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Meta Shows Off Wrist-worn XR Controller Prototype to Ray-Ban Parent EssilorLuxottica

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg showed off a prototype of the company's wrist-worn XR controller this week to EssilorLuxottica, the Italian parent company behind the Ray-Ban Stories camera glasses and a host of other conventional luxury eyewear brands. Although outwardly...

‘Espire 1: VR Operative’ to Launch on All Major VR Headsets This Week

Espire 1: VR Operative, Digital Lode and Tripwire Interactive's hotly-awaited VR stealth combat game, may have been delayed a day before it was originally set for release back in September, but now the studios say the time is nigh...

Sony’s First-party Platformer ‘Astro Bot: Rescue Mission’ Heading to PSVR in October

Sony's Japan Studio, the minds behind The Playroom VR (2016), today announced that their upcoming platformer Astro Bot: Rescue Mission is headed to PSVR in the US on October 2nd, 2018. European availability will come a day later, October 3rd. Japan Studio Creative Director...
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Facebook Reveals Latest Wrist-worn Prototypes for XR Input & Haptics

Facebook today revealed some of its latest research and vision for a wrist-worn input device that the company expects to form the basis of AR and VR interactions and haptics in the future. The device, still in a research...

‘Half-Life: Alyx’ Was Among the Best Selling Steam Games Released in March

Valve today announced the top 20 best selling games on Steam released in March. And coming as little surprise to anyone, Half-Life: Alyx (2020) has made it on the list. In its monthly top sales list, Valve is accounting for...

Apple Has a Team “Exploring the AR Space” Analyst Speculates after ex-HoloLens Engineer Hire

Rumours surrounding Apple's entry into the immersive technology sector have been circulating for years. But as both AR and VR retail products begin to ship this year, Apple's latest hire has lead an analyst at Piper Jaffray to suggest that...

Google Glass News Bits: Online Manual Reveals New Features, Glass Goes Go Karting

Google Glass videos are starting to pop up as the AR glasses reach early adopters. One video shows a cool perspective on a go kart race. Google has published the Glass manual online which reveals some official Google Glass...

Inside Look at 3DRudder, Feet-Controlled Navigation Device Headed to CES 2015

A new PC peripheral company based in France is launching a feet-controlled 3D navigation and motion control device that wants to get the lower half of your body in the game, freeing up your hands for the more important things in virtual...
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‘Wanderer’ is a Time-traveling VR Adventure Coming This Year, New Gameplay Trailer Here

Wanderer is an upcoming VR adventure game inspired by Quantum Leap (1989) and Dark (2017) that lets you travel back through history to prevent the collapse of civilization. The game's developers, Oddboy and M Theory, today released a new trailer...

Watch the Oculus Rift Virtual Reality Panel at SXSW

The first Oculus Rift developer kits are but a few weeks away from landing in the hands of eager developers. Oculus continues to build excitement for the release; this week they were at the annual SXSW and held a virtual reality...
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‘Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Tempestfall’ Gets First Look at Gameplay, Invite-only Beta

Due to launch later this year on PC VR and Quest, Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Tempestfall, is shaping up to look like a rather pretty (if creepy) game with an interesting mix of melee & magic combat. Developer Carbon...

‘Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality’ Review

You're dying for season 3 of Rick and Morty (2013) to come out, and the release of episode 1 on April Fool's Day isn't helping. You've got a fever that only the drunken ramblings of the genius Rick Sanchez and...

‘Transpose’ Review – Spatial Puzzles Perfect for an Army of One

Even though Transpose (2018) is a single-player puzzle game, you'll have to master the art of cooperation to solve a staggering number of its four-dimensional head-scratchers. Transpose is punishing, frustrating at times, but ultimately a capable and refreshingly innovative...
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This Full Video of Valve’s ‘Aperture Science’ VR Demo is Wonderful and Spoilerific

*** Warning: This Video Contains Spoilers *** Watch as an anonymous player works through Valve's Aperture Science demo, built to demonstrate the capabilities of Valve's new virtual reality technology - HTC Vive. At the PlayHubs game jam in London last week...
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HTC Shows Vive Pre Working Great for Seated VR at CES

While the HTC Vive is known for its 'room-scale tracking space, the company maintains that it works just as well for seated VR experiences. At CES 2016, HTC showed just that, using Elite Dangerous running great on the new Vive...
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