Kat VR Announces Kickstarter for At-home VR Treadmill ‘KAT WALK C’
Kat VR, the China-based company known for kickstarting its original Kat Walk VR treadmill in 2015, is once again returning to the crowdfunding platform to launch a new product later this month, this time serving up a VR treadmill called 'Kat...
‘Blade & Sorcery’ Gets Major ‘U8’ Update, Bringing More Magic to the Table
Blade and Sorcery, the physics-based combat sandbox, isn't out of Early Access on PC VR just yet, however developers WarpFrog are taking a big step in the right direction today by releasing a major update that includes a new...
‘Elite Dangerous: Odyssey’ Won’t Support VR at Launch in Early 2021
Elite Dangerous: Odyssey is a new update to the space-faring simulator which is slated to arrive sometime in early 2021. If you were hoping to explore distant worlds in VR, this time on-foot, you'll be waiting a bit longer than...
‘I Expect You to Die’ Earns Over $2M in Revenue on Oculus Quest Alone
Schell Games, the studio behind I Expect You To Die (2016), today announced the critically-acclaimed VR spy game has generated over $2 million in revenue on the Oculus Quest platform alone.
This, the studio says, was earned through sales of nearly...
Open-source Modeling & Animation Tool ‘Blender’ Now Includes Basic VR Support
Blender, a popular free open-source modeling and animation tool, just launched its 2.83 update, which brings basic VR support via the OpenXR API. The recent release lets users step into their 3D scenes to see them up close and...
Nintendo’s Labo VR Blaster Starter Kit Now Only $20 For Limited Time
Nintendo's Labo VR kit for Switch was one of the hottest items this time last year. Now online retailers Amazon and Best Buy have slashed the price of the smaller starter kit + Labo VR Blaster in half to...
HTC Announces Layoffs Amid Coronavirus Pandemic
HTC has confirmed that it's laying off staff in order to streamline its business amid the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
The news was first reported by Taiwan's English language China News Agency, stating that HTC was set to "strategically adjust" its staff and...
Unreal Engine Apps Can Now Be Built with Quest Hand-tracking
An update to Oculus developer tools has brought a handful of updates, including support for Quest hand-tracking in Unreal Engine 4.
Oculus released controllerless hand-tracking on Oculus Quest as a beta feature back in late 2019. At the time, the...
One Month After the ‘Half-Life: Alyx’ Surge, VR Usage on Steam Remains at Record High
The release of Half-Life: Alyx (2020) on Steam in late March brought along with it nearly one million additional monthly-connected VR headsets, a record gain in SteamVR users. Valve just released its Steam Hardware Survey for May, and it seems there's been...
Cas & Chary Present: Checking Out the YAW VR Motion Simulator
I recently had the opportunity to test the YAW VR motion simulator, so I wanted to share my first impressions!
Cas & Chary Present
Cas and Chary VR is a YouTube channel hosted by Netherland-based duo Casandra Vuong and Chary Keijzer who...
