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Hands-on: ‘Windlands 2’ Gets a Change in Tone with the Addition of Co-op Combat

Windlands (2016), the high-flying exploration game from Psytec Games, is getting a sequel next year that's looking to alter its predecessor's formula with the addition of co-op adventuring as well as combat. We got a hands-on with the newly revealed game...

Hands-on: ‘Red Matter’ is an Adventure Puzzle Set in a Wonderfully Weird Pseudo-Soviet Dystopia

Red Matter is an upcoming story-driven VR adventure puzzle game, first revealed at Oculus Connect, that puts you in a retro-futurist world that borrows elements from the Cold War-era and teases them out to an interesting logical conclusion. Created by Madrid-based...

Developers Can Now Request Oculus Go Dev Kits, Could Have Headsets As Soon as Next Month

The new Oculus Go standalone headset was revealed yesterday at Oculus Connect, the company's annual developer conference. According to Oculus CTO and legendary programmer John Carmack, developers could have their hands on the $200 standalone mobile headset as soon as next...

Oculus Connect 4 Day 1 Roundup: Oculus Go, Rift Price Drop, New ‘Santa Cruz’ Prototype, and...

The opening keynote at the fourth annual Oculus Connect developer conference delivered several new product announcements from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, VP of Virtual Reality Hugo Barra, and others. This included new standalone VR hardware, a new price for...
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Ubisoft’s Multiplayer Arcade Shooter ‘Space Junkies’ Is Heading into Closed Beta in Early 2018

Ubisoft today announced that Space Junkies, the multiplayer arcade VR shooter, is going into closed beta in early 2018. We got a chance to go hands-on with a more developed prototype of the game at this year's Oculus Connect, and while...

‘Echo Arena’ FPS Expansion Announced and More ‘Lone Echo’ Teased

Ready at Dawn's single player sci-fi adventure Lone Echo (2017) already has its multiplayer mode, the much beloved sports game Echo Arena, but the studio says it's bringing out a new first-person shooter multiplayer mode called Echo Combat, and also an...

Oculus Rift + Touch Bundle Gets Permanent Price Cut to $400

Following their highly successful Summer of Rift Sale, Oculus have announced a permanent price cut of the Rift headset and Touch controller package to $399. The new price was revealed by Hugo Barra, Oculus' Vice President of Virtual Reality at...
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Oculus is Making Home into a Customizable Social Living Room, Coming to Rift in December

Oculus Home is getting a full overhaul in the new Rift Core 2.0 update coming this December, which promises to add a level of user customization that will let you create a unique, persistent space that you can invite...
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Oculus ‘Santa Cruz’ Standalone Dev Kits Coming Next Year, Including 6 DoF Controllers

Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg took the stage today at Oculus Connect 4, the company's VR developer conference, to tell the crowd that the high-end standalone Project Santa Cruz VR headset will be heading to devs next year and it will...

Oculus to Talk “Breakthroughs in Spatial Audio Technologies” at Connect Conference

Oculus Connect 4, the company's fourth annual developer conference, is set for October 11th and 12th in San Jose, California. There, Oculus will share with developers some of its latest research and developments, including what's coming to the company's VR Audio...

Hands On: ‘Lone Echo’ Nails Zero-G Movement in VR With Oculus Touch

Frank He gets his hands into Ready at Dawn's first VR title and finds Lone Echo to deliver one of the best zero g experiences yet seen in VR, all thanks to clever design and of course the Oculus...

Oculus to Support WebVR Through New VR Browser Codenamed ‘Carmel’

Oculus announced at Connect, the company's annual developer conference, that they'll be officially supporting WebVR through their new VR web browser codenamed Carmel. WebVR is an API that provides headsets access to web-based VR content. Touted as an easy way to share VR experiences...

Facebook Founder Says Company Invested $250M in VR Content, Will Invest $250M More

At Oculus Connect's opening keynote today, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg took to the stage to drive home the company's commitment to the virtual reality space. How much commitment? Some $500M worth. Amid a flurry of announcements at Oculus Connect 3's...

Getting Social – Oculus to Offer Persistent Avatars Across Multiplayer Games

Up until now, multiplayer games on Oculus Home have relied on their own individual avatar selectors, meaning you couldn't have the exact same avatar in two different apps. In an effort to socialize the entire platform, Oculus is introducing...

Final Touch Battery Life Improved 40% Over Original Prototype, Up to 30 Hours of Use

At a session breaking down the design of Touch during Oculus Connect, designers of the controller explored the choices that drove the form and functionality of the device. Oculus Touch finally has an official launch date of December 6th and...
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