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HTC Partners with iFixit to Offer Parts & DIY Repair Guides for Older Vive Headsets

HTC has made the pro-consumer move of partnering with popular DIY repair website iFixit to offer replacement parts, repair guides, and more for out-of-warranty headsets. The move contrasts with one of the company's major competitors, Oculus, which has opted...

Bigscreen Beyond’s Long-awaited Audio Strap to Begin Shipping Next Month

Bigscreen announced that Beyond, its slim form factor PC VR headset, is finally getting its long-awaited Audio Strap starting next month. Bigscreen Beyond initially shipped in late 2023 with promises that an audio headstrap was soon to follow, with the...

‘Budget Cuts’ Studio Launches VR Gardening Sim ‘Garden of the Sea’ in Early Access, Trailer Here

Neat Corporation, the studio behind stealth VR game Budget Cuts (2018), unveiled a new VR project late last month called Garden of the Sea. The game, which puts you on a magical island where you tend to your garden, gather resources,...
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‘Bravo Team’ Gets New Trailer Ahead of Tomorrow’s Launch on PSVR

Ahead of tomorrow's launch on PSVR, there's a new trailer for cooperative VR shooter Bravo Team, which preps players for the game's strategic, cover-based gameplay and careful marksmanship. Bravo Team is a promising new title for PSVR from developer Supermassive Games,...

‘Building for the Rift with the Oculus PC SDK’ Liveblog @ 2:30PM PT

Oculus Engineer Director Anuj Gosalia takes to the stage at Connect today to help developers to understand the ins and outs of developing for the Oculus Rift with the company's PC SDK. We'll be liveblogging the event starting at 2:30PM...
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Roguelike Bow-shooter ‘In Death’ Now Available on PSVR

In Death, the roguelike bow-shooter from Sólfar Studios, is now available on PSVR. After months of honing in Early Access on PC VR headsets, culminating in the '1.0' launch of the game in October, PSVR players will soon get their...

New Feature in Quest Update Could Bolster WebXR Use

Meta is rolling out update v37 for Oculus Quest and Quest 2 bringing quality-of-life improvements like interface tweaks and tracking support for the Apple Magic Keyboard. A new link sharing feature promises to finally make it easy to send...

VR Devs Experiment With Virtual Locomotion at HTC Vive VR Jam in Austin

Last weekend, Owlchemy Labs and VR Austin hosted an event in conjunction with Valve, HTC, Nvidia, Epic, and Unity, that gave VR developers a chance to created rapidly prototyped VR experiences for the brand new HTC Vive headset that works...

Apple Says Steep ‘Horizon Worlds’ Creator Fees Show Meta’s “Hypocrisy”

Earlier this week Meta announced that it would begin testing tools to let creators sell things for real money in Horizon Worlds and would charge a fee of 47.5% of their earnings. The fee structure seemed at odds with prior...

Valve VR Frontman Chet Faliszek Departs Company After 12 Years

Though there's surely many talents folks at Valve responsible for the company's VR initiatives, over the last several years Chet Faliszek has become a front-facing evangelist and go-to spokesperson for VR at Valve. Now after 12 years with the company,...

One-on-one Consulting with Epic, Unity, and Oculus Available to VR Devs at Connect

Oculus' forthcoming Connect 2 conference is a resolutely developer focused event and these events, offering 1:1 face-time with experts in both Unity and Unreal engines, specifically on the mechanics of building a VR project, may just be the ticket...

Oculus Hiring Spree Suggests Facebook is Accelerating VR/AR Plans

Starting toward the end of 2017, the number of listed job openings at Oculus has nearly tripled, with the current number of openings floating around an all time high. Across Oculus' 15 locations, the company is currently listing 443 available...

Quest Dominated Black Friday Search Volume in the US, Tied PlayStation VR Worldwide

Though it's Facebook's newest headset, Oculus Quest may be the company's most popular so far, at least as far as search volume is concerned. Kicking off the holiday shopping season on Black Friday, Quest dominated other VR headsets in...

Oculus Quest Supports “Arena-scale” Tracking and Multi-room Guardian

Oculus today offered up some details on the 'Insight' tracking system of their new Quest headset. The inside-out tracking goes "beyond roomscale," according to Oculus, enabling large-scale experiences that let players physically move around large spaces. Additionally, Oculus Quest...

Meta’s XR Revenue Down 39% “due to lower Quest 2 sales,” as Quest 3 & Vision...

Meta's latest quarterly results show its Reality Labs XR division is again reporting an operating loss just south of $4 billion. Now, for its Q2 2023 results, the company says Reality Labs' revenue was down by 39% due to...
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