Consumer VR is a little over two years old now, creeping up on three years next April. There’s been plenty to talk about in VR gaming over the course of 2018, with even more ambitious indie studios and AAA game companies getting into the medium for the first time. Now in our second annual Road to VR Game of the Year Awards, we’ve again put the top VR games from the industry’s leading platforms through their paces.
Magic Leap One launched back in August with a glasses frame insert in the box, although the onus was on the user to find an optician to fit it with prescription lenses. Now, the company has finally unveiled their official prescription inserts, and like the $2,300 headset itself, it costs a pretty penny.
DeepFocus is Facebook’s AI-driven renderer that’s said to produce natural looking blur in real-time, something that’s poised to go hand-in-hand with the varifocal displays of tomorrow. Today, Facebook announced that DeepFocus is going open source; while the company’s wide field of view (FOV) prototype ‘Half Dome’ may be proprietary, their deep learning tool will be “hardware agnostic.”
The application deadline for Magic Leap’s Independent Creator Grant Program is up, and the company has revealed that over 6,000 applications have been received for consideration.
For a PSVR exclusive that started development all the way back in 2015—before PSVR was even released—Golem sure has been taking its time. Following several delays, we last heard that the studio planned to launch the game by the end of 2018, but that’s no longer the case.
Moving around in VR environments usually means you’ll need to press down on a thumbstick or a touchpad. That’s all well and good for now, but it’s really not the most immersive way of getting around in large virtual spaces. Enter Brilliant Sole, a North Carolina-based VR startup working to bring VR controllers to the soles of your feet.
Funomena, the indie studio behind VR puzzle game Luna (2017), today launched their first app for Magic Leap One. Called Luna: Moondust Garden, the AR game is billed as “a playful extension” of it VR big brother, allowing players to plant a musical garden and interact with its cute inhabitants in AR.
Valve this week revealed the newest version of their upcoming ‘Knuckles’ VR controllers which have graduated from the ‘EV’ prototype distinction to ‘DV’ dev kits. While Valve has yet to offer any indication of launch timing, the latest refinements suggest the final version is near at hand.
Oculus Go today got a slew of new TV streaming services integrated into the Oculus TV app.
First Contact Entertainment today announced that Firewall Zero Hour (2018), the studio’s PSVR team shooter, is getting a new map just in time for Christmas.
Oculus Go, the standalone VR headset, is returning to Black Friday & Cyber Monday pricing for a limited time.
Oculus co-founder Palmer Luckey may have left Facebook in 2017, but as the designer behind the Oculus Rift and its two developer kits, he has unique insight into what makes VR headsets tick. In his latest project, he’s whittled down a few of Oculus Go’s pain points into a project he calls Oculus ‘GoBlack’.
If you missed out on the great PlayStation VR deals around Black Friday, you’re in luck. The very same PSVR sale is back in time for holiday 2018, including the newest PSVR bundle.
Beat Saber fans were greeted with an update on all platforms today which has introduced a new free track debuted exclusively within the game.
