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...
VR Mech Combat Game ‘Vox Machinae’ is Back with Motion Input, Closed Beta Coming Soon
With VR's strengths for cockpit-based games, you'd think that there would be more quality mech titles available to today's headsets. Alas, a killer VR mech game hasn't reared its head just yet; Vox Machinae, a promising VR mech combat game...
Play ‘Onward’ Tactical Multiplayer Shooter for Free on Rift This Weekend
Onward, the tactical multiplayer shooter for Vive and Rift, is getting another free weekend - this time for Rift players on Oculus Home.
The free weekend begins January 25th at 1:00 PM ET and goes
until the 29th at 3:00 AM ET (your time here). Check out Onward on...
Exclusive: Summoning & Superpowers – Designing VR Interactions at a Distance
Manipulating objects with bare hands lets us leverage a lifetime of physical experience, minimizing the learning curve for users. But there are times when virtual objects will be farther away than arm’s reach, beyond the user’s range of direct...
Race to Find These 20 ‘Sprint Vector’ Closed Beta Keys
Survios, the studio behind Raw Data (2017), announced a closed beta test for Sprint Vector, its multiplayer competitive foot racing game. The closed beta began on January 20th and go through January 28th. Race to find one of 20...
Oculus Sends 5 VR Experiences to Sundance 2018
The Sundance Film Festival just kicked off in Park City, Utah, and Oculus announced in a blogpost they're debuting five experiences at the New Frontier section of Sundance—all of which they helped bring to life.
Sundance's New Frontier hosts a curated selection of...
Dell Partners With Meta to Sell Meta 2 AR Dev Kit in February
Dell and AR headset manufacturer Meta announced a new partnership, allowing Dell to be the first third-party seller of the Meta 2 Augmented Reality Development Kit. Dell says that through the partnership, they'll also be able to provide both the...
Investors Poured a Record $2 Billion into VR/AR in 2017, But Early Stage Funding Slowed
In 2017, venture funding of VR/AR companies reached at least $1.9B, ending slightly above 2016. The total number of companies raising venture capital during 2017 outpaced 2016, but the average deal size declined sharply by 35%, according to Greenlight...
‘Oculus Start’ Program Aims to Help Indies Jump into VR Development
Providing “access, support, and savings” to qualifying indie developers, the new Oculus Start program hopes to encourage and enable the development of great apps from those just getting started in VR. The program, which was introduced in a brief...
Play ‘From Other Suns’ Co-op Sci-fi Adventure Game for Free This Weekend
Gunfire Games’ most recent release, the space adventure game From Other Suns (2017), is playable for free this weekend. The game is exclusive to the Oculus platform and designed “from the ground up” for the Touch controllers, coming from...
