2023 Sections
SteamVR Update Finally Makes it Easy to Reorient & Recenter Your Playspace
The latest main-branch update to SteamVR adds a dashboard button which makes it effortless to redefine the 'forward' and 'center' orientation of your playspace, a simple but useful feature for certain games.
SteamVR has been around since the earliest days...
‘NOSTOS’ Beta Gameplay Highlights the Pitfalls of ‘VR-optional’ Game Design
In development by NetEase Games, NOSTOS is an online RPG due to launch later this year on PC with optional VR support. The game recently had a closed-beta period which gives a good look at how things are shaping up with...
SteamVR Games Come to Vision Pro Thanks to Public Launch of Free ‘ALVR’ App
Did you know you can technically play SteamVR games like Half-Life: Alyx (2020) on Vision Pro? Well, now you do, as the leading app dedicated to bringing SteamVR connectivity to a ton of standalone headsets is now available for...
HTC Partners with iFixit to Offer Parts & DIY Repair Guides for Older Vive Headsets
HTC has made the pro-consumer move of partnering with popular DIY repair website iFixit to offer replacement parts, repair guides, and more for out-of-warranty headsets. The move contrasts with one of the company's major competitors, Oculus, which has opted...
Free UE4 Template Makes Creating More Realistic VR Hands a Snap
Czech developer iNFINITE Production has released UVRF - a free, cross-platform template for hand presence in VR. The open-source demo offers a framework for use in any Unreal Engine project, as well as a ‘Playground’ scene containing an underground...
Pimax Crystal Super Update Shows Development Progress & New Slimmer Exterior
Pimax announced that Crystal Super, its next high-resolution PC VR headset, is actually going to be a bit slimmer than originally planned, showing off a reduction in the headset's exterior during a new update video.
Unveiled earlier this year alongside...
Tundra Tracker Passes $1.1M in Funding with 1 Month Left in Kickstarter
Tundra Tracker, the SteamVR-based tracker in development by Tundra Labs, exploded past its Kickstarter goal in less than 24 hours, securing the company well beyond the $250,000 it initially hoped for back at its late-March launch. The company has...
Watch Apple’s Live iPhone 8 Event @10am PT, Suspected Augmented Reality Announcements
Today at 10am PDT, Apple is releasing news about upcoming products like the new iPhone 8 and Watch, taking place at the company's newly debuted Steve Jobs Theater. Among the announcements, many of which have supposedly already been leaked, is sure...
Update: Meta Resumes Quest 3 Battery Strap Orders Following Charging Debacle
Meta paused shipments of its Elite Strap with Battery for Quest 3 late last month due to a widespread charging fault that would render the battery useless for some users. Meta is now unpausing orders of the device, as...
Veteran VR Studio nDreams Announces Layoffs Amid “challenging VR games market”
nDreams, one of the most veteran VR studios, today announced it's tightening the belt with a layoff round due to affect 17.5% of the company.
The Farnborough, UK-based studio maintains in the LinkenIn announcement that layoffs are in response to "a challenging...
HTC CEO Claims “Very, Very Big” Vive Breakthrough to be Shown at CES
HTC's CEO Cher Wang has gone on record stating that one of the reasons for the recently announced delay to the release of the Steam VR powered HTC Vive VR headset was to incorporate the latest "very, very big...
VRMMO ‘Eldramoor: Haven in the Mist’ Kickstarter Concludes with $170,000
The Kickstarter campaign for Eldramoor: Haven in the Mist has come to an end, nabbing developer Resolute Games over $170,000 to bring its ambitious VR MMORPG to life.
The one-month campaign celebrated early success when it launched on June 24th, quickly garnering...
This is the Best Look Yet at What It’s Like to Use Vision Pro
There have been plenty of hands-on impressions and various glimpses of what using Vision Pro is like, but a new video from Apple offers the clearest look yet at the experience.
Today Apple published a "guided tour of Vision Pro,"...
Quest Sold $100 Million Worth of Games & Apps in Its First Year
This week marks the first year anniversary of Oculus Quest, Facebook's latest and greatest standalone VR headset. Today the company revealed that $100 million worth of Quest games and apps have been sold to date.
Facebook hasn't yet revealed the...
‘Light Strike Array’ Fuses PVP Combat with Novel Locomotion, Now in Early Access
For some games, VR locomotion is simply ends to a mean; getting you from point A to point B in an efficient manner so other game mechanics can take the spotlight. Not so in PvP battle arena Light Strike Array, which...



















