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Gear VR Space Dogfighter ‘End Space’ to Arrive on Rift Tomorrow, Vive Support in February

Orange Bridge Studios today announced that End Space (2017), the single-player space dogfighter for Gear VR, is headed to Oculus Rift January 25th. The Steam version for HTC Vive and Rift is slated to arrive sometime next month. Orange Bridge says the Rift and Vive version will...

‘Beat Saber’ Scoring Explained – It’s All in the Technique

With the release of Oculus Quest, more and more players are jumping into Beat Saber. And while it's easy enough to cut cubes to the beat, there's a trick to achieving the highest score. Here's how scoring works in Beat...

‘Space Channel 5 VR’ Headed to PSVR This Month, PC VR & Quest Versions TBA

Space Channel 5 (1999) first launched on Dreamcast and PS2 over two decades ago, and now the long-dormant franchise is ready to reemerge on PSVR headsets this month with Space Channel 5 VR: Kinda Funky News Flash! Originally slated to launch...

People Are Playing the Piano in ‘Half-Life: Alyx’ and It’s Magnificent

Did you know there's a working piano in Half-Life: Alyx? You may be surprised to see just what talent this 1:1 recreation of a baby grand piano has attracted. Playing the game's virtual piano is a pretty difficult task, what with...

‘Astro Bot Rescue Mission’ to Get Free Demo Next Week on PSVR

Astro Bot Rescue Mission (2018) is objectively an overwhelmingly great VR game, earning our first ever review rating for good reason. Starting next week, you'll be able to find out why when a free demo lands on the PlayStation...

Pimax Secures $20M Series B Funding to Further Develop Wide Field of View VR Headsets

Pimax, the Chinese startup building wide field of view (FOV) virtual reality headsets, has secured $20 million in Series B financing. Shortly after completing its successful Kickstarter campaign in late 2017, which garnered the company $4.2 million in crowdfunding to produce...

Facebook Lowers Price of Enterprise-focused Quest to $800

With the revelation of Quest 2, Facebook has quietly knocked down the entry price for its business-focused version of the headset. Facebook only just made its Oculus for Business program openly available back in May, which basically let anyone buy...

Waveguide Maker DigiLens Closes $50 Million Series C Investment

DigiLens, a creator of waveguide optics and related manufacturing technology today announced the closure of a $50 million Series C investment, adding UDC Ventures and Samsung Ventures to its list of investors. Update (May 14th, 2019): DigiLens creates waveguide optics for...

Oculus Founder Backs ‘Revive’—a Hack for Vive to Play Rift-exclusive Games—With $2K in Monthly Funding

Oculus founder Palmer Luckey, who left the company back in March, has backed a crowdfunding campaign for Revive—a hack which allows HTC Vive owners to play games from the Oculus platform—to the tune of $2,000 per month to support...

LG Shakes Up XR Division, Reportedly Putting Meta Headset Partnership on Ice

Korean media last month alleged that the Meta/LG partnership to create a high-end XR headset wasn't going so well, suggesting either outright cancellation or a delay pushing release of a prospective Apple Vision Pro competitor to 2027. While this hasn't...
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New Quest Game from ‘Job Simulator’ Studio Surprise-launches This Week, Built Entirely Around Hand-tracking

Owlchemy Labs, the Google-owned studio behind Job Simulator (2016) and Vacation Simulator (2019), surprise announced its next VR title today, a hand-tracking-tastic social co-op game called Dimensional Double Shift. And you can get ready to multiplayer job this week. Launching for free...

HTC Scraps Plans to Bring Daydream-based Vive Focus to Western Markets

HTC revealed their new standalone Vive Focus headset today, poised to launch into the Asian market. Earlier this year the device was teased to be heading to Western markets as part of Google's Daydream platform in 2017, but now...

Xbox Game Studios Has (inadvertently?) Acquired Heaps of VR Development Talent

A year ago, in response to Sony consistently delivering high-quality exclusives for PS4, Microsoft made a commitment to rejuvenating its first-party game development efforts and went on a shopping spree, acquiring a handful of respected studios to bolster its...

Cisco Boosts Vision Pro Meetings with New ‘Webex’ Spatial Video Streaming Update

Cisco updated its Webex networking app to include even more immersive support for meetings on Vision Pro, which now marries the app with its spatial video streaming hardware. Cisco released Webex on Vision Pro back in February, allowing for mostly everything...

‘Beat Saber’ Early Access Review – a VR Rhythm Game for Budding Jedi Knights

Beat Saber is a single player rhythm game in Early Access that puts two lightsabers in your hands and tasks you with one of the funkiest, most stylish Jedi training regimes this side of Alderaan. Slicing incoming blocks to...
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