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‘Rise of the Tomb Raider’ PlayStation VR Experience ‘Blood Ties’ Detailed

Rise of the Tomb Raider (2015) launches for PlayStation 4 on October 11th and with it comes an exclusive PSVR experience called 'Blood Ties'. While Rise of the Tomb Raider launched on Xbox One in 2015 and PC early this...

Hands On with ‘Radial G’ Steam Early Access Demo (60 FPS Gameplay Video)

Tammeka games, the UK based creators of "high-octane multi-player sci-fi racer" Radial-G, have made it to Steam via the Greenlight program. To celebrate, the team have released an 'early access' demo which includes new tracks and ships. We take...

Futuremark to Launch New DirectX 12 Scene for VRMark Benchmark

Benchmark specialists Futuremark are launching a new ‘room’ on November 22nd as a free update for VRMark Advanced &  Professional Editions. Adding to the existing ‘Orange Room’ and ‘Blue Room’ benchmarks, ‘Cyan Room’ uses a pure DirectX 12 engine...

XR Glasses Maker VITURE Secures $100M Investment as Wearable Segment Heats Up

San Francisco-based XR glasses company VITURE announced it's secured $100 million in Series B financing, which the company says will aid in global expansion of its consumer XR glasses. Viture initially announced in October 2024 it successfully secured a Series...
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‘FlyInside Flight Simulator’ Preview – A Promising Start in VR-native Flying

FlyInside FSX, the crowdfunded VR plugin for Microsoft Flight Simulator X (2006), was built well before first-party VR motion controllers existed, developed back in the DK2-era of 2015 as an ad hoc way of jumping into an already highly-detailed flight...

Xbox Boasts Investment in Future Tech, But Still Silent on VR After Backpedaling

Back in 2016, at the E3 reveal of the Xbox 'Project Scorpio' (which would go on to become the company's flagship Xbox One X), Microsoft said the console would bring "high fidelity VR" to Xbox. But after backpedaling from those...

Meta is Testing a Quest UI Overhaul and 3D Instagram Photos in Latest Horizon OS Release

Meta announced it's now running a test in Quest's latest Horizon OS release (v77) that overhauls the platform's dock-based UI for a new launcher overlay. Additionally, Meta says some users will also see 3D Instagram photos in their feed...

Hands-on: HTC Vive Pre Brings Notable Improvements to Visuals, Tracking, and Ergonomics

Although the HTC Vive saw a significant delay, pushing its expected delivery date way back from Q4 2015 to April 2016, development of the headset has not stalled. The new Vive Pre, the second Vive development kit, makes improvements...

Valve Promotes Latest Knuckles Controller from Prototype to Dev Kit

Valve this week revealed the newest version of their upcoming 'Knuckles' VR controllers which have graduated from the 'EV' prototype distinction to 'DV' dev kits. While Valve has yet to offer any indication of launch timing, the latest refinements...

A Concise Beginner’s Guide to Apple Vision Pro Design & Development

Apple Vision Pro has brought new ideas to the table about how XR apps should be designed, controlled, and built. In this Guest Article, Sterling Crispin offers up a concise guide for what first-time XR developers should keep in...

Magic Leap 2 Update Claims Vastly Improved Hand-tracking, Biometric ID, & More

A major update to Magic Leap 2 claims to improve many of the device's core capabilities. With all that's happened in the XR space recently, it's hard to believe that Magic Leap 2 has hardly been out for more than...

Hands-on: ‘Brass Tactics’ is a True Tabletop RTS with All the Classic Trimmings

At Oculus' off-site GDC demo booth we saw Brass Tactics, Hidden Path Entertainment's new real-time strategy game coming exclusively to Oculus Touch after their hit tower defense game Defense Grid 2 Enhanced VR Edition (2016). Filled with a bevy of miniature structures and multiple toy soldier units, the...

GameStop CEO Bets on Virtual Reality “We’re going to be the destination for VR”

Despite the rise of digital distribution, GameStop is a bricks and mortar game retailer who's managed to weather the changing seasons remarkably well. The company has it's hands in multiple "channels", including PC game download portals and games media,...
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Varjo is Bringing Foveated XR Cloud Streaming to Its Headsets & Beyond

Varjo, makers of high-end XR headsets, today announced it is introducing an XR cloud streaming service for enterprise customers. The streaming solution leverages the headset's foveated rendering to deliver high quality XR experiences on less powerful machines. The company...

Sony Pictures Teams With The VOID on ‘Jumanji: Reverse the Curse’, Launching November 27th

Hot on the heels of Avengers: Damage Control, the next experience heading to VR attraction The VOID is Jumanji: Reverse the Curse, made in collaboration with the Sony Pictures Virtual Reality group. The title will come to select VOID...
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