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Facebook Expects Coronavirus Will Have “additional impact” on Oculus Quest Availability

After being backordered by weeks in many regions, Oculus Quest is now "unavailable" from Oculus in 17 out of 23 regions where the unit is sold, including the United States, Canada, and much of Europe. Facebook says the Coronavirus outbreak is...
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‘Ven VR Adventure’ is an Adorable Platformer Coming to SteamVR, Rift & PSVR

Ven VR Adventure is an upcoming title from Poland-based indie studio Monologic Games. Built from the ground-up for VR, the plucky little platformer seems to be channeling some of its contemporaries such as Lucky's Tale (2016), Moss (2018), and Astro Bot Rescue...

Making ‘The Remedy’ – How A Veteran Illustrator Made one of VR’s Best Short Films With...

Perhaps no project to date shows the potential of Quill—Oculus' VR illustration and animation tool—quite like The Remedy. Created by veteran animator Daniel Martin Peixe, The Remedy is a roughly 10 minute long story which establishes a very effective comic book-like...

Sony to Close First-party Manchester Studio Making ‘AAA’ PSVR Games

Sony is closing its Manchester, UK-based studio, the very same that was opened in 2015 to produce 'AAA' PSVR exclusives. While no games came from Manchester Studio throughout its five-year existence, it's clear the team was working on VR up until...

VR Headset Growth on Steam Takes Its Biggest Leap Yet, Led by Rift S

It appears that the 2019 holiday shopping season may have been the best ever for PC VR headsets. The latest data released this week from Valve shows VR on Steam making its single biggest leap yet, on a path...

‘Firewall Zero Hour’ Comes to PS Plus Members for Free Starting Today, ‘Black Dawn’ Update Now...

Firewall Zero Hour (2018), the tactical team shooter for PSVR, is headed to PS Plus members for free starting today, February 4th. Update (February 4th, 2020): Firewall Zero Hour is now free for PS Plus members who download the game...

‘Astro Bot’ Director Nicolas Doucet Takes Over as Head of Sony’s JAPAN Studio

Nicolas Doucet, the Creative Director and Producer behind PSVR exclusive ASTRO BOT Rescue Mission (2018), has been promoted to Director of Sony Interactive Entertainment's JAPAN Studio. As first reported by Gematsu, Doucet is said to continue his work as a creative director...

Masters of Pie Secures $4.7M to Further Develop AR/VR Tools for Enterprise

Masters of Pie, an enterprise-focused AR/VR studio, announced its secured £3.6 million (~$4.7 million), something the company says will help double its development team and add support for cloud streaming and IoT data to its flagship product, Radical SDK. The funding...

Social AR/VR Workspace ‘Spatial’ Secures $14M Series A Financing

Spatial, a New York-based startup behind the eponymous real-time AR/VR collaboration platform, has secured $14 million in additional financing, bringing its overall funds to $22 million. The latest funding round was led by White Star Capital, iNovia and Kakao Ventures, with...

Mark Zuckerberg: ‘people bought nearly $5M in Oculus Store content on Christmas Day’

In Facebook's quarterly earnings call yesterday, company CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed that the Oculus Store had sold nearly $5 million worth of content on Christmas Day alone. Zuckerberg says in the Q4 2019 earnings call that the Christmas Day boom was...
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‘Crunch Element’ Inches Past Crowdfunding Goal with Less Than a Week to Spare

Crunch Element is an upcoming VR game that challenges you to breech heavily-guarded compounds with physics-based explosive charges, guns, and your wits. Update (January 30th, 2020): Crunch Element has done it with only five days left to go. At the...

Analysis: Monthly-connected VR Headsets on Steam Reach Record High of 1.3 Million

Valve’s monthly Steam Survey has long offered useful insight into the share of VR headsets in use on Steam. But the figures provided are relative to the non-static Steam population, which obfuscates the actual adoption trend of VR headsets...

‘Beat Saber’ Gets 3 New Free Songs from Japanese EDM Artist Camellia

The block-slashing rhythm game is at it again: Beat Saber (2019) just got three new songs from Japanese electronic dance music artist Camellia, available today on all supported platforms. Although the studio has been mostly cutting deals to secure paid content...

5 Oculus Quest Hardware Mods for Better Comfort

Oculus Quest is an awesome achievement in engineering; no other standalone VR headset offers the quality, rock solid positional tracking, ease of use, and competitive price point as Quest. But still, you may find that once your wallet is...
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Cas & Chary Present: ‘The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners’ Gameplay Overview

Launched yesterday, The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners is a heavy physics-based survival adventure game set in the zombie apocalypse of the Walking Dead universe. In this video and article, we wanted to showcase the core gameplay mechanics without spoiling too...
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