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‘Spice & Wolf VR’ Funding Campaign Reaches Goal in 2 Hours, Kickstarter Coming “next week”

SpicyTails, the studio behind the popular VR visual novel experience Project LUX (2018), have something to celebrate. Spice & Wolf VR, the studio's next VR project, has smashed its goal on Japanese crowdfunding platform Campfire. Residents outside of Japan will be able...

‘Neos VR’ Update Brings “massive improvements” to User Friendliness, Social Features & More

Neos VR, the social VR platform, is celebrating a milestone with the release of its 0.8 build, which brings what the creators call "massive improvements" to usability and social features, and integration with its own cryptocurrency. Essentially Neos VR is a social...

‘Blood & Truth’ Update Adds Hard Mode and Skeet Challenge Mini-games

Following an update earlier this summer which added a New Game+ mode, mini-game challenges, and online leaderboards, a new Blood & Truth update today adds a Hard Mode, a handful of new shooting challenges, and some new trophies for completionists...

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...

Oculus Quest Touch Controllers Hit FCC Preceding Spring 2019 Launch

Oculus Quest may not have a specific release date yet, although now that both the headset and its Touch controllers have undergone FCC testing, there's little left standing in the way of the headset's launch this Spring. Oculus revealed Quest in...

The Top 20 Best Rated and Most Rated Quest Games & Apps

While Oculus doesn’t offer much publicly in the way of understanding how well individual apps are performing across its VR storefronts, it’s possible to glean some insight by looking at apps relative to each other. Here’s a snapshot of...

HTC is Holding a Vive Product Event Just Ahead of Facebook Connect

HTC is gearing up to hold what seems to be a new product unveiling on October 14th, or just ahead of Facebook Connect on the 28th of that month. The company says we'll be hearing about some "big news...

Apple Vision Pro Knockoffs Are Already Here

Apple has always been a trendsetter, with hopeful competitors copying everything from the company's iconic marketing campaigns to its unique industrial design language. Still, we didn't expect to see a knock-off of Vision Pro so soon. Hall-walkers at CES 2024...

Crytek Adds HTC Vive & Oculus Touch Support to ‘Robinson: The Journey’

Originally launched in November last year as a PSVR exclusive, Crytek’s Robinson: The Journey (2016) made its way early this year to Oculus Rift via Oculus Home and also eventually Steam too. Critically missing however was official support for HTC Vive and any support for motion controllers. Now,...

‘Resident Evil 7: Biohazard’ Nabs ‘Best VR/AR Game’ at The Game Awards 2017

The yearly fanfare of the Game Awards has come and gone, leaving Capcom with the award for Best VR/AR Game for their massively successful horror-adventure Resident Evil 7: Biohazard (2017), a game that equally supports both PSVR and traditional monitors. As a testament to its popularity, after its...

New PSVR Model on the Way Featuring Integrated Audio & HDR Pass-through

Sony today announced that a new PlayStation VR model is in the works focusing on some issues surrounding ease of use. Update (10/02/17): The updated PSVR model in launch in Japan October 14th. New images have been sourced from the Japanese PlayStation...

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...

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...

Viveport to Officially Support Windows VR Headsets Next Month

HTC announced back at GDC 2019 that Viveport, the company's digital distribution platform for VR games, was going to support Windows VR headsets later this year. Now, the company has set the official date: June 5th, 2019. Update (May 29th, 2019):...

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...
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