Oculus Affirms Commitment to Rift, Believes PC Will Lead the VR Industry for the Next Decade

Over the last year, Oculus' public hardware ambitions have mostly centered around their upcoming standalone headsets (Oculus Go and Santa Cruz), with little to say about what's next for the company's PC VR headset, the Rift. Addressing a small...

Hands-on: ‘Beat Saber’ is Every Bit as Fun as It Looks

At GDC this year, I had a chance to step into Beat Saber, an upcoming rhythm game from Czech Republic-based indie studio Hyperbolic Magnetism that tasks you with slicing flying cubes with lightsabers to electronic dance music. If that sounds cool to...

Leap Motion ‘Virtual Wearable’ AR Prototype is a Potent Glimpse at the Future of Your Smartphone

Because VR can take over our entire reality, it can be great for entertainment. But when it comes to AR, the hope is that the tech will be a transient and beneficial addition to reality, rather than taking over...
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‘Catan VR’ Launches with Cross-play for Rift and Gear VR, Headed to Oculus Go

Based on Klaus Teuber’s popular board game Settlers of Catan (1995), the VR version of Catan is available now on Oculus Rift and Gear VR, and will be a launch title for Oculus Go. The game features cross-play multiplayer,...

Kat VR Announces New ‘Mini’ Version of Its VR Treadmill, Kickstarter Coming Soon

Kat VR, a China-based company known for their crowdfunded Kat Walk VR treadmill, are hitting Kickstarter again soon with a new design that promises to accommodate smaller spaces. The company says their new Kat Walk Mini has "a much smaller...

AR-Enhanced ‘Warhammer’ Trading Card Game to Launch July 2018

Warhammer Age of Sigmar Champions is an upcoming physical and digital trading card game coming to iOS, Android, and PC in July. Announced at GDC 2018, the augmented reality experience uses PlayFusion’s proprietary ‘Enhanced Reality Engine’ to unlock gameplay...

Oculus to Scrap Trackpads on Santa Cruz Controllers in Favor of Buttons & Sticks

At GDC 2018 this week, Oculus revealed some additional details surrounding their high-end standalone VR headset prototype, Santa Cruz. Among those details, the company plans to replace the current controllers' trackpads with buttons and sticks, much like the Rift. Santa...

Hands-on: ‘Dr. Splorchy’ is Another Justin Roiland™ Fever Dream That Defies a Concise Headline

Squanch Games, the studio behind Accounting+ (2018) and brainchild of Rick and Morty creator Justin Roiland, is coming out with a new Daydream exclusive that follows the exploits of the titular Dr. Splorchy, plopping you aboard a spaceship with dangerous bugs that you have to...

Magic Leap Shows Prototype Headset Progress Since 2014

At a sponsored GDC 2018 session, the still mysterious augmented reality company Magic Leap has revealed how their prototype hardware has evolved from 2014 to present day. Slowly but surely, the famously secretive augmented reality company, is opening the shutters...

GDC 2018: Magic Leap ‘Developing for Spatial Computing’ Session, Live Blog @ 4:00PM PT

Magic Leap is hosting a sponsored session today at GDC 2018 which promises a “deep dive” on developing for augmented reality. Having released their SDK earlier this week, we’re hoping to hear the company talk more specifically about what...