2023 Sections
‘VRChat’ Reaches 2 Million Installs, Doubling in the Last Ten Days
VRChat, the social chatroom for VR and non-VR users, is doing booming business. According to SteamSpy, the app has seen a mind-boggling 1 million fresh installs in only the last 10 days, putting it currently at 2 million installs in total.
Update (01/19/18): SteamSpy reports...
Update: Official ‘Jumanji’ VR Experience Appears on Steam
Jumanji: The VR Adventure is an official VR experience created by Sony Pictures Virtual Reality and MWM Immersive (formerly Reality One). Initially shown at VRX Networks kiosks across the US and UK in tandem with the release of the 2017 franchise reboot film starring...
WEARVR Launches $10,000 Competition to Bring New Life to Dev Kit-era Apps
As Oculus has pushed out iterative runtimes to support its consumer hardware, many of the beloved early VR experiments have fallen to the wayside, languishing without support and lost in the annals of defunct software. To remedy this, WEARVR, an independent...
‘Primordian’ is a Sci-fi Melee Brawler With Serious Style, Early Access Coming This Week
Boasting a smashing, shooting, alien skull-splitting adventure, Stonepunk Studios aims to transport you billions of years into the past to the very first planet near the center of the universe in their upcoming single-player adventure brawler Primordian.
Visually, Primordian seems to be drawing on a really...
‘Snatch’ VR Experience Comes to PSVR, Featuring Rupert Grint of ‘Harry Potter’ Fame
To kick off the production of season two of Crackle's TV series Snatch, Sony has released a "VR heist game experience" on PSVR featuring Rupert Grint, known for his role an Ron Weasley in the Harry Potter films, and a number of other cast members from...
Mind-bending Adventure ‘Anamorphine’ Delayed Until Late Q1
Virtual reality is unique in its ability to allow you to immersively explore the interior of the imagination, including the darker sides of the psyche, the parts that we fear to confront, but inevitably wish to excise from the...
‘Elite Dangerous’ to See Overhaul in ‘Beyond’ Update, Open Beta Begins January 25th
Frontier Developments today announced an open beta test for the upcoming update to the third season of Elite Dangerous (2014), the open-universe space simulator for VR and non-VR players. Called 'Beyond - Chapter One', the update will officially arrive sometime in Q1 2018...
SyncThink Closes $3.5 Million Series A Funding to Further Develop VR-based Concussion Detection
SyncThink, a Berkeley-based eye-tracking and brain firm, announced the closing of a $3.5 million Series A-1 funding round led by Quadrant Management. The company expects to use the funds to continue development on their EYE-SYNC technology, a VR-based eye-tracking technology to help...
Hands-on: Vive Wireless Adapter Debuts With Robust Connection but Latency Too
Revealed this week at CES 2018, HTC has announced their own Vive Wireless Adapter which promises to break the tether on the Vive and Vive Pro. We went hands-on to see how it handles.
One year after announcing their intent...
SteamVR Beta Adds Support for Oculus Dash
Oculus Rift users playing games on SteamVR will soon be able to more fluidly access Oculus Dash, part of the Rift Core 2.0 update which gives users an overlay menu allowing them to access social features, browse their desktop,...
NGCodec Closes $8M Series A Investment, Aiming to Make Low Latency Cloud-based VR a Reality
NGCodec, a cloud video processing company creating low latency codecs for video and interactive VR, announced the closure of an $8 million Series A funding round, bringing their total funds to $15.9 million. Investors in the most recent funding round...
TPCast to Support Windows Mixed Reality with ‘Universal’ Wireless VR Module
Alongside its reveal of the TPCast Plus product range, the company also announced plans to bring their wireless technology to Windows 'Mixed Reality' VR devices. With the intention to transition into an OEM business model, TPCast is creating a...
Viveport Goes “VR First” in Largest Update Yet Including New ‘Home’ & Content Previews
Viveport, HTC's VR content store for Vive, just received a significant overhaul aimed at improving content discovery and consumption.
The new 'home' area, which is based on spaceship platform, acts as a launchpad for the store's games and experiences. I wasn't...
In Vegas? HTC is Offering Public Vive Pro Demos Through Thursday
The official HTC Vive Twitter account has posted a reminder of their public invitation to anyone looking for a Vive Pro demo, with a “daily open house” from 4–6pm through Thursday at the Wynn’s Alsace Ballroom. The Vive Pro was...
HTC’s Vive Wireless Adaptor to Support Both Vive and Vive Pro at Launch
During HTC's pre-CES event where the new flagship Vive Pro headset was revealed, the company also announced an official Wireless Adaptor for Vive. The optional accessory will allow for a tether-free VR experience, and will support both the Vive...



















