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The 20 Best Rated & Most Popular Quest Games & Apps – February 2022
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...
Quest’s Official Non-store App Distribution Channel is Coming in Q1, 2021
Facebook announced back in June that it planned to offer developers a way to distribute Oculus Quest apps outside of the official, curated, Quest store. Now the company indicates it has "high confidence" that the feature will be deployed...
Apple Positions New iMac Pro for VR Development, Available Starting Thursday
Back at WWDC 2017 Apple finally embraced VR, announcing that it had been working with Valve to bring SteamVR and the HTC Vive to MacOS, along with a number of other announcements about how the company would support VR...
News Bits: RiftMax Kickstarter Cancelled, Dev Asks Backers to Donate Instead
RiftMax has been on the cutting edge of virtual reality telepresence and broadcasting for some time now so it made sense that the developers behind the project would attempt a crowd-funding campaign. Unfortunately, that Kickstarter has now been cancelled.
If...
HTC ‘VIVERSE’ Immersive Social Platform Hits 1 Million Monthly-active Users
HTC announced today that its VIVERSE immersive social platform has reached 1 million monthly-active users, a major milestone. The platform is accessible on flatscreens and VR, so it's unclear what portion of users are visiting with headsets.
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HTC's Viverse...
‘Down the Rabbit Hole’ Follow-up Coming to Quest This Fall, Trailer Here
Corptopia Studios, developer behind VR puzzle-adventure Down the Rabbit Hole (2020), announced the release of a follow-up title that takes you back to the game's winding chasm of enigmatic dioramas.
Called Escaping Wonderland, the standalone adventure is said to arrive on...
Sony’s Shuhei Yoshida on Gran Turismo 7 “I’d like to see it support PlayStation VR”
In an interview with Eurogamer, President of Sony's Worldwide Studios, has gone on record stating that he'd like to see Gran Turismo 7 on the company's Playstation VR platform one it's released.
According to Yoshida, Sony's extensive internal testing have found,...
Upcoming ‘Sniper Elite’ VR Game Likely Headed to PSVR With Aim Support
Yesterday Rebellion Developments, the studio behind the Sniper Elite series, announced that a Sniper Elite VR game is in development in partnership with studio Just Add Water. Details have been kept to a minimum, with a full announcement planned for...
Roto VR Picks up $1.86M Investment to Support Roll-out of Rotating VR Chair
Roto VR, the UK-based makers of the eponymous 360-degree VR chair, today announced its completed a £1.5 million (~$1.86 million) funding round. Investors include Consumer Venture Capital Trust, Pembroke VCT, and The TVB Growth Fund.
You may remember Roto VR...
Tony Parisi on Alternatives to Walled Garden Platforms with the Open Web & WEVR
Tony Parisi has been working towards creating an open ecosystem of virtual reality helping to co-create the Virtual Reality Modelling Language in the early 90s. He recently took a position at WEVR, and while he's not revealing too much...
Top Investors Discuss VR and AR Strategies and Opportunites at IMMERSE 2016
Business leaders gathered at this year's Seattle based IMMERSE Summit (previously Sea VR) to explore how VR/ AR and Mixed Reality is transforming manufacturing, design, education, health and medicine and much more. Road to VR's Michael Glombicki caught up with...
Oculus ‘Designing for Hands’ Document Introduces Best Practices for Quest Hand-tracking
Hand-tracking on Quest rolled out as an experimental feature in late 2019, but Oculus is letting it gestate before it will accept third-party apps with hand-tracking. In the meantime, the company has published fresh developer documentation which establishes best...
SEA VR Rebrands as ‘Immerse Technology Summit’, Returns October 11th
SEA VR, the largest VR conference in the Pacific Northwest, has renamed itself as the “Immerse Technology Summit,” and will be held this year on October 11th in Bellevue, Washington. The summit organizers say they dropped the “VR” moniker...
Samsung’s Android XR Headset Will Have First-party Motion Controllers & Support PC VR Streaming
Samsung isn't sharing a lot of details on its newly announced Android XR headset, but it has confirmed two key things that existing VR enthusiasts and developers are sure to be happy about.
Samsung's 'Project Moohan' headset will be the...
Oculus CTO: Quest Has No Dedicated Hardware to Play PC Games over USB-C
Oculus Quest, the company's newly announced high-end standalone headset, has a USB Type-C connector. VirtualLink, the new VR connector standard created by a consortium of prominent industry players, also uses USB Type-C. So if you happen to own a new flagship...


















