Quest 2 Leaps to 2nd Most Used on Steam as Headsets Hit Record High of 2.6 Million
Although Quest 2 is a standalone headset, it can also be plugged into a PC to play PC VR games through Oculus PC and Steam. The headset's holiday success has clearly bled through into the PC VR landscape, as...
Vertigo Games Acquires VR Arcade Game Distribution Platform SpringboardVR
Vertigo Games, the studio behind Arizona Sunshine (2017) and upcoming VR shooter After the Fall, today announced that it has acquired SpringboardVR, creators of the eponymous location-based VR content distribution platform.
The acquisition amount was undisclosed, however the move is slated...
Facebook Messenger Comes to Oculus Quest in New Update
Facebook announced that the v25 software update for its Quest platform is set to include Facebook Messenger, which will be available to anyone who is logged into their Facebook account on either Quest or Quest 2.
This will allow users...
Oculus App Lab Lets Devs Distribute Apps on Quest While Bypassing Curation Process
Oculus today introduced a program called App Lab, a new effort which will allow developers to distribute their VR apps on Quest without being subject to a quality review 'curation' process. Though apps still need to meet Oculus' technical...
‘Beat Saber’ Has Sold 4M Copies & 40M Songs, an Estimated $180M Revenue (and Accelerating)
Beat Saber has officially reached 4 million units sold, Oculus today announced, along with 40 million songs of paid DLC, pushing the app's estimated revenue to $180 million.
By now, Beat Saber can be considered nothing less than VR's first killer app...
How to Watch the Super Bowl in VR With Friends for Free
Due to the ongoing pandemic, this year's Super Bowl is set to be very different. If you have a VR headset though, you can still host that Super Bowl Sunday party with your buddies while staying safe at home....
This Developer’s VR Vacuuming Game Gives a Peek into the Future of Gamified Chores
Completing your weekly chores can be an absolute drag, but doing repetitive tasks like vacuuming the house might not always be so boring when VR and AR come into the mix.
Reddit user 'VoxelGuy' showcases a novel idea with a...
‘Tilt Brush’ Derivative Apps Come to PC VR & Quest Mere Hours After Google Open Sources
Google's VR art creation app Tilt Brush isn't free, but the company made it open source a few days ago after announcing it has stopped active development, so it was only a matter of time before independent developers got...
Ultraleap’s New ‘Gemini’ Software Overhaul Drastically Improves Two-handed Interactions
Ultraleap, the company behind the Leap Motion hand-tracking controller, has released a Developer Preview of its hand-tracking engine Gemini. By many accounts, Ultraleap's latest software overhaul dramatically increases the ability of the company's camera modules to do more precise...