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...
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...
‘Lone Echo’ Gets Final Update as Studio Turns Focus Toward ‘Echo Combat’
Lone Echo (2017), one of the Rift's most critically acclaimed titles (including one of our 2017 Game of the Year winners), has received a new update today which improves visuals for those playing on high-end hardware and offers up dubbing...
‘Brass Tactics’ Gets Pre-order Discount, Free-to-Play Version to Launch in February
Tabletop real-time strategy game Brass Tactics, which launches on February 22nd, is now available for preorder on the Oculus Store at a promotional price of $24.99. A free-to-play version of the game called Brass Tactics Arena is also open...
‘Vive Video’ Gets 2.0 Update, Partners with Vimeo to Offer Curated Video Selection
HTC Creative Labs’s free native VR video player has received an upgrade with a new browser interface. The team has also partnered with Vimeo, offering a curated selection of streamable VR video content.
Explained in a post on the official...
‘Elite Dangerous’ to See Overhaul in ‘Beyond’ Update, Open Beta Begins January 25th
Frontier Developments today announced an open beta test for the upcoming update to the third season of Elite Dangerous (2014), the open-universe space simulator for VR and non-VR players. Called 'Beyond - Chapter One', the update will officially arrive sometime in Q1 2018...
Pimax Responds to Critical Reception of Latest “8K” Prototype at CES
Expectations are high for backers of Pimax's very successful Kickstarter campaign which raised $4.2 million in crowdfunding last year for a VR headset promising an ultra-wide field of view and high resolution. Following a critical reception of the headset's...
SyncThink Closes $3.5 Million Series A Funding to Further Develop VR-based Concussion Detection
SyncThink, a Berkeley-based eye-tracking and brain firm, announced the closing of a $3.5 million Series A-1 funding round led by Quadrant Management. The company expects to use the funds to continue development on their EYE-SYNC technology, a VR-based eye-tracking technology to help...
