‘Obduction’ PSVR Support Arrives Today, From The Creators of ‘MYST’
VR Mining Game ‘Cave Digger’ Coming to Steam for Free This Week, Launch Trailer Here
Cave Digger is an upcoming room-scale mining game for SteamVR-compatible headsets that places you deep into the Earth using your handy mining elevator and a number of mining tools and devices to extract valuable resources.
Oculus Research Becomes ‘Facebook Reality Labs’, Creating “further and faster” Leaps in AR/VR
Oculus today announced it’s rebranding Oculus Research, the company’s R&D lab, to the newly created Facebook Reality Labs (FRL). The shift, the company says, better addresses the increasingly important role of research and development in AR/VR while emphasizing collaboration with Facebook’s other skunkworks, something Oculus Chief Scientist Michael Abrash says is allowing for “further and faster” development of leading-edge AR/VR tech.
‘Beat Saber’ to Receive Level Editor “soon”, Letting You Build Tracks With Any Song
Beat Saber, the VR rhythm game in Early Access that made its way to the top spot on Steam this past weekend, is getting a level editor soon that will let anyone build and slice away to whatever music they like.
Google Open Sources Seurat, a ‘Surface Light-field’ Rendering Tool for 6DOF Mobile VR
Google announced Seurat at last year’s I/O developer conference, showing a brief glimpse into the new rendering technology designed to reduce the complexity of ultra high-quality CGI assets so they can run in real-time on mobile processors. Now, the company is open sourcing Seurat so developers can customize the tool and use it for their own mobile VR projects.
‘I AM A MAN’ Puts You at the Heart of the Civil Rights Struggle, Now Available on Rift
I AM A MAN is an interactive VR experience that lets you participate in the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike and the events leading up to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination. Created by Dr. Derek Ham, an assistant professor of Graphic Design at NC State University, I AM A MAN was a winner of Oculus’ 2017 Launch Pad, a program designed to help fund VR content from diverse backgrounds.
Vive Focus Dev Kits Cost €650 in Europe, Devs to Receive €200 Discount Until June 4th
Vive Focus dev kits are headed outside of China today to international developers looking to create for the company’s standalone VR headset, which first arrived to Chinese consumers back in January. Apparently HTC is lowering the price for some devs, although the total price sans discount appears to be approximately the same premium price tag the headset carries in its home country.
Vive Focus Dev Kits Now Shipping Westward, Suggesting Nearby International Launch
Vive Focus, HTC’s standalone VR headset which first launched in China back in January, is gearing up for its Western release it seems. HTC today announced that it’s making Vive Focus developer units available to devs outside of China.
Lenovo Mirage Solo Review: Positional Tracking Comes to Mobile VR (sort of)
Tis the season of standalones, it seems. Right on the heels of the Oculus Go launch, the Lenovo Mirage Solo is here. The headset promises to bring one of the top features of high-end VR headsets—positional tracking—to Google’s casual Daydream VR ecosystem. Does it succeed? Read on to find out.
Play VR Rhythm Game ‘BOXVR’ on Rift for Free This Weekend
‘Beat Saber’ is Now the Highest Rated Title on Steam – VR or Otherwise
After only three days since launch, Beat Saber (2018), the VR rhythm game that puts two lightsabers in your hands, is now the highest rated game on Steam—not just the highest rated VR game, but the highest rated game out of all titles, flatscreen games included.
Facebook Teases “Mixed Reality” Capabilities of Santa Cruz Headset
Facebook’s VP of AR/VR Andrew “Boz” Bosworth showed a quick glimpse of a “mixed reality” game of soccer using Oculus Santa Cruz, the company’s 6 DOF standalone VR headset prototype.
Hands-on: ‘Starbear: Taxi’ is an Unbearably Cute Arcade Taxi Game with RC Spaceships
Funktronic Labs, the studio behind Cosmic Trip (2017), today launched their latest title, an arcade remote-controlled taxi game dubbed Starbear: Taxi (2018). Starbear: Taxi launched today on Rift, Vive, and Windows “Mixed Reality” VR headsets.
Oculus on Half Dome Prototype: ‘don’t expect to see everything in a product anytime soon’
At Facebook’s F8 developer conference Oculus revealed a glimpse at an intriguing new headset prototype dubbed ‘Half Dome’. Including a 140 degree field of view, varifocal displays, and what appears to be eye-tracking, the prototype is a tantalizing peek at the company’s research and what may lay ahead of us—just don’t expect it everything we saw “anytime soon,” says Oculus co-founder and Head of Rift Nate Mitchell.
