Google Opens Daydream App Submission to All and Publishes VR App “Quality Requirements”

Google has put out the welcome mat and unlocked the doors to all developers wishing to develop apps for their Daydream VR platform, but in order to keep the standards high have also issued a "Quality Requirements" guide. As we reported in...

Facebook Picks Former Android VP as New Head of Oculus, Looks to ‘Take VR mainstream’

Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg has tapped Hugo Barra, Xiaomi's current Global VP, for the position of CEO at Oculus VR. Barra will be tasked with not only leading Oculus, Facebook's subsidiary, but all of Facebook's VR projects. Barra will be replacing...

Deus Ex: Mankind Divided’s Free VR Experience is a Beautiful Glimpse at the Future

Deus Ex fans with VR hardware can rejoice as developer Eidos Montreal have launched a new, free VR experience based on their latest title in the series, Mankind Divided, and it's quite the looker. Deus Ex has had its problems as...

Sony Reveals PlayStation VR’s Most Downloaded Games of 2016

The Official PlayStation Blog has shared Sony’s most downloaded games of last year. This includes a dedicated list for PlayStation VR, representing almost three months of software sales since the hardware launched in October. PSVR now has more than...

EXOS Haptic VR Exoskeleton Glove Aims to Deliver Practical Touch Feedback

EXOS is a new haptic enabled VR glove which uses force feedback to deliver the sensation of physicality when inside immersive applications. Tokyo based developer Exiii are working on a new VR glove which delivers so-called "reactive force" in response...

Devs Behind ‘Max Payne’ and ‘Quantum Break’ Form New VR House, ‘3rd Eye Studios’

3rd Eye Studios is a new VR developer team formed from Remedy Entertainment alum and they're working on a new, original made-for-VR anthology inspired by 70's sci-fi television shows. Here's an exclusive first look at some of the first art for...

One of VR’s Best Party Games Now Supports Rift & Vive Motion Controllers

Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes is an undeniably fun VR party game that you can play together with a big group with only one VR headset. Now the game has added much requested support for both Vive and Rift's...

Researchers Demonstrate 100° Dynamic Focus AR Display With Membrane Mirrors

Achieving a wide field of view in an AR headset is a challenge in itself, but so too is fixing the so-called vergence-accommodation conflict which presently plagues most VR and AR headsets, making them less comfortable and less in...

HTC’s VP of Design Leaving to Join Google’s VR Team

According to a report by The Verge, HTC's VP of Design is leaving the company to join up with Google's Daydream VR team. Having joined the company in 2008, in recent year's HTC's VP of Design, Claude Zellweger, played a...

Vive President Says Next-gen VR Headsets Likely to Come in 1 to 3 Year Cycles

Over the course of the last 50 years, capital markets have significantly codified a generational model approach consumer technology products. New "generations" of products are expected to come at a regular pace and provide increased features and reliability at the...