Update: Official ‘Jumanji’ VR Experience Appears on Steam

Jumanji: The VR Adventure is an official VR experience created by Sony Pictures Virtual Reality and MWM Immersive (formerly Reality One). Initially shown at VRX Networks kiosks across the US and UK in tandem with the release of the 2017 franchise reboot film starring...

WEARVR Launches $10,000 Competition to Bring New Life to Dev Kit-era Apps

As Oculus has pushed out iterative runtimes to support its consumer hardware, many of the beloved early VR experiments have fallen to the wayside, languishing without support and lost in the annals of defunct software. To remedy this, WEARVR, an independent...

Inside ‘Star Wars: Secrets of the Empire’, the Latest VR Attraction from The VOID

I have always been a huge star wars fan. Watching Luke skywalker and Han Solo fight off the Empire in the original trilogy would work me into a frenzy. I would aim my plastic yellow gun at the TV...
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‘Primordian’ is a Sci-fi Melee Brawler With Serious Style, Early Access Coming This Week

Boasting a smashing, shooting, alien skull-splitting adventure, Stonepunk Studios aims to transport you billions of years into the past to the very first planet near the center of the universe in their upcoming single-player adventure brawler Primordian. Visually, Primordian seems to be drawing on a really...

‘Snatch’ VR Experience Comes to PSVR, Featuring Rupert Grint of ‘Harry Potter’ Fame

To kick off the production of season two of Crackle's TV series Snatch, Sony has released a "VR heist game experience" on PSVR featuring Rupert Grint, known for his role an Ron Weasley in the Harry Potter films, and a number of other cast members from...

Hands-on: Lenovo Mirage Solo – Strong Fundamentals, Questionable Pricing

At CES 2018 last week, Lenovo revealed the Mirage Solo, the company's standalone Daydream headset. The new device has everything on-board, including inside-out positional tracking, which means it doesn't rely on a smartphone or external computer to drive the...

Kite & Lightning’s ‘Bebylon Battle Royale’ Nabs Unreal Dev Grant

Kite & Lightning, the studio behind some of VR's earliest experiences, is one of 13 developers receiving a portion of over $200,000 in ‘Unreal Dev Grants’, a program set up by Epic Games to showcase and provide financial support...

Oculus Now Sells Single Replacement Touch Controllers

So you got a little out of control last night playing Robo Recall (2017), and you smashed one of your Touch controllers to smithereens. It used to be that you'd have to buy a brand new pair of controllers...
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Mind-bending Adventure ‘Anamorphine’ Delayed Until Late Q1

Virtual reality is unique in its ability to allow you to immersively explore the interior of the imagination, including the darker sides of the psyche, the parts that we fear to confront, but inevitably wish to excise from the...

4 Most Important Stories From CES and What They Mean for VR in 2018

CES 2018 has come and gone, and with it, a pace has been set for what we can expect to see in VR in the next six months or so. If you weren't following the day-to-day news, here's a...