Vive Wave is HTC’s open platform that offers interoperability between several classes of mobile VR headsets and accessories, something the company hopes will help unite a fragmented market. Although with greater choice in VR accessories comes the task of understanding the key differences between them. Enter FinchShift and Chirp, two different solutions to the same problem: bringing 6DOF controllers to Vive Focus.
Having launched its first VR headset in late 2017, alongside a handful of similar headsets as part of Microsoft’s Windows Mixed Reality platform, HP is preparing to take its next step with the launch of a new headset that diverges from the pack. Road to VR got an exclusive preview of the so far unannounced and unnamed headset which the company hopes will raise the bar on clarity and comfort.
Wondering what Oculus and Sanzaru Games were hiding when they teased their next Rift exclusive a few days ago? Well, now we know: it’s called Asgard’s Wrath, and it’s poised to toss you head-over-heels into a Norse-inspired world of melee combat, monstrous fiends, and plenty of reasons to keep your playspace clear.
Steam’s Lunar New Year Sale is here, and with it comes another wallet-punishing avalanche of VR games that might have you finally plonking down those last Steam Wallet cards still sitting around from the holidays.
The Mage’s Tale (2018), the first-person sword & sorcery dungeon crawler from The Bard’s Tale series developers inXile Entertainment, has officially landed on PSVR today.
In honor of World Cancer Day, Oculus unveiled some behind the scenes footage of their latest VR project highlighting testicular cancer, The Evolution of the Testicles.
Madefire, the minds behind the Motion Books 3D comic format and publishing platform, today released a new app for Magic Leap One that will let users not only publish their own 3D ‘motion comic’ creations directly to the AR headset, but also experience a number of comics in the Madefire catalog.
Sanzaru Games, the minds behind Marvel Powers United VR (2018) and VR Sports Challenge (2016), is apparently teaming up with Oculus again to develop another VR game. More details about the upcoming game are expected on Tuesday.
Groundhog Day (1993), the iconic ’90s film starring Bill Murray, is getting its very own full-length VR game soon—well, sort of. Dubbed Groundhog Day: Like Father Like Son, you’ll be able to jump back into the world of Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, this time stepping into the shoes of Phil Connors Jr., the son of the man who lived the same day over and over until he learned the meaning of existence.
It appears that the 2018 holiday shopping season was one of the best ever for PC VR headsets. The latest data released today from Valve shows VR making its single biggest leap yet, on a path toward 1 million monthly-connected headsets.
Indie developer Sos Sosowski admits he creates “terrible” video games like his old school point-and-click game McPixel (2012). And while there’s certainly a thick layer of objective terribleness slathered on top of Mosh Pit Simulator, after playing around with the physics-based sandbox I’ve come to admire the terribleness of it all in recognition that it isn’t so much a game as it is a window into the mad inner world of its creator.
