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Play ‘Eleven: Table Tennis VR’ on Rift for Free This Weekend

For Fun Labs, the developers behind Eleven: Table Tennis VR (2016), are hosting a free weekend for Rift players this week on Oculus Home. Eleven: Table Tennis VR offers online multiplayer or practice with AI, and features cross-play between both the Steam (Vive & Rift) and Oculus...

Walmart’s Tech Incubator Store No. 8 Acquires VR Startup Spatialand

Wal-Mart, the big-box retail giant, unveiled its Store No. 8 tech startup incubator last year with the aim of researching and investing in emergent tech like AR and VR. Now, Store No. 8 has acquired Spatialand, a startup that has created...

Play VR Sport ‘SPARC’ for Free on Rift This Weekend

Sparc (2017), the VR sport from EVE Online developers CCP Games, is hosting a free weekend for Rift players on Oculus Home. Temporary free access has already begun, and will conclude on February 4th at 11:59 PM PT (local time here). Initially...
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Medieval Roguelike Bow-shooter ‘IN DEATH’ Hits Early Access, PSVR Version in the Works

Sólfar Studios' new title IN DEATH, launches today in Early Access with a launch week discount. The "roguelike" bow-shooter makes use of procedural generation to create different experience every time you play, the developers say, while players come upon "monsters, mysteries...

HTC: Vive Pro is Targeted at Prosumers and Will Be “more expensive” Than Consumer Vive

VR/AR expert Antony Vitillo (aka 'Skarred Ghost') got an opportunity to speak with HTC Vive China President Alvin Wang Graylin recently, and while Graylin predictably couldn't answer the question on everyone's mind—"how much is Vive Pro going to cost?"—we...

VirZOOM Closes $5.5M Seed Funding to Develop Second Generation of VR Bike Kit

VirZOOM, makers of VR arcade exercise games and the VirZOOM Bike Controller, announced the successful closure of a $5.5 million seed funding round which the company says will help expand its commercial business worldwide with a second generation of its...

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...
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