‘Echo Arena’ Becomes ‘Echo VR’ to Make Way for ‘Echo Combat’, and Maybe More One Day

With the Echo Combat beta opening today, and the full experience launching later this year, Oculus and Ready at Dawn are doing some reorganization to set the stage for the ongoing expansion of the Echo universe. Today, Echo Arena becomes...

Magic Leap One Controller Appears in FCC Filing, Release on Track for 2018

Magic Leap One, the long-awaited AR headset from the secretive titular Florida startup, appears to be on its way to its supposed 2018 release date, as the headset's motion controller, dubbed Control, has just hit the FCC for testing. When...

Rift & Vive Summer Sales Offer Big Savings on Hundreds of VR Titles

While we're still waiting on the Steam Summer Sale to materialize, this year's big Rift and Vive annual summer sales are already here, and hundreds of VR titles are on deep discount on the Oculus Store and Viveport until...

Hands-on: Vive Wireless Adapter Shows Strong Performance Ahead of Summer Launch

After revealing the Vive Wireless Adapter earlier this year, the company confirmed this week at E3 2018 that the device is on track to launch by late Summer, and offered up some details on the device's battery and operation....

Leap Motion Reveals First Extended Demo Shot Through North Star Headset

Back in April Leap Motion first revealed North Star, a prototype AR headset that's designed to replicate the features of a future high-end AR headset, as a platform for experimentation. Today the company revealed the first extended look of...

‘Arizona Sunshine’ Dead Man DLC for PSVR Pushed Back to July

Arizona Sunshine (2016), the room-scale zombie shooter adventure, already got its first campaign DLC on Oculus Rift, Vive & Windows "Mixed Reality" VR headsets on May 24th, dubbed 'Dead Man' DLC. The single mission campaign, which was previously targeting...

‘Oculus Home’ Update Adds Virtual Screens, Custom Object Importing

Oculus Home, the hub space that users see when putting on their Oculus Rift, has been updated with virtual screens for embedded Dash content and the ability to import custom objects. Announced in a post this week on the Oculus Blog, Oculus...

Beyeonics Raises $11.5M to Further Develop AR/VR Surgical Visualization Platform

Elbit Systems, an Israel-based defense company, recently announced that its medical technologies subsidiary Beyeonics Surgical successfully concluded its first funding round of $11.5 million, which the company says will be used to expand product development and accelerate commercialization of its...

Carmack Details New 5K Mobile VR Playback Tech, Releases Sample for Developers

Oculus CTO John Carmack has developed a new approach to VR video playback which makes it possible to play 5K 3D 360 video on headsets like Oculus Go and Gear VR. The results, as shown in the recent re-release...

Designing ‘Virtual Virtual Reality’, One of Mobile VR’s Most Immersive Games Yet

Launched initially on Daydream in early 2017, and now available on Gear VR, Oculus Go, and Oculus Rift, Virtual Virtual Reality's smart interaction design gives players freedom and control which—combined with a narrative tying it all together—makes Virtual Virtual Reality...