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4 Ways to Use VR to Connect With Loved Ones on Valentine’s Day
Being far away from the people you love the most is the pits, and it's often times the little things you miss that really wear on your special friendships. This year is different though, as social VR apps are beginning...
Woojer’s Haptic Vest Garners Over $270,000 at Close of Kickstarter Campaign
Woojer, the company behind the haptic belt Strap, launched a Kickstarter campaign late last month for a new haptic vest, dubbed Ryg. Initially targeting a $50,000 funding goal, the campaign has seen strong support, not only claiming successful funding in...
‘Superhot VR’ Spiritual Successor ‘COLD VR’ Gets New February Launch Date
COLD VR was supposed to launch on January 21st, but was delayed last minute by developer ALLWARE and publisher Perp Games, which maintained it still needed a little more polish. Now the studios have announced the game's new, definitive launch date:...
Fallout 4 VR Shows that Triple-A VR will Bring Triple-A Prices, Pre-Order Now
At Bethesda's E3 briefing last night, the studio announced that Fallout 4 VR will be coming this year for the HTC Vive, but with AAA virtual reality PC content, comes prices to match.
Update: A previous version of this article...
VR World Creation Engine ‘NeosVR’ to Launch Open Beta May 4th
Developer Tomáš ‘Frooxius’ Mariančík, known for his work on the early Oculus experience SightLine, recently announced that NeosVR, the multiuser VR world creation engine, is headed into open beta starting May 4th.
Update (04/25/18): Mariančík recently released a video announcing the open beta's...
Gamescom 2013: Hands On With EVE Valkyrie and the Oculus Rift HD Prototype
At Gamescom this year I was lucky enough to have the chance not only to play the latest build of EVE VR (now known as EVE Valkyrie), but I got to experience it on the new 1080p panel-equipped Oculus...
Meta Reportedly Considering Smaller Mixed Reality “Glasses” for Release in 2027
The competitive landscape has undoubtedly changed with the entrance of Apple Vision Pro earlier this year, raising questions where Meta is headed next with its XR efforts. A recent report from The Information maintains the company is now considering...
‘VR Human Anatomy’ to Give Medical Students a ‘Hands-On’ Using Oculus Touch
Vedavi, a medical animation studio working closely with the University of Zurich, wants students to drop the heavy books and plastic models and pick up a pair of Oculus Touch controllers later this year with their highly detailed anatomy software, VR...
Sharp Unveils Prototype VR Controller, Combining Haptic Gloves & Standard Buttons
Sharp announced it's releasing a prototype VR haptic controller in Japan, which aims to reproduce the sense of touch in VR while serving a familiar button layout.
Japan-based Sharp says its VR haptic controllers can let users sense texture thanks to...
‘Luna’ is a Beautiful Introduction to VR for Gaming Novices
A little while back, Oculus issued a $15 credit to many Rift users after an issue which prevented the headsets from working for a day or two. Seeking out something worthy to drop this credit on, I scrolled through...
Making ‘The Remedy’ – How A Veteran Illustrator Made one of VR’s Best Short Films With...
Perhaps no project to date shows the potential of Quill—Oculus' VR illustration and animation tool—quite like The Remedy. Created by veteran animator Daniel Martin Peixe, The Remedy is a roughly 10 minute long story which establishes a very effective comic book-like...
Apple Reveals Major Vision Pro Updates Coming in VisionOS 26, Developer Beta Available Starting Today
VisionOS 26 is Apple's next major update to Vision Pro. Expected to be released to the public later this year, Apple says developers will be able to start testing the new version starting today. The update adds some major...
Meta Releases ‘First Hand’ Demo to Showcase Quest Hand-tracking to Developers
Meta this week released a new demo app called First Hand to showcase the kind of experiences that developers can build with the company's controllerless hand-tracking tools.
Controllerless hand-tracking has been available on Quest for years at this point, and while...
News Bits: Project Cars Announces Support for Sony’s Morpheus VR Headset
The forthcoming hardcore racing sim, Project Cars, was one of the titles originally rumored to support Sony's Project Morpheus. Today it's been announced officially that the game will support Sony's PS4 VR headset alongside the Oculus Rift.
Prior to the...
‘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...



















