HaptX, a company building a VR glove offering impressively detailed haptic feedback as well as force feedback, is steadily improving. My hands-on with their latest device—which is smaller, lighter, and more comfortable than prior iterations—offered me moments of magic where it felt like my hand was actually interacting with real objects.
Oculus released an update yesterday that brought screen casting to its standalone VR headset, Oculus Go. In a measure to increase user safety on the platform, the company also launched a new security feature which now lets you to send video reports to their Safety Center when others have broken the company’s code of conduct.
Marvel Powers United VR today received its second patch which aims to shake up gameplay with new enemy types, objectives, and more. Oculus also offered a brief preview of an upcoming third patch which will introduce a consequential new objective.
HammerheadVR, the studio behind SYREN (2017), today announced the single-player VR survival-horror game is coming to PSVR soon.
Crazy Machines VR, a unique puzzle game from publisher Wild River and developer FAKT Software, launched today on Steam for all major PC VR headsets.
vTime, the company behind the titular social VR app, today announced the studio is making a strategic expansion into North America with the opening of its San Francisco office. Brian Blau, former Research Vice President at Gartner, has been tapped to run vTime’s US office, and joins the executive team to “develop strategic partnerships and further expansion opportunities, as well as manage and build out the US-based team.”
Aiming to become a hub for AR and VR development, the government of China’s Jiangxi province says it plans to raise funds totalling $460 million to be invested into AR and VR companies.
In a patent issued this week to Oculus, the company describes a wireless relay system designed to prevent loss of signal even when a user is out of range of the primary transmitter and receiver.
Outside of the initial setup process, you don’t really need a smartphone to run Oculus Go—after all, it’s a standalone headset for a reason. And while Oculus today rolled out screen casting on Go, you may rethink that decision to leave your phone in your pocket when you show off your shiny new headset at Thanksgiving next month.
The Pimax “8K” headset was the result of VR’s most successful Kickstarter campaign, beating out all others, including Oculus, with a whopping $4.23 million raised when the campaign concluded in November 2017. It’s been a bit of a bumpy road over the past year, with some shipping setbacks and several changes made to the final product lineup, but Pimax has now announced that pre-orders are starting today for the “8K”, “5K” Plus, and “5K” Business Edition (BE) headsets.
After two years in stealth, Spatial today announced an $8 million seed investment to build out its AR/VR collaboration platform.
Hipfire Games, a Helsinki-based studio made up of ex-Supercell and Rovio developers, announced late last year that their space-based delivery game Failspace was in the making for HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, and Windows VR headsets. Now the studio is accepting registration for the game’s closed alpha, which is due to start on December 3rd.
The standout feature for Samsung’s new Odyssey+ headset is its so-called “anti-SDE” display, but beyond that it appears that the headset has actually seen minor adjustments in a handful of areas. With the first Odyssey headset having poor ergonomics, we’re hoping that these adjustments will make the headset more comfortable for a wider range of users.
Secret Location, the studio behind Blasters of the Universe (2016) and Sleepy Hollow: VR Experience (2015), announced last month that they’re heading back into VR territory with a new first-person, time-bending puzzle game. Dubbed Transpose, the game is said to take place in a dreamlike universe where players record multiple overlapping versions of themselves that need to cooperate to solve increasingly intricate puzzles.
Earlier this month, HTC quietly opened their first Vive flagship store in Shenzhen, China.
