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HTC & Shenzhen Government Team Up for $160 Million Investment Fund

Between HTC's Vive X accelerator and the VRVCA investor consortium that it heads, the company is already very active in the VR investment space. But today the company announced a brand new investment fund of some $160 million in...
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‘Skyrim VR’ Launching on PC April 3rd with Support for Vive, Rift, and Windows VR

Formerly a PSVR exclusive, Skyrim VR is coming to PC via SteamVR, with officially listed support for the HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, and Windows VR headsets. When it launched back in November on PSVR, Bethesda's Skyrim VR was one the first...

Valve Introduces Auto Resolution Optimization to Squeeze the Most Detail From Your VR Headset

Valve today released an update to SteamVR Beta that introduces a new system that automatically adjusts the VR game's resolution in accordance with your GPU's rendering ability. Presented by Valve Graphics Programmer Alex Vlachos in an official announcement, the auto-resolution...

HTC Vive Pro to Arrive With Redesigned Link Box Featuring DisplayPort and Power Button

HTC Vive Pro, the company's higher resolution VR headset targeted at prosumers, isn't on sale yet, although developers have been receiving Vive Pro as early as mid-February. While there still isn't a comprehensive look at all of the gubbins...
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‘The American Dream’ Parodies US Gun Culture, Launching This Week at a Key Moment in Gun...

The American Dream is set to launch on March 14th, and the moment, most unfortunately, couldn't be more timely. The game's gun-fueled gameplay takes US gun culture to the extreme, examining a world where babies are born packing heat...
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‘Wedding VR’ Offers an Uncanny Peek into the Wild World of Anime Marriage Simulators

Wedding VR, a marriage simulator created by Japan-based game studio Voltage Inc., came to the Oculus Store and Steam recently. In it, you become a bride-to-be, replete with wedding dress, bouquet and impossibly tiny hands only fit for a character...

Google to Reveal “World’s Highest Resolution OLED-on-glass display” for VR Headsets in May

Google announced at last year's Society for Information Display (SID) Display Week that the company was actively working on a VR-optimized OLED panel capable of packing in pixels at a density heretofore never seen outside of microdisplays - all...

Atari to Debut ‘Rollercoaster Tycoon Joyride’, Its First VR Game, This Month at GDC

Atari has confirmed that the forthcoming Rollercoaster Tycoon Joyride, its first VR title, will make its debut at GDC 2018 later this month. The game is slated to launch in the first half of 2018 on PS4 with support for...

‘Moss’ Breaks into February’s Top 10 PSVR Downloads After Only 2 Days on Store

Moss (2018), a puzzle platformer for PSVR that follows the ridiculously cute mouse Quill, has broken through to the top 10 most-downloaded PSVR games last month. Released on February 27th, Moss rated #7 on the list with only two days of...

8 Official ‘Ready Play One’ VR Experiences to Debut at SXSW, Soon Available for Home Download

HTC today announced it's bringing 8 VR experiences inspired by Steven Spielberg’s upcoming film Ready Player One to its official South by Southwest (SXSW) event. If you're not going to be able to make it to Austin this week, you'll be able to...

Magic Leap Raises $461M in New Funding Led by Saudi Arabia’s Investment Arm

Magic Leap, the augmented reality headset manufacturer, has added another couple hundred million dollars to its Series D investment round, this time $461 million led by The Public Investment Fund, Saudi Arabia’s sovereign investment arm, Tech Crunch reports. According to the...
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‘Golem’ Gets Delayed (Again) Indefinitely, But Developers Say it Won’t Be Long

Golem, a forthcoming PSVR title that's been in the works since 2015, resurfaced in late 2017 at Sony's PSX event after staying out of the spotlight for some time. At the time the studio revealed that the game would...
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African Folklore-inspired VR Puzzler ‘Rangi’ Hits PSVR Today

Based in an African mystical universe, Rangi (2017) today comes to PSVR. The game, which features a large space with puzzles, previously launched on Gear VR, Cardboard, HTC Vive and Oculus Rift. Inspired by African tribal art, ancient architecture, and colorful...

HTC Announces 2018 Viveport Developer Awards Nominees, $50K First Prize up for Grabs

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, HTC has announced the nominees for this year's VDAs who will be in competition to...

‘Budget Cuts’ to Reemerge From the Shadows at GDC, On Track for 2018 Launch

It's been more than a year and a half since I first stepped into Budget Cuts, an instantly promising VR title from indie developer Neat Corporation with a novel and efficient locomotion system that blends perfectly with the game's throwing-knife...
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