AntVR Launches ‘Mix’ AR Headset Kickstarter, Promising a 96-degree FOV Starting at $500
AntVR, the Beijing-based company known for their 2014 VR headset Kickstarter, launched a new crowdfunding campaign today for an augmented reality headset dubbed 'Mix'. AntVR says the PC-tethered AR headset, which starts at $500 without positional tracking, will have...
Valve Brings Custom Keybinding to SteamVR, Letting VR Apps Support All Compatible Controllers
SteamVR includes de facto support for several VR devices, although sometimes games just don't support a particular controller—or if they do, it may not be configured properly. To remedy this, Valve has introduced a new SteamVR Input system, now in...
16 Minutes of ‘Red Matter’ Gameplay Revealed – a Sci-fi Soviet Retrofuture Adventure
Ahead of its launch later this month, we got a chance to dive into the beginning of Red Matter, an upcoming VR adventure puzzle exclusively for Oculus Rift that puts you in a wonderfully weird Soviet-style retrofuturistic world.
With launch quickly...
WEARVR Announces Winners of $10,000 ‘Remastered’ Competition – Bringing New Life to Old VR Favorites
It's hard to believe it's already been five years since the first Oculus Rift dev kits shipped to Kickstarter backers, many of them developers looking to create for the future of VR consumer hardware. As the medium inevitably marches on...
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...
