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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Cubism is an upcoming VR puzzle game from indie developer Thomas Van Bouwel that challenges you to think in 3 dimensions. Inspired by puzzles like the Soma cube, or a cube composed of smaller Tetris-like geometric pieces, Cubism tasks...

Gallopin’ Gorgons! An updated version of the Harry Potter Universe game for Daydream, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them VR Experience, is arriving today. Not only that, but owners of Vive, Rift and Gear VR will finally be able to get in...

With VR's strengths for cockpit-based games, you'd think that there would be more quality mech titles available to today's headsets. Alas, a killer VR mech game hasn't reared its head just yet; Vox Machinae, a promising VR mech combat game...

Onward, the tactical multiplayer shooter for Vive and Rift, is getting another free weekend - this time for Rift players on Oculus Home. The free weekend begins January 25th at 1:00 PM ET and goes until the 29th at 3:00 AM ET (your time here). Check out Onward on...

Manipulating objects with bare hands lets us leverage a lifetime of physical experience, minimizing the learning curve for users. But there are times when virtual objects will be farther away than arm’s reach, beyond the user’s range of direct...

Survios, the studio behind Raw Data (2017), announced a closed beta test for Sprint Vector, its multiplayer competitive foot racing game. The closed beta began on January 20th and go through January 28th. Race to find one of 20...

In 2017, venture funding of VR/AR companies reached at least $1.9B, ending slightly above 2016. The total number of companies raising venture capital during 2017 outpaced 2016, but the average deal size declined sharply by 35%, according to Greenlight...

Providing “access, support, and savings” to qualifying indie developers, the new Oculus Start program hopes to encourage and enable the development of great apps from those just getting started in VR. The program, which was introduced in a brief...

Already in the wild for over a month now, Rift Core 2.0 Beta has seen its first substantial update since launch. The January update addresses performance and general ease-of-use of Home and Dash, but more importantly provides solutions to some rather niggling issues. Considered a major overhaul...