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This Developer Turned His Apartment Into a VR Game
Playing VR games is a great way to stay active, both mentally and physically. But when all is said and done, you're still only traversing around a pretty small footprint—even smaller if you're stuck in an apartment. Greg...
‘Half-Life: Alyx’ Pre-loading Has Begun for Monday Launch
Half-Life: Alyx launches on Monday at 10AM PT. Luckily, you can now start pre-loading the game on Steam so that you're ready to go as soon as it launches.
Update (March 20th, 2020): Valve has announced that Half-Life: Alyx pre-loading has...
Without Valve, ‘Half-Life: Alyx’ Wouldn’t be Compatible with Rift or Quest
With the highly anticipated launch of Half-Life: Alyx just days away, it feels like an appropriate time to look at Valve's unique commitment to ensuring that SteamVR remains a hardware-agnostic platform for VR content, and how the company has...
SteamVR Update Improves Tracking Performance for Oculus Quest
A SteamVR beta update today improved tracking when used with Oculus Quest via Oculus Link.
Oculus Link allows Quest to be used just like a PC VR headset. While this makes it easy to play Oculus PC games, it also...
Gabe Newell on Brain-computer Interfaces: ‘We’re way closer to The Matrix than people realize’
Gabe Newell, co-founder of Valve, sat down with IGN for a chat about the company, the promise of VR, and Newell's most bleeding edge project as of late, brain-computer interfaces (BCI).
"Personally, the area I'm spending a lot of time on has...
‘Echo Arena’ for Oculus Quest Heads Into Closed Alpha Next Week
Echo VR has been available on the Rift platform for some time now, and it appears Quest users will be able to get their first taste of its zero-G team sport, 'Echo Arena', in a closed alpha soon.
Kicking off into closed...
‘Phantom: Covert Ops’ Coming to Rift & Quest in Late June
Phantom: Covert Ops, the unique kayak-based VR shooter from nDreams, is officially headed to Rift and Quest in June. If you were wondering what the game looked like on Rift, check out the new release date trailer nDreams just dropped.
Update (March 18th,...
‘Beat Saber’ Has Sold 2 Million Copies & 10 Million Songs for an Estimated $67M
As VR's best-selling title, Beat Saber is showing no signs of slowing down. Today Facebook, which now owns the studio behind the game, announced that Beat Saber has sold more than 2 million copies and 10 million songs via DLC.
Beat...
Sony to Detail PlayStation 5 Tomorrow in ‘Deep Dive’ Info Dump
Sony is bringing its next-gen PlayStation console to market in time for holiday season this year, but there's still plenty of question marks left. That's hopefully about to change tomorrow.
In the wake of GDC getting effectively canned this week, PlayStation...
VR Action Game ‘Sword Reverie’ is a Love Letter to ‘Sword Art Online’, Trailer Here
Isekai Entertainment, a Seattle-based indie studio, released the first trailer for its upcoming action game Sword Reverie, a JRPG-inspired title that feels like a heartfelt love letter to the popular anime/manga Sword Art Online (SAO).
Drawing from Japanese games and anime such...
More Than 20 Oculus Quest Titles Have Surpassed $1M in Revenue
Facebook today announced that 20 Oculus Quest games have broken the $1 million revenue mark, a big milestone for the VR industry as a whole.
Oculus Quest famously sold out during the holiday season, and then promptly fell victim to...
Oculus Quest System Update to Make Multitasking Easier, Experimental Features Coming Soon
In place of GDC this year, which was postponed due to the coronavirus, Facebook is announcing some of its news via the decidedly more sterile environment of the Oculus blog, starting today and going until Thursday, March 19th. Today,...
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...
E3 2020 Cancelled Over Coronavirus Concerns
E3 2020, the major games industry conference, has been cancelled over Coronavirus concerns. The cancellation is the latest in a string of disruptions to conferences that are important touchstones for the VR industry. The organization that produces E3, the...
A Complete List of Headsets Compatible with ‘Half-Life: Alyx’
With the game just two weeks away, we continue to see questions crop up about which VR headsets are supported by Half-Life: Alyx. So here's the complete list of VR headsets compatible with the game, and we'll also explain what...



















