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Uncorporeal Claims They Can Create 3D VR Scenes from Your Photos

Uncorporeal are unveiling what it terms as it's "Holographic Photography Technology" which the team claim will allow anyone with a smartphone to create 360 VR viewable scenes with 3D parallax from a few dozen photos. Static photogrammetry, the process of capturing...

HTC Discontinuing Vive Pro and Vive Focus in Favor of Newer Iterations

HTC is discontinuing its Vive Pro and Vive Focus headsets in favor of newer versions of the headsets. The change helps streamline the company's smattering of headsets. In a recent opinion piece I argued that HTC's VR headset lineup, which...

Devs Behind ‘Max Payne’ and ‘Quantum Break’ Form New VR House, ‘3rd Eye Studios’

3rd Eye Studios is a new VR developer team formed from Remedy Entertainment alum and they're working on a new, original made-for-VR anthology inspired by 70's sci-fi television shows. Here's an exclusive first look at some of the first art for...

Stanford Unveils ‘Light Field Stereoscope’ a VR Headset to Reduce Fatigue and Nausea

Researchers at Stanford University have unveiled a prototype VR Headset which they claim reduce the effects of VR sickness through the use of an innovative 'stacked' display which generates naturalistic light fields. VR display technology continues to evolve rapidly, with...

Quest’s Home Environment May Soon Get The Social Capabilities We’ve Been Waiting For

Back in October, Meta announced that it would eventually transition its home environment to 'Horizon Home', giving it a fuller set of social features like being able to invite party members to visit, hang out, or launch into VR...

Zynga Veterans Unveil New VR Studio ‘ForeVR’, Announces $1.5M Seed Funding

A new VR studio founded by a pair of Zynga veterans has emerged from stealth with some not-so-inconsequential funding. Called ForeVR, the studio recently revealed it's also raised $1.5 million to build VR games for all ages. The news was...

Social VR Hits ‘Rec Room’ and ‘VRChat’ Coming to Oculus Quest

On the run up to the headset's Spring release, Oculus today confirmed a handful of new Quest launch titles. Among them are social VR hits Rec Room and VRChat, both known for connecting players and friends across headsets and platforms. Rec Room...

VRMMO ‘Eldramoor: Haven in the Mist’ to Launch Kickstarter Next Week

Eldramoor: Haven in the Mist is slated to launch a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign next week, aiming to revive the fun of recently shuttered VR MMO Orbus VR. Coming June 24th, the Eldramoor Kickstarter is hoping to garner support for a new VR MMORPG, slated to...

‘StarBlood Arena’ Will Be Free to PlayStation Plus Members in January

PlayStation VR owners will get a chance to hop into the fast-paced StarBlood Arena for free next month, a battle arena shooter from WhiteMoon Dreams and Sony's San Diego Studio. PS Plus members will have free access to StarBlood Arena starting January 2nd going through March 6th - when...

With Room-scale Tracking & No Tether, ‘Racket Fury: Table Tennis’ Feels Great on Quest

Racket Fury: Table Tennis VR has been a solid VR ping pong offering for existing headsets since its release in 2017. The game is confirmed to be launching alongside Oculus Quest, which brings with it some interesting advantages which make...

Mixed Reality’s Best Laser Tag-style Multiplayer Gets Better Spatial Stability, New Enemies & More

Spatial Ops (2024) is a bit like laser tag for Quest, letting you set up barriers and squad up with your friends for everything from room-scale to arena-scale mixed reality shootouts. Now, developer Resolution Games released an update today...
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‘Rogue Piñatas’ is a Candy-packed Co-op Roguelite Coming to Quest & PC VR Headsets, Trailer Here

Nerd Ninjas, the indie studio who helped develop Niantic’s Pokémon GO and Terrible Posture Games’ Battle Train, announced a co-op roguelite for Quest and PC VR headsets that promises a serious dose of piñata-cracking mayhem: Rogue Piñatas: VRmageddon. As the studio's...

New DK2 Enabled Senza Peso Featured by Epic Games at Pax Prime, Download it Now

I took a look at a very early version of a DK2 enabled Senza Peso demo recently (see the above video) just after Oculus' second VR Headset shipped and it remains one of the most impressive VR showcases out...

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

Tactical team shooter Firewall Zero Hour (2018) took the top spot again as the most downloaded PSVR game last month. Hailing from ROM: Extraction (2016) developers First Contact Entertainment, Firewall Zero Hour launched on August 28th, giving it only four days to vault to the top...

ARKit Recreation of ‘The Ring’ TV Scene Foretells AR’s Inevitable Weirdness

Let's face it, when augmented reality headsets and glasses become commonplace, the world is going to get weird in a lot of unexpected ways. In the meantime, we can get a little sneak peek into that weirdness yet to...
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