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You Can Get a 26 Foot Oculus Link Cable for $34 With an Active Extender
Oculus Link allows Oculus Quest to become a PC VR headset by tethering to a VR ready PC. While Oculus sells its own (quite expensive) Oculus Link cable, any appropriately high performance USB 3.0 cable will work. Here's an...
‘Half-Life: Alyx’ Update Adds New Weapon & Example Content for Workshop Modding
Half-Life: Alyx has been updated to version 1.4.1 which adds an example weapon to the game's Workshop modding tools, allowing modders to experiment with bringing new weapons to the game. The update also includes improvements to the Workshop tools,...
‘Resident Evil 4’ PSVR 2 Mode is Coming as Free DLC, Now in Development
Resident Evil 4 is getting a remake for PS5 soon, and although Capcom didn't state it was bringing full PSVR 2 support when it was announced back in June, the developer now says its VR mode is in the works...
HTC Opens Pre-orders for ‘Mars CamTrack’ Virtual Production Box
HTC teased a new Vive product last week which aims to leverage the company's Vive Trackers for virtual productions. Called Vive Mars CamTrack, the box is appealing to filmmakers looking for an easy way of integrating Vive Trackers into...
This Guy Modded Oculus Touch to Play ‘Beat Saber’ Darth Maul-style
Beat Saber (2018) is finally here, the block-slicing rhythm game that puts two lightsabers in your hands and tasks you with using your Jedi powers to slice to the beat. Less than a day since release, one Twitch streamer...
Dedicated ‘Beat Saber’ Machine to Hit VR Arcades in South Korea & China
Beat Games, the Czech Republic-based indie developers behind smash hit rhythm game Beat Saber, are aiming to make a big splash in Asia with a newly revealed dedicated arcade machine.
The cabinet was created in partnership with SKonec Entertainment, a Seoul-based company that...
‘Astro Bot’ Local Co-op Multiplayer Mode Was Cut to Let Single Player Shine
Astro Bot Rescue Mission, the chart-topping VR platformer from JAPAN Studio, nearly ended up with a local co-op multiplayer mode but ultimately the feature met the chopping block in order to let the single player mode shine.
Speaking to Astro...
The ‘Beat Saber’ Music Pack That Always Needed to Happen… is Finally Happening
Beat Saber's next music pack will bring one of the most influential names in electronic music to the game's library of downloadable content: Daft Punk.
Go back to some of Daft Punk's earliest albums and you might find yourself saying "this...
Google & Pico Adoption Further Cements OpenXR as Industry Standard, With One Major Holdout
OpenXR is an open standard made to improve compatibility between XR software and XR headsets. Google—one of the biggest tech companies in the world—is adopting the standard right out of the gate, joining other major firms like Meta and...
Playing ‘Beat Saber’ Could Burn the Same Number of Calories as Tennis
According to recent testing by the Virtual Reality Institute of Health and Exercise, Beat Saber (2018) may be more than just a fun way to spend an evening in. With all that block slicing, dodging and leaning, you could burn as many...
Apple Reportedly Expands Vision Pro Production Capacity Following Successful US Launch
We may soon be nearing global release for Apple Vision Pro. According to a report from independent tech analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, US demand for the $3,500 mixed reality headset has slowed over the past month, however the company may...
This ‘Skyrim VR’ Mod Uses Voice Recognition So You Can Speak to NPCs
Talking to non-player characters (NPCs) in Skyrim VR may be easy—requiring a quick selection from the dialogue menu—but it isn't exactly an immersive way of interacting with the world though. With a new speech recognition mod, called Dragonborn Speaks Naturally, all...
Xiaomi Unveils Wireless AR Glasses Prototype, Powered by Same Chipset as Meta Quest Pro
Chinese tech giant Xiaomi today showed off a prototype AR headset at Mobile World Congress (MWC) that wirelessly connects to the user's smartphone, making for what the company calls its "first wireless AR glasses to utilize distributed computing."
Called Xiaomi...
Flat2VR Goes Behind the Scenes on ‘Roboquest VR’, Its Next Big VR Port
Beloved roguelite shooter Roboquest (2023) isn't a VR game, but it will be soon thanks to VR porting team Flat2VR Studios. In a VR Developer Direct interview, Flat2VR talks about just what's behind the studio's next big port.
"Roboquest started as...
‘Thrill of the Fight 2’ Gameplay Revealed, Coming to Quest in Early Access in November
We've been hoping to see The Thrill of the Fight 2 in action since it was announced last year, the upcoming sequel to Quest’s most popular VR boxing sim. Now, studios Sealost Interactive and Halfbrick Studios released the game's first...


















