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10 Daydream Apps Launch Today, 40 More Coming By Year’s End

Alongside the official reveal of the Google Pixel phone last month, Google announced Daydream View, a VR headset and controller combo designed for use with the company's first Daydream-ready phone. Now available on the Google Store, Verizon and Best...

AltspaceVR Raises Extra $10M to Accelerate Growth and Product Development

AltspaceVR, the virtual reality communication platform, has announced it's to receive an additional $10M of funds to help accelerate the company's product development. AltspaceVR is a social communications platform which allows networked VR participants to meet, share, present and talk in virtual...

Exclusive: Visionary Genius Behind ‘BUTTS’ Elucidates on Must-see VR Masterpiece

Tyler Hurd's Proto Award nominated "BUTTS: The VR Experience" is a VR masterpiece for the ages. How did this creative genius manage to distill such tear-worthy beauty into a VR experience of only two minutes? Not content to guess, we...

Co-op ‘Ghostbusters’ VR Game ‘Rise of the Ghost Lord’ Coming to Quest 2 & PSVR 2...

First revealed at the Quest Gaming Showcase back in April as Ghostbusters VR, Sony Pictures Virtual Reality and nDreams today unveiled the name of their upcoming four-player co-op: Ghostbusters: Rise of the Ghost Lord. The game is slated to...

Watch Sony’s E3 Livestream Here @6PM PST

E3 2017 is here, and Sony's conference is kicking off tonight at 6PM PST (local time here) where VR announcements are sure to await. Enjoy our predictions and watch the livestream here linked below. We've long suspected Star Wars: Battlefront...

Intel, Oculus & ESL Launch $200,000 VR eSports ‘Challenger League’

Intel have announced a partnership with ESL and Oculus to launch an eSports league dedicated to VR gaming, featuring Oculus Rift titles The Unspoken and Lone Echo's multiplayer counterpart Echo Arena. It's official, sitting around watching other people play games is...

‘Half-Life: Alyx’ Update Adds New Weapon & Example Content for Workshop Modding

Half-Life: Alyx has been updated to version 1.4.1 which adds an example weapon to the game's Workshop modding tools, allowing modders to experiment with bringing new weapons to the game. The update also includes improvements to the Workshop tools,...

‘Blocked In’ Creator Daniël Ernst on the Art of the Virtual Reality Diorama

Daniël Ernst is the founder and sole member of The Shoebox Diorama, a production company dedicated to exploring the brand new artistic possibilities of a new genre, the virtual reality diorama. Ernst has thus far eschewed VR's early rush for cheap thrills...

Someone Remade Disneyland’s Classic Indiana Jones Ride in VR with ‘Dreams’

Dreams (2020), the VR-compatible game-maker tool suite, has unleashed a ton of creativity since it launched on PS4 earlier this year. You may be (very wisely) planning on skipping the trip to Disneyland this summer, but that doesn't mean...

‘Puzzle Bobble VR’ Review – a Bright, Bubble-shaped Diamond in the Rough

Puzzle Bobble (1994), also known as Bust-a-Move in the West, pioneered the tile-matching puzzle genre, not only inspiring generations of mobile games like Candy Crush Saga, but also spawning uncountable clones throughout the decades. The 2D game is known for its simple but...
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‘Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation’ VR Experience Coming to Immersed Europe

Attendees of Immersed Europe could get their chance to step into the shoes of Tom Cruise on his action packed ride off the side of Airbus A400M Atlas in the new Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation (2015). The experience was created by InMediaStudio in partnership...

‘Bigscreen’s’ New “Big Rooms” Support up to 12 Users, Update Overhauls Performance

Bigscreen, the social VR app that lets you mirror your desktop monitor in virtual reality, and share it with friends, has received a new update which adds three new "Big Room" environments which support up to 12 players simultaneously...

SteamVR Now Supports Automatic Controller Binding, Making Weird VR Controllers a Little Less Weird

Valve released its 1.26 update to SteamVR, which ought to make it easier to play any VR game using any type of motion controller thanks to automatic controller binding. The company initially released a Compatibility Mode in its 1.24 update...

Oculus at SXSW: Watch the Panel, First Public Crystal Cove Demos, Game of Thrones Experience

Last week Oculus VR was in Austin Texas at the annual SXSW interactive festival. In addition to hosting an open panel, the company showed off their latest Oculus Rift Crystal Cove prototype to the public for the first time....
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CES 2015: Sixense Shows off Distortion Correction with STEM Motion Controller (video)

Sixense, creators of the tech behind the Razer Hydra, and the upcoming STEM motion controller, gave us a demo showing how STEM's new distortion correction method can make a huge difference in environments with magnetic distortion. In the early days...
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