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VR Creation App ‘MakeVR’ to be “Spun Out” from Sixense, Now Hardware Agnostic

Steve Hansted from Sixense took to the stage at VR Launchpad in Mountain View, CA today to announce that the virtual reality 3D modelling application MakeVR, often used alongside the company's STEM motion controllers, is being "spun out" into a...

‘Fallout 4 VR’ Review – A Radioactive Open World Mutated for VR

Fallout 4 (2015), Bethesda's beloved post-apocalyptic open world RPG, is now in VR, letting you stalk the Wasteland as the sole survivor of Vault 111 from the immersive point of view of the HTC Vive headset. This comes with most...
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High-flying Co-op Adventure ‘Windlands 2’ is Finally Coming to PSVR 2 Next Week

Windlands 2 (2018), the co-op platforming adventure from Psytec Games, is finally making its way to PSVR 2 next week. Both the original Windlands (2016) and Windlands 2 have been available on the original PSVR for years now, but come July 25th, PSVR...

Meta Buys Dev Behind VR Fitness App ‘Supernatural’, Its Sixth VR Studio Acquisition in Two Years

Meta (formerly Facebook) today announced its sixth VR studio acquisition. This time it's Within, the studio behind the popular Quest exclusive VR fitness app Supernatural. Meta announced the acquisition of Within on the Oculus blog saying that the studio will be...

Meta: 124 Quest Apps Have Earned More Than $1M, 8 Have Earned More Than $20M

At GDC last month, Meta shared the clearest look yet at the number of apps reaching various revenue milestones on the Quest platform. So far, 124 apps have earned $1 million in revenue or more, while 8 have exceeded...

‘Traffic Jams’ Lets You Control Traffic, Help Pedestrians & Kill Zombies

On the surface, Traffic Jams looks like a pretty standard job simulator-type game, albeit with some pretty funny ragdoll citizens ambling around and smashing through windshields. In a new gameplay teaser though, the Netherlands-based studio Little Chicken Game Company is peeling...

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...

Valve’s Lighthouse Base Station in Action, Inner Workings Explained

Some of the inner workings of Valve's Lighthouse base station, an infrared laser-emitting device used for 'room scale' positional tracking, were revealed today by Valve developer Joe Ludwig. Ludwig's SVVR Conference talk entitled "OpenVR and You" addressed a number of issues dealing...

Alan Yates Says Rift’s Core Features Are a “Direct Copy” of Valve’s VR Research

In a revealing statement on Reddit, Alan Yates, a Valve employee who works closely on the company's Lighthouse tracking system, claims that the Oculus Rift headset is largely derived from Valve's research. Back when Oculus launched the original Rift DK1 Kickstarter campaign in 2012,...
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Space Sim ‘Elite Dangerous’ Gets Major Update With New Content and VR Fixes

Elite Dangerous (2014), the interstellar space trading, fighting, and exploration sim, has received a major new update, 2.4, The Return, which brings frightening new enemies to the virtual galaxy, as well as a number of fixes to the game's...
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Zotac Has an Untethered VR PC Solution for HTC Vive and Oculus Rift

Small form factor PC specialist Zotac are about to enter the virtual reality hardware race with a nifty solution to your tethered, cable-lugging room-scale VR woes; A portable PC that can be strapped to your back. Consumer virtual reality is...

Sony Shares PSVR 2’s Most Downloaded Games of 2024

Sony released its annual wrap-up of top downloads across its various PlayStation platforms for 2024. And while there hasn't been a lot of movement in comparison to PSVR 2's first year, we can't really say we're particularly surprised at...
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‘Secret of Retropolis’ Sequel and MR Spin-off Releasing This Month, Trailer Here

Peanut Button, the indie studio behind adventure game The Secret of Retropolis (2021), announced two new titles are coming this month, both the game's long-awaited VR sequel as well as a new MR spin-off game. The sequel, called Retropolis 2:...

Meta’s Biggest Quest Game Finally Gets Graphics Update Worthy of Quest 3

Asgard's Wrath 2 is easily Meta's biggest first-party Quest game to date. But when it launched almost six months ago it was clear it hadn't been optimized for Quest 3, the company's flagship headset. A newly released update finally...
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Developer Videos Show Valve’s Knuckles Controllers in Action

New footage of Valve’s new ‘Knuckles’ controllers has emerged over the past few days, as developers begin to test out the new device. The ‘next-gen’ SteamVR controller prototypes represent a major advancement over the current Vive motion controllers, with...
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