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Oculus CTO: ‘Rift S Still Worthwhile Even After Quest Gets PC-tether Feature’
Oculus CTO and legendary programmer John Carmack took to Twitter recently to explain his reasoning behind why Rift S is still worth buying even though Oculus Quest will soon get the ability to play Rift games via Oculus Link.
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Report: Facebook to Ship a $200 Standalone Mobile VR Headset in 2018
According to a report by Bloomberg, Facebook is working on a wireless, standalone VR headset said to target the $200 price range. Citing "people familiar with its development," the report reveals the Oculus-branded headset, code named 'Pacific', will ship sometime next year.
The headset...
Meta’s PC VR Dominance Continues as Quest 2 Passes New Milestone
Quest 2 quickly rose to become the most-used VR headset on Steam, but last month it crossed a new milestone as the majority of headsets used on the platform.
Quest 2's aggressive price point and ability to be used as...
Sony’s First-party Platformer ‘Astro Bot: Rescue Mission’ Heading to PSVR in October
Sony's Japan Studio, the minds behind The Playroom VR (2016), today announced that their upcoming platformer Astro Bot: Rescue Mission is headed to PSVR in the US on October 2nd, 2018. European availability will come a day later, October 3rd.
Japan Studio Creative Director...
New ‘Boneworks’ Gameplay Video Shows off Physics-based Combat
Boneworks is on a mission to redefine VR gameplay with a highly simulated approach to movement, interaction, and combat. Today developer Stress Level Zero showed off one of the game's first levels in a new video.
Due out in 2019,...
‘Sam & Max: This Time It’s Virtual!’ Releasing on Quest July 8th
Sam & Max is getting ready to make the big leap to VR this summer in its first original game in over a decade. Developer HappyGiant and publisher Big Sugar announced the action-adventure game is coming to Oculus Quest on July 8th.
Update (June 22nd, 2021):...
News Bits: Technolust Kickstarter is Funded, 3 Days Left – Praised by Oculus VR’s Community Manager
Technolust, a forthcoming cyber-punk advernture built from the ground up with Oculus Rift support, surpassed its $30,000 CAD goal and is on its way to doubling that number with three days remaining in the Kickstarter. Oculus VR's Community Manager, Andres...
‘Doom VFR’ Pre-order Available for $30, a Separate “standalone VR game” from ‘Doom’
Doom VFR, the VR-compatible game following Id Software's recent Doom (2016), is now available for pre-order for $29.99 on PSVR and HTC Vive, a far cry from the non-VR game's original launch price of $59.99 just last year. You might be wondering why.
While...
AxonVR is Building a Generalized Haptic Display
AxonVR was awarded US Patent No. 9,652,037 of a "whole-body human-computer interface" on May 16th, which includes an external exoskeleton as well as a generalized haptic display made out of microfluidic technology. I had a chance to demo AxonVR's...
Magic Leap Job Posting Reveals the Company is Preparing to Enter the Retail Space
According to a recent update to Magic Leap's massive list of job postings, the company revealed it definitely has plans to enter the retail space, which could include everything from special in-store installations to its own bespoke retail locations.
The company is...
‘Microsoft Flight Simulator’ VR Support Coming This Fall, Launching First on HP Reverb G2
Microsoft Flight Simulator is officially getting VR support, the studio today revealed. It's not coming day-one, but VR support is expected to arrive alongside (or very near) the launch of HP's upcoming Reverb G2 headset, which is slated to arrive...
App Lab Sleeper Hit ‘Yeeps: Hide and Seek’ Evolves the ‘Gorilla Tag’ Formula
Yeeps: Hide and Seek has just launched on the main Quest store. But, even before that, the game racked up some 20,000 reviews on App Lab in just a few months. More than a clone, Yeeps understands what's special about Gorilla...
VR Studio Releases Free Unity Development Framework for Building Rich VR Interactions
Veteran enterprise VR studio VRMADA has released a public version of its VR toolset for quickly building immersive interactions for VR within Unity. Called UltimateXR, the studio says the tool is free and open source.
Our Guest Article by VRMADA...
NVIDIA CloudXR 3.0 Update Brings Bidirectional Audio Support for Remote Collaboration
NVIDIA's CloudXR technology is designed to provide real-time XR cloud streaming, which aims to remove the need for local high-end PC rendering hardware. At Mobile World Congress 2021 today, the company announced that its CloudXR 3.0 release will include...
Exclusive: First-look at Vanguard Valkyrie Gameplay – Zero Transform Brings High Impact Arcade Action to Virtual...
While simulating familiar experiences in virtual reality is interesting in its own right, the technology is also capable of creating experiences that are otherwise impossible—for instance, plummeting to Earth in a futuristic EVA suit while fending off an alien...



















