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Oculus Rift VR Experiences Take Top Spots in Leap Motion ‘3D Jam’ Contest

Leap Motion's '3D Jam' dev contest, presented by the independent games festival IndieCade, is now officially over and the results are in. Among the 20 semi-finalists, who were awarded over $75,000 in prizes by a jury composed of Leap...

Latest Updates Enable Quest 2 to Run Oculus Link at 90Hz – Here’s How

Facebook promised that tethering Quest 2 to a PC via Oculus Link would eventually support the headset's full 90Hz refresh rate. With the latest updates to Quest 2 and the Oculus PC app, this is now a reality. Facebook started...

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...
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‘Robinson: The Journey’ Hits PSVR Today, Here’s the Launch Trailer (and final dev diary)

Robinson: The Journey is the hotly anticipated PSVR exclusive from Crytek that puts players in the shoes of a lone survivor on an alien planet. If you're looking for FPS action, you won't find it here; Robinson: The Journey is all...

StarVR Developer Program Paused “until further notice” as Company Goes Private

StarVR, the Acer & Starbreeze owned startup behind the recently unveiled StarVR One wide field of view (FOV) headset, is going through a pretty rocky period after it was delisted from the Taipei stock exchange last month. Starbreeze today published...

Hands-on: VRHero “5K” Plus Aims for Visual Fidelity Above All Else

VRgineers is a Czech-based startup building a VR headset positioned strictly for the enterprise world. Compared to today's consumer VR headsets, it's undeniably huge and heavy, but a hands-on with their latest VRHero "5K" Plus shows that they're on a...

David Bowie Retrospective to Land on VR & AR Devices This Fall

Sony will soon release an AR and VR adaptation of the late, great David Bowie's commemorative museum retrospective 'David Bowie is'. Featured first at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in London, ‘David Bowie is’ attracted over 2 million visitors across the...

Leap Motion’s Next-gen ‘Dragonfly’ Sensor is Designed for VR Headsets

Leap Motion creates a gesture camera for hand tracking input. The company has been progressively pivoting their technology toward virtual reality, and now appear to be going all-in on the emerging industry with a tease of a next-generation sensor, codenamed...

News Bits: Palmer Luckey Wins at the 2014 World Technology Awards

Oculus has caused a stir in the technology world, a statement riddled with understatement perhaps. The company and it's founder Palmer Luckey have walked away with countless industry awards since the appearance of it's Oculus Rift DK1 in late...

New Mode in ‘Gorilla Tag’ & $2.6M Investment in ‘Digigods’ Cements UGC as Crucial Social VR...

One of VR's biggest hits, Gorilla Tag, is expanding a previously tested level creation mode and making it a permanent part of the game. The so-called 'Monke Blocks' allow friends to build together and then play inside of their shared...

Oculus Connect: Oculus Partnership Means Free Rift Support for ALL Unity Developers

The cross platform 3D development engine Unity 3D, it's fair to say, has been incredibly important in the drive to get content created for virtual reality. According to Oculus' VP of Product Nate Mitchell, at one point, Unity based...

Review: ‘EVE: Gunjack’ Sets the Bar for Gear VR Turret Shooters

EVE: Gunjack, The mobile counterpart of the hugely anticipated VR multiplayer space shooter EVE:Valkyrie, is released tomorrow on Samsung Gear VR. We go hands-on with the consumer release and find out that CCP Games have succeeded in setting a...

Hands-on: ‘Horizon Call of the Mountain’ on PSVR 2 is Bringing a Full Campaign with Insightful...

One of the big questions on my mind ever since the announcement of Horizon Call of the Mountain for PSVR 2 is whether it would be a short 'experience' designed as a simple demo for the headset, or a full blown...

Meta Partners with Ousted Oculus Founder’s Company to Build “the world’s best AR and VR systems...

In a twist that promises to make the inevitable Palmer Luckey documentary even more dramatic, Palmer Luckey's military tech company Anduril has now officially partnered with Meta to build "the world's best AR and VR systems for the US...

‘A Rogue Escape’ Review – A Successful Fusion of Escape Room and Videogame

Especially thanks to its hands-on nature, A Rogue Escape channels the feeling of an escape room while fusing it with videogame elements, ultimately pulling off an experience that simply wouldn't be feasible in the real world. A Rogue Escape Details: Available On: Oculus...
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