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One of VR’s Most Veteran Studios Has Grown to 200 Employees While Continuing to Double-down on...
Having been exclusively building VR games since 2013, nDreams stands as one of the most veteran VR-exclusive game studios to date. And with more than 200 people, one of the largest too. The studio's CEO & founder, Patrick O'Luanaigh, continues...
SVVR Con: Kickstarting the Next VR Revolution – LiveStream @ 2:00 pm PDT
Join us for another SVVR panel livestream focused on the future of crowdfunding and its intersection with virtual reality.
Topics:
Crowdfunding VR projects
What makes for a successful campaign?
What are the pitfalls?
Can a faltering campaign be rescued?
Panel Members:
Ben Lang, Road to VR
William...
‘Star Wars: Squadrons’ to Support HOTAS, No Mention of VR Motion Controllers
Star Wars: Squadrons is EA's upcoming dogfighting game from a galaxy far far away, and it's going to include VR support when it launches on consoles and PC in the fall. If you were hoping for an immersive in-cockpit...
‘Roblox’ Launches on Quest Store, Casting a Shadow on Meta’s Own Social VR Platform
One of the biggest names in social gaming is now officially on the official Quest Store, launching out of App Lab starting today. Roblox is home to tens of millions of daily users and user-generated experiences, casting a clear shadow on...
Oculus Acquires Pebbles Interfaces, Computer Vision Hand Tracking- Breaking
Oculus today announced the acquisition of Pebbles Interfaces, an Israel based firm focused on depth sensing technology and computer vision for the purpose of hand tracking.
According to Oculus' blog post, Pebbles Interfaces will officially be joining "the hardware engineering and computer vision...
Oculus is Making Link’s Hardware Specs Available to Third Parties
Oculus Link, the upcoming feature that will let you play Rift games on Quest, is set to launch sometime in November. According to statement made by an Oculus Product Manager, the company is also making Link's specs available to third...
HTC Vive-enabled Unreal Engine 4.8 Coming next Week, Devs Can Start Work with Rift DK2
Epic Games has today announced that the company will be releasing an Unreal Engine 4.8 preview build next week which will offer support for Valve's highly anticipated SteamVR / HTC Vive. Epic says that even developers who don't have...
HTC Vive Support Coming to Altspace’s Social VR Platform, Experimentation Ongoing with Gear VR
I recently sat down with "Cymatic" Bruce Wooden, Developer & Community Relations Manager at AltspaceVR, a social virtual reality space that allows users to connect and communicate with voice chat and shared web browsing. While the software currently supports the...
‘Tetris Effect’ Now Available on PC with VR Support, Exclusively from Epic Store
Tetris Effect (2018), the latest entry in the iconic tile-stacker series, is officially available starting today on PC, which also includes support for VR headsets.
Update (July 23rd, 2019): The PC version is finally here, letting Oculus Rift & HTC Vive...
Starbreeze Acquires Nozon for $7.7 Million to Bring ‘Pixar Level’ Visual Quality to VR Film
Starbreeze has acquired visual effects (VFX) studio Nozon for €7.1M (~$7.7M), a Belgium-based company known for their pre-rendered PresenZ VR technology which promises to bring 'Pixar levels' of visual quality to real-time VR scenes with positional tracking.
PresenZ, introduced by Nozon in 2015,...
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...
Holoride Secures $12M Funding to Create Immersive in-car VR Experiences
Holoride, the Audi co-founded startup aiming to inject immersive VR and AR into everyday car travel, announced it's raised a €10 million (~$12 million) Series A investment round.
The company first unveiled its tech back at CES 2019, showing off its...
The 15 Best VR Horror Games on Quest, PSVR 2 and PC VR to Play This...
Halloween is just around the corner, so there's no better time to test your mettle with some of the best VR horror games for Quest, PSVR 2, and PC VR.
Lock the doors, latch the windows, and let your family...
Free-to-Play 1v1 Dueling Game ‘Divine Duel’ Launches on Quest Next Month, Trailer Here
Divine Duel is an upcoming free-to-play fighting game that pits you against celestial foes in 1v1 combat, and it's coming first to Quest next month.
In Divine Duel you choose from four Celestials, each of which has their own unique powers. The studio...
Apple Manufacturer Quanta Signs Deal to Mass Produce Lumus AR Display Modules
Quanta, a Fortune 500 company and one of the world's largest original design manufacturers, has signed an agreement to mass produce AR display modules from Lumus, a company specializing in AR displays based on 'waveguide' optical technology. Lumus says...




















