab, the anticipated sequel of Boneworks (2019) from developer Stress Level Zero, is pushing ahead with its physics-driven gameplay by allowing players to import custom avatars which will gain dynamic stats that influence gameplay. In the release date trailer last week...
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Oculus Research Reveals “Groundbreaking” Focal Surface Display

Oculus Research, the VR and AR R&D division of the company, today announced a new display technology that they're calling the "Focal Surface Display." The display aims to improve the vergence-accommodation conflict that plagues today's VR headsets. The company...

After More than Doubling Funding Goal, About Face Kickstarter Has 37 Hours Left for Ergonomic Oculus...

About Face, an ergonomic liner for the Oculus Rift DK1 and DK2, was enthusiastically received when it launched on Kickstarter at the end of September. The campaign passed its funding goal of $12,000 in less than 24 hours. Now,...

‘Drop Dead’ for Oculus Touch Review

When Gear VR games are ported to the Rift, you usually end up with is more of the same; a game with nicer graphics and the added benefit of positional tracking, but more or less the same experience. However...

NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX Cards Bring New VR Rendering Features and Enhancements

NVIDIA's latest 'RTX' cards are not just an incremental step in performance, but represent significant new direction for NVIDIA's approach to real-time rendering. Built on the company's 'Turing' architecture, the RTX cards pave the way for graphics infused with...
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‘Wedding VR’ Offers an Uncanny Peek into the Wild World of Anime Marriage Simulators

Wedding VR, a marriage simulator created by Japan-based game studio Voltage Inc., came to the Oculus Store and Steam recently. In it, you become a bride-to-be, replete with wedding dress, bouquet and impossibly tiny hands only fit for a character...

Datura Virtual Reality Setup Using Sony HMZ-T1 HMD

Though the big news lately has been about the Oculus Rift, Sony's HMZ-T1 is still a solid HMD option thanks to its 720p resolution and incredible OLED displays. A few months back, Platige Image was brought in to create an...

Book Reveals the Fate of Two Other Valve VR Games Developed Alongside ‘Alyx’

It was big news back in 2017 when Valve announced that it was working on "three full games, not experiments." It wouldn't be until late 2019 that one of the three was revealed as Half-Life: Alyx. But what of...

Live Action VR Series ‘The Faceless Lady’ Debuts in ‘Horizon Worlds’ Next Month

There are plenty of live action VR videos out there, but most are fairly short, based entirely around sports, or other things... Coming soon to Meta Horizon Worlds on Quest is a VR horror series called The Faceless Lady, which is bringing six...

Sony Drops a Slew of PSVR 2 Game Announcements and Updates

Meta wasn't the only company churning out VR news this week with the unveiling of its long-awaited Quest 3 mixed reality headset, as Sony tossed out a slew of PSVR 2 game announcements and updates for its surprise 'VR Day'...

Apple Unveils New Immersive Video Series and Films Coming to Vision Pro

Apple is launching a new slate of immersive video content for Vision Pro using Apple Immersive Video, a 180-degree video format combining 8K 3D video and spatial audio for immersive experiences. Premiering on July 18th is Boundless, which features unique...

Pico Teases New Headset Announcement Coming This Week

Pico is gearing up to launch its next VR headset, which may very well be the previously spotted Pico 4 series of standalone headsets. The company says to stay tuned to an official announcement coming on Thursday, September 22nd. Update...

‘Dimensional Double Shift’ is Owlchemy Labs’ Fastest Growing Game, Tapping Into Quest’s Latest Freemium Trend

Owlchemy Labs has been a powerhouse of top-selling VR games, so when the Google-owned studio released Dimensional Double Shift in beta last year for free, it wasn't immediately clear why the studio behind Job Simulator (2016) was making its first stride into...
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