With Black Friday deals rolling in as we approach November 23rd, this holiday season Best Buy is offering one of the biggest selections on discounted consumer tech. The big box retailer just published its Black Friday advert, which brings immediate savings on Oculus Rift, and a few deals coming closer to the big day including PSVR bundles, PlayStation 4, and Lenovo’s smartphone-driven Mirage AR headset.
Lenovo Mirage Solo is getting its first big price cut since it launched for $400 earlier this summer.
Starting today, new Viveport Subscription members can count on a free copy of Fallout 4 VR (2017) when you sign up for a three, six, or twelve month prepaid subscription.
Ready Player One: OASIS beta launched for free this summer on HTC Vive in tandem with Steven Spielberg’s film Ready Player One (2018). Boasting a collection of RPO-themed VR games and places to explore, the collection is getting all new levels, environments, and enemies in the Elite Gunter Edition paid DLC.
Even though Transpose (2018) is a single-player puzzle game, you’ll have to master the art of cooperation to solve a staggering number of its four-dimensional head-scratchers. Transpose is punishing, frustrating at times, but ultimately a capable and refreshingly innovative entry into the VR puzzle genre.
Déraciné comes from FromSoftware, the studio best known in the West for its work on the Dark Souls franchise, though it’s also behind a lengtiether list of works including the Armored Core series. Déraciné is the studio’s VR debut, and it shows. While the game is technically sound, that’s just about the only thing it has going for it.
Some of the big box retailers have already published their Black Friday deals, but there are still a few to go leading up to the November 23rd sale. But before Black Friday and Cyber Monday even begin, you can get an awesome deal on a new Windows VR headset, including controllers.
Palmer Luckey, the founder of Oculus who left the company in 2017, recently published an article with his thoughts on what it will take for VR to reach the mainstream. Price, he argues, matters little if the experience is not keeping people coming back to the technology on a regular basis.
Bell Helicopter challenged its Innovation Team to accelerate its aircraft design process. Turning to VR as a key improvement to their design pipeline, the team created the FCX-001, the company’s first “concept aircraft,” in just six months.
Back in July, many of VR’s biggest players announced the VirtualLink Consortium, a group unified around creating a connection standard for future VR headsets. HTC was seemingly the odd one out back at the initial announcement, but this week the company joined the group in support of the standard.
Oculus co-founder and Facebook’s head of PC VR Brendan Iribe is leaving the company amidst a TechCrunch report that Facebook cancelled its second iteration of Rift. Now, a new report maintains the company is heading in a different direction with a much less ambitious upgrade to Rift than the recent ‘Half Dome’ prototype would suggest.
Retailers are already gearing up for this year’s big Black Friday deals, and Target is advertising one of the cheapest prices on PSVR bundles we’ve ever seen.
According to a report from Business Insider, earlier this year Apple was on the verge of acquiring Leap Motion, but the deal fell through days before it was expected to close. According to the report, this is the second time in some six years that Apple had conversations with the company about an acquisition.
