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The 20 Best Rated & Most Popular Quest Games & Apps – January 2023
While Oculus doesn’t offer much publicly in the way of understanding how well individual games & apps are performing across its Quest 2 storefront, it’s possible to glean some insight by looking at apps relative to each other. Here’s...
Valve Index Now Available in 31 Countries Including Canada & Japan
This week Valve announced that the Index headset and other hardware can now be bought and shipped to Canada and Japan, in addition to 28 other regions.
Update (November 22st, 2019): Valve announced this week that the Index headset and...
MythBuster’s Jamie Hyneman Launches IndieGogo to Build VR Shoes that Act Like Mini Treadmills
Jamie Hyneman of MythBuster's fame may be retired from the show, but he's still tinkering in the lab, this time with a new project in mind that aims to address one of the most pernicious problems to date, VR...
Valve and Pixvana Bring High-quality Adaptive VR Video to Steam, Beta Launches Today
Pixvana, makers of the cloud-based 360 video creation studio SPIN, today announced that their software services—integrated at the core of Valve's own Steam 360 Video Player—will be launching today into beta. This effectively lets SPIN users publish their VR videos directly...
Rev VR Podcast (Ep. 59): James Andrew Talks PAX East and Rift Wars, Download The Demo...
Indie developer, James Andrew, joins me on this episode of the Rev VR Podcast. He shares his epic adventures at PAX East and the development process behind his new game, Rift Wars.
Like so many other indie developers in the...
Microsoft Offering $100k and a Pair of HoloLens to Academic Institutions
Microsoft is reaching out to US-based universities and research institutions with a new program that will award $100,000 and two HoloLens development kits to 5 carefully chosen projects.
In a bid to work closer with academic institutions and push the conceptual boundaries of the yet unreleased...
GameStop CEO Bets on Virtual Reality “We’re going to be the destination for VR”
Despite the rise of digital distribution, GameStop is a bricks and mortar game retailer who's managed to weather the changing seasons remarkably well. The company has it's hands in multiple "channels", including PC game download portals and games media,...
‘In Death’ April Update Brings Asynchronous Challenge Mode and Hellishly Difficult Dungeons
In Death, the roguelike bow-shooter from Sólfar Studios, the developers behind Everest VR (2016), just received a much-awaited update that's aiming to add a little more depth to the polished, and extremely difficult medieval-themed single player game. Starting today, In Death will include dungeons, dubbed...
‘Dimensional Double Shift’ Moves to Early Access on Quest, Releases First Paid DLC
Owlchemy Labs announced its free-to-play social game Dimensional Double Shift is leaving open beta and getting its first paid DLC, bringing a new Texas-inspired dimension to the game.
Now in early access on Quest, Dimensional Double Shift is a lot like...
NVIDIA Special Event Livestream at 6pm PT
NVIDIA has announced a 'Special Event' which will be livestreamed starting at 6pm PT today (May 6th).
NVIDIA Special Event Livestream
Livestream will appear above once the stream goes live.
Nvidia remains tight-lipped about what we'll see at their Special Event hosted...
How to Pitch Your Great VR Idea to the Industry at SVVR Expo 2015
Got an incredible idea, related to virtual reality you know that, if only you had the chance to tell someone, would wow the VR industry? At the SVVR Conference and Expo 2015, they're giving you that chance; 3 minutes to...
VRTGO 2014: CCP Games – ‘EVE: Valkyrie – The Making of a Cross-platform VR Exclusive’, Live...
EVE: Valkyrie is a VR-exclusive, fast-paced space dog-fighting game from EVE: Online creators CCP Games. As one of the first games to showcase the incredible possibilities of VR technology in games, EVE: Valkyrie has played a pivotal role in...
Play for Dream Expects to Adopt Android XR for Standalone OS and Bring New Focus to...
China-based Play for Dream, the company building a Vision Pro-like standalone MR headset, says it expects to adopt Android XR as its standalone operating system.
The Play for Dream MR headset has been called a "Vision Pro knock-off," given its...
‘Rec Room’ Now Has Over 1 Million Monthly Active VR Users
It was only a month ago when social VR platform Rec Room reported it crossed the two million annual VR user mark, an important milestone worth celebrating along the app's five-year journey. Its developers tell Road to VR that...
Oculus Story Studio University to Bring VR Film Workshops to NYU and USC
Today during the Sundance Film Festival, Oculus has announced Story Studio University, and initiative by the company to "inspire and educate the next generation of VR filmmakers."
While games are an obvious starting point for virtual reality, perhaps the next...




















