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‘Sightline: The Chair’ Scoops Top Award at Kaleidoscope VR Film Festival
Developer Tomáš Mariančík (aka Frooxius), developer of the excellent virtual reality experience Sightline: The Chair has been awarded the first ever Jury Prize at the Kaleidoscope VR Film festival in association with VRIDEO.
A firm favourite of Road to VR's, Sightline:...
Samsung Gear VR Demo Units Already Springing up at Best Buy
Despite not yet officially confirming a release date or price for Gear VR, Samsung's first mobile VR headset, demo units are already popping up at electronics retailer Best Buy in the United States.
Reddit user Hackertripz appears to have been...
Meta Visually Unifies Avatars Across Quest, Facebook & Instagram in Metaverse Push
Meta released its new Quest avatar system last year, bringing a big upgrade over the previous in terms of expressiveness and customizability. Now the company announced it's standardizing those across all Meta platforms—Facebook, Messenger, and Instagram—essentially letting users build...
‘VR Lens Lab’ Puts Your Prescription into Gear VR, Kickstarter Now Live
Bespectacled Gear VR owners know the drill: smash into the headset for as long as your temples and poor nose can stand, and hope that you're not crushing or scratching anything in the process. VR Lens Lab, a German-based crowdfunding project,...
Samsung is Streaming its Unpacked Event to Gear VR and Cardboard
Samsung is keeping the lid shut on exactly why they featured the Gear VR in their 'Unpacked' teaser trailer, an event that promises to see the unveiling of the Galaxy S7. But if you've already got your hands on...
Supermedium Raises $1.1M Seed Funding to Further Develop Web-based VR
Supermedium, the team behind the eponymous VR web browser released earlier this year, recently raised a seed investment round of $1.1 million.
As reported by Tech Crunch, funding comes from Y Combinator, General Catalyst, Boost VC, Anorak Ventures, Candela Partners, Social...
Oculus Now Lets You Record Abusive Behavior on Go & Gear VR
Oculus released an update yesterday that brought screen casting to its standalone VR headset, Oculus Go. In a measure to increase user safety on the platform, the company also launched a new security feature which now lets you to...
Samsung Talks Gear VR Development and Thoughts of a VR Feature Phone Way Back in 2005
Details have emerged about the evolutionary past of Samsung's Gear VR, offering a look at the formational stages of the device's history. The pictures show some prototype design concepts that explore an interesting relationship between the smartphone and the VR...
Multiuser VR Sculpting & Paint Tool ‘MasterpieceVR’ Now Available on Vive & Rift
MasterpieceVR is a 3D creation tool that's looking to get an edge on the competition by offering something no other volumetric art program has so far; a multi-user, spectator-friendly, sculpting and painting tool that promises to house everything you need in...
The 20 Best Rated & Most Popular Quest Games & Apps – July 2022
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...
Microsoft Affirms New HoloLens Headset is in Development
Despite some reports last year suggesting that Microsoft may have discontinued HoloLens, the company has affirmed its work on a new version of the AR headset.
Back in July of 2017, HoloLens' Director of Science, Marc Pollefeys, wrote that the company was working...
‘The Unity Cube’ is the Worst Quest Game on Oculus App Lab—on Purpose
The Unity Cube is an experiment from developer Tony "SkarredGhost" Vitillo to test the limits of what Oculus will allow into the App Lab program. Vitillo submitted a fully functional application which simply presents the user with a cube in...
Oculus Rift + Touch Bundle Gets Permanent Price Cut to $400
Following their highly successful Summer of Rift Sale, Oculus have announced a permanent price cut of the Rift headset and Touch controller package to $399. The new price was revealed by Hugo Barra, Oculus' Vice President of Virtual Reality at...
Sony Confirms ‘Iron Man’ PSVR Bundles in North America to Include PS4 Camera Adapter
PlayStation VR on PlayStation 5 won't be able to use the console's upgraded camera, however the company is providing a free adapter so you can still use the original PS4 camera. We previously saw user reports that Japanese and...
Apple Details Vision Pro’s New Persistent Widget System Coming to VisionOS 26
At WWDC this week, Apple revealed a new persistent widget system coming to Vision Pro in visionOS 26. The system will allow users to anchor widgets against walls or on surfaces that will always stay in the same place...



















