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Rhythm Game ‘Synth Riders’ Arrives on Quest, Leaves Early Access on PC VR
Synth Riders, the VR rhythm game that went into Early Access last summer, is now available on Oculus Quest in addition to being officially out of EA on PC VR.
Update (November 1st, 2019): Synth Riders is now live on the...
New ADR1FT ‘Clair de lune’ Trailer is the Most Beautiful Yet
Three One Zero and 505 Games recently revealed that they'll be ready to ship their space exploration and survival game, ADR1FT, which is being developed for VR and standard gaming platforms, will be ready to ship on March 28th...
HTC Donates Over 100 Vive Headsets to California & Nevada Libraries
HTC is donating over 110 HTC Vive systems to California and Nevada libraries through its new Vive Libraries Program, an effort to seed local communities with premium VR.
In a blogpost announcing the program, HTC's Chris Chin, Executive Director of Education...
MindMaze Raises $100 Million with $1B Valuation for “Neural Virtual Reality Platform”
MindMaze today announced closing a $100 million seed investment led by Hinduja Group which company says values them in excess of $1 billion.
MindMaze is creating what they call a "neural virtual reality platform," an extension of products the company has created for...
‘Meta Horizon’ Quest Mobile App Downloads Dropped Christmas 2024 as Meta Aims to Bolster Quest 3S...
Meta is fairly tight-lipped when it comes to detailing just how many headsets it sells, although there are a few ways to gauge the platform's popularity, one of which is fresh downloads of its required companion app, Meta Horizon,...
Unofficial SteamVR Driver for PSVR 2 to Release Soon as Sony Plans its Own PC VR...
Sony says it's bringing some form of PC VR support to PSVR 2 at some point this year, although it's not clear when, or even how the company will go about letting users play games like Half-Life: Alyx (2020) or popular...
Valve to Release ‘Half-Life: Alyx’ SteamVR Environments You Can Explore with Friends
Half-Life: Alyx is now less than three weeks away from launch, and to further stoke the inevitable hype surrounding the game's impending release on March 23rd, Valve is releasing some new SteamVR Home environments to Valve Index owners.
Valve says in...
Valve Presents – glNext: The Future of High Performance Graphics – Live Blog @ 10am PST
"Join us for the unveiling of Khronos' glNext initiative, the upcoming cross-platform graphics API designed for modern programming techniques and processors. glNext will be the singular choice for developers who demand peak performance in their applications. We will present...
Nanotechnology Researchers Are One Step Closer to the Perfect ‘Meta-lens’ for AR/VR Headsets
AR and VR headsets of the future could have clearer, lighter, and wafer thin lenses, thanks to a new manufacturing process that uses nanotechnology to not only shrink the thickness of the lens, but also correct for the sort...
Crytek and Basemark Announce VR Benchmark Using CRYENGINE
Finnish benchmarking company Basemark have today announced that they're working with game technology house Crytek to produce a virtual reality specific benchmark to test how well your gaming hardware can handle the forthcoming consumer VR revolution.
Hot on the heels...
Apple Continues Investment in Exclusive Immersive Content for Vision Pro
Apple announced its next slate of immersive films for Vision Pro, coming from Audi F1 Project, the BBC, CANAL+, CNN, HYBE, MotoGP, and Red Bull.
The company says its next batch of immersive documentaries are set to launch in the coming...
‘Planet of the Apes VR’ Launches Today on PSVR, Rift & Vive, Launch Trailer Here
20th Century Fox's VR game division FoxNext VR Studio today launched their Planet of the Apes-themed game for PSVR, HTC Vive and Oculus Rift. Called Crisis on the Planet of the Apes VR, the first-person action-adventure game takes place between the...
HTC’s $100 Million ‘Vive X’ VR Accelerator Announces First 33 Investments
Today at the China International Digital Entertainment Expo & Conference (ChinaJoy 2016), HTC announced the first batch of companies to take part in their recently announced Vive X Accelerator program. The cohort of 33 VR startups, coming from across the industry, will see...
HTC Discontinuing Vive Pro and Vive Focus in Favor of Newer Iterations
HTC is discontinuing its Vive Pro and Vive Focus headsets in favor of newer versions of the headsets. The change helps streamline the company's smattering of headsets.
In a recent opinion piece I argued that HTC's VR headset lineup, which...
Magic Leap Gets Half-billion Dollar Boost Ahead of Vision Pro Launch
Saudi Arabia has recently injected more than half a billion dollars into augmented reality company Magic Leap, which it hopes will rival Apple's Vision Pro mixed reality headset.
Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund gained majority share of the US-based Magic Leap...



















