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‘Beat Saber’ Gets New Eminem Track as Part of Surprise ‘Shock Drop’ Songs

Beat Saber is getting 'Shock Drops', something Meta calls a "new-ish hit single to keep things fresh," the first of which is Eminem's Houdini. Houdini, the chart-topping song from Eminem's twelfth studio album The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de...

Exclusive Hands-on: Part Two – Everything New About Reverb G2

HP recently announced its latest VR headset, Reverb G2. It boasts a substantial number of improvements over the original Reverb and clearly represents the next-gen of WMR headsets. We were fortunate enough to get an exclusive hands-on with the...

‘Defense Grid 2’ Proves How Compelling Tower Defense in VR Can Be

Jeff Pobst admits that it's probably not a new Rift owner's first thought to go out and buy a tower defense game, but Defense Grid 2: Enhanced VR Edition proved to me how compelling a tower defense game can...

Oculus is Making Link’s Hardware Specs Available to Third Parties

Oculus Link, the upcoming feature that will let you play Rift games on Quest, is set to launch sometime in November. According to statement made by an Oculus Product Manager, the company is also making Link's specs available to third...

Tekken 7 VR Support Hints Dropped by Developer

Bandai Namco Designer Michael Murray has dropped some fairly major hints that their forthcoming Tekken 7 will not feature a full, fighting 'VR mode' for the game proper when it ships next year supporting Sony's PlayStation VR headset. If when...

‘Vi’ Wants You to Build Muscle with XR Gloves & (eventually) Its Fitness-first Headset

Using an XR headset for at-home workouts basically looks like playing Beat Saber: you can duck, dodge, punch or slice to improve cardio and burn fat. With an increasing number of apps that essentially play on that formula, XR startup...

Ubisoft’s Psychological Thriller ‘Transference’ to Launch Next Week on Vive, Rift & PSVR

Elijah Wood's studio SpectreVision and Ubisoft Montreal announced Transference at last year's E3, a VR thriller-adventure that takes into something of a virtual reality inside a virtual reality. It's only a few more days until the game is officially released, with the...

4 Great VR Party Games to Play With Friends and Family This Holiday

VR is so new that one of the regular activities of VR headset owners is introducing other people to the technology. Usually that means putting one person in a headset and standing around while they take their turn. But a...

MMORPG ‘OrbusVR’ Expansion ‘Reborn’ to Launch in April

Orbus Online, the studio behind OrbusVR, says the game's long-awaited 'Reborn' expansion is now set to launch sometime in April. OrbusVR is a made-for-VR MMORPG that launched into Early Access on Steam (Vive, Rift) and the Oculus Store (Rift) in December 2017. As...
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‘The Inpatient’ Creates a Human Connection with Superb Facial Animation, Then Abruptly Severs It

Supermassive Games, the makers of VR titles Until Dawn: Rush of Blood (2016) and Tumble VR (2016), are coming out with a new psychological horror game for PSVR called The Inpatient that seems to offer a level of realism thanks to some...

Ex-Oculus CTO: ‘Beat Saber was much more important to VR’s growth than Half-Life: Alyx’

John Carmack, former CTO of Oculus and legendary programmer, isn't shy when it comes to voicing his opinions on all things XR. To Carmack, Meta's block-slashing rhythm game Beat Saber (2018) was "far more important than Half-Life: Alyx" in pushing adoption...

Hands-on: Star Wars ‘Trials on Tatooine’ Let Me Wield the Iconic Lightsaber

Lucasfilm has revealed a new HTC Vive experiment called Star Wars: Trials on Tatooine, which finally lets us wield the Jedi's iconic lightsaber. Oh, and the Millennium Falcon makes a visit. Over the years we've seen a number of fan-made virtual...

Stanford Unveils ‘Light Field Stereoscope’ a VR Headset to Reduce Fatigue and Nausea

Researchers at Stanford University have unveiled a prototype VR Headset which they claim reduce the effects of VR sickness through the use of an innovative 'stacked' display which generates naturalistic light fields. VR display technology continues to evolve rapidly, with...

Oculus Rift Creator Palmer Luckey is Developing a New XR Headset

Palmer Luckey, Oculus founder and creator behind the original Oculus Rift, teased an upcoming announcement that he's working on a new XR headset. Luckey says in a post on X that he'll be talking more about the device at Augmented World...
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‘Drone Hero’ Makes You Feel Like the World’s Best Drone Pilot While Showcasing VR’s Strengths

With an intuitive control scheme and accessible gameplay, this simple and satisfying VR action game for HTC Vive and Oculus Rift and Touch turns out to be an excellent showcase of the fundamental benefits of using VR hardware for...
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