StarVR Corporation Prepares to Go Public on Taiwanese Stock Exchange

StarVR Corporation, the Acer and Starbreeze joint venture behind the wide-FOV StarVR headset, announced that it has completed its application to go public on the Taiwan Exchange. Upon approval, the company's board will apply for a listing on the Taipei Exchange Emerging Market...

Lenovo Mirage Solo Daydream Headset Now Available For Pre-order at $400

Lenovo's Mirage Solo, a standalone VR headset in the Daydream app ecosystem, has had an official release date and price for some time now: May 5th and $400. Pre-orders are now live for both the VR headset and Lenovo's...

Ubisoft Extends IBM Watson Support for ‘Bridge Crew’ Through 2018

Watson, IBM's artificial intelligence platform designed to understand natural language, launched support for Star Trek: Bridge Crew (2017) across all VR platforms back in June of last year. Last week, Ubisoft said in a forum post that it was...
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‘WipEout Omega’ Looks, Sounds, and Plays Brilliantly on PSVR, Just Remember to Pace Yourself

Thanks to a free update to PS4's WipEout Omega Collection (2017), you can finally get the authentic anti-grav racing experience on PSVR. The game's VR update is a smart and skillful adaptation, offering players a chance to "play the full...

High Fidelity & NeoSensory Partner to Launch ‘exoskin’ Haptic Jacket, Coming July 2018

High Fidelity, the open source VR platform founded by Second Life creator Philp Rosedale, and NeoSensory, a Palo Alto-based haptics company, announced they've partnered to create a haptic jacket dubbed the 'exoskin'. A beta version of the device, which is available...
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4 Minutes of Boxing Glory in ‘Creed’ VR, Gameplay Video Here

Survios, the studio behind Raw Data (2017) and Sprint Vector (2018), debuted a new single player VR game this year on the GDC expo floor, an upcoming arcade boxing title that puts you in the shoes of Adonis Creed, son of Apollo Creed...
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‘Electronauts’ Turns Anyone Into an Electronic Music Artist, Gameplay Video Here

Survios, the studio behind Raw Data (2017) and Sprint Vector (2018), showed off Electronauts at GDC this year, their upcoming VR music creation app for HTC Vive and Oculus Rift that makes DJ'ing so easy that even the least musically talented person...

Report: Magic Leap Ships First Wave of Headsets to Small Group of Partners

Magic Leap, the mysterious augmented reality headset company, has apparently begun shipping its first wave of Magic Leap One AR systems to partners in limited numbers. Citing "people familiar with the matter," Bloomberg reports a small group of unnamed software developers recently received...

‘Sairento Reborn’ Aims to Springboard off ‘Sairento’ Success, Support VR & PC

Indie VR developer Mixed Realms, creators of badass VR ninja simulator, Sairento, announced this week plans for their next chapter, coming in the form of Sairento Reborn. Described as "bigger and better," Sairento Reborn hopes to open up the title, allowing cooperative hack &...

Vive China President Shares 16 Lessons for a VR-First Future From ‘Ready Player One’

Virtual reality (VR) has been a hot topic in the media and the tech sector for the last couple of years, but it is about to hit a new level of buzz, thanks to the internationally best-selling book Ready...