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Manus Announces SteamVR Tracker for Professional Creators, Pre-orders Now Open

Manus, the Netherlands-based startup behind a number of VR gloves, today announced pre-order availability for the company's first professional-level SteamVR tracker. Called the Manus Pro Tracker, the company says the device is designed specifically for SteamVR-based motion capture, virtual production...

How to Record Videos on Quest 2 and Improve Capture Quality

Quest 2 has simple built-in video capture capabilities. In this article you'll see how to use them and, for advanced users, you'll learn how to increase the quality of the videos captured on Quest 2 and how to transfer...

‘Naau: The Lost Eye’ is an Intriguing PC VR Action-Adventure Coming in February

It's been a while since we heard about Studio Gamebit's upcoming VR action-adventure game Naau: The Lost Eye, which the Turkey-based studio first teased back in September 2019. The studio now says its debut PC VR title is launching into Early Access...

‘Rec Room’ Studio Estimates Facebook Sold 2-3M Oculus Quest 2 Headsets in Q4

Rec Room isn't just one of the best free social VR apps out there. In the absence of hard sales data, it makes for an excellent watermark for how things are moving in the industry. Now, according to Rec Room's downloads...

Tundra Tracker Kickstarter Pushed to March, First Deliveries Expected in July

Tundra Tracker, the upcoming SteamVR tracker alternative to the Vive Tracker, was originally expected to hold a Kickstarter in January, but the company behind the project, Tundra Labs, says the crowdfunding campaign has been pushed back in light of...

Oculus Quest v25 Update Brings Messenger, Guardian Improvements, Bluetooth Mice & More

The latest update to Oculus Quest and Quest 2 began rolling out this week with a range of improvements, including the addition of Facebook Messenger, an improved stationary Guardian boundary, support for bluetooth mice, interface improvements, and a navigation...

Report: Apple’s First VR Headset Rumored to Cost $3,000 & Include 8K Displays

According to a report by Bloomberg, Apple may be planning to release a VR headset with limited AR capabilities as soon as 2022, which is said to be a precursor to its long-rumored, full-fledged AR device. Now, a follow up report...

Quest 2 Leaps to 2nd Most Used on Steam as Headsets Hit Record High of 2.6...

Although Quest 2 is a standalone headset, it can also be plugged into a PC to play PC VR games through Oculus PC and Steam. The headset's holiday success has clearly bled through into the PC VR landscape, as...

Vertigo Games Acquires VR Arcade Game Distribution Platform SpringboardVR

Vertigo Games, the studio behind Arizona Sunshine (2017) and upcoming VR shooter After the Fall, today announced that it has acquired SpringboardVR, creators of the eponymous location-based VR content distribution platform. The acquisition amount was undisclosed, however the move is slated...

Facebook Messenger Comes to Oculus Quest in New Update

Facebook announced that the v25 software update for its Quest platform is set to include Facebook Messenger, which will be available to anyone who is logged into their Facebook account on either Quest or Quest 2. This will allow users...

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 apps on Quest without being subject to a quality review 'curation' process. Though apps still need to meet Oculus' technical...

‘Beat Saber’ Has Sold 4M Copies & 40M Songs, an Estimated $180M Revenue (and Accelerating)

Beat Saber has officially reached 4 million units sold, Oculus today announced, along with 40 million songs of paid DLC, pushing the app's estimated revenue to $180 million. By now, Beat Saber can be considered nothing less than VR's first killer app...

Total Quest Games Reviews Have Exceeded Oculus PC Reviews in Less Than Two Years

Adding to a growing number of data points showing why Facebook has shifted its attention away from Oculus PC is the difference in momentum between the two platforms as revealed by game review counts over time. This month, the number...

Zuckerberg: Quest 2 ‘on track to be first mainstream VR headset’, Next Headset Confirmed

During Facebook's Q4 2020 earnings call today, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that Quest 2 is "on track to be the first mainstream virtual reality headset," noting that the device drove a 156% increase in the company's non-advertising revenue. In past...

The 20 Best Rated & Most Rated Quest Games & Apps – January 2021

While Oculus doesn’t offer much publicly in the way of understanding how well individual apps are performing across its VR storefronts, it’s possible to glean some insight by looking at apps relative to each other. Here’s a snapshot of...
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