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‘Rec Room’ Raises $20 Million Series C Investment, Crosses 2 Million Annual VR Users

Following its expansion onto new VR and non-VR platforms alike, social virtual world Rec Room is seeing serious growth. Today the company behind the project announced it has raised a $20 million Series C investment to support its growing population. What started...
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NVIDIA Demonstrates Experimental 16,000Hz AR Display

While virtual reality surely has high performance requirements to maintain a comfortable experience, immersive AR may ultimately require a greater level of performance if we're to achieve the theoretical ideal. While virtual reality can get away with comfortable and immersive...

One of VR’s Smartest Room-scale Games Finally Comes to Quest 2

Room-scale puzzle Eye of the Temple (2021) is available on Quest 2 starting today, bringing one of VR's most clever room-scale experiences to a platform where it probably makes the most sense. Update (April 27th, 2023): Eye of the Temple is now...

This ‘Valheim’ Mod Lets You Play in VR, Motion Controller Support in the Works

Valheim, the Viking-themed survival game in early access on PC, doesn't feature official support for VR headsets. Shortly after its release in early February though, modders got started on letting VR users take their first steps into the game's...
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VR Video Transition Pioneered by News Channel is the Best We’ve Seen Yet

What do you get when you cross immersive video with a TV newscast? Belgian news channel VRT Nieuws today released a 360 video that could be the answer. VRT (Flemish Radio and Television Organization) just completed construction on their new studio, and what...

Google Releases Highly-polished VR Tour of Versailles for Free

Google Arts & Culture partnered with Château de Versailles to create an extremely detailed VR tour of the iconic French palace, aptly named VersaillesVR - the palace is yours (2019). The free app, which is now available on Steam with support...

Lucid VR Receives $2.1M in Seed Funding, Partnering with ODM Wistron

Lucid VR, the makers of the stereoscopic 3D camera LucidCam, today announced a seed funding round to the tune of $2.1M, bringing a significant raise in funds to the team's successful Indiegogo campaign which attracted over $100,000 in funds over the...

Popular Quest 2 PC Streaming Software Adds ‘Super Resolution’ Feature for Enhanced Visuals

Virtual Desktop has collaborated with Qualcomm to integrate the company's Snapdragon Game Super Resolution, a software enhancement squarely targeted at increasing the wireless streaming quality and latency of PC visuals to Quest 2 and Pico devices. Virtual Desktop is a great tool...

‘Rec Room’ Gets New ‘Isle of Lost Skulls’ Quest Alongside Substantial Update

Rec Room (2016), the social VR app from Against Gravity, now has a brand new Quest (a four player co-operative mission) alongside a number of other improvements thanks to a new update. Update (3/2/18): It might not be Sea of Thieves...

HTC Opens Its Viveport VR App Store to Oculus Rift Users

Last month HTC announced that the company's Viveport VR app store would allow developers to sell titles supporting the Oculus Rift. Today the company has official opened Viveport to Rift, which is now supported by nearly 200 games and...

‘Five Nights at Freddy’s VR’ Paid DLC ‘Curse of Dreadbear’ Now Available on PC VR &...

Five Nights at Freddy's VR: Help Wanted (2019), the VR version of the popular horror game, is getting its first DLC pack for VR today, 'Curse of Dreadbear'. The Curse of Dreadbear DLC is already live on the PlayStation Store for PSVR and...
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Watch: BlazeRush Takes on Rocket League in VR With Free ‘BlazeBowl’ Add-On

BlazeRush, the 3rd person VR vehicle combat racer, has been a big hit with VR gamers for some time and now developers Targem Games want to take add a new, distinctly Rocket League dimension to the title with their...

‘Swords of Gargantua’ Gets Rogue-lite Adventure Mode in New Update

Swords of Gargantua (2019), the multiplatform combat arena from Yomuneco and gumi, now includes a new rouge-lite adventure mode that tasks players with going into what the studios call 'The Tesseract Abyss'. The new update is said to put players...

Experimental VR Interfaces in Dave Buchhofer’s Oculus Rift Playground [video]

Recently I had a chance to meet with Dave Buchhofer, a 3D artist and developer, who has been working to find intuitive VR control schemes. Part of this requires a functional user interface, and I got to see some...

8th Wall Launches Cloud-based WebAR Development Tools & Hosting Platform

8th Wall, a Palo Alto-based company creating augmented reality development tools, today announced the release of its cloud-based authoring and hosting platform which aims to make it easier for AR developers by providing what it calls a "unified in-browser solution"...
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