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2023 Sections

Windows VR Will Soon Run Regular Desktop Apps like Photoshop in VR

The first chunk of February came with good news for those with Windows VR headsets. On February 1st, Microsoft released a preview version of Windows which comes with a slew of new features including the ability to run regular desktop...

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...

Oculus Brings More Lifelike Sound Propagation to Audio SDK 1.34

Despite being oft overlooked in the face of more attention-grabbing visuals, audio is an essential component to creating presence in VR. In a quest to create increasingly lifelike audio in VR environments, Oculus has pushed out an update to...

‘Angry Birds VR’ Review — Redefining a Mobile Powerhouse for the Virtual Age

With several mobile titles in Rovio's Angry Birds series using the winning formula of 'fling the bird to kill the pig', I wasn't sure what I was in for with Angry Birds VR: Isle of Pigs—an honest-to-goodness game, or a cleverly...
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‘Angry Birds VR’ Now Available on Rift & Vive, More VR Platforms Coming Soon

Resolution Games and Rovio Entertainment today launched the next installment in the Angry Birds series, this time built from the ground-up for VR. Dubbed Angry Birds VR: Isle of Pigs (2019), the bird-shooting puzzle game is now available on...

‘Beat Saber’ Expert+ Difficulty Levels Come to PSVR, “a lot, lot of music coming”

Prepare to sweat (and probably curse) because Beat Games, the studio behind block-slashing rhythm game Beat Saber (2018), today released a new Expert+ mode to its suite of existing songs on PSVR. Along with it, the update brings a new option...

Exclusive: HP’s Next-gen VR Headset Aims to Raise the Bar on Clarity & Comfort

Having launched its first VR headset in late 2017, alongside a handful of similar headsets as part of Microsoft's Windows Mixed Reality platform, HP is preparing to take its next step with the launch of a new headset that...

MMORPG ‘OrbusVR’ Expansion ‘Reborn’ to Launch in April

Orbus Online, the studio behind OrbusVR, says the game's long-awaited 'Reborn' expansion is now set to launch sometime in April. OrbusVR is a made-for-VR MMORPG that launched into Early Access on Steam (Vive, Rift) and the Oculus Store (Rift) in December 2017. As...

Sword & Sorcery Dungeon Crawler ‘The Mage’s Tale’ Lands on PSVR Today

The Mage’s Tale (2018), the first-person sword & sorcery dungeon crawler from The Bard's Tale series developers inXile Entertainment, has officially landed on PSVR today. Update (February 5th, 2019): The Mage's Tale is now available on the PlayStation Store, priced at $30. Since...

PSVR Airship Battle Arena ‘Bow to Blood’ to Launch on Rift & Vive Soon

Once a PSVR exclusive, Tribetoy today announced their ship-battling arena title Bow to Blood (2018) is soon headed to Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. The studio today released word that Bow to Blood is expanding support this April to traditional monitors on several...

HoloLens Co-inventor & AR/VR Pioneer Avi Bar-Zeev Has Left Apple

Avi Bar-Zeev, HoloLens co-inventor and longtime AR/VR stalwart, has left Apple, Variety reports. Bar-Zeev helped found and invent the core technologies behind HoloLens at Microsoft, assembling the company's very first AR prototypes, demos and UX concepts. According to his LinkenIn bio, Bar-Zeev...
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Underwater Adventure ‘Jupiter & Mars’ Coming to PS4 & PSVR Spring 2019, New Trailer Here

Tigertron, a New York City-based indie developer, announced that their upcoming single-player adventure game Jupiter & Mars is heading to PS4 and PSVR in Spring 2019. First teased at E3 last year, the game is said to take place in...
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‘The Invisible Hours’ Studio Announces ‘Groundhog Day VR’, Coming Later This Year

Groundhog Day (1993), the iconic '90s film starring Bill Murray, is getting its very own full-length VR game soon—well, sort of. Dubbed Groundhog Day: Like Father Like Son, you'll be able to jump back into the world of Punxsutawney,...

VR Headset Growth on Steam Makes Biggest Leap Yet, Eclipses Linux Steam Users

It appears that the 2018 holiday shopping season was one of the best ever for PC VR headsets. The latest data released today from Valve shows VR making its single biggest leap yet, on a path toward 1 million...

Ubisoft’s VR Shooter ‘Space Junkies’ Comes to 100+ Arcades Ahead of Launch

Ubisoft today announced in a blogpost that a special arcade edition of their upcoming VR shooter Space Junkies has rolled out to "100+ arcades" around the world. To celebrate, Ubisoft is collaborating with the Virtual Athletics League to throw a Space...
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