2023 Sections
Virtualware Seals €5M Deal to Support Virtual Vocational Training in Spain
Virtualware, the Spain-based XR and 3D simulation software company, announced it's secured a €5 million ($5.8 million) deal to broadly roll out its VIROO platform in vocational training facilities supported by Spain's Ministry of Education.
The six-year contract allows Virtualware...
Google Releases ARCore for Android, The Company’s Answer to Apple ARKit
In an answer to Apple's recently released ARKit, a developer tool used for making augmented reality apps and games that run on newer iPad and iPhones, Google today released a preview of a new Android-compatible software development kit (SDK) called ARCore.
Google prides...
Fantasy Spell-caster ‘Runes: The Forgotten Path’ to Launch on Vive & Rift Next Month
Runes: The Forgotten Path is a single-player fantasy spell-caster from StormBorn Studio that puts you in the magical garb of a renegade wizard fighting for survival. Now after more than three years in development, the studio has finally announced that...
Hands-on: ‘Paper Beast’ Delivers a Visually Stunning Journey Through Uncut Novelty
I didn't know what to make of Paper Beasts when I heard about back at its reveal in April. Billed as an exploration game inspired by big data, or the unfathomably large data sets that can reveal unseen trends, the...
Morpheus Exclusive ‘SuperHyperCube’ Shares Heritage With One of Indie Gaming’s Biggest Hits
When I was initially surveying the 17 Morpheus VR titles that Sony was showing at E3 2015, I came across one with a logo that was printed so small on the booth's placard that I could hardly read it. I...
Meta Reveals ‘Orion’ Prototype AR Glasses with Impressive Field-of-view and Wireless Compute Unit
Meta today revealed a prototype of its first pair of AR glasses, codenamed Orion. The glasses are impressively compact, have a class-leading field-of-view, but also relies on a wireless compute unit that goes in your pocket.
Although Meta has been...
Valve Announces New ‘Portal’ VR Content, Coming to SteamVR for Free This Spring
Valve today announced a "compilation of new VR experiments" which will be set in Portal's Aperture Science universe. The company will show the new experiences at next week's GDC 2016.
Valve is calling the new series of VR experiments The Lab, and...
Ghost Vector Looks Set to be a ‘FTL’ Inspired Visual Feast
Thomas Kadlec, the talented developer behind the impressive Star Trek Voyager Bridge VR experience, has turned his attention to his own sci-fi creation in the form of a new project which aims to fuse the mechanics of FTL with eye-catching...
‘The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners’ Gets New Horde Mode in ‘Meatgrinder’ Update Today
The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners (2020) launched earlier this year to critical acclaim, and now the single-player zombie game just got an update that promises to bring more carnage to the dank, zombie-infested world with a wave-based horde...
CCP Games’ Sigurður Gunnarsson Shares EVE: Valkyrie’s Origin Story
Sigurður G. Gunnarsson is a member of the VR's new-wave 'old guard'. As one of the original initiators of what was originally known as EVE-VR, the 20% project started by CCP VR enthusiasts, he's watched EVE: Valkyrie and VR's resurgence flourish....
‘Lies Beneath’ is a Comic-inspired Survival Horror Game Exclusively for Rift & Quest
Lies Beneath is an Oculus-exclusive survival horror VR game from Drifter Entertainment, the studio behind Gunheart (2018). The studio has honed in on a unique comic book / cel-shaded style which looks like almost nothing else in VR to date.
Lies...
‘Kingdom Hearts’ is Getting a VR Experience for PSVR This Holiday
Square Enix and Disney today announced that a special Kingdom Hearts: VR Experience is headed to PSVR this holiday season.
According to Square Enix Senior PR Manager Emily Shoji, Kingdom Hearts fans will be able to "relive some of their favorite memories from the...
Multiplayer JRPG ‘Soul Covenant’ Coming to All Major VR Headsets Next Month
Thirdverse, the Japan-based VR studio behind Swords of Gargantua, Altair Breaker, and X8, announced that its VR multiplayer JRPG SOUL COVENANT is coming to all major headsets next month.
Developed by the core team behind SOUL SACRIFICE (2013), players are thrust into a post-apocalyptic...
Quest Sold Over $150 Million Worth of Games & Apps Since 2019 Launch
Facebook just officially unveiled their next standalone VR headset, Oculus Quest 2. The company also announced that, since it launched in May 2019, Quest users have spent over $150 million on apps and games.
We still have no idea how...
Free UE4 Template Makes Creating More Realistic VR Hands a Snap
Czech developer iNFINITE Production has released UVRF - a free, cross-platform template for hand presence in VR. The open-source demo offers a framework for use in any Unreal Engine project, as well as a ‘Playground’ scene containing an underground...




















