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Spatial Raises $8 Million Seed Investment for AR/VR Collaboration Platform

After two years in stealth, Spatial today announced an $8 million seed investment to build out its AR/VR collaboration platform. Spatial is building an immersive workspace that allows multiple users to connect through AR and VR headsets, as well as...
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Co-op VR Space Delivery Game ‘Failspace’ Starts Registration for Closed Alpha

Hipfire Games, a Helsinki-based studio made up of ex-Supercell and Rovio developers, announced late last year that their space-based delivery game Failspace was in the making for HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, and Windows VR headsets. Now the studio is accepting...
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Reality-bending VR Puzzle ‘Transpose’ Coming to Vive, Rift & PSVR Next Month

Secret Location, the studio behind Blasters of the Universe (2016) and Sleepy Hollow: VR Experience (2015), announced last month that they're heading back into VR territory with a new first-person, time-bending puzzle game. Dubbed Transpose, the game is said...

HTC Quietly Opens Flagship Vive Store in China

Earlier this month, HTC quietly opened their first Vive flagship store in Shenzhen, China. The company's first official Vive Store conducted a soft open on October 1st, located at the Consumer Electronics Exchange/Exhibition Center (CEEC) in Shenzhen. The store sells all...
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Ex-Lionhead Developers Announce VR Puzzle ‘Tin Hearts’, Landing in Early Access Next Month

Rogue Sun is a studio founded by ex-Lionhead Studios developers, and they've recently announced that their first game, a VR puzzle game dubbed Tin Hearts, is landing on Steam next month. Heading into Early Access on November 8th, Tin Hearts is tasks...

Play ‘Hover Junkers’ for Free This Weekend on Vive & Rift, Single Player Campaign Now Live

Stress Level Zero's Hover Junkers (2016) was one of the first room-scale multiplayer shooters to land on the HTC Vive. Now, the studio is hosting a free access weekend to celebrate the long-awaited addition of the game's single player campaign. Launched in...
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PSVR’s Weirdest Game ‘Accounting+’ Now Available on Vive & Rift with New Levels

Squanch Games, the studio founded by Rick and Morty creator Justin Roiland, and Crows Crows Crows today released Accounting+ (2017) on HTC Vive and Oculus Rift. Launched first on PSVR back in late 2017, the game also got a big content update...

SteamVR Gets Motion Smoothing, an ASW-like Feature to Help VR Apps Run Better

Valve today introduced Motion Smoothing to SteamVR in beta. Similar to Oculus' Asynchronous Spacewarp (ASW), the feature uses previous frames to synthesize new frames on the fly, allowing VR applications to continue to run smoothly and comfortably even when...

‘The Persistence’ Gets Free Update with More Modes & Features, 25% Off Through Halloween

The Persistence (2018), a sci-fi horror-themed roguelike for PSVR created by Firesprite Games, just got a huge update today that brought a number of new game modes, a difficulty assist mode, and options for the hearing impaired—all for free. To coincide...

Sixense to Refund STEM Kickstarter Backers After More Than 4 Years of Delays

In what might be the longest Kickstarter campaign conclusion to date, more than four years following estimated deliveries of the STEM VR controller, Sixense says they will fully refund all backers and pre-orders. Sixense was once a name central to...
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This Prototype World-scale VR Game is the Size of a Football Field

With recent advancements in inside-out tracking on standalone VR headsets, the tantalizing possibility of 'world-scale' VR experiences—those unhindered by limited tracking volumes or even physical barriers—is coming into focus. A pair of developers have created a prototype VR game...

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg: ‘Oculus Quest Completes Company’s First-Gen Lineup’

Oculus Quest, the newly announced standalone 6DOF VR headset (ex-Project Santa Cruz), completely stole the show at this year's Oculus Connect with the promise of offering some very Rift-like experiences in a mobile form-factor. There was a torrent of...

‘Rec Room’ Update Brings Multiplayer Bowling to Social VR App

Rec Room, the social VR app for PSVR, Rift, Vive, and Windows VR headsets, just got an update that a new activity to its list of games and multiplayer adventures. Dubbed 'Lone Shoe Lanes', users can get started now...

‘Astro Bot’ Ranked 5th Best PS4 Game of 2018, #1 PSVR Game of All Time

PSVR exclusive ASTRO BOT Rescue Mission has been making waves among critics and players alike since its release at the beginning of the month. The game now ranks among PS4's top titles—VR or otherwise. Update (October 15th, 2018): It appears reviews are...

[Update] Media Molecule’s ‘Dreams’ Confirmed to Support PSVR After Launch

Media Molecule, the creators of LittleBigPlanet (2008) and Tearaway (2013), have been working on their upcoming game/game-creation tool Dreams for PS4 for the past few years, and although we knew PSVR support was destined to come someday, as first announced at Paris...
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