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‘Blacktop Hoops’ is Like ‘NBA Street’ for VR, Kickstarter Now Live

Blacktop Hoops is an upcoming multiplayer streetball game that puts you on amateur courts where you chain together epic moves that all look straight out of NBA Street (2001). The game's Kickstarter is now live, promising to bring its realistic b-ball...

NVIDIA Explains Why it Believes a Pixar-invented Protocol is the “HTML of the metaverse”

NVIDIA, one of the tech sector's power players, is pushing the Universal Scene Description protocol as the foundation of interoperable content and experiences in the metaverse. In a recent post the company explains why it believes the protocol, originally...

Alleged Apple Trademarks Point to ‘Reality’ Branding for Long-rumored Mixed Reality Headset

Multiple trademark filings spotted by Bloomberg over the weekend support the notion that Apple's long-rumored mixed reality headset will be running under the 'Reality' naming scheme. Trademark applications were filed earlier this month in the US, EU, UK, Canada, Australia, New...

‘Transformers: Beyond Reality’ Single-player Shooter Releasing on PSVR September 1st

The Transformers were set to take their first big step into VR earlier this year on PlayStation VR and PC VR headsets, however developers Meta4 and publisher Hasbro put an indefinite hold on its first-person shooter Transformers: Beyond Reality. Now the...

Zuckerberg: Next Meta VR Headset Confirmed for October Release

Although Meta previously confirmed it would launch Project Cambria sometime this year, it wasn't clear exactly when we'd be seeing the release of what many hypothesize could be dubbed Meta Quest Pro. Speaking on The Joe Rogan Experience podcast,...

‘NERF Ultimate Championship’ Team Shooter Releases Today on Quest 2

NERF Ultimate Championship, a 4v4 VR arena shooter, releases today on Meta Quest 2, bringing with it wall-jumping parkour action to go along with the game's 10 authentic NERF blasters. Created by Blasters of the Universe (2017) developers Secret Location,...
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‘Rocket League’ Inspired VR Sport ‘Ultimechs’ is Going Free-to-Play, Beta Starts Today on Steam

Developers Resolution Games unveiled their upcoming VR sport Ultimechs in late 2021, bringing a very Rocket League-inspired experience combined with missile-firing robots. Now the studio is preparing to launch the futuristic sports game as a free-to-play title on VR platforms starting...
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Google’s Owlchemy Labs Teases Its First Multiplayer VR Game & It’s All About Hand Tracking

Owlchemy Labs, the Google-owned VR studio known for Job Simulator (2016) and Cosmosmious High (2022), teased a new multiplayer VR game that's built from the ground-up for hand tracking interactions. The studio calls the unnamed multiplayer title their "most ambitious" project...

Meta Drops Forced Facebook Logins with Rollout of New Meta VR Accounts Today

Starting today, Meta is finally pulling back from one of its most controversial moves affecting its VR users, which required all new Quest owners to sign up with a valid Facebook account in addition to forcing legacy Oculus account...

Ready Player Me Raises $56M to Expand Cross-game Avatar Platform

Ready Player Me, a company focused on bringing cross-platform avatars to VR and beyond, announced it's closed a $56 million Series B round. The round was led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), with participation from investors including Roblox co-founder David Baszucki, Twitch...