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Gear VR Space Dogfighter ‘End Space’ to Arrive on Rift Tomorrow, Vive Support in February

Orange Bridge Studios today announced that End Space (2017), the single-player space dogfighter for Gear VR, is headed to Oculus Rift January 25th. The Steam version for HTC Vive and Rift is slated to arrive sometime next month. Orange Bridge says the Rift and Vive version will...

U.S. Olympic Athletes Are Using Virtual Reality to Train for Events

U.S. Ski & Snowboard Association, the national governing body for Olympic skiing and snowboarding, announced a partnership with Menlo Park-based STRIVR Labs to use VR to help prepare for and recover from World Cup and Olympic events. According to the association, both 360 video...

$50,000 Up for Grabs in Viveport Developer Awards, Submissions Now Open

Last year marked HTC's very first Vive Developer Awards (VDAs), which saw tens of thousands of dollars go to VR app developers across a number of categories. Now, submissions for this year's VDAs are open, spanning more categories than last year, including...

New Official Dev Tool Tests VR Apps Against Oculus Platform Guidelines Before Submission

Up until now, developers wishing to get their VR app on the Oculus Store had to submit to a manual review process by which their game or experience was washed through two stages; a tech review to see if...

Vive Focus Standalone VR Headset Launches in China

Vive Focus, HTC's first standalone VR headset, has officially launched in China. Based on HTC's new mobile VR platform, which includes a mobile version of the Viveport content store, the headset debuts with more than 40 apps. The Vive Focus...

Facebook Open-sources ‘Detectron’ Computer Vision Algorithm for AR Research

Facebook announced this week the open-sourcing of Detectron, the company's platform for computer vision object detection algorithm based on a deep learning framework. The company says that its motive for opening up the project is to accelerate computer vision...

Wargaming to Develop ‘World of Tanks VR’ for VR Arcades

Wargaming—the company behind free-to-play titles World of Tanks (2010), World of Warplanes (2013), and World of Warships (2015)—has announced development of a new title, World of Tanks VR, under development for deployment into VR arcades. While the original World of Tanks itself isn't getting VR support...
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‘Cubism’ Aims to Artfully Tickle Your Brain With Its Solid Dissection Puzzles, Demo Now Available

Cubism is an upcoming VR puzzle game from indie developer Thomas Van Bouwel that challenges you to think in 3 dimensions. Inspired by puzzles like the Soma cube, or a cube composed of smaller Tetris-like geometric pieces, Cubism tasks...

AltspaceVR CEO Eric Romo Joins Facebook’s Social VR Team

Eric Romo, co-founder and CEO of AltspaceVR, is joining Facebook's Social VR team. Following financial difficulties, which almost saw the complete shut down of the social VR app, AltspaceVR found new life when it was acquired by Microsoft back in October. Romo, who founded AltspaceVR in January 2013,...

Harry Potter Universe ‘Fantastic Beasts’ VR Experience Comes to Vive, Oculus & Gear VR

Gallopin’ Gorgons! An updated version of the Harry Potter Universe game for Daydream, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them VR Experience, is arriving today. Not only that, but owners of Vive, Rift and Gear VR will finally be able to get in...