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New Valve Index Stock Lasts Less Than a Day, Backorders Reach Eight Weeks or More

After making new Index stock available today after more than a month of the hardware being sold out, most regions saw the headset and other hardware quickly backordered by eight weeks or more. Update #3 (March 9th, 2020): Shortly after...
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Oculus Founder on Facebook Buyout: ‘It lets us greatly lower the price of the Rift’

Palmer Luckey has been open and communicative with the VR community since founding Oculus VR Inc. Tonight he spent time responding to questions and concerns regarding Facebook's acquisition of the company. Among other bits of info, Luckey confirmed that...

SenseGlove Raises €3.25M in Series A Funding Round to Advance VR Haptic Gloves

SenseGlove, a Netherlands-based creator of XR haptic gloves, has secured €3.25 million (~$3.5 million) in a series A funding round, something the company says will be used to accelerate its enterprise-focused SenseGlove Nova haptic gloves. The funding round was led...
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‘Into the Radius’ Brings Hardcore Post-Apocalyptic Survival to Quest 2 in September

The Stalker-inspired survival game Into the Radius (2020) has seen its share of success on SteamVR headsets when it initially released in Early Access in late 2019. Now the studio says it's bringing the open world game to Quest...

Valve Founder’s Neural Interface Company to Release First Brain Chip This Year

Valve founder Gabe Newell's neural chip company Starfish Neuroscience announced it's developing a custom chip designed for next-generation, minimally invasive brain-computer interfaces—and it may be coming sooner than you think. The company announced in a blog update that it's creating a...

PCGamer Goes Hands-on With the Oculus Rift in Video: “Everything You’ve Heard is True”

PCGamer's Owen Hill met with Palmer Luckey and some folks from Oculus to try out the Rift at Gamescom. After using it, he opines "The Oculus Rift is the most exciting peripheral I’ve ever used. This is the virtual...
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‘Iron Man’ is Coming to PlayStation VR in 2019, Trailer Here

Sony today announced a number of games coming to PS4 and PSVR, among which was Marvel's Iron Man VR. PlayStation Worldwide Studios, Camoflage and Marvel Games today announced Iron Man VR as a part of Sony's inaugural episode of 'State...

Samsung Galaxy XR Offers Comparable Vision Pro Specs & Features at Half the Price

Samsung is finally launching its long-anticipated Android XR headset, officially dubbed Galaxy XR. The headset clearly aims to deliver a Vision Pro experience (plus some of its own unique abilities) all at a much more affordable price. Vision Pro is...

The Best VR Games to Show Your Family at Thanksgiving This Year

Before the turkey-induced coma sets in on the big day and everyone settles down for football, board games, or spirited arguments over lifestyle choices, the VR evangelist in you probably wants to show off your new headset to your...
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Soviet Retrofuture Adventure ‘Red Matter’ to Launch This Month on Rift

When we saw Red Matter at a Oculus Connect 4 last year, we were immediately taken in by the adventure puzzle's wonderfully weird, retrofuturistic vibe. Now, Madrid-based studio Vertical Robot tells us pre-orders are open today for Red Matter, with launch coming later...

PSVR-compatible Maker Game ‘Dreams’ Ends Live Services in September, No PSVR 2 Support Planned

Media Molecule announced that Dreams, the PSVR-compatible maker-game within-a-game, is being spun down and that live services will be discontinued in September. "As we continue to evaluate and evolve our priorities for the studio and Dreams, we’ve made the difficult...
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Researchers Show Full-body VR Tracking with Controller-mounted Cameras

Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University have demonstrated a practical system for full-body tracking in VR using cameras mounted on the controllers to get a better view of the user's body. Although it's possible to achieve full-body tracking in VR today,...

Vision Pro Ultrawide Display Turns a Little MacBook into a Productivity Powerhouse

Apple has finally dropped the ultrawide virtual display for Vision Pro in beta, giving the existing virtual display feature the ability to stretch to wide and ultrawide widths for extra screen real-estate. Out of the box it's impressive, but...

Windows VR Headsets Can Now Play VR Games on Steam

Early adopters of "Windows Mixed Reality" VR headsets can now access a wealth of new content thanks to an official integration with Steam, now available as a public preview, allowing the headsets to play SteamVR content from the platform....

Nokia and Tongal Offer $42,000 and an OZO Camera for VR Video Pitches and Production

Nokia has announced a partnership with film crowdsourcing website Tongal to help create compelling new VR cinema content, to be captured with their newly announced OZO 360, 3D camera. Nokia made a splash today as they announced they're to enter the...
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