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Amazon Prime Day Slashes Prices on VR Headsets

Amazon's annual deal day for its 'Prime' members is on, and there's a handful of deals on VR headsets. Here's the breakdown: Amazon Prime day offers exclusive deals to Prime members (you can get a free trial here). The deals...
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HapTech is Bringing Realistic Weapon Recoil to a VR Controller for $60

HapTech, formerly Striker VR, are specialising in haptic and recoil simulation for use in gaming peripherals. Ben Lang got to try out the company's new prototype and chat with Founder and President Kyle Monti. We first covered HapTech, formerly known as...

Meta Releases ‘Horizon Hyperscape’ for Quest 3, Letting You Explore (and maybe eventually upload) Photorealistic Places

During Meta Connect's big Quest 3S unveiling yesterday, where the company showed off the $300 headset for the first time, Meta announced it was also releasing a new app exclusively for Quest 3 that lets you explore photorealistic spaces....

‘Metro Awakening’ Review – Atmospheric, Claustrophobic, and Eventually Monotonic

Metro Awakening brings the post-apocalyptic tunnel-dwelling franchise to VR for the first time, but is it a good fit? Read on to find out in our full review. Metro Awakening Details: Publisher: Vertigo Games Available On: Quest, PC VR, PSVR 2 Reviewed On: Quest 3 Release Date: November...

‘Psychonauts in the Rhombus of Ruin’ Launches on PSVR February 21st, New 360 Trailer

Double Fine, the studio behind cult classic Psychonauts (2005), last year announced a PSVR exclusive, Psychonauts in the Rhombus of Ruin, a direct continuation of the original story. Now the company has set the game's release date and released a...

Reality Labs Revenue Drops to Lowest Point on Record Ahead of Quest 3 Launch

Meta today announced its third quarter earnings, revealing that revenue of its Reality Labs XR division dropped to its lowest point on record, just ahead of the launch of Quest 3. All eyes are now on the holiday season...
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Watch ‘Beat Saber’ in Action on PSVR

Though a release date still hasn't been announced, lightsaber VR rhythm game Beat Saber was confirmed earlier this year to be coming to PSVR. Now PlayStation Underground, Sony's official video series, is showing the game in action on the...
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Inventive Multiplayer VR Studio Reveals New Game Fusing ‘Rocket League’ with Bows & Arrows

The studio behind the inventive multiplayer VR title Half + Half today announced a new multiplayer VR game called NOCK. Due to launch "soon" on Oculus Quest, Nock looks like Rocket League played with bows & arrows instead of cars. 'Normal' is the studio behind Half +...

Samsung Reveals ‘Gear VR’ Headset—Breaking

Samsung, at the company's 'IFA Unpacked' event in Berlin today, have officially revealed their 'Gear VR' headset. This article is breaking! More details being added as we go. Be sure to refresh from time to time or check back with...

‘John Wick Chronicles’ Review

Neo-noir action-thriller John Wick (2014) has come to the Vive in its new VR wave-based arcade shooter John Wick Chronicles. Recreating the look and feel of the film franchise while offering up a heavy slice of gun play and plenty of moving targets, the game can be...

Final Touch Battery Life Improved 40% Over Original Prototype, Up to 30 Hours of Use

At a session breaking down the design of Touch during Oculus Connect, designers of the controller explored the choices that drove the form and functionality of the device. Oculus Touch finally has an official launch date of December 6th and...
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Watch: IKinema’s HTC Vive Powered Full Body Motion Capture System is Impressive

Motion capture specialist IKinema has demonstrated its new in-development low-cost motion capture system which uses use 6 points of SteamVR tracking points to deliver a pretty accurate recreation of real world motion. The potential diversity of uses for Valve's SteamVR...

Apple is Adding visionOS Support to Open-source Game Engine to Expand Development Options

In a rare move, Apple is directly adding support for its visionOS platform to the Godot open-source game engine. The move expands the range of tools that developers can use to build content for the headset. Like the popular Unity...

AR Optics Company Lumus Secures Further $30M in Funding

Lumus Ltd. recently confirmed a $30 million funding round led by Quanta and HTC. Lumus is a leading provider and developer of augmented reality technology. Following from the $15 million funding led by Shanda Group and Crystal-Optech in June, Lumus...

Group Behind JPEG Unveils New ‘visually lossless’ Compression Standard for VR/AR and More

This week at NAB Show in Las Vegas, the Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG), the international committee behind the titular image compression standard, unveiled JPEG XS, a new format that is touted as a lower energy compression solution that provides...
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