‘Lone Echo’ Behind-the-Scenes – Insights & Artwork from Ready At Dawn
After more than a decade of working on home and portable consoles, Ready At Dawn last year released Lone Echo and its multiplayer spinoff Echo Arena on the Oculus Rift & Touch. We talked with Ready At Dawn Founder & Chief...
Vive Focus’ Western Launch Hinges on Success in China
Having initially announced that their Vive Focus standalone VR headset would operate as part of Google's Daydream VR platform in 2017, HTC later scrapped those plans ahead of the headset's recent launch in China under HTC's own 'Wave Vive'...
Update: ‘Earthlight’ Developer Experimenting With PSVR
Opaque Space, a studio working in collaboration with NASA to build space-themed VR experiences, have started experimenting with PSVR.
Update (02/06/18): In a previous version of this article, it was incorrectly reported that studio's latest experience 'Earthlight: Spacewalk' would be coming to...
Valve’s ‘Steam Audio’ Spatial Sound System Gets Support for AMD TrueAudio Next, FMOD
Steam Audio, Valve's free made-for-VR spatial audio system, has added support for AMD's GPU-based TrueAudio Next technology, as well as the popular FMOD audio software.
AMD TrueAudio Next
Today Valve announced the release of Steam Audio 2.0 beta 13 which now...
360 Film ‘Dinner Party’ is a Symbolic Exploration of Race in America Wrapped in an Alien...
Dinner Party is an immersive exploration of Betty and Barney Hill's widely known 1961 alien abduction story that premiered at the Sundance New Frontier film festival. Rather than using normal alien tropes, writers Laura Wexler & Charlotte Stoudt chose to...
‘Sairento VR’ Exits Steam Early Access Today, Launches on Oculus Home
Sairento VR (2018), a VR ninja action game from indie developer Mixed Realms, ended its year-long stint in Steam Early Access today. The game, which features both single player and multiplayer modes, also launched on Oculus Home today.
Sairento VR launches out...
Play ‘Eleven: Table Tennis VR’ on Rift for Free This Weekend
For Fun Labs, the developers behind Eleven: Table Tennis VR (2016), are hosting a free weekend for Rift players this week on Oculus Home.
Eleven: Table Tennis VR offers online multiplayer or practice with AI, and features cross-play between both the Steam (Vive & Rift) and Oculus...
Walmart’s Tech Incubator Store No. 8 Acquires VR Startup Spatialand
Wal-Mart, the big-box retail giant, unveiled its Store No. 8 tech startup incubator last year with the aim of researching and investing in emergent tech like AR and VR. Now, Store No. 8 has acquired Spatialand, a startup that has created...
HP to Launch Enterprise-focused Windows VR Headset in March
HP is bringing out an enterprise-focused version of its Windows 'Mixed Reality' VR headset in March. Called the 'Professional Edition', HP is pushing out basically the same headset hardware-wise save a few tweaks it considers necessary for VR-use in...
Open Source Game Engine ‘Godot Engine’ Gets VR Support
The full release of Godot 3.0 is now available, bringing VR support to the engine via a lightweight, 3DoF, ‘Cardboard-like’ solution, and OpenVR support through a GDNative-based plugin. The multiplatform Godot Engine is an open source, non-profit project available...















