New Oculus Social Tools Will Help VR Feel More Like a Place, Less Like a Game
Social and Multiplayer VR can be incredibly compelling, but the process of actually 'finding' your friends in VR is still a clunky and often frustrating process. Oculus is developing a new set of social and multiplayer tools which stand...
‘Star Wars Vader Immortal: Episode 3’ Coming to Quest & Rift Next Month
Vader Immortal: A Star Wars VR Series is coming to an end with its third episode soon, which ILMxLab says is set to arrive on November 21st on both Rift and Quest platforms.
Over the course of its two previous episodes,...
FundamentalVR Raises $5.6M Investment to Further Develop VR Surgery Training Tools
FundamentalVR, a company specializing in VR medical training, has closed a £4.3 million (~$5.6 million) Series A funding round in effort to further develop its surgical training and data analysis platform, Fundamental Surgery.
The funding round was led by Downing...
15 Minutes of ‘Pistol Whip’ Dual-wielding Gun Kata Gameplay
Pistol Whip, the upcoming VR rhythm shooter from Cloudhead Games, is set to launch on November 7th. We've got a fresh batch of gameplay, this time showing off the game's dual-wielding mode which amps up the game's 'gun kata'...
Acer Windows VR Headset ‘OJO 500’ Finally Launches After 1 Year Delay
Remember when Acer's OJO 500 launched last year? Yeah, we don't either. In a perplexing move, the Taiwanese tech giant quietly opened up sales for its business-friendly Windows VR headset today, something that was slated to launch back in...
New ‘Stormland’ Video Teases Varied Enemy Types, Explosive Combat & More
Stormland, Insomniac Games' upcoming Rift exclusive, is gearing up for launch on November 14th. Along the way, Oculus and Insomniac are throwing out weekly reveals that give us a closer look at what awaits. Last week's teaser was all...
Sifting Reality From Hype: What 5G Does (and Doesn’t) Mean for VR & AR
Tis the season of 5G, the next-gen mobile data technology which promises to boost bandwidth and reduce latency. With 5G phones and networks slowly starting to become a reality, carriers would have you believe that the tech is going...
8th Wall Launches Cloud-based WebAR Development Tools & Hosting Platform
8th Wall, a Palo Alto-based company creating augmented reality development tools, today announced the release of its cloud-based authoring and hosting platform which aims to make it easier for AR developers by providing what it calls a "unified in-browser solution"...
VR Web Browser ‘Supermedium’ No Longer in Active Development
Supermedium, the team behind the native virtual reality browser that lets you interact with web-based VR content, says its namesake project is no longer in active development, and that it's effectively been put "on ice" in search of something...
Tilt Five Kickstarter Comes to a Close with More Than $1.7M in Funding
Tilt Five took to Kickstarter seeking $450,000 in funding to bring its AR headset to life. The headset, which uses a unique projection display method, is heavily focused on tabletop gaming applications. Now, more than a month after going...














