[Updated] VR Headsets on Steam Hit Record High Three Months Running

For the third month running, the number of VR headsets on Steam has reached a new record high of some 2.9 million, or 2.3% of Steam users. Update (April 4th, 2021): A prior version of this article reported that monthly-connected...

Quest 2 May Be Selling Thrice as Fast as the Best Selling VR Headset, PSVR

While Facebook has yet to reveal official unit sales figures for Oculus Quest 2, various data points the company has offered, along with data from developers, has allowed us to hone in on a reasonable estimate. Compared to PSVR,...

‘Hand Physics Lab’ Review – Putting the Fun in Frustration

Hand Physics Lab is all about hand-tracking, and this over 80-level game aims to throw you head first into a whimsical series of seemingly simple tasks. Quest can offer mixed results when it comes to hand-tracking fidelity though, so...
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Grappling Shooter ‘Swarm’ Releasing on Quest & Rift April 8th, Trailer Here

SWARM is a high-flying arcade shooter from Greensky Games that gives you two grappling hooks and plenty of firepower to take down gads of enemy drones. Swarm has been in beta testing for the past year, but now Greensky says it's coming...

Microsoft Signs $22B Contract with US Army to Bring HoloLens 2 Tech to the Battlefield

Following a prototyping phase started in 2019, Microsoft and the United States Army have announced they are moving to a production phase of the Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS), based on HoloLens 2 technology, through a contract worth up...

Report: Snapchat Readying an AR Version of Its Spectacles Glasses

Hot on the tail of Niantic teasing a pair of AR glasses earlier this week, a new report from The Information says the company is readying a pair of its Spectacles glasses with proper AR functionality. Snapchat has been selling its Spectacles...

Facebook’s Bosworth: Quest 2 Has Outsold All Oculus Headsets Combined

During an interview with Bloomberg this week, Facebook Reality Labs VP, Andrew Bosworth, said that Quest 2 has outsold all Oculus headsets combined, a significant milestone for a headset which has only been available for five and a half months. Adding...

Case Study: The Design Behind ‘Cubism’s’ Hand-tracking

Hand tracking first became available on the Oculus Quest back in late 2019. Out of enthusiasm for this new input method, I published a demo of Cubism to SideQuest with experimental hand tracking support only a few days later....
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Parkour-shooter ‘STRIDE’ Delayed on PSVR to “late 2021”

The high-flying shooter STRIDE (2020) from developer Joy Way is making its way to PSVR this year, however it's coming a bit later than the anticipated 'early 2021' release window. Update (March 30th, 2021): Joy Way announced via Reddit that its PSVR version...

‘STRIDE’ Studio Reveals Work on Gritty Rhythm Game Prototype

Joy Way, the developers behind high-flying parkour shooter STRIDE (2020), released a new look at a game prototype that aims to fuse rhythm, shooting and slicing. If the studio intends on keeping the new aesthetic, it's also going to...