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YouTube is Coming to Vision Pro Eventually, but What About Spatial Video?

YouTube is one of the biggest apps not available on Vision Pro at launch. Thankfully we now know that it's on the way. But will it support its large existing library of spatial videos? Not only did YouTube not have...

Quest Users Can Play a Library of Top PC VR Games for Free for a Month...

Looking for some free PC VR games to play on Quest? Viveport, HTC's storefront for VR games and apps, is throwing out free promo codes to owners of Oculus Quest and Quest 2 which will let you play all...

Play ‘Hover Junkers’ for Free This Weekend on Vive & Rift, Single Player Campaign Now Live

Stress Level Zero's Hover Junkers (2016) was one of the first room-scale multiplayer shooters to land on the HTC Vive. Now, the studio is hosting a free access weekend to celebrate the long-awaited addition of the game's single player campaign. Launched in...

Vertigo Games Acquires VR Studio Force Field, Working on “Unannounced AAA game based on well-known IP”

Vertigo Games, a VR development studio and publisher, announced it has acquired Amsterdam-based VR development studio Force Field, which has worked on VR experiences like Anne Frank House VR, Coaster Combat, and Landfall. The studio will continue on as Vertigo Studios Amsterdam and is...

Oculus Founder’s New XR Headset Built Around “military requirements” but Also “used for non-military stuff”

This week at AWE 2024, Oculus founder Palmer Luckey spoke briefly about a new XR headset he's developing. Though the headset would see Luckey returning to the XR space, this one is being built with military, rather than consumer,...

Apple Invites XR Media Outlets to WWDC Keynote for the First Time

Apple has sent invitations to its upcoming WWDC keynote to select media outlets, including Road to VR. Apple has historically not invited XR media to its events, let alone commented in any way on its XR R&D that has been reportedly...

WEARVR Weekly Top Ten VR Downloads – August #3

Looking for something fun to play in VR? We’ve got the top 10 downloads from the last week on the WEARVR app marketplace, a cross-platform repository of virtual reality experiences. Bali, the famed Island of the Gods, with its varied landscape of...
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‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ Co-op VR Game Coming to Quest & PC VR in 2026

Cortopia Studios, the team behind GORN 2 (2025), announced it's working on a 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' game which is slated to land on Quest and SteamVR headsets sometime next year. We haven't seen Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Empire City in action...

News Bits: Microsoft Research Demonstrates Incredible First-person ‘Hyperlapse’ Video Technique

With SIGGRAPH 2014 in full swing, incredible computer graphics papers and demonstrations are a'flowing this week. Microsoft Research has published a paper showing an impressive timelapse processing technique which turns jumpy first-person frames into beautifully smooth watchable 'hyperlapse' footage,...

New Oculus Update Embraces 360 Room-scale, Adds Mixed Reality Capture

Version 1.16 of Oculus Rift software is beginning to roll out to all Rift users, adding support for Mixed Reality capture, a redesigned interface for future updates and issue reporting, a new Home environment and multilanguage support. The Store...

This ‘Skyrim VR’ Mod Uses Voice Recognition So You Can Speak to NPCs

Talking to non-player characters (NPCs) in Skyrim VR may be easy—requiring a quick selection from the dialogue menu—but it isn't exactly an immersive way of interacting with the world though. With a new speech recognition mod, called Dragonborn Speaks Naturally, all...

Save $100 on HTC Vive During Black Friday & Cyber Monday

Beginning on November 24th, HTC will give $100 off purchases of the Vive system, while stocks last. Software deals during the Black Friday weekend will also be available through HTC’s own VR app store, Viveport. The first consumer VR-infused holiday...

Altair Digital Are Bringing the Planetarium Experience to Your Face Using VR

Altair Digital have announced that they are to bring the wonder of the solar system as historically experienced via your local Planetarium to virtual reality with Fulldome Cinema. One of the earliest forms of immersive education and perhaps a pre-cursor...

Quest v34 Update Brings ‘Space Sense’ Guardian, Android Notifications & MR App Publishing

It seems Quest owners are about to get a healthy dose of new features in the v34 update, something Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg says will bring the previously leaked 'Space Sense' Guardian system, push notifications in VR from Android...

John Carmack to Detail ‘The Dawn of Mobile VR’ at GDC 2015

John Carmack, legendary developer and CTO of Oculus, will be taking to the stage at GDC 2015 to get technical in a presentation titled 'The Dawn of Mobile VR'. Carmack, who is known for presentations of detail and length,...
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