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Exclusive: Homido Launches VR Smartphone Adapter and Sleek App for VR Video with Web Browser on...

Today Homido is launching a new VR smartphone adapter along with a sleek app designed to play 360 degree, cylindrical, 3D, and 2D videos in a virtual reality format on iOS and Android smartphones. The Homido VR smartphone adapter is...

Apparent Leak Unveils HTC Vive Flow, Including Price & Pre-order Date

An apparent leak in HTC's marketing material has revealed images of the upcoming Vive Flow VR headset ahead of its October 14th unveiling. The headset, which is rumored to target consumers with a casual approach to media consumption, is...

SteamVR Update Adds Clarity-boosting Field-of-view Option and World Scale Adjustment

In recent months SteamVR has been seeing updates with new features for power users. Following improved virtual window management with controller docking, the latest beta update has added a clarity-boosting field-of-view option and the ability to adjust the scale...

New AMD Driver Adds Spacewarp & Reprojection to More Radeon GPUs

Oculus' Asynchronous Spacewarp rendering technology is designed to smooth out the VR experience by making dropped frames a thing of the past. The tech rolled out several months ago, but some of AMD's older Radeon GPUs didn't get support...
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Zombie Shooter ‘Arizona Sunshine’ Now Available on Oculus Quest, Trailer Here

Arizona Sunshine (2016), one of VR's early acclaimed titles, launched nearly three years ago on PC VR headsets, bringing with it VR gunplay and zombie-killing like few had ever experienced in the new medium. Arizona Sunshine has finally come to Oculus...

Oculus Head of Content Teases ‘Months of High Profile VR content’ On the Way

Jason Rubin, Head of Content at Oculus, has recently teased ‘months of high-profile VR content’ for the hardware. In a recent tweet, he points towards the upcoming release of Rock Band VR, an exclusive title for Rift and Touch,...

Crowdfunded Off-Ear Speakers ‘VR Ears’ Delayed Until Summer 2021

VR Ears was successfully crowdfunded back in May, garnering nearly $200,000 over the course of its month-long Kickstarter campaign. Now the developers Rebuff Reality say its off-ear speaker accessory for VR headsets will ship out a few months later than previously...
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Preview: ‘Chronos’ is a Masterfully Directed Adventure That I Can’t Wait to Dig Into

Games like Chronos seem to be a rarity these days: a narrative-driven action-adventure with a rich world, challenging combat, and no reward-driven feedback loops. After just 20 minutes of what the developers tell me will be a near 12 hour...

Facebook Acquires BCI Startup CTRL-Labs to Develop Neural Input Device

Facebook announced today plans to acquire CTRL-Labs, a brain-computer interface startup developing hardware and software for decoding electrical activity from the brain to be used for computer input. Facebook says that with the company's expertise, it plans to develop...

Oculus Teases ‘Asgard’s Wrath’ Asynchronous Multiplayer, Heroes, & More

We're steadily learning more about the upcoming Rift exclusive Asgard's Wrath, a Norse-inspired VR action adventure game being developed by Sanzaru Games and published by Oculus Studios. The company has shared the first details about how the game's "asynchronous multiplayer"...

‘Rec Room’ Studio Estimates Facebook Sold 2-3M Oculus Quest 2 Headsets in Q4

Rec Room isn't just one of the best free social VR apps out there. In the absence of hard sales data, it makes for an excellent watermark for how things are moving in the industry. Now, according to Rec Room's downloads...

Meta Now Requires Mandatory Age Confirmation on Quest Headsets

Meta announced it's adding an obligatory age confirmation feature on the Quest platform, which in addition to asking you for your real birthday, could also put up a hard barrier on younger users accessing apps that aren't age appropriate. Within...

Fancy an Execution? Step in a Virtual Reality Guillotine with Disunion

Disunion is an experimental Oculus Rift game which puts the player through a first-person execution via the infamous Guillotine. The game was created by Erkki Trummal, André Berlemont, and Morten Brunbjerg in two days as part of the Exile Game Jam in Denmark which...

Ricoh Announces Theta SC, a Colorful Mid-Range Addition to 360 Camera Lineup

Ricoh, the Japanese imaging and electronics company, today announced a new model of the Theta, the company's pocketable 360 camera. It's called Theta SC. The new Theta SC is a lighter, more colorful version of the Theta that has almost everything...

Report Details Apple MR Headset Design Challenges & Internal Hurdles

Apple is a notorious black box when it comes to internal projects, although sometimes details based on supply chain rumors shed a sliver of light on what might be happening with the company's AR/VR headset behind closed doors. Much...
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