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Quest Fitness App ‘Supernatural’ Now Offers Annual Subscriptions, Starting at $149

Supernatural (2020), the VR fitness app for Oculus Quest, kicked off its subscription service late last month, offering up a fun and engaging gameified fitness routine for $19 per month. Now the developers Within have included an annual subscription...

Apple Confirms Acquisition of VR Live Streaming Company NextVR

NextVR, the live event broadcasting platform for VR headsets, has been acquired by Apple in what was reportedly a $100 million purchase. Update (March 15th, 2020): For the first time since reports broke back in April, Apple has confirmed that...
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Oculus Link Now Works with USB 2.0 Cables, Including the One that Ships With Quest

Oculus Quest can function as a PC VR headset with the Oculus Link feature which was introduced in beta late last year. At launch the feature only supported USB 3.0 cables, which somewhat awkwardly didn't include the cable that came...

‘Tetris Effect’ Arrives on Oculus Quest Today

Tetris Effect (2018) first released on PlayStation 4 and PSVR in late 2018, later coming to PC via the Epic Store, which included support for SteamVR headsets. Now the award-winning stacker puzzle game is available on Oculus Quest starting...

‘Phantom: Covert Ops’ Preview – A Compelling Take on VR Stealth, but Comfort Challenges Could Muddy...

The premise of Phantom: Covert Ops almost sounds ridiculous at first blush: you're a special forces dude in a tactical kayak who is slinking around the waterways of an old Russian base. But don't let the silinees of a...

Co-op VR Cooking Game ‘Cook-out: A Sandwich Tale’ Coming to Rift & Quest This Year

Resolution Games, the Stockholm-based studio behind Angry Birds VR: Isle of Pigs (2019), Bait! (2016) and Acron: Attack of the Squirrels! (2019), today unveiled a short slice of gameplay for its next multiplayer VR game, Cook-Out: A Sandwich Tale. Update (May...
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After Multiple Delays, ‘Iron Man VR’ for PSVR Finally Has a Firm Release Date

Camouflaj, the studio behind PlayStation VR exclusive Marvel's Iron Man VR, had initially intended for its high-flying super hero adventure to arrive on PSVR back in February. After a subsequent delay, which pushed the launch back to May 15th,...

‘Supernatural’ Review – Fun Gameplay, Breathtaking Visuals, But Hefty Entry Price

There's no better moment than now to find a reason to get up and moving, which is probably why acclaimed AR/VR studio Within launched its at-home VR fitness app Supernatural (2020). The gameified fitness app will get your heart...

Miniature ‘Beat Saber’ Concept Offers a Peek into the Future of AR Games

Oculus released optical hand-tracking on Quest as an experimental feature late last year, and ever since developers have been showing off their own unique and creative ways of integrating users hands into VR. Yet again we look at developer Daniel Beauchamp for...

Retro-inspired Adventure ‘Pixel Ripped 1995’ Comes to PSVR Today

Pixel Ripped 1995 (2020), the retro-gaming inspired VR adventure from indie creators ARVORE, launched on Quest and PC VR headsets late last month. Now the studio is bringing the acclaimed title to PSVR today in the US, with availability in Europe...
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Developer Reveals How Live Actors Sneak into the ‘The Under Presents’, and When You Can Find...

The Under Presents is a genre-defying VR experience with a curious secret: from time to time some of its characters are puppeteered by real people, and if you're lucky, you could be part of the show. Created by Tender Claws,...

This ‘Beat Saber’ Project Uses AI to Generate Custom Beat Maps for Any Song

Manually creating beat maps for your favorite songs in Beat Saber (2018) requires a bit of know-how and time. If you're looking for a quick and surprisingly effective solution to automatically creating beat maps for any song, look no further...

Analysis: An Estimated 58 Million Steam Users Now Have VR Ready Graphics Cards

High PC hardware requirements are one reason why VR is often touted as being highly expensive, but as GPUs have gotten more powerful and cheaper over time, more people than ever have 'VR Ready' hardware, even if they didn't...

Bored During Lockdown? Get an Intro to Quest Development in This Live Online Workshop

An upcoming online workshop by XR development educator Circuit Stream will teach developers the basics of building applications for Oculus Quest. With many of us a stuck at home with some extra time on our hands from not traveling (or...

Vantage Point Secures $2.25M Investment for VR Enterprise Training Platform

Vantage Point, the enterprise-focused training company, announced a $2.25 million investment, something that will help them further develop their platform which was created to increase empathy and accuracy of retention through VR-based training. The latest round of investors includes former...
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