Ultron & Venom Tapped as Next Villains in ‘Marvel Powers United VR’ Lineup

With Marvel Powers United VR headed to Rift next moth, the hype train for the official Marvel superhero co-op game from Sanzaru Games and Oculus Studios is just about left the station. The next set of villains on this list: the sentient (and...

This Developer Recreated ‘The Legend of Zelda’ Boss Battles in VR

For VR users, the following question inevitably arises in some shape or form: why isn't 'x-studio' making my favorite 'y' game in VR? While the answer usually ends up being a lack of sufficient profit motive on the part of...
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Plexus is a VR Glove With Finger Haptics & Multiple Tracking Standards, $250 Dev Kits Coming...

Plexus Immersive Corp, a San Francisco-based startup, announced a pair of VR gloves that integrate haptic feedback and interface with multiple tracking standards, including SteamVR, Oculus Rift, and Windows "Mixed Reality" VR. Dubbed Plexus, a pair of dev kit...

Report: Next-gen NVIDIA GPUs Will Boost VR Bandwidth With New Connector

A report from Tom's Hardware states that NVIDIA's next-generation GeForce GPUs, tentatively being referred to as the GTX 11-series, will include a new connector with enough bandwidth to support future VR headsets much higher resolutions and greater refresh rates. According to a...

Report: HTC Lays Off 1,500 Employees in Taiwan Manufacturing Division

HTC is reportedly laying off 1,500 employees in its Taiwan manufacturing division, something Bloomberg's Taipei bureau chief Samson Ellis reports to be around 22% of HTC employees. https://twitter.com/samsonellis/status/1013723541760425984 CNET has confirmed that the company is indeed going forward with layoffs in Taiwan, although...
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ISS Astronaut Uses Oculus Rift in Experiment to Understand How Space Affects Hand-eye Coordination

German ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst is participating in a study aboard the International Space Station (ISS) that's designed to give Earth-bound researchers a better understanding of how sight, sound, and gravity impacts hand-eye coordination. Using a modified Oculus Rift, Gerst...
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Photorealistic VR Tour ‘Nefertari: Journey to Eternity’ Takes You Deep into a 3,000 Year-old Egyptian Tomb

Using state-of-the-art photogrammetry technology with millimeter accuracy, Simon Che de Boer of Reality Virtual and Experius VR have digitally scanned Nerfertari's tomb, letting owners of Vive, Rift, and Windows VR headsets step inside the fabled burial site and learn about the over 3,000...

Windows VR Headsets Seeing Slow But Steady Adoption on Steam

The monthly Steam hardware survey is out again, and while June hasn't revealed any major upsets in the balances of usership between HTC Vive and Oculus Rift, the survey shows that Windows "Mixed Reality" VR headsets are making slow,...

Oculus Cuts Price on Rift Business Bundle, Now Shipping to Four New Regions

Last October Oculus announced its 'Oculus Rift for Business' bundle, offering for the first time a package which included a warranty and license officially sanctioned for commercial use. This week the company dropped the price of the package and...
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Watch a Complete ‘Space Junkies’ Closed Beta Match

Space Junkies, Ubisoft's upcoming VR arena shooter fro Rift and Vive, is now in closed beta, which goes until July 2nd. I called Space Junkies VR's spiritual successor to Unreal Tournament in our preview, but you can check out some of...