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...
‘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...
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...













