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Sales of Valve’s Index Headset Are Waning After Years of Surprising Longevity
Valve's Index VR headset is now more than four years old. Despite its age, the headset continued to sell at a surprising rate over the years—but as they say, nothing lasts forever.
Valve launched Index with the goal of setting...
Pico Raises $24M Series A Funding, Goblin 2 Standalone Headset Announced
Pico Interactive, the Beijing-based standalone VR headset manufacturer, successfully completed a ¥167.5 million RMB (~$24.7 million) Series A funding round. To accompany the news, Pico also announced their second iteration of their Goblin standalone headset, dubbed G2.
As reported by...
Valve, Bossa Studios and Vertigo Games Talk Steam VR at EGX Rezzed, Video Now Up
After HTC's surprise announcement at MWC and the subsequent VR frenzy of GDC, it became apparent some lucky developers had had their hands on early Steam VR hardware for some time. Two of them are Bossa Studios' (Surgeon Simulator)...
Valve VR Programmer Aims to Extend SteamVR with AR-like Utilities, Launches ‘Aardvark’ Platform in Early Access
Long-time Valve VR programmer Joe Ludwig, working in his own capacity, is building an open-source platform to bring AR-like utilities into virtual reality. The project, called Aardvark, is something of an evolution of an extension of VR dashboards as...
Pimax Delays Thin & Light ‘Dream Air’ PC VR Headset to Q3 2025, Reveals Cheaper ‘Dream...
Pimax announced Dream Air last December, aiming to take on the emerging segment of compact high-end PC VR headsets, such as Bigscreen Beyond and Shiftall MaganeX Superlight 8K. And before the company has even released Dream Air, Pimax revealed it's...
Oculus Extends Free ‘Asgard’s Wrath’ Offer to All Quest 2 Owners Until January 31st, 2021
Oculus announced late last week that, starting on November 20th, new Quest 2 owners would be able to download the award-winning PC VR title Asgard's Wrath (2019) for free until January 31st, 2021. Following public outcry from early customers...
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Hello people of the real world. My name is Ben Lang. If you're reading this message, you're reading words composed and published from within virtual reality.
Joking title aside, I'm actually inside AltspaceVR right now as I type, a social...
Report: Apple Starts Preliminary Production on “semitransparent” AR Lenses
According to a report by The Information, Apple is gearing up to enter a new phase in production on its fabled AR headset. Together with Foxconn Technology, the Taiwan-based contract manufacturer behind many of Apple's mobile devices, the company...
Sony Cuts Price of PSVR & PS4 Console by $100 for Week-long Black Friday Sale
With major US retailers already greasing the wheels of their shopping carts in preparation for the yearly scramble we call Black Friday, Sony today announced on the US PlayStation blog that it's temporarily lowering the price of all PlayStation VR...
‘Rust’-like Shooter ‘Silent North’ Launches in Early Access on Quest & PC VR Headsets, Trailer Here
Silent North, the sandbox survival shooter from Ghosts of Tabor studio Combat Waffle, is now available in early access on Quest and PC VR headsets.
Like Face Punch Studio's iconic PvPvE game Rust (2013), Silent North is an open-ended survival game that offers up...
Stress Level Zero to Bring ‘Boneworks’ Universe Game to Quest Next Year
Announced at Oculus Connect 6 this week was a new title from Stress Level Zero, the studio behind Hover Junkers (2016) and Duck Season (2017). The game, which is said to arrive on Oculus Quest sometime next year, is slated...
Play VR Sport ‘SPARC’ for Free on Rift This Weekend
Sparc (2017), the VR sport from EVE Online developers CCP Games, is hosting a free weekend for Rift players on Oculus Home. Temporary free access has already begun, and will conclude on February 4th at 11:59 PM PT (local time here).
Initially...
HTC Teases Reveal of “game-changing VR headsets” at VIVECON
You can now register for HTC's upcoming VIVECON event. The free, online event will be held May 11th & 12th, and the company is promising to reveal "game-changing VR headsets," (yes that's plural headsets), alongside presentations from "industry experts,...
Valve is Investing in Wireless VR via Video Streaming Company Nitero
Valve's annual Steam Dev Days event is underway and news about how the company is investing in VR's future is seeping out. One interesting development is that they're reportedly investing in 60Ghz wireless video streaming specialists Nitero, with a view...
AMD’s SteamVR Streaming Tool ‘ReLive for VR’ Won’t Support Oculus Mobile Devices
AMD recently launched an updated version of their Radeon Software suite which brought the ability to stream SteamVR games to standalone and smartphone-based headsets, provided you own a supported AMD GPU. Now the company has put future support for...




















