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Social AR/VR Workspace ‘Spatial’ Secures $14M Series A Financing

Spatial, a New York-based startup behind the eponymous real-time AR/VR collaboration platform, has secured $14 million in additional financing, bringing its overall funds to $22 million. The latest funding round was led by White Star Capital, iNovia and Kakao Ventures, with...

New Quest Dev Tools to Add Leg Estimation for More Convincing Avatars

Meta announced that it's offering new developer tools for Quest headsets to make avatars more realistic. The company also unveiled a Quest 3-exclusive upper body tracking feature that supports a much wider range of body motion. Announced at Connect 2023...

‘Pokémon GO’ Now Uses Apple’s ARKit on iOS 11, Bringing Pokémon Closer to Reality

Pokémon GO, the massively successful location-based mobile game, just got an update on iOS 11 thanks to Apple's ARKit that gives iPhone 6s and above more realistic Pokémon-catching encounters. Since it was released in summer 2016, Pokémon GO has been hailed as an augmented reality...
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VR Horror ‘HappyFunland’ Coming to PSVR 2 & SteamVR This Month, Trailer Here

Perp Games and Spectral Illusions announced the VR horror title HappyFunland is coming to PSVR 2 and SteamVR headsets this month, letting you explore the abandoned remains of a theme park that promises some darkly comedic frights. Here's how the studios describes...

15,000 HTC Vives Pre-Ordered in 10 Minutes, Now Backordered to May

The pre-order countdown for HTC Vive is over, but if you're still on the fence on whether to get that shiny new VR headset, you're still not too late to pick one up for May shipment. What's more, according to a tweet...
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Action RPG ‘Swords of Gargantua’ Demo Now Available on Vive & Rift

We had a chance to go hands-on with Gumi and Yomuneco's Sword of Gargantua at GDC back in March, and while an official write-up never materialized out of the hectic game-filled dev conference, a demo for the studio's upcoming online action RPG...

Preview: ‘Machine VR’ is an Awe-inspiring Trip Through a Crystalline Fractal Universe

Produced by Dutch visual effects artist Julius Horsthuis, Machine VR is the newest installment of a line of contemplative fractal 360 videos—this time taking you into an infinite world of crenelated metallic structures that is sure to ignite the imagination. The human mind...

Classic Melee Combat Game ‘GORN’ is Getting a Sequel Later This Year on Quest, PC VR...

GORN (2019), the comically violent combat game from Free Lives, is getting a sequel that aims to bring a double dose of madcap melee mayhem, coming to all major VR headsets later this year. GORN 2 is currently being developed by Cortopia Studios, with...
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‘Blood & Truth’ Hops on the VR Rhythm Train in Final Challenge DLC

Between Beat Saber, Pistol Whip, Audica, and plenty more, it's fair to say that rhythm games are a key VR genre. And while we didn't expect it from Blood & Truth, the gritty PSVR-exclusive shooter, we're happy to see the...

‘Vive Pro’ Leak Suggests Big Bump in Resolution and Optional Vive Wireless Adapter

Late last week, HTC made a major tease of a forthcoming new Vive headset with improved resolution. Apparently leaked information ahead of any official announcements suggests we'll see a 'Vive Pro' announced by HTC at CES this week with...

Pico 4 Ultra Aims to Compete with Meta in Europe & Asia Amid Suspected Quest 3S...

Pico is releasing Pico 4 Ultra starting this month, where it's slated to take on Quest 3 across Europe and Asia—which could be right in time for Meta to unveil the allegedly cheaper Quest 3S. Pico is releasing pre-orders for...

VR Attraction Sandbox VR Announces Major Expansion With 25 New Locations in the Coming Years

Sandbox VR, the location-based VR attraction, announced it's opening 25 new locations as a result of a partnership with Apparel Group, the United Arab Emirates-based fashion and lifestyle company. The partnership is described as a "massive franchise deal" with Apparel...
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‘Pollen’ Devs Talk Narrative, HTC Vive Integration and Putting Beer Cans into Microwaves

Pollen, a first-person exploration VR game from Helsinki based Mindfield Games, is well on its way for its series of multi-headset launches soon too come, including Sony Morpheus, HTC Vive, and Oculus Rift. We sat down to talk with CEO Ville...
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Viral Hit Horror Game ‘Slender: The Arrival’ Comes to Quest, PSVR 2, and PC VR This...

Slender: The Arrival (2013), the hit flatscreen game that pits you against the legendary Slender Man, is releasing on all major VR platforms this spring, coming alongside a fresh (and spine-tingling) new gameplay video. As revealed during the VR Games...

Hands-on: Upcoming VR Shooter ‘Telefrag’ Boasts Impossible, Escher-style Arenas

Anshar Studios, the developers behind Detached (2017), showed off a new arena shooter at Gamescom this year. Dubbed Telefrag VR, the game (still in pre-alpha) pits you against another player in a futuristic, gladiatorial-style battle taking place in impossible spaces. Set...
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