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‘Boneworks’ Brings Zombie Warehouse Arena & New Board Gun in 1.5 Update

Boneworks (2019), the physics-based shooter from Stress Level Zero, just got its 1.5 update, bringing along with it a new arena-style map inspired by the Nazi Zombies game mode in the Call of Duty franchise and a few other goodies too. Called 'Zombie Warehouse',...

Quest Update Adds Digital IPD Indicator

Oculus Quest includes an IPD slider on the bottom of the headset which adjusts the distance between the lenses for ideal alignment with the user's eyes, which is important for visual comfort and clarity. Since launch however, there's been...

Quest 2 Update Will Boost Performance and Automatically Make Apps Run Better

Meta has announced that an upcoming Quest 2 update will unlock additional performance that developers can tap into to make their games look better. Some apps will benefit from the increased performance automatically. Meta announced this week that the latest...

Expect 1-2 Hours of Quest Pro Battery Life, Says Meta; Included Dock May Ease the Pain

Despite a flood of leaks leading up to its official unveiling, there's one thing we definitely didn't know about Quest Pro before today: its battery life. And at Connect, Meta revealed we should expect between one to two hours...

Some Users Won’t Need to Wear Vive Trackers Soon Thanks to Upcoming AI Body Tracking Update

HTC has teased that some users may not even need to wear their latest Vive Ultimate Trackers soon thanks to an upcoming AI-powered body tracking update. HTC's Vive Ultimate Trackers are capable of inside-out body tracking thanks to the inclusion...

Beat Games CEO Steps Down to Focus on ‘Beat Saber’ Music

Beat Games, the studio behind Beat Saber (2018), announced that company CEO Jaroslav Beck will be stepping down from his position to further pursue music deals for the studio's block-slashing rhythm game. Beat Games says in a multi-part tweet that Vladimir...

VR Design Tool ‘Gravity Sketch’ Raises $1.7 Million With Participation from Wacom

Gravity Sketch, a concepting & design tool made for VR, has raised $1.7 million in venture capital. Gravity Sketch, which allows VR users to quickly and easily sketch out 3D industrial design concepts, today announced that the company has raised a $1.7...

Quest 3 Finally Replaced Index as My Main PC VR Headset, and I Have Valve to...

After nearly five years, I've finally moved on from Index as my main PC VR headset, and Valve is the one that made me do it. Index is a great headset. Between it's tracking, ergonomics, field-of-view, crisp display, and still...

Meta Reportedly Working on a High-end Quest Pro Successor Alongside Quest 4

Meta Quest Pro wasn't really the prosumer hit it was chalked up to be, leading the company to discontinue its first mixed reality headset a little over two years after release. Now Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports Meta is not...

Meta Raises Quest 2 Price to Stave off Growing Costs

Meta announced today something that we haven't previously seen happen in the middle of a VR headset's lifecycle—a price increase for Quest 2. To soften the blow, the company says it will include a free copy of the headset's...

Exclusive: Designing ‘Lone Echo’ & ‘Echo Arena’s’ Virtual Touchscreen Interfaces

Lone Echo nabbed our 2017 Oculus Rift Game of the Year Award for many reasons—amazing visuals, intuitive locomotion, and a strong story, to name a few—but one of the game's unsung innovations is its virtual touchscreen interfaces. While many...

Vision Pro Games Are Starting to Blend 3D with Flatscreen-native Gameplay

Apple announced that Vision Pro-native versions of two popular iOS games are coming to Apple Arcade next month, Crossy Road Castle and Solitaire Stories, both of which put an immersive spin on inherently flatscreen gameplay. Coming to Vision Pro on...

Virtuix Omni One VR Treadmill Nabs Support for Some Big VR Games

Virtuix, the creator of the Omni One VR treadmill, announced it now has a lineup of 35 games ready for the device's broader launch later this year, including some big ones. Omni One was originally pitched in a crowd-based investment...

‘Psychonauts In the Rhombus of Ruin’ for PC Review – a Veritable Saturday-morning Cartoon in VR

Psychonauts In the Rhombus of Ruin takes place between the events of Psychonauts (2005) and the upcoming Psychonauts 2 due out later this year. Exclusively available in VR, In the Rhombus of Ruin strays from the 3D platformer genre of its flatscreen...

‘Naau: The Lost Eye’ is an Intriguing PC VR Action-Adventure Coming in February

It's been a while since we heard about Studio Gamebit's upcoming VR action-adventure game Naau: The Lost Eye, which the Turkey-based studio first teased back in September 2019. The studio now says its debut PC VR title is launching into Early Access...
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