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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...

Oculus Hiring Spree Suggests Facebook is Accelerating VR/AR Plans

Starting toward the end of 2017, the number of listed job openings at Oculus has nearly tripled, with the current number of openings floating around an all time high. Across Oculus' 15 locations, the company is currently listing 443 available...

‘Sprint Vector’ Closed Beta Shows New Modes & Mechanics, Impressive Polish

Sprint Vector, the upcoming VR footracing game from Raw Data (2017) studio Survios, went into closed beta last week. Now with a few multiplayer matches under my belt and a number of solo challenges (and possibly some overextended elbows), it's clear the...

Indie VRMMO ‘OrbusVR’ Now on Oculus Home and Steam With Cross Play

OrbusVR, the indie VR MMORPG, is now on Oculus Home, allowing for crossplay between it and the Steam version which launched last month. The Steam version of OrbusVR has had support for both Vive and Rift when it started out in...

A Glimpse of the New Vive Pro Controllers & SteamVR Tracking 2.0 Base Stations

While HTC is planning to launch the Vive Pro headset itself starting in Q1, the full package including the headset, controllers, and new SteamVR Tracking 2.0 base stations won't come until later in the year. Until then, here's a...

Studio Behind ‘SUPERHOT’ Looking for More VR Developers

It's amazing how well SUPERHOT (2016), the unforgettably stylized action game, worked when translated to virtual reality. Now, the developers at SUPERHOT Team are looking to get more hands on deck as they dive deeper into the world of VR development. Once the...

Lytro Picks up Limitless Team to Build Tools to Work With Light-fields in Game Engines

Limitless, a company developing content and tools for creating cinematic VR experiences, has joined Lytro to build out tools for combining light-fields and real-time rendering directly in game engines. As we noted recently, Lytro is positioning its light-field tech as...

Oculus-funded VR Experience ‘SPHERES’ Sold at Sundance in “Seven-Figure Deal”

SPHERES, a three-chapter space experience from Darren Aronofsky’s Protozoa Pictures, was just bought by VR finance and distribution firm CityLights in what Variety describes as a "seven-figure deal." While the respective companies are remaining mum on the exact price of the acquisition,...

GDC 2018 Survey: 33% of Game Devs Are More Interested in VR Than Any Other Platform

Ahead of the 2018 Game Developers Conference in March, the organizer, UBM, has released their sixth annual State of the Game Industry survey, offering insight into the thoughts of some 4,000 game developers. While many developers may not be...
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Gear VR Space Dogfighter ‘End Space’ to Arrive on Rift Tomorrow, Vive Support in February

Orange Bridge Studios today announced that End Space (2017), the single-player space dogfighter for Gear VR, is headed to Oculus Rift January 25th. The Steam version for HTC Vive and Rift is slated to arrive sometime next month. Orange Bridge says the Rift and Vive version will...

$50,000 Up for Grabs in Viveport Developer Awards, Submissions Now Open

Last year marked HTC's very first Vive Developer Awards (VDAs), which saw tens of thousands of dollars go to VR app developers across a number of categories. Now, submissions for this year's VDAs are open, spanning more categories than last year, including...

New Official Dev Tool Tests VR Apps Against Oculus Platform Guidelines Before Submission

Up until now, developers wishing to get their VR app on the Oculus Store had to submit to a manual review process by which their game or experience was washed through two stages; a tech review to see if...
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