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HTC’s Vive Ultimate Trackers Now Compatible with All SteamVR Headsets

HTC announced that its Vive Ultimate Tracker is now compatible with third-party PC VR headsets that support SteamVR. Originally developed for the Vive Focus 3 and Vive XR Elite, Vive Ultimate Tracker is a puck-like device that comes equipped with...

Meta Reveals New Prototype VR Headsets Focused on Retinal Resolution and Light Field Passthrough

Meta unveiled two new VR headset prototypes that showcase more progress in the fight to solve some persistent technical challenges facing VR today. Presenting at SIGGRAPH 2023, Meta is demonstrating a headset with retinal resolution combined with varifocal optics, and...

Vive Eye-tracking & Corrective Lens Add-on Confirmed Compatible with Vive Pro

7invensun, one of the latest companies accepted into HTC's Vive X accelerator program, is launching an eye-tracking add-on made specially for the Vive headset. The device, which went on sale last year, uses a series of IR LEDs and...

Vive Hangs Onto Steam Majority Market Share as Windows VR Headsets Enter the Fray

According to the just-released November figures from Steam’s Hardware & Software Survey, the HTC Vive has scraped its way back from nearly losing the majority market share of VR headsets in use on Steam last month, finally ending a months...
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‘Land of Amara’ Aims to Deliver ‘Stardew Valley’ Style Gameplay in VR

Land of Amara is an in-development VR farm simulator from PawStampStudio that aims to deliver the sort of do-it-yourself farming seen in games such as Harvest Moon, Animal Crossing, and Stardew Valley. Created by a sole developer and still in early alpha, Land of...

‘Escape Simulator’ is Bringing 8-player Co-op Escape Rooms to VR Next Month in Free Update

Pine Studios, the team behind the Escape Simulator franchise on PC, announced its bringing SteamVR headset support to the studio's hit title next month. Update (March 18th, 2024): While we thought Escape Simulator was set to be a standalone title, Pine Studios...

Vive Deluxe Audio Strap Gets June 6th Release Date

HTC announced a serious looking upgrade for its Vive headset earlier this year at CES 2017. The 'Deluxe Audio Strap' replaces the original device's harness and upgrades it with integrated headphones and a new, more robust adjustable head assembly. Update...

‘VRChat’ Opens New Marketplace for Buying and Selling VR Avatars

VRChat announced it's officially opened its own Avatar Marketplace, allowing users a centralized way to buy and sell avatars from within the social VR platform. Users have been able to visit VRChat worlds and directly buy and sell avatars for...

NextVR Raises $30.5M to Accelerate Broadcast VR Development

NextVR, the company known for live-broadcasting immersive video such as last month's Gear VR-accessible Democratic debate, announced recently a $30.5 million Series A funding round with investments by some big names in traditional media. VR is changing the consumption of...

VR Educational Game ‘Titanic VR’ Landing on PSVR This Week

Titanic VR (2018) is an immersive educational interactive story and game that takes you to the depths of the final resting place of the RMS Titanic, where you explore the 1912 shipwreck, its history, and experience over 6 hours of...

‘Wanderer 2’ Currently in Development, Promising Swashbuckling VR Pirate Adventure

Time-traveling VR adventure Wanderer (2022) is getting a remake, called Wanderer: The Fragments of Fate, although you might have missed at the end of the most recent trailer that developers Mighty Eyes just announced there's a sequel currently in development too. Not...

Final Cut Pro 11 Finally Unlocks Spatial Video Editing, But Lacks Vision Pro Preview

Apple has released Final Cut Pro 11, which finally lets you edit spatial videos captured with Vision Pro, or iPhone 15 Pro or later. The latest Final Cut Pro now lets users make adjustments to the left- and right-eye angles...

VR’s Best (or possibly worst) April Fool’s Day Jokes This Year

April Fool's Day is more than just a time to pull harmless pranks. It's also about putting on your 'skeptic hat' and really asking whether you can believe your eyes, as trusted companies and key figures in XR dropped...

The Problem With Projections and What Makes the Just-released ‘2016 VR Industry Report’ Different

Today we publish the 2016 Virtual Reality Industry Report. Co-authored with VR business intelligence firm Greenlight VR, the report is a distillation of years of experience, research, and analysis into an accessible and comprehensive foundation of the virtual reality landscape, with the...

Ship Battler ‘Battlewake’ to Launch on VR Headsets in September, Quest Version Confirmed

Survios, the VR studio behind Raw Data (2017) and Creed: Rise to Glory (2018), today announced that their upcoming pirate ship battler finally has a release date; it's slated to arrive on September 10th for most major VR headsets. When the studio...
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