2023 Sections
David & Goliath-inspired Battle Game ‘DAVIGO’ Begins Public Alpha
DAVIGO, the indie VR game where players battle in a duel of scales, has officially opened its public alpha, bringing it one step closer to its Early Access launch on Steam.
As a VR player, you play as a titanic giant, battling...
Unreal Engine 4.25 Improves Support for HoloLens 2, Magic Leap, Adds Azure Spatial Anchors
Unreal Engine 4.25 launched this week bringing a host of improvements to the engine's XR functionality. HoloLens 2 and Magic Leap saw the most attention, including the addition of Azure Spatial Anchors, Microsoft's cross-platform system which enables shared augmented...
‘Telepath’ Movement System Could be a Great Fit for Quest Controllerless Hand-tracking
Controller-less hand-tracking (like what's currently available as an experimental feature on Quest) has a handful of advantages over using controllers, like convenience and intuitiveness. However, common VR game actions like shooting and moving are difficult to do with hand-gestures...
Oculus Quest Successor Reportedly Being Readied with Faster Refresh Rate, New Controllers
Oculus is reportedly readying a Quest successor which will iterate on the existing headset with a smaller form-factor, faster refresh rate, and new controllers. Rather than an outright Quest 2, it seems Oculus may be aiming first for a Quest...
‘The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners’ Launches on PSVR, Quest Version Expected in Q4
Skydance Interactive's latest VR title, The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners, is available on PSVR as of today.
VR zombie survival game The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners launched on PC VR headsets in early 2020 and has garnered considerable praise, including...
Spellcasting Sequel ‘The Wizards – Dark Times’ to Launch on PC VR Headsets in June
Carbon Studio, the Poland-based team behind The Wizards (2018), today announced that their upcoming sequel to the spellcaster series, The Wizards – Dark Times, is slated to arrive on PC VR headsets June 4th.
Carbon initially planned for Dark Times to be a standalone...
Oculus Exclusive ‘Star Wars Vader Immortal’ Coming to PSVR This Summer
Admit it. You've been wanting to try out the Oculus exclusive series Star Wars Vader Immortal since it first came to Rift and Quest last year. Now ILMxLAB says it's preparing to bring the award-winning narrative adventure series to PSVR.
Vader Immortal...
Sony Researchers Unveil Knuckles-style Prototype VR Controller with Full Hand Tracking
Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) researchers unveiled a prototype motion controller recently which showcases experimental techniques into full hand tracking using machine learning and capacitive sensors.
Vision-based hand tracking systems like Leap Motion are great for tracking hands when you're not...
Analysis: ‘Half-Life: Alyx’ Adds Nearly 1 Million VR Users to Steam in Record Gain
The launch of Half-Life: Alyx saw nearly 1 million additional monthly-connected headsets over the prior month, a leap that nearly tripled the previous largest monthly gain.
Each month Valve collects info from Steam users to determine some baseline statistics about what kind of...
Major ‘Espire 1: VR Operative’ Update to Add New Weapons, Challenges & More
Espire 1: VR Operative (2019) launched late last year on all major VR headsets, offering up some very Metal Gear Solid style stealth action to VR players. Now developers Digital Lode have announced a major update, called 'Assimilation', which...
Oculus Makes Improvements to Iteration Time for Unity Quest Developers
Oculus has introduced three changes to significantly speed up the iteration process for developers building Quest applications with Unity.
Because Quest is its own standalone headset, testing how an application will run on the requires packaging the application and then...
Mojo Vision Raises an Additional $51M to Fund Smart Contact Lens Development
Mojo Vision announced it has raised more than $51 million in a Series B-1 investment round, something the company says will be used for further development on Mojo Lens, its smart contact lens.
The company's latest funding round was led...
‘Arizona Sunshine’ for Quest Gets Final DLC Drop with ‘The Damned DLC’
Vertigo Games has now released its final paid DLC for its co-op zombie shooter Arizona Sunshine (2017) on Oculus Quest.
First released on PSVR and PC headsets in October 2019, 'The Damned DLC' is now available on Oculus Quest, priced at $5.
This, the...
Facebook’s Non-advertising Revenue ‘primarily driven by Oculus,’ up 80% to $297M
In Facebook's Q1 2020 earnings call today, the company overviewed its latest financial situation and noted that Oculus products were a major contributor to $297 million in non-advertising revenue.
While Facebook makes the vast majority of its revenue from advertising,...
Why You Shouldn’t Play ‘Half-Life: Alyx’ Without a VR Headset
Half-Life: Alyx (2020), Valve's made-for-VR entry into the fabled Half-Life series, launched late last month on SteamVR-compatible headsets to near-universal praise. If you don't own a VR headset but still want to play though, I'd caution you against playing it...



















