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‘Crunch Element’ Inches Past Crowdfunding Goal with Less Than a Week to Spare

Crunch Element is an upcoming VR game that challenges you to breech heavily-guarded compounds with physics-based explosive charges, guns, and your wits. Update (January 30th, 2020): Crunch Element has done it with only five days left to go. At the...

Analysis: Monthly-connected VR Headsets on Steam Reach Record High of 1.3 Million

Valve’s monthly Steam Survey has long offered useful insight into the share of VR headsets in use on Steam. But the figures provided are relative to the non-static Steam population, which obfuscates the actual adoption trend of VR headsets...

‘Beat Saber’ Gets 3 New Free Songs from Japanese EDM Artist Camellia

The block-slashing rhythm game is at it again: Beat Saber (2019) just got three new songs from Japanese electronic dance music artist Camellia, available today on all supported platforms. Although the studio has been mostly cutting deals to secure paid content...

5 Oculus Quest Hardware Mods for Better Comfort

Oculus Quest is an awesome achievement in engineering; no other standalone VR headset offers the quality, rock solid positional tracking, ease of use, and competitive price point as Quest. But still, you may find that once your wallet is...

Atari to Open Game-themed Hotels Across the US with “the latest in VR and AR”

Atari will soon be opening hotels in the United States that feature what they call "the latest in VR and AR." The move comes as a part of a recently announced deal with GSD Group, an innovation and strategy...

Startup Teases Standalone AR/VR Headset with ‘innovative optics and ergonomics’, Reveal Next Week

Stealth French startup LYNX is teasing the forthcoming reveal of its Lynx R1 headset which the company describes as a standalone headset with both VR and AR capabilities. Lynx says it will reveal the headset during a February 3rd...

Amazon Promises “single-digit latency” for AR/VR Streaming Over 5G with AWS Wavelength

Last month Amazon quietly announced the 'Wavelength' platform as part of its Amazon Web Services (AWS) offering. The new 'edge computing' service promises "single-digit millisecond latencies" over 5G networks. Amazon says the platform is made for "latency-sensitive workloads" including...

‘Halo Reach’ VR Mod ‘ReclaimerVR’ Shows Progress with Motion Controller Input

Halo Reach (2010), the final Halo game from the series' original developer, Bungie, launched on PC in December, and could now wind up with a VR support through an unofficial mod. Zack "Nibre" Fannon, the creator of the Alien: Isolation VR...

New Samsung VR Headset Design Surfaces in Recent Patents

Samsung recently filed patents with China's National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA) office that shows off a few new designs in what appears to be two fairly similar PC VR headsets. There's little to go on besides the photos of both...
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Cas & Chary Present: ‘The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners’ Gameplay Overview

Launched yesterday, The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners is a heavy physics-based survival adventure game set in the zombie apocalypse of the Walking Dead universe. In this video and article, we wanted to showcase the core gameplay mechanics without spoiling too...