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Facebook Spins Out the Excellent ‘Quill’ VR Animation App, Open-sources File Format
Quill is a brilliant VR drawing and animation app originally born within the now shuttered Oculus Story Studio. The app continued on after the group's closure, but with seemingly few long term plans for the app, Facebook has decided...
‘Breachers’ Studio’s Next Game is a ‘Battlefield’-like VR Shooter with 32-Player Matches
Triangle Factory, the studio behind team shooter Breachers, today revealed its next VR game: Forefront, a multiplayer shooter inspired by the Battlefield series.
The game, which supports up to 32 players, will offer vehicles of all types, including land, air and...
Valve’s Michael Abrash Joins Oculus as Chief Scientist—Breaking
And we thought all the exciting Oculus news was done for the week... Valve's Michael Abrash is joining the company as Chief Scientist.Oculus just announced that Michael Abrash, formerly of Valve, will be joining the company as Chief Scientist....
Off-roading Simulator ‘MudRunner’ Comes to Quest in Brand New VR Spin-off, Trailer Here
Saber Interactive, the studio behind hit off-roading simulator MudRunner (2017), released a VR take on the game that brings a more immersive slice of the original's action to Quest for the first time.
MudRunner VR isn't a 1:1 port as such, instead...
Not an Early April Fools Prank: Facebook Acquires Oculus VR Inc for $2 Billion—Breaking
According to a press release issued by PR Newswire, Facebook has today announced that it has agreed to purchase Oculus VR Inc for $2 billion.
In a move that was unknown even to some within Oculus, Facebook has agreed to...
Facebook is Researching Brain-Computer Interfaces, “Just the Kind of Interface AR Needs”
Regina Dugan, VP of Engineering at Facebook's Building 8 skunkworks and former head of DARPA, took the stage today at F8, the company's annual developer conference, to highlight some of the research into brain-computer interfaces going on at the...
CES 2014: Oculus VR and Eve Valkyrie Have Intel’s Attention
In a surprising appearance, the team behind Eve Valkyrie showed up at Intel's CES 2014 booth with four Oculus Rift HD prototypes connected in a networked environment running multiplayer matches of the forthcoming virtual reality space dog-fighter.
Early yesterday morning...
Qualcomm is Preparing Developers for the Coming Wave of Smartphone-tethered AR Glasses
Today at AWE 2021, Qualcomm announced Snapdragon Spaces XR Developer Platform, a head-worn AR software suite the company is using to kickstart a broader move towards smartphone-tethered AR glasses.
Qualcomm says its Snapdragon Spaces XR Developer Platform offers a host...
‘The Gallery – Ep. 2 : Heart of the Emberstone’ Review – Longer, Stronger and Well...
The Gallery - Episode 2: Heart of the Emberstone (2017) comes a year and a half after Call of the Starseed (2016), episode one in the narrative-based adventure puzzle game series. As a successor to one of the first room-scale games in existence, the...
‘Blaston’ is a Fantastically Creative VR ‘Shooter’ That’s All About Making You Move
Blaston, the latest VR title from Resolution Games, is a 1 vs. 1 multiplayer VR game that thinks completely outside the box and explores new and interesting mechanics that challenge the notion of what a 'VR shooter' can be.
I've...
Studio Behind ‘Surge’ Launches First VR Game ‘KIN’ on Gear VR, Headed to Rift in January...
House of Secrets, the Amsterdam-based studio behind acclaimed real-time VR music videos Surge (2015) and Apex (2017), have released their first full VR game, a puzzle platformer titled KIN. Now available on Gear VR for $10, the game will also be headed to Oculus...
Insomniac Announces ‘The Unspoken’, a Magical Multiplayer Oculus Touch Exclusive
Insomniac Games, the studio known for series such as Ratchet & Clank and Spyro the Dragon, today announced an Oculus Touch exclusive that promises to have you throwing fire balls and wielding magic of all sorts. It's called The Unspoken.
Boasting more than 25 spells and...
Samsung’s Long-awaited Vision Pro Competitor Gets Price, Specs & Release Date
Samsung's Project Moohan is officially called 'Galaxy XR', as the Korean tech giant has today launched its long-awaited competitor to Apple Vision Pro.
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Priced at $1,800 and releasing today in the US, Samsung Galaxy XR is the first headset to...
Meta Leaks Next-gen Smart Glasses with Display Ahead of Connect This Week
It seems Meta has a new generation of smart glasses to show off at Connect this week, and it appears we've just got an eye-full of the long-rumored version with a built-in display, previously codenamed 'Hypernova'.
As first reported by...
Here’s What 100 Hours of VR Drum Practice Gets You
Virtual reality drumming app Paradiddle recently accepted submissions for VR drummers to show off their skills. One drummer, who says they've never played drums in the real world, submitted a killer cover of 'Assassin' by MUSE.
Yet another case for the power...




















