SUPERHOT Team Searching for a Producer for “shiny new VR project”
The team behind the SUPERHOT franchise is looking for a producer for “a shiny new VR project,” according to a recent job posting on the company’s website.
Steam Survey: HTC Vive Neck and Neck with Oculus Rift After Repeated Gains
Valve’s monthly Steam hardware and software survey is out again, and it appears HTC Vive is holding firm ground on the platform after Oculus Rift took majority market share in March as the most popular VR headset on Steam.
DigiLens is Developing a Waveguide Display for 150 Degree XR Headsets
‘Elite Dangerous: Beyond – Chapter Two’ to Arrive on All Supported Platforms This Month
Elite Dangerous (2014), the open universe MMO space simulator from Frontier Games, is getting its next chapter soon which will include a new ship, a few new mechanics, and improvements to existent systems. Frontier today announced Beyond – Chapter Two will be launching for free to all Elite Dangerous players on all platforms on June 28th.
Hands-on: Sqaure Enix’s ‘Tales of Wedding Rings VR’ is a Revolutionary Blending of Manga & 3D Anime
Sqaure Enix just released Tales of Wedding Rings VR, an experience for Rift that lets you engage with the popular Japanese Manga in a whole new way.
Popular Mobile Shooter ‘Zombie Gunship’ Now Available on Oculus Go & Gear VR
Limbic Software’s popular Zombie Gunship franchise is finally making its way from Android to VR in Zombie Gunship Raptor (2018), a first-person, helicopter-based zombie shooter for Oculus Go and Gear VR.
Play Hellishly Difficult Bow-shooter ‘In Death’ for Free This Weekend on Rift
In Death, the roguelike bow-shooter in Early Access from Everest VR (2016) developers Sólfar Studios, just opened up a free access weekend on Rift.
Insomniac Games Teases New VR Project, Promising an Open World Adventure
Insomniac Games, developers behind The Unspoken (2017), Edge of Nowhere (2016), and Ratchet & Clank, showed off a sneak peek of their next VR game. While still unnamed, the studio is aiming to break boundaries with what they say is ‘an open world adventure.’
‘Battlezone VR’ Studio Announces VR Puzzle Game ‘Arca’s Path’, Teaser Trailer Here
Arca’s Path VR is an upcoming puzzle adventure from Dream Reality Interactive and Rebellion, the studio behind Battlezone VR (2016).
BBC to Stream World Cup 2018 Matches in UK on PSVR, Cardboard, Oculus Go & Gear VR
The BBC is bringing live coverage of all 33 of its licensed World Cup 2018 matches from Russia to a new dedicated app, dubbed BBC Sport VR – FIFA World Cup Russia 2018. The app will support Gear VR, Oculus Go, PlayStation VR, and Google Cardboard; as with all BBC iPlayer content, it’s likely to be region locked to the UK though.
Pimax Starts Shipping Pre-production “8K” Headsets Today, Kickstarter Version Slated for June
Pimax today updated their “8K” headset Kickstarter page to announce that pre-production units of the 200-degree field of view headset, dubbed M1, are now shipping to a handful of closed beta testers. The company says 10 of the Pimax 8K testing units will go out in total, which will proceed the general launch to backers.
Varjo Reveals Add-on for High Quality Pass-through AR, Launching in 2019
The first version of Varjo’s ‘bionic display’ enterprise VR headset is due out later this year (see our latest hands-on), and the company has announced plans to offer an add-on upgrade in 2019 which brings high-quality pass-through AR capabilities to the headset. Varjo showed off a tech demo of the headset’s add-on capabilities this week at AWE 2018.
Action RPG ‘Swords of Gargantua’ Demo Now Available on Vive & Rift
We had a chance to go hands-on with Gumi and Yomuneco’s Sword of Gargantua at GDC back in March, and while an official write-up never materialized out of the hectic game-filled dev conference, a demo for the studio’s upcoming online action RPG is finally here for HTC Vive and Oculus Rift.
