10 Apps to Hang Out with Friends in VR
Stuck indoors? Well, you should know that your VR headset is way more than just a Beat Saber machine. You can actually chat, play, and watch movies with your friends, almost as if the world wasn't thrust into a global...
SteamVR Update Improves Tracking Performance for Oculus Quest
A SteamVR beta update today improved tracking when used with Oculus Quest via Oculus Link.
Oculus Link allows Quest to be used just like a PC VR headset. While this makes it easy to play Oculus PC games, it also...
Gabe Newell on Brain-computer Interfaces: ‘We’re way closer to The Matrix than people realize’
Gabe Newell, co-founder of Valve, sat down with IGN for a chat about the company, the promise of VR, and Newell's most bleeding edge project as of late, brain-computer interfaces (BCI).
"Personally, the area I'm spending a lot of time on has...
‘Echo Arena’ for Oculus Quest Heads Into Closed Alpha Next Week
Echo VR has been available on the Rift platform for some time now, and it appears Quest users will be able to get their first taste of its zero-G team sport, 'Echo Arena', in a closed alpha soon.
Kicking off into closed...
‘Phantom: Covert Ops’ Coming to Rift & Quest in Late June
Phantom: Covert Ops, the unique kayak-based VR shooter from nDreams, is officially headed to Rift and Quest in June. If you were wondering what the game looked like on Rift, check out the new release date trailer nDreams just dropped.
Update (March 18th,...
Vive Cosmos Elite Comes with a Free Copy of ‘Half-Life: Alyx’
HTC's Vive Cosmos Elite ships out today, and if all you were expecting in the box was the hardware itself and maybe a few free months of Viveport, you'd be wrong. Everyone who buys a Cosmos Elite is getting...
‘Beat Saber’ Has Sold 2 Million Copies & 10 Million Songs for an Estimated $67M
As VR's best-selling title, Beat Saber is showing no signs of slowing down. Today Facebook, which now owns the studio behind the game, announced that Beat Saber has sold more than 2 million copies and 10 million songs via DLC.
Beat...
Sony to Detail PlayStation 5 Tomorrow in ‘Deep Dive’ Info Dump
Sony is bringing its next-gen PlayStation console to market in time for holiday season this year, but there's still plenty of question marks left. That's hopefully about to change tomorrow.
In the wake of GDC getting effectively canned this week, PlayStation...
VR Action Game ‘Sword Reverie’ is a Love Letter to ‘Sword Art Online’, Trailer Here
Isekai Entertainment, a Seattle-based indie studio, released the first trailer for its upcoming action game Sword Reverie, a JRPG-inspired title that feels like a heartfelt love letter to the popular anime/manga Sword Art Online (SAO).
Drawing from Japanese games and anime such...
OpenXR Coming to Quest & Rift Developers Soon in Prototype Release
Facebook today announced that a prototype version of OpenXR, the royalty-free open standard from The Khronos Group, will be available to Oculus Quest and Rift developers in an update coming later this month.
OpenXR is a work-in-progress standard that aims to...















