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‘Beat Saber’ for PC Gets Expert+ Difficulty, Practice Mode & More

With Beat Saber now available on both PC VR headsets and PSVR, developer Beat Games is talking more about the game's roadmap, including plans for more free songs alongside paid song packs. Update (November 27th, 2018): Beat Games today pushed...

Why Rothenberg Ventures is Gung Ho About Investing in Virtual Reality

Rothenberg Ventures is a venture capital firm located in San Francisco, California. Started in 2012 by Mike Rothenberg, the firm has now invested in over 60 technology companies and was recently part of AltspaceVR's $5.2 million seed round. Dylan...

‘Wolfenstein: Cyberpilot’ Review – a Nazi-Killing Mech Game Cut Short

As a storied franchise, Wolfenstein games serve as undeniable vehicles for kicking Nazi butt, the most recent of which have taken on alternate history narratives that place resistance fighters in the heart of a prolonged Nazi occupation. And while Wolfenstein:...

Microsoft and Sony Join Other Industry Giants in Support of OpenUSD Standard

Last year, Pixar, Adobe, Apple, Autodesk, and NVIDIA announced the Alliance for OpenUSD, an organization to advance and proliferate the USD file format as the future standard for creating and distributing 3D content. The standard, which is a framework...

Valve’s Jeep Barnett on Designing ‘The Lab’ for HTC Vive

Jeep Barnett is a programmer at Valve Corporation who has been on the VR team for the last couple year. He was at GDC showing off The Lab, which is a series of mini-games demonstrating different design principles within...

PlayStationVR ‘Cinematic Mode’ Lets You Play Your PS4 Games in VR

Revealed alongside the international price and launch of the much awaited Sony PlayStationVR--slated for October 2016 at $399--CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment Andrew House announced a 'cinematic mode' for PSVR. "With the headset on, users can also go into 'cinematic...

Tundra Tracker Kickstarter so Successful It’s Now Sold Out of Most Hardware Bundles

Tundra Labs celebrated success back in March as Tundra Tracker, the company's SteamVR-based tracker device, not only exploded past its Kickstarter goal in less than 24 hours, but went on to pass the $1 million mark. It's proved to...

‘Headmaster’ & Why the Physics of Stuff Flying at Your Face is so Compelling in VR

When Ben Throop went to the Boston VR hackathon in June 2014, he didn't know that Valve was going to be showing off some prototype VR hardware that had positional tracking. At this point the Oculus DK2 had not...

‘Bravo Team’ Review – Shoot, Cover, Rinse, Repeat

Filling something of a gap in Sony's PSVR content lineup, Bravo Team is a cooperative title which aims to bring military shooter style first-person action to the platform. Will you revel in cooperative combat, or is this one bullet worth dodging? Bravo...

Niantic Spatial’s Adorable Pet Sim ‘Hello, Dot’ Leaves Early Access on Quest 3

Niantic Spatial has launched its mixed reality pet game Hello, Dot on Quest 3, bringing it out of early access and packing in a heap of new features. Hello, Dot is what the studio calls a “mixed reality showcase” from...

Meta Would Happily do the “heavy lifting” to Get AirPlay on Quest, if Apple is Game

Quest doesn't have AirPlay, but it's not for the lack of trying. In a post on X, Meta CTO Andrew 'Boz' Bosworth says the company is happy to do the "heavy lifting" on bringing Apple's media streaming to Quest—if...

Audio Highlights of VR News from 6 Major E3 Press Conferences

There were a lot of VR games announced over the past two days at E3 by AAA game publishers. I watched all of the press conferences from Sony, Ubisoft, Bethesda, Microsoft, EA, and Oculus' appearance at the PC Gaming...

This $1,000 App is Now the Most Expensive on Quest—At Least There’s a 20 Minute Free...

With previously hidden 'App Lab' apps now discoverable on the main Quest store, the $1,000 WeldVR is the most expensive app you can find on Meta's VR app store. But fret not, you can get a free trial... for 20...
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‘Star Wars: Squadrons’ to Support PSVR & PC VR at Launch This Fall, Trailer Here

Star Wars: Squadrons is an upcoming first-person dogfighter that's set to release on PC and consoles this fall. As luck would have it, both PSVR and PC VR owners will also be able to play the game when it...

‘The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners’ Among Steam’s 20 Top-selling Games Released in January

The Walking Deal: Saints & Sinners (2020), a VR game based on The Walking Dead comic book series, had its fair share of success when it launched on PC VR headsets late last month. Now, it appears Skydance Interactive's zombie-slaying thriller...
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