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Earthbending VR Adventure ‘Adepts Arena’ is Coming to Quest & SteamVR, Trailer Here

VR indie Giant Stride Games and publisher Creature announced Adepts Arena, an upcoming first-person adventure that's bringing a very Avatar-inspired earthbending ability to let you take on an army of sinister automatons. The single-player game lets you master earthbending, including...
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MacGyver-inspired Puzzle Adventure ‘Fixer Undercover’ Comes to Quest & PC VR Next Year

Indie studio Creativity AR announced its MacGyver-inspired VR puzzle adventure Fixer Undercover is coming to Quest and SteamVR headsets next year. The studio released a demo of Fixer Undercover on Quest last year via the now-defunct App Lab, offering up...

Quest v67 Update Rolls Out Soon with Big Improvements to Multitasking

Quest users have long wanted a better way to manage windowed content to make web browsing and using 2D apps a little easier. While users subscribed to the Public Test Channel (PTC) have been able to do that since...

‘MYST’ Successor ‘Firmament’ Delayed on PSVR 2 to Early 2025 Following 2.0 PC Update

Cyan, the studio behind MYST and RIVEN, announced its PC VR-supported puzzle adventure Firmament (2023) is coming to PSVR 2 later than expected. The news comes following the release of the game's big PC and Mac 2.0 patch, which includes the...

Google Announces Android XR Operating System Alongside Samsung MR Headset

Google today announced Android XR, a new core branch of Android, designed as a spatial operating system for XR headsets and glasses. The company is pitching this as a comprehensive spatial computing platform, and hopes to establish its own...
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‘Ghost in the Shell: Arise’ PvP Shooter Comes to Bandai Namco’s VR Zone, Catch the Trailer...

Bandai Namco's Shinjuku-based VR Zone seems to have all the luck; there's Mario Kart in VR, Dragon Ball Z in VR, and now Ghost in the Shell is making its way to the giant VR arcade this December too. In a...

‘Resident Evil 4’ Port for Quest 2 is Shaping up to Look Like a Native VR...

During its Game Showcase deluge today, Oculus showed off some more footage of the upcoming Quest 2 port of Resident Evil 4 (2005), which is coming exclusively to Oculus Quest 2 (read: not the original Quest). And it's starting to...

Sony Announces PlayStation VR 2 Specs Including Eye-tracking, HDR, & 110° Field-of-view

Today during Sony's CES 2022 press conference the company revealed the first details on PlayStation VR 2, including eye-tracking, a "4K" HDR display, and a 110° Field-of-view. For the first time today, Sony confirmed that its next-gen VR headset for...

Sony to Nearly Double the Total Number of PSVR Games by End of 2018

According to a report by Silicon Era, Sony expects to increase the number of PSVR games from 150 to 280 over the course of 2018. Citing Japanese financial publication Nikkei, the report holds the 80 percent increase in games planned for...

HTC’s Vive Ultimate Trackers Now Compatible with All SteamVR Headsets

HTC announced that its Vive Ultimate Tracker is now compatible with third-party PC VR headsets that support SteamVR. Originally developed for the Vive Focus 3 and Vive XR Elite, Vive Ultimate Tracker is a puck-like device that comes equipped with...

VR Remake of Dreamcast Classic ‘Cosmic Smash’ to Release on Quest & Pico in April

Sega's iconic block-breaker Cosmic Smash (2001) came to VR for the first time last summer in C-Smash VRS (2023) on PSVR 2. Now the studios say the futuristic racket sport is set to leave platform exclusivity as it's scheduled to arrive...

Meta is Discontinuing Quest 1 Support for New Apps Starting Next Month

Meta announced last year it was sunsetting the original Quest, which was first released in 2019. While many developers of new apps have since stopped including the nearly five year-old headset as a supported device, now the company says...

Crafting Memorable VR Experiences – The Interaction Design of ‘Fujii’

Creating a VR that truly immerses the user is no easy feat. To pull this off correctly requires a careful blend of graphics, animations, audio, and haptics that work together in deliberate concert to suspend disbelief and engross the...

6 Things Vision Pro Needs Before It Can Go Mainstream

Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) is over, and while Vision Pro was a big focus with the announcement of its visionOS 2 update, it's pretty clear Apple's first mixed reality headset isn't in a hurry to feature-match other XR...

Immersive Web Company Infinite Reality Raises $3 Billion From a Private Investor

Infinite Reality, a company building an engine for creating immersive web content underpinned with WebXR support, announced it has raised a whopping $3 billion to continue building the company's "vision for the next generation of the internet." Not only...
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