Penrose Studios Raises Another $10 Million for VR Animation and Storytelling

Having announced an $8.5 million seed investment back in March 2016, VR animation firm Penrose Studios is adding another $10 million to the pile for its Series A investment. Led by TransLink Capital, the round also saw participation by SalesForce founder...
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Magic Leap Reveals Developer Demo, Confirms NVIDIA TX2 Hardware

Today during Magic Leap's developer livestream the company offered the first details on the compute hardware that's built into the device, confirming that an NVIDIA CPU/GPU module, and also showed a brief developer sample demonstrating world meshing and gesture...

Echoing Apple’s iPhone Launch, Magic Leap Taps AT&T for Exclusive US Distribution

Magic Leap today announced that AT&T, one of the leading cellular carriers in the US, has invested in the company and solidified a partnership making AT&T the "exclusive wireless distributor of Magic Leap products for consumers in the U.S." Magic...

Magic Leap Promises to Show a Real Demo and Share Specs on Today’s Livestream

Following the company's last session of 'Magic Leap Live', wherein the company had promised that viewers would get to “meet Magic Leap One”—but then offered no substantive details and dodged the audience's most prominent questions—the company is promising to share...

Review: ‘Seeking Dawn’ Is a Beautiful Sci-Fi Shooter Marred by Too Many Dull Chores

Seeking Dawn (2018) is a sci-fi first-person shooter which puts you in the boots of a space marine who's assigned to carry out a search and rescue mission on a mysterious alien planet. Including a single player campaign, and online...

Amazon to Begin Selling VR Apps Through New HTC Partnership

Amazon will soon begin selling VR apps on its massive digital marketplace through a new partnership with HTC. While Steam generally functions as the Vive's defacto app store, HTC runs its own VR app store called Viveport. The company's partnership...
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‘I Expect You To Die’ Studio Releases Educational VR Chemistry Game ‘HoloLab Champions’

Schell Games, the studio behind popular spy-themed VR puzzle I Expect You To Die (2016), today launched a VR chemistry lab practice game that aims to get students excited about chemistry by gamifying an otherwise time intensive (and possibly...
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‘Crooked Waters’ to Bring Co-op Pirate Ship Battles to VR, Launching in Early Access This Week

The Netherlands-based Craft Game Studio is bringing Crooked Waters, a multiplayer pirate ship game for HTC Vive and Oculus Rift, to Steam Early access this week. Pitting would-be pirates in a four vs. four battle on the high seas, the...

‘Luna’ is a Beautiful Introduction to VR for Gaming Novices

A little while back, Oculus issued a $15 credit to many Rift users after an issue which prevented the headsets from working for a day or two. Seeking out something worthy to drop this credit on, I scrolled through...

‘Super Puzzle Galaxy’ Exits Early Access, 24 Additional Levels Released in ‘Warp Ball’ DLC

Super Puzzle Galaxy (2018), a physics-based puzzle game from Vive Studios and 2Bears Studio, has just existed its seven-month stint in Early Access. To boot, the studios have also launched the game's second DLC pack today, dubbed 'Warp Ball', which adds...