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Steampunk Adventure ‘Chiaro & the Elixir of Life’ Launches on Vive, Rift & Windows VR

Chiaro and the Elixir of Life (2018), a first-person VR adventure from Montreal-based Martov Co., launched today on HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, and Windows VR headsets. The result of a successful Kickstarter campaign, which saw a complete funding total...

Google Appears to Be Ramping Up R&D Efforts for “New and novel” AR/VR Lenses

Though there wasn't much groundbreaking in the Daydream news shared at Google I/O this year, the company is growing its AR/VR team at an accelerated rate, suggesting Google has a number of things up its sleeve yet. One recent...

Ubisoft’s Psychological Thriller ‘Transference’ to Launch Next Week on Vive, Rift & PSVR

Elijah Wood's studio SpectreVision and Ubisoft Montreal announced Transference at last year's E3, a VR thriller-adventure that takes into something of a virtual reality inside a virtual reality. It's only a few more days until the game is officially released, with the...

‘I Expect You to Die’ Reaches $3 Million Revenue Mark Across All Platforms

I Expect You to Die (2016), the spy-themed puzzle game from Schell Games, generated $1 million in revenue between its late-2016 launch and August 2017. Now a little over a year later, the studio reports they've recently closed in on...

Survey: Help Devs Understand Real VR Users & Enter to Win $150 Amazon Gift Card

While there's a steadily growing number of quality VR games, it's still well understood that VR is in need of more great content. But what kinds of VR games should developers focus on creating? That's one of the primary...

‘Super Kaiju’ Studio Unveils ‘Galaga AR’ Multiplayer Game, ‘AR Arcade’ Series Coming in 2019

Apple's 'Gather Round' product event took place today, and while the company is predictably heavy on the new hardware iterations, including Apple Watch Series 4, the A12 Bionic chip, and new iPhone X versions, the company is still plugging...

Jaunt Acquires Personify’s Volumetric Capture Tech & Talent to Build Out XR Platform

Jaunt was once a cinematic VR company which produced high-quality 360 video, and to boot even a professional-grade 360 camera dubbed NEO. Taking a step in a decidedly more AR direction with its recently revealed volumetric video capture solution, Jaunt...

‘Guided Meditation VR’ Makes Great Use of Carmack’s 5K Playback Tech on Oculus Go

Earlier this year Oculus CTO John Carmack revealed a new video playback technique designed to bring high-resolution video to mobile headsets like Oculus Go. Oculus released a sample of the system and developer Cubicle Ninjas saw a perfect opportunity...

Meta Forced to Furlough After Chinese Lead Backs Out of New Investment

Meta, makers of an AR headset dev kit, was close to raising a new round of funding before a Chinese lead investor backed out, Bloomberg reports. The Chinese investment firm had reportedly put up $20 million for the deal....

‘Everybody’s Golf VR’ Slated to Land Exclusively on PSVR in 2019

The long-standing golf series Everybody's Golf is getting a PSVR game, developed by Clap Hanz in association with Sony's Japan Studio. Announced today as a part of the pre-Tokyo Game Show 'PS Lineup Tour', Everybody’s Golf VR is coming exclusively to the...

‘Dark Souls’ Developer to Launch PSVR Story Adventure ‘Déraciné’ in November

Déraciné, an upcoming VR story adventure from Dark Souls and Bloodborne developer FromSoftware and Sony Japan Studio, is coming exclusively to PSVR in November. Revealed at the pre-Tokyo Game Show 'PS Lineup Tour', Déraciné is slated to arrive November 6th in North America and Europe, and in Japan on November...

‘Kingdom Hearts’ is Getting a VR Experience for PSVR This Holiday

Square Enix and Disney today announced that a special Kingdom Hearts: VR Experience is headed to PSVR this holiday season. According to Square Enix Senior PR Manager Emily Shoji, Kingdom Hearts fans will be able to "relive some of their favorite memories from the...

‘Super Mario Run’ Co-Developer Announces VR Puzzle-Adventure ‘VoxEl’

DeNA, the Japan-based mobile game developer known for their work on several Nintendo properties including Super Mario Run (2016) and Fire Emblem Heroes (2017), announced a new VR adventure game targeting PSVR, HTC Vive, and Oculus Rift. Dubbed VoxEl, the game...

‘Firewall Zero Hour’ Tops PSVR’s Most Downloaded Game List in August

Firewall Zero Hour (2018), the tactical team shooter from ROM: Extraction (2016) developers First Contact Entertainment, has apparently celebrated some serious notoriety since it launched late last month on PlayStation VR; Sony has ranked it the top most downloaded PSVR...

Couch Co-op Platformer ‘Carly and the Reaperman’ Gets Single-player VR Experience

Odd Raven Studios, the Stockholm-based developers behind Carly and the Reaperman - Escape From the Underworld (2018), announced that the VR couch co-op platformer is getting a single-player experience starting today. Carly and the Reaperman was originally designed as an asymmetrical cooperative game, where a...
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