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Inspired by ‘Mirror’s Edge’, ‘Stride’ Looks to Bring Smooth Parkour Action to VR

In development by studio Joy Way, Stride is a VR parkour action game built atop an impressively smooth and immersive locomotion system. With inspiration from Mirror's Edge (2008), Stride is an intriguing indie project due to launch this Summer. Update (July 7th,...

Retrofuture Cold War Adventure ‘Red Matter’ Heading to PSVR This Month

Red Matter (2018), the retrofuturistic first-person adventure game previously launched on PC VR headsets, is headed to PSVR this month in North America and Europe. Vertical Robot released word of the PSVR launch in a tweet, saying the single-player adventure game...

Quest 3 Has Higher Effective Resolution, But This is Why Vision Pro Still Looks Best

Take a look around the web at reviews of Vision Pro and you’ll find that practically everyone agrees: Vision Pro’s display is excellent. Words like “crisp,” “smooth,” and “4K," are commonly used when people are talking about the headset's...

Apple Announces ARKit 3 with Body Tracking & Human Occlusion

At the company's annual WWDC developer conference today, Apple revealed ARKit 3, its latest set of developer tools for creating AR applications on iOS. ARKit 3 now offers real-time body tracking of people in the scene as well as...
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New Quest Game from ‘Job Simulator’ Studio Surprise-launches This Week, Built Entirely Around Hand-tracking

Owlchemy Labs, the Google-owned studio behind Job Simulator (2016) and Vacation Simulator (2019), surprise announced its next VR title today, a hand-tracking-tastic social co-op game called Dimensional Double Shift. And you can get ready to multiplayer job this week. Launching for free...

Meta Reveals Touch Pro Controllers for Quest Pro, Also Compatible with Quest 2

Meta's new Quest Pro headset includes Touch Pro controllers which come with a bevy upgrades, and they'll work with Quest 2 as well. Meta says that Quest Pro and Quest 2 will co-exist as high-end and entry-level headset lines, and...

‘Batman: Arkham Shadow’ Behind-the-scenes – Insights & Artwork from Camouflaj

Batman: Arkham Shadow had a lot to live up to. Not only were the developers trying to bring one of the world's best-known superheroes to VR, they were also building a radical new to play a revered game series...
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New ‘Robinson: The Journey’ Video Shows 5 Minutes of PSVR Gameplay

Crytek's Robinson: The Journey is the studio's first PlayStation VR game. A new gameplay video reveals more about the title's gameplay and interactions. Robinson: The Journey is shaping up to be an ambitious VR adventure game, and a beautiful one at...

TPCAST Announces Business Edition Wireless VR Kit, Up to 6 Simultaneous Users

TPCAST, makers of a 60GHz wireless VR add-on for the HTC Vive, have announced a Business Edition version of the device which is said to allow up to six of the units to work in one local space without...

Storytelling in VR: Ambiguity and Implication in 1st Person Narratives

Rob Morgan is the writer of The Assembly, and he spoke last year at GDC about narrative design in VR and the importance of accurate body language in NPCs to maintain a sense of presence. He returned to GDC...
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‘Negotiator’ is Like a High-Stakes Action Flick for VR, Kickstarter Now Live

Negotiator is a first-person strategy-based narrative that action fans will especially resonate with. Like something straight out of Patriot Games (1992) or ... well ... The Negotiator (1998), the game promises to deliver high-stakes missions that test your reasoning and manipulation skills, but more importantly,...

Apparent Leak Unveils HTC Vive Flow, Including Price & Pre-order Date

An apparent leak in HTC's marketing material has revealed images of the upcoming Vive Flow VR headset ahead of its October 14th unveiling. The headset, which is rumored to target consumers with a casual approach to media consumption, is...

‘Raw Data’ Deep Dive: Alongside Early Access Launch, Devs Reveal Four Heroes, Weapons, and Abilities

The long anticipated Raw Data by developer Survios launches for the HTC Vive on Steam today in Early Access. We sat down with Survios to get an inside look at what players can expect now and in the future...

Microsoft Says New Surface Studio is VR Ready(ish)

Announced just last week, Microsoft's Surface Studio all-in-one computer has been met with excitement and touted as an example of the company's new approach to innovation. With a mobile GPU on board, you shouldn't expect to be able to...
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‘Firewall Zero Hour’ to Get Biggest Update Yet with ‘Operation: Nightfall’

First Contact Entertainment announced that Firewall Zero Hour (2018), the tactical team shooter for PSVR, is getting what they call their "biggest update yet" next week. One of the main changes coming is a new system of time-limited progression taking the...
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