Turn-key VR Training System ‘SimSpray’ Looks to Lower Costs for Commercial Spray Painters

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SimSpray is a VR training system targeting educational institutions, manufacturers, and trade unions, all with the eye for lowering costs over traditional training and offering some unique insight only available in VR.

‘Border Patrol’ Aims to Bring the ‘Papers, Please’ Experience to VR, Demo Now Available

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Border Patrol is an upcoming first-person virtual reality take on Papers, Please (2013), putting you in the shoes of a booth operator at an AI travel border who must accept or deny entry to robots trying to enter the region.

Leap Motion Releases Major Tracking Update and New Demos to Show It Off

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Leap Motion builds the leading markerless hand-tracking technology, and today the company revealed a update which they claim brings major improvements “across the board.” The upgraded tracking and improved developer tools are available in beta today on Windows, alongside three new demos to try it out for yourself.

‘Elder Scrolls: Blades’ Announced With Mobile & High-end VR Support, Crossplay With Other Platforms

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Today on stage during the Bethesda E3 Showcase, the company announced a brand new game called Elder Scrolls: Blades. Promising to bring the title to “every device and system that we can,” the game will support VR all the way from mobile to high-end headsets.

‘Prey’ to Get Two VR-compatible Game Modes in ‘Mooncrash’ DLC This Summer

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Bethesda today announced at E3 2018 that DLC for Prey (2017) is coming, and that two VR-compatible game modes will be available soon—a single player escape room game and a multiplayer game called ‘Typhon Hunter’, both of which will be available later this summer as part of the Mooncrash DLC, or in the Prey: Digital Deluxe.

‘Wolfenstein: Cyberpilot’ is a New Standalone VR Title Coming From Bethesda in 2019

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Today during Bethesda’s E3 Showcase, the company announced a new standalone VR title: Wolfenstein: Cyberpilot, due to launch in 2019.

Xbox Boasts Investment in Future Tech, But Still Silent on VR After Backpedaling

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Back in 2016, at the E3 reveal of the Xbox ‘Project Scorpio’ (which would go on to become the company’s flagship Xbox One X), Microsoft said the console would bring “high fidelity VR” to Xbox. But after backpedaling from those plans, today marked the second E3 without a peep from the company about VR on the Xbox One X, even while touting a deep investment in the future of the platform, and continuing a VR push on its PC platform that’s isolated from Xbox.

VR Puzzle ‘Salary Man Escape’ Coming to PSVR June 26th

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Salary Man Escape is an upcoming single-player PSVR game from Red Accent Studios and Oasis Games that forces you to help your little salary man escape the office by traversing through a wide range of physics-based puzzles.

Oculus Rift Deal Offers $75 Game Credit or $50 Gift Card

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Oculus is offering a ‘Dad & Grads’ deal on the Rift: now through 11:59 pm PT on June 16, you can buy a new Rift and get $75 worth of store credit from Oculus, or a $50 gift card from several retailers.

‘Beat Saber’ to Land on PSVR Later This Year, Studio Teases New Track

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Hyperbolic Magnetism, the indie studio behind Beat Saber (2018), today announced that the hit PC VR rhythm game is headed to PlayStation VR headsets later this year.

Apple Adding “plug and play support” for Vive Pro in MacOS Mojave

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At Apple’s WWDC conference this week, the company announced that the Vive Pro will be fully supported on the newest version of MacOS, ‘Mojave’, soon to launch in public beta and available widely later this year.

Exclusive: Validating an Experimental Shortcut Interface with Flaming Arrows & Paper Planes

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Last time, we detailed our initial explorations of single-handed shortcuts systems. After some experimentation, we converged on a palm-up pinch to open a four-way rail system. Today we’re excited to share the second half of our design exploration along with a downloadable demo on the Leap Motion Gallery.

New Steam Guidelines to Allow All Controversial & Adult Content (as long as it’s legal)

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Valve is about to adopt a whole new laissez-faire attitude to what content it will allow on Steam, which previously banned things like explicit adult content and what the company calls in their current guidelines things that are “patently offensive or intended to shock or disgust viewers.”

‘Rec Room’ Battle Royale Shooter ‘Rec Royale’ Now Live on All Supported Platforms

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Rec Room, the free multiplatform social VR app, just got its long-awaited battle royale shooting game, Rec Royale. Now live on all supported platforms, you’ll be able to engage in some PUBG-style shootouts as you hang glide down to the map below in search of weapons, ammo and health potions.

‘Echo Combat’ Free Open Beta to Launch This Month, Full Release to Cost $10

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Echo Combat, the VR shooter expansion to Ready at Dawn’s successful VR sports game Echo Arena, is heading into open beta this month. And unlike its sporty counterpartwhich was released for free to all Oculus Rift users, the shooter is going to be priced at $10 when it releases.

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