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One of the Best Early Examples of Educational VR Experiences Now Updated for Oculus Rift DK2

Titans of Space is one of the classic Oculus Rift DK1 experiences. It takes users on a tour through the solar system, with a particularly amazing star size comparison at the end which is unlike anything you've ever seen...

Facebook Headsets Now Account for More Than 60% of VR Headsets Used on Steam

Facebook's growing grip over the VR space reached new heights last month as the company's Oculus headsets exceeded 60% of the share of monthly-connected headsets used on Steam. Facebook was already a major player in the VR market before the...

‘Beat Saber’ Expert+ Difficulty Levels Come to PSVR, “a lot, lot of music coming”

Prepare to sweat (and probably curse) because Beat Games, the studio behind block-slashing rhythm game Beat Saber (2018), today released a new Expert+ mode to its suite of existing songs on PSVR. Along with it, the update brings a new option...

Oculus Offers Up Developer Quick-start Guide for Bringing Apps to Go

With the impending launch of Oculus Go, the company's first standalone headset, Oculus has shared with developers a handy cheat sheet for bringing Gear VR applications to the Go. Oculus writes in a new post on their developer blog that Oculus Go...

Apple’s Job Listings Seek ‘VR File Format Engineer’, ‘VR Pipeline Engineer’, & More

Now that Apple is being open about their interest in VR the company is publicly listing new job postings for a number of roles seeking candidates with VR expertise. Two of the latest listings suggest the company is exploring VR...

Vantage Point Secures $2.25M Investment for VR Enterprise Training Platform

Vantage Point, the enterprise-focused training company, announced a $2.25 million investment, something that will help them further develop their platform which was created to increase empathy and accuracy of retention through VR-based training. The latest round of investors includes former...

Google Confirms Android XR Allows Passthrough Camera Access: an Important Tool for MR Devs

Developers of mixed reality games have been clamoring for passthrough camera access on Quest for a while now, something now-departed Meta VP of XR Mark Rabkin said would come with the release of a new camera Passthrough API sometime...

‘Catan VR’ to Launch on PSVR Tomorrow, Cross-play with “major VR platforms”

After launching on PC VR & Oculus mobile VR headsets last year, Catan VR is finally making its way to PSVR. The VR version of the 1995 classic board game Settlers of Catan first launched on the Oculus Store for Gear VR...

‘Fujii’ Review – A Serene Journey Ripe With Discovery

Channeling Journey (2012) and Viva Piñata (2006), albeit at a smaller scale, Fujii is a game about exploration and gardening with a dash of discovery. That's not to say that you'll be exploring epic landscapes or saving the world by discovering long-lost knowledge in...

Meta to Ship Project Aria Gen 2 to Researchers in 2026, Paving the Way for Future...

Meta announced it’s shipping out Project Aria Gen 2 to third-party researchers next year, which the company hopes will accelerate development of machine perception and AI technologies needed for future AR glasses and personal AI assistants. The News Meta debuted Project...

Galaxy XR is the Headset the Industry Needs to Take Its Next Major Step

Samsung's Galaxy XR is finally here, and with it, a perfect middle-ground of price and features to simultaneously turn up the competitive pressure on both Meta and Apple. Over many years I had been patiently waiting for Apple to launch...
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Now You Can Own a Fidget Spinner in VR, Because Why Not

Fidget spinners—little spinning hand toys—are one of the latest fads to see explosive growth, rising rapidly in popularity faster than the most hopeful startup. With a seemingly endless number of spinners available to purchase, developer Vladimir Storm decided to make...

PSVR Exclusive ‘Golem’ Release Date Slips into 2019

For a PSVR exclusive that started development all the way back in 2015—before PSVR was even released—Golem sure has been taking its time. Following several delays, we last heard that the studio planned to launch the game by the...

Meta Connect 2024 Developer Conference Announced for Late September: What We’re Hoping For

Meta announced its annual Connect developer conference is set to kick off this year on September 25th-26th, which we're hoping comes with a few key reveals and info drops we've definitely been waiting for. There's no schedule published for now,...

‘TrainerVR’ is a Physics-based Model Train Set that Brings You Back to Simpler Times

Sumalab, a Spain-based indie studio, today released a model train game called TrainerVR (2017) which lets you snap together train tracks, set up little towns, and play with trains to your heart's content (and all in room-scale VR).  Modeled after wooden train...
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