Everything We Know About Oculus Santa Cruz (so far)

Oculus Santa Cruz is a VR prototype that brings many high-end features of the Oculus Rift and Touch, most notably positional (6DOF) tracking on both headset and controllers, into a self-contained, standalone design. What follows is a brief overview...

Original ‘Wolfenstein 3D’ Comes to VR in Fan Recreation

Wolfenstein 3D (1992), the first-person shooter developed by id Software, kickstarted an entire genre, and now you can play the generational icon in VR. The project, dubbed Wolfenstein 3D VR, features all ten original levels. While the game's patented 2D sprites...

Jaunt Reveals Livestreamed Volumetric Video Solution for AR

Jaunt first cut their teeth on cinematic VR when they came out of stealth in 2014, not only producing some pretty high-quality 360 video throughout the years, but also a professional-grade 360 camera dubbed NEO. Now under new management,...
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Watch 20 Minutes of ‘Stormland’ Gameplay

Stormland, the upcoming single player adventure from Insomniac Games and Oculus, came to PAX West this past weekend where the public got a chance to go hands-on with the open world game for the first time. The demo, presented by Dutch...

Rift and Windows VR Squeeze Marketshare from Vive in Latest Steam Survey

In the latest set of data from Valve's monthly Steam Hardware & Software survey, the Oculus Rift and Windows VR headsets posted gains in marketshare at the expense of the HTC Vive. Each month, Valve runs a survey among Steam users to...

NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX Cards Bring New VR Rendering Features and Enhancements

NVIDIA's latest 'RTX' cards are not just an incremental step in performance, but represent significant new direction for NVIDIA's approach to real-time rendering. Built on the company's 'Turing' architecture, the RTX cards pave the way for graphics infused with...

Watch the ‘Real’ Magic Leap Whale Take Flight in ‘Helio’ Web Experiment

Back in 2016, Magic Leap released a video clip of a breaching augmented reality whale as a backdrop to their freshly redesigned website, something meant to grab the attention of prospective investors, developers, and consumers alike. Now, through Magic...

‘Torn’ Review: Masterful ‘Black Mirror’ Style Storytelling Tarnished by Repetitive Puzzles

Torn is a single player adventure game that's inspired by arguably the greatest sci-fi television of all time, The Twilight Zone and Black Mirror. There's much to like about Torn, but in the end it left me feeling, well, a bit...

Mozilla’s ‘Hubs’ Gets More Useful With Instant Media and 3D Model Imports

Mozilla's Hubs is a WebVR based VR chatroom that anyone can join on a wide range of devices just by plugging a URL into their web browser. A new update to the platform now allows instant importing of media and...

Imogen Heap VR Concert Experience to Land on ‘TheWaveVR’ August 31st

Imogen Heap, the Grammy-award winning musician, is following in the footsteps of TOKiMONSTA, Ash Koosha, and The Glitch Mob with a social VR concert experience, hosted on TheWaveVR platform soon. Starting tomorrow, August 31st, the Imogen Heap experience will kick off...