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Microsoft Releases ‘Maquette’ on Steam, a VR Tool for Spatial Ideation and Design

Microsoft Maquette is a VR tool from Microsoft which is all about prototyping spatial designs. First teased in October 2018, the company has now released Maquette for free on Steam. Update (January 16th, 2019): Microsoft has released Maquette for free on Steam supporting...

Immersive Game Design Lessons from ‘Pokémon Go’

Pokémon Go has quickly become the #1 mobile game of all time, and while there's been some debate as to whether it should be considered Augmented Reality or not, it's clear that location-based gaming has taken to the next...

Index Sold Out in all 31 Regions, Valve “working hard” to Meet Demand Ahead of ‘Half-Life:...

With just two months or so until the launch of Half-Life: Alyx, Valve is still struggling to meet demand for its Index VR headset. Our latest check on Valve Index stock and availability shows that nearly every package of the headset...

New Free Unreal Engine 4 Bootcamp E-Book Offers Superb Intro for Wannabe VR Devs

Unreal Engine 4 launched to developers around the world back in March and immediately impressed. Epic's successor to its near ubiquitous UE3, which dominated much of the last generation of game development, was designed from the ground up to...

Gree VR Capital Completes First $18M VR/AR Fund, Changes Name to GFR Fund

GREE VR Capital, the investment firm backing startups such as VRChat, TheWaveVR, and Littlstar, today announced the completion of its first immersive media fund, totaling $18.3 million in allocated funds. Previously called GVR Fund, the company is now changing its name...

Hands-on: ‘Firewall: Zero Hour’ Replicates a Familiar Shooter Formula in VR with Deadly Skill

Ever since the early days of PSVR, fans have been hoping for games like Counter Strike or Rainbow Six—the sort of team-based shooters most gamers are familiar with one way or the other, be it on PC or console. Now...

HTC Vive-enabled Unreal Engine 4.8 Coming next Week, Devs Can Start Work with Rift DK2

Epic Games has today announced that the company will be releasing an Unreal Engine 4.8 preview build next week which will offer support for Valve's highly anticipated SteamVR / HTC Vive. Epic says that even developers who don't have...

PSVR Owners Can Now Request a Free Camera Adapter for PS5 Compatibility

Sony has finally revealed how and when PSVR owners can get their hands on a camera adapter to make PlayStation VR compatible with PS5. Sony will provide PSVR owners with one free camera adapter to enable support for the headset...

CCP Games Secure $30M To Expand VR Development

CCP Games, the company behind the hugely successful 'EVE' franchise and early VR adopters with VR space combat shooter EVE:Valkyrie, have announced they're to expand their efforts in VR development with the help of $30M in funding. CCP Games are...
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‘Mr. Mercedes’ VR Escape Room to Land on HTC Vive July 22nd

Mr. Mercedes, the AT&T Audience Network mystery thriller TV series based on the titular Stephen King novel, is getting a VR escape room soon. Dubbed Mr. Mercedes: Lair Escape, you step into the basement lair of one of the scariest killers from the...
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‘Lushfoil Photography Sim’ Confirms VR Support Coming “Soon”

Lushfoil Photography Sim is a recent entry in the niche genre of photography simulators. Its beautiful and serene environments have always looked like they'd be incredible to explore in VR, along with the immersion of taking a photograph using your...

The Most Anticipated VR Games Coming in 2020

There's been no shortage of great VR games in 2019, although 2020 is shaping up to be a pretty significant year in VR gaming too. We rounded up the top titles confirmed for release in 2020, which includes everything from...

‘Titanic VR’ Dives Deep into the History of the Fateful Sinking in Educational VR Experience

Getting kids excited about learning isn't easy, especially when the little glowing rectangle in their pockets provides endless distractions. Enter Titanic VR, a new educational experience by Immersive VR Education that brings the sunken wreckage of the RMS Titanic to life once...

‘Knockout League’ Early Access Review

Knockout League (2017) is a single-player, arcade-style boxing game that promises to get your heart pumping as you duck, block, and punch your way to victory. Harking back to NES classic Punch-Out!! (1987), you learn pretty quickly that a storm of punches—the moral equivalent...

VR Treadmill Company Virtuix Raised Another $3M in Crowd Investments, Now at $200M Valuation

VR treadmill company Virtuix launched a crowd-based investment campaign late last year to further scale Omni One, its consumer-focused VR locomotion device. Now, the campaign’s second phase (Series B-2) has come to an end, garnering the company over $3...
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