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NASA-backed ‘Mars 2030’ Now Available – A Beautiful, Educational Trek That’s Rough Around the Edges

The education-focused Mars 2030 launches today on SteamVR for the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift, soon to come to PSVR. With 40 square kilometers of explorable terrain, the experience successfully achieves its main objective: to make the user feel like they...
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Watch 19 Minutes of New ‘Half-Life: Alyx’ Gameplay Footage & Trailers

The first Half-Life: Alyx gameplay footage was released today by IGN and Valve in the form of three gameplay trailers and a nine minute stretch of gameplay footage. This is the best look yet at how Valve's first full fledged...

VR Training Company Gemba Secures $18M Series A to Expand Enterprise Metaverse

Gemba, the corporate VR learning platform, announced it's closed an $18 million Series A funding round, which the company says will be used to continue expansion into Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and North America. The latest funding round was...

Shiftall’s Slim & Light PC VR Headset ‘MeganeX’ US Release Slips into 2024

Panasonic subsidiary Shiftall announced nearly a year ago that it was set to launch MeganeX sometime in early 2023, potentially making it one of the first in the coming wave of slim and light PC VR headsets. We haven't...

‘MYST’ Update Brings Stability & Performance Boost to PC VR Version, Quest Patch Coming “soon”

Cyan Worlds has released its big 2.0 update to MYST (2020), the VR-supported remake of the classic '90s point-and-click adventure game, which includes performance boosts and improvements to stability for PC VR users. The studio says in a recent Steam update...

‘Into the Radius 2’ is Coming to Quest 3 in Early Access This Month

Into the Radius 2, the co-op sequel to the popular post-apocalyptic shooter, has been available on PC VR headsets since its early access release on Steam in July 2024. Now, CM Games reveals it's finally coming to Quest this...

The Number of VR Users on Steam Dropped Sharply Last Month, But Valve Isn’t Saying Why

Valve's monthly Steam Hardware & Software Survey, which we've been carefully tracking for years now, has been a useful way to gauge how many VR headsets are being used on the platform each month. The latest data shows an...

Smartphone Giant Vivo Announces ‘Vision’ MR Headset, Copying Apple’s Name & Design

Another Vision Pro knock-off is coming to town, and this time it even has the 'Vision' name. While not a household name, China's Vivo is known for its sensible, mid-range smartphones, regularly ranking it in the top five smartphone creators...

First Look at ‘Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice’ VR Edition

Ninja Theory, the minds behind BAFTA award-winning action-adventure game Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice (2017), have brought the full, uncut title to Oculus Rift and HTC Vive headsets. We got an exclusive first look at the game's new VR edition, which...

Varjo Secures $5.8M Investment to Accelerate Military-Grade XR Hardware

Varjo, the Finland-based maker of high-end XR headsets, announced it's secured a €5 million (~$5.8 million) minority investment from THEON, the Greece-based manufacturer of military imaging systems. Structured as a convertible loan, the €5 million investment also includes the option...

Sony Unveils Next-gen VR Motion Controller for PS5

In preparation for the reveal of its next VR headset, Sony today gave a first look at its next-gen VR controller for use with PS5, something that appears very similar to Oculus' Touch controller. Sony showed off the new controller...

Book Reveals the Fate of Two Other Valve VR Games Developed Alongside ‘Alyx’

It was big news back in 2017 when Valve announced that it was working on "three full games, not experiments." It wouldn't be until late 2019 that one of the three was revealed as Half-Life: Alyx. But what of...

Quest Update Includes More Home Customization, In-headset App Notifications & More

The latest software update for Meta Quest, version v54, is now rolling out, bringing with it a few new quality-of-life features, such as new customization options for Home environments, in-headset app notifications, and better tracking for Quest Pro's controller. Customizable...

Developer Creates Scan of Apartment to Work Inside of VR for 30 Days

Turin, Italy-based developer Enea Le Fons is aiming to spend more than 30 days of extended stints in VR, and although he won't be able to qualify for any records—he's still eating, sleeping, and using the bathroom sans headset—Le...

Oculus Improves Iteration Time for Quest Developers Using UE4

Oculus has updated its UE4 Quest development tools so that developers can spend less time waiting and more time testing and iterating on their VR applications. The changes are similar in scope to recent improvements to Unity Quest development. Because...
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