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‘Half-Life: Alyx’ Post-credits Scene Clearly Sets the Stage for More ‘Half-Life’ in VR

Half-Life: Alyx launched on Monday to critical acclaim. The worst part about the game? After waiting so long, it's over all too soon. But, Valve has left a very significant tease that the game won't be the last Half-Life VR...

Oculus Quest v25 Update Brings Messenger, Guardian Improvements, Bluetooth Mice & More

The latest update to Oculus Quest and Quest 2 began rolling out this week with a range of improvements, including the addition of Facebook Messenger, an improved stationary Guardian boundary, support for bluetooth mice, interface improvements, and a navigation...

‘Star Wars: Vader Immortal – Episode 2’ Now Available on Rift & Quest, Trailer Here

At Oculus Connect 6 today, ILMxLab showed off some new footage of the second installment of Star Wars: Vader Immortal, and in a surprise ending, Facebook announced the experience's sequel is now available on both the Quest and Rift...

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...

The Best Oculus Quest 2 Accessories & Why You’ll Want Them

Oculus Quest 2 has everything you need in the box to get playing an awesome selection of VR games. Once you've owned it for a few weeks though, you'll probably start to notice the headset's inherent pain points, which...

Impact Reality Opens ‘Flat2VR Studios’ to Bring Flatscreen Games to VR

Impact Reality, the VR publishing and marketing firm, announced it's formed a studio dedicated to porting flatscreen games to VR. Called Flat2VR Studios, the venture is aimed at merging traditional video games with immersive VR experiences, and is said to...

Researchers Transform Real Soccer Matches into Tabletop AR Reconstructions

The FIFA World Cup finals are nearly here, and while we still live in a time where most everyone interested in the France vs. Croatia match will be glued to a TV set, researchers from the University of Washington, Facebook,...
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‘Aces of Thunder’ is Shaping Up as One of the Best-looking VR-native Flight Sims, Now Coming...

Aces of Thunder, from the studio behind the well-known flight sim War Thunder, is set to launch in Q4 on PSVR 2. Alongside a new trailer, the studio revealed today that the game is also coming to PC VR. From the...

Nintendo 3DS Emulator for Quest ‘CitraVR’ Brings Big Performance Improvements in Latest Update

CitraVR was released in beta late last month, letting you can play your favorite handheld Nintendo games on Quest on a massive screen in full 3D. With its 0.4.0 update released over the weekend, using CitraVR just got a lot smoother. Update...
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Mixed Reality Update is a Natural Fit for Rube Goldberg Game ‘Gadgeteer’, Now Available on Quest...

Virtual reality's most compelling Rube Goldberg sandbox Gadgeteer (2019) just got an update on Quest 3 and Quest 3S which finally brings mixed reality gameplay into the fold. Launched in 2019 for PC VR headsets, Gadgeteer was initially conceived to work in...

Google Appears to Be Ramping Up R&D Efforts for “New and novel” AR/VR Lenses

Though there wasn't much groundbreaking in the Daydream news shared at Google I/O this year, the company is growing its AR/VR team at an accelerated rate, suggesting Google has a number of things up its sleeve yet. One recent...

‘Moss’ and ‘GORN’ Join the Platinum Club With 1 Million Units Sold

Moss (2018) and GORN (2019) have become the latest VR games to reach the 1 million unit 'platinum' mark, earning an estimated $22.5 million and $12 million, respectively, in revenue. Multi-platform development was key to their success. Selling one million units...

‘Until You Fall’ Gets Preliminary Support for Index & WMR, Roadmap Tracks Plans for New Weapons,...

VR hack-and-slash roguelite Until You Fall launched in Early Access in late August with support for the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift. The game has been updated with preliminary support for other SteamVR headsets, including Index and Windows VR, for...
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‘Beat Saber’ Wants to Get Your Heart Pumping in New Free Track ‘FitBeat’

Beat Saber (2018) is a great tool if you're stuck indoors and want to stay fit. To keep you up and moving, Beat Games today released their latest free track, called 'FitBeat', which aims to get your heart pumping to...

Hands-on: Oculus Link Makes Quest Feel Like a Native PC VR Headset

Announced yesterday, Oculus Link will allow Quest to play Rift games by connecting to any VR-capable PC. In our hands-on at Oculus Connect, the feature really does seem to deliver an experience that feels like a native PC VR...
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