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AR From an Architect’s Perspective, Spatial Computing, & Leap Motion’s North Star AR HMD
Keiichi Matsuda went from being a dystopian filmmaker to becoming the Vice President of Design at hand-tracking company Leap Motion. Matsuda is probably the most famous for his HYPER-REALITY dystopian film that imagined a commodified & gamified AR future...
‘Psychonauts In the Rhombus of Ruin’ for PC Review – a Veritable Saturday-morning Cartoon in VR
Psychonauts In the Rhombus of Ruin takes place between the events of Psychonauts (2005) and the upcoming Psychonauts 2 due out later this year. Exclusively available in VR, In the Rhombus of Ruin strays from the 3D platformer genre of its flatscreen...
Play MMORPG ‘OrbusVR’ for Free on Rift This Weekend for a Chance to Win Prizes
OrbusVR, an MMORPG created from the ground-up for VR headsets, is getting a free weekend on Rift starting April 19th to April 22nd. As a part of Oculus' two-year anniversary of Rift, this is the fourth weekend to feature a one...
‘Moss’ Boasts Perfect Rating on PlayStation Store, Tops PSVR Charts
Launched in February as a PSVR exclusive, Polyarc's Moss has enjoyed a broadly positive reception and has managed to maintain a perfect five star rating after more than 550 player reviews on the PlayStation Store.
Having jumped into February's Top 10...
‘Serenity VR’ Fan Project Lets You Step Aboard The Most Famous Firefly-class Ship
Serenity, the firefly-class spaceship from cult TV show Firefly (2002) and film Serenity (2005), is now full explorable in VR.
With many years in the making, Unity developer and 3D environmental artist Kaveh Tabar's Serenity VR fan project is finally here. Starting out in...
This ‘Skyrim VR’ Mod Uses Voice Recognition So You Can Speak to NPCs
Talking to non-player characters (NPCs) in Skyrim VR may be easy—requiring a quick selection from the dialogue menu—but it isn't exactly an immersive way of interacting with the world though. With a new speech recognition mod, called Dragonborn Speaks Naturally, all...
‘In Death’ April Update Brings Asynchronous Challenge Mode and Hellishly Difficult Dungeons
In Death, the roguelike bow-shooter from Sólfar Studios, the developers behind Everest VR (2016), just received a much-awaited update that's aiming to add a little more depth to the polished, and extremely difficult medieval-themed single player game. Starting today, In Death will include dungeons, dubbed...
‘Ready Player One: OASIS beta’ Launches on Steam With Vive, Rift, & Windows VR Headset Support
Ready Player One: Oasis beta (2018), the free mini-game sampler with experiences inspired by Steven Spielberg's latest film Ready Player One (2018), is finally on Steam, which includes support for HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, and Windows "Mixed Reality" VR headsets.
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Cloudhead Games – Lessons Learned From Five Years of VR Locomotion Experiments
Both the Rift and the Vive first launched to consumers around this time two years ago, but their debut, and the games that launched alongside them, were the culmination of years of prior game design experimentation in a new...
‘Modbox AR’ to Arm You With an Arsenal of Virtual Objects to Create Useful & Fun...
The developers behind Modbox (2016), the VR physics sandbox for SteamVR-compatible headsets, have been experimenting with augmented reality recently, something they say is a perfect fit for the Modbox software.
Developer Lee Vermeulen didn't wait for VR headsets like the Vive...
Vive Pro Gets AR Capabilities Thanks to HTC’s New Tools for Front-facing Cameras
HTC has announced a new set of tools allowing developers to build applications which take advantage of the Vive Pro's stereo front-facing cameras, effectively turning the device into an AR headset dev kit. The new tools allow the cameras to...
Exiii Raises $750K for Haptic VR Gloves with Force Feedback
Japan-based startuped Exiii, which is developing a pair of haptic gloves with force feedback, has raised $750K for continued R&D, expansion of sales channels, and growing the company's team.
Back in March we wrote about Exiii's two haptic VR gloves,...
17 Minutes of Sci-fi Adventure ‘Downward Spiral: Horus Station’, Gameplay Video Here
Downward Spiral: Horus Station is an upcoming sci-fi adventure set in the lost and forgotten Horus space station. Created by Finland-based 3rd Eye Studios, the minds behind the game recently put out an extended look at some of the its...
Firmware Update Brings Vive Pro Audio Improvements, HTC Looking into Reports of Screen Issues
Following a small rash of reports from new Vive and Vive Pro users, HTC says they're looking into issues regarding mismatched display brightness. Additionally, SteamVR's beta branch brings a firmware update to the Vive Pro which is said to...
‘Drunk or Dead’ Studio Announces Starship Trooper-Style Shooter ‘B3’
4 I Lab, the studio behind Drunk or Dead (2017), released a trailer announcing their next game, B3, a co-op VR shooter that's definitely borrowing some of its vibe from Starship Troopers (1997).
Not much is known about the game besides...




















