VR Development
Oculus App Lab Lets Devs Distribute Apps on Quest While Bypassing Curation Process
Oculus today introduced a program called App Lab, a new effort which will allow developers to distribute their VR...
Valve VR Programmer Aims to Extend SteamVR with AR-like Utilities, Launches ‘Aardvark’ Platform in...
Long-time Valve VR programmer Joe Ludwig, working in his own capacity, is building an open-source platform to bring AR-like...
Oculus Unity Plugin Adds Experimental OpenXR Support & Latency-reducing Tech for Quest
The latest version of the Oculus Integration for Unity, v23, adds experimental OpenXR support for Quest and Quest 2...
Quest’s Official Non-store App Distribution Channel is Coming in Q1, 2021
Facebook announced back in June that it planned to offer developers a way to distribute Oculus Quest apps outside...
How a Solo Indie Developer Built the Best Rated Game on Oculus Quest
Recently released on the Quest store, Cubism is a spatial puzzle game with a slick minimal presentation. Designed by a...
‘Half-Life: Alyx’ Update with In-game Commentary Likely to Release Soon
Half-Life: Alyx is likely soon to see an update which would add in-game developer commentary similar to previous Valve...
Unity ‘Accelerating efforts’ on OpenXR Support, Preview Expected by End of Year
Unity has long been a public supporter of OpenXR—an industry standard designed to streamline VR development by making it...
Oculus Now Accepting OpenXR Apps on Quest & Rift, a Big Step for Cross-platform...
OpenXR is a widely supported open standard which aims to make cross-platform VR development easier by allowing developers to...
Dev Tool Uses Quest Hand-tracking to Quickly Model Realistic Hand Poses for VR
Grabbing objects in VR may be one of the medium's most fundamental interactions, but making it work well isn't...
Book Reveals the Fate of Two Other Valve VR Games Developed Alongside ‘Alyx’
It was big news back in 2017 when Valve announced that it was working on "three full games,...
Oculus Improves Iteration Time for Quest Developers Using UE4
Oculus has updated its UE4 Quest development tools so that developers can spend less time waiting and more time...
Open-source Modeling & Animation Tool ‘Blender’ Now Includes Basic VR Support
Blender, a popular free open-source modeling and animation tool, just launched its 2.83 update, which brings basic VR support...
Unreal Engine Apps Can Now Be Built with Quest Hand-tracking
An update to Oculus developer tools has brought a handful of updates, including support for Quest hand-tracking in Unreal...
Oculus is (still) Covering Unreal Engine Royalties for $5M in Revenue Per-game Through 2025
With the recent news that Unreal Engine was permanently waiving engine royalties for the first $1 million in app...
Bored During Lockdown? Get an Intro to Quest Development in This Live Online Workshop
An upcoming online workshop by XR development educator Circuit Stream will teach developers the basics of building applications for...
