Playing ‘Beat Saber’ Could Burn the Same Number of Calories as Tennis
According to recent testing by the Virtual Reality Institute of Health and Exercise, Beat Saber (2018) may be more than just a fun way to spend an evening in. With all that block slicing, dodging and leaning, you could burn as many...
‘Silicon Valley’ VR Experience Lets You Explore Erlich Bachman’s Incubator, Now on Rift & Vive
VR headset users now have a chance to walk into an interactive version of HBO's Silicon Valley house. The Palo Alto home, which is owned by the series' eccentric startup guru Erlich Bachman (T.J. Miller), was lovingly recreated in VR,...
‘Onward’ Community Helps Raise Over $7,000 for Deceased Player’s Family
Onward (2017) is a military-style VR shooter with some of the most ardent players who regularly engage in a sort of amped-up version of paintball. It plays host to fierce competition, and with it comes a certain camaraderie that has bound...
‘Beat Saber’ Lets You Become the Music Through Puzzles Your Body Solves – Creator Interview
Beat Saber is a rhythm game that plays like an embodied puzzle game which creates a visceral connection to 10 custom music tracks. It's similar to Soundboxing and Audio Shield, but you use extended lightsabers rather than your fists,...
INT Announces 2,228 PPI High Pixel Density AMOLED for VR Headsets
When we saw the news that JDI, the Japanese display conglomerate founded by Sony, Toshiba and Hitachi, were developing a 1001ppi LCD display for VR headsets, it was clear that the race for ever-higher pixel densities was still alive...
‘Apex Construct’ Gets Free PSVR Demo, Now Available on US PSN Store
Sadly, demos aren't really the norm for VR games, making it tough to know if that tantalizingly polished-looking game really works as well as it looks in trailers. Now, Apex Construct (2018) developers Fast Travel Games have released a demo on...
Multiplayer VR Shooter ‘Oval’ Lets You Create & Share Levels, Coming June to Early Access
Oval is an upcoming VR shooter that lets you create, edit and share your own levels. The game, which is slated to hit Steam Early Access June 8th, will support HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, and Windows "Mixed Reality" VR...
Google: Don’t Expect 6DOF Controllers for Lenovo Mirage Solo
If you're waiting on positionally-tracked controllers for Google's latest entry into the Daydream platform, the standalone 6DOF VR headset Lenovo Mirage Solo, you probably won't ever see it, at least not from Google.
Google's annual I/O dev conference was strangely...
Exclusive: Designing Single-handed Shortcuts for VR & AR
For new computing technologies to realize their full potential they need new user interfaces. The most essential interactions in virtual spaces are grounded in direct physical manipulations like pinching and grabbing, as these are universally accessible. However, the team...
JDI is Developing a 1,001 PPI High Pixel Density LCD for VR Headsets
Japan Display Inc. (JDI), a display conglomerate created by Sony, Toshiba, and Hitachi, today announced the development of a high pixel density, 3.25-inch 1001ppi LCD created specifically for VR headsets.
JDI says in a press release they plan to start...
