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‘Accounting+’ for PSVR Gets New ‘Waterpark’ Level in Latest Update

Squanch Games (formerly Squanchtendo) and partner studio Crows Crows Crows have just added a new level to their PSVR game Accounting+ (2017). Called 'The Waterpark Update', the level is a free update that also includes a free theme. Update (02/07/18): Squanch Games...

Google Brings AR Mode to ‘Motion Stills’ Android App

Google recently launched an augmented reality mode for the Android version of its video capture app Motion Stills, which brings the ability to insert AR objects into the world so you can record GIFs and video. Much like Google's AR...

‘Lone Echo’ Behind-the-Scenes – Insights & Artwork from Ready At Dawn

After more than a decade of working on home and portable consoles, Ready At Dawn last year released Lone Echo and its multiplayer spinoff Echo Arena on the Oculus Rift & Touch. We talked with Ready At Dawn Founder & Chief...

Update: ‘Earthlight’ Developer Experimenting With PSVR

Opaque Space, a studio working in collaboration with NASA to build space-themed VR experiences, have started experimenting with PSVR. Update (02/06/18): In a previous version of this article, it was incorrectly reported that studio's latest experience 'Earthlight: Spacewalk' would be coming to...
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‘Sairento VR’ Exits Steam Early Access Today, Launches on Oculus Home

Sairento VR (2018), a VR ninja action game from indie developer Mixed Realms, ended its year-long stint in Steam Early Access today. The game, which features both single player and multiplayer modes, also launched on Oculus Home today. Sairento VR launches out...

Play ‘Eleven: Table Tennis VR’ on Rift for Free This Weekend

For Fun Labs, the developers behind Eleven: Table Tennis VR (2016), are hosting a free weekend for Rift players this week on Oculus Home. Eleven: Table Tennis VR offers online multiplayer or practice with AI, and features cross-play between both the Steam (Vive & Rift) and Oculus...

Walmart’s Tech Incubator Store No. 8 Acquires VR Startup Spatialand

Wal-Mart, the big-box retail giant, unveiled its Store No. 8 tech startup incubator last year with the aim of researching and investing in emergent tech like AR and VR. Now, Store No. 8 has acquired Spatialand, a startup that has created...

Play VR Sport ‘SPARC’ for Free on Rift This Weekend

Sparc (2017), the VR sport from EVE Online developers CCP Games, is hosting a free weekend for Rift players on Oculus Home. Temporary free access has already begun, and will conclude on February 4th at 11:59 PM PT (local time here). Initially...
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Medieval Roguelike Bow-shooter ‘IN DEATH’ Hits Early Access, PSVR Version in the Works

Sólfar Studios' new title IN DEATH, launches today in Early Access with a launch week discount. The "roguelike" bow-shooter makes use of procedural generation to create different experience every time you play, the developers say, while players come upon "monsters, mysteries...

HTC: Vive Pro is Targeted at Prosumers and Will Be “more expensive” Than Consumer Vive

VR/AR expert Antony Vitillo (aka 'Skarred Ghost') got an opportunity to speak with HTC Vive China President Alvin Wang Graylin recently, and while Graylin predictably couldn't answer the question on everyone's mind—"how much is Vive Pro going to cost?"—we...

VirZOOM Closes $5.5M Seed Funding to Develop Second Generation of VR Bike Kit

VirZOOM, makers of VR arcade exercise games and the VirZOOM Bike Controller, announced the successful closure of a $5.5 million seed funding round which the company says will help expand its commercial business worldwide with a second generation of its...

Step Inside the Unabomber Investigation in New Interactive VR Experience

If you were alive in the '90s, chances are you've heard about Ted Kaczynski, aka the Unabomber, the American domestic terrorist that between 1978 and 1995 killed 3 people, and injured 23 others in a nationwide bombing campaign. Now, HTC Vive...

‘Sprint Vector’ Gets February 8th PC Launch Date, Feb 13th for PSVR

Having just celebrated a successful closed beta, which showed off some of the game's new mechanics and solo challenge mode, Survios now says its infectious footracer Sprint Vector is set to launch on HTC Vive and Oculus Rift on February 8th. PlayStation VR...

Google ‘Blocks’ Update Matures Tools for Even Easier 3D Modeling in VR

Google Blocks, the 3D object creation tool for VR/AR app developers, just got a big update that includes new environments, improved object snapping, and a number of experimental features that the company says makes Blocks "more powerful and even easier to use." Released to Rift...

Positron Closes $1.4 Seed Funding to Develop Next Gen of Its VR Motion Chair

Positron, a Los Angeles-based VR technology studio, announced at Sundance that it closed a $1.4 million seed funding deal to further develop the next generation of the company's VR motion chair, Voyager. Funding was provided by Lazar Ventures co-founders Cathleen Ihasz and Nicole...
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