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HTC Vive Orders Halted in U.S. “Due to Extraordinary Demand” [Update]

The HTC Vive has recently become listed as "out of stock" for U.S. orders. The company says it's no longer taking orders for the headset in the region "due to extraordinary demand." Update (5/14/16, 7:59 PM): HTC has confirmed via...

Analysis: Monthly-connected VR Headsets on Steam Pass 2 Million Milestone

2020 was a big year for VR on Steam with the release of new headsets, Valve's flagship VR title Half-Life: Alyx, and the Coronavirus pandemic which drove large increases in gaming. These factors combined pushed monthly-connected VR headsets on Steam...

‘Beat Saber’ Gets Imagine Dragons DLC Music Pack, New 360 Game Mode Coming Soon

Beat Games today announced that Beat Saber (2018) just dropped a ten-song DLC music pack featuring the music of Grammy Award-winning rock band Imagine Dragons. The studio is also showing off a new '360' level mode at E3 this week,...

NOLO VR Promises $99 Positional Tracking and SteamVR Gaming on Any Mobile VR Headset

NOLO VR is an intriguing Lighthouse-like positional tracking system designed to bring 'room scale' positional tracking and motion controls to mobile VR headsets. On top of that, the company is claiming SteamVR 'compatibility' through remote play via Riftcat's VRidge software, all with...
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‘Dick Wilde 2’ to Bring Cross-platform Co-op to PSVR, Rift & Vive Next Month

Bolvërk Games and PlayStack released word today that a new sequel to their VR shooting gallery Dick Wilde (2017) is slated to launch sometime in February. The sequel, dubbed Dick Wilde 2, promises to bring cross-platform online co-op, more boss fights, levels,...

Exemplar 2 VR PC Now Available, Save $100 Through Labor Day

Today marks the launch of Exemplar 2, the second generation of our high-end VR gaming PC designed for those who want to push the limits of immersion. Exemplar 2 Ultimate is Road to VR’s internal test bench for VR reviews...

Rift & Rift S Now Account for Half of Headsets Used on Steam

With the Rift S launching just two and a half months ago, on Steam the headset has already nearly surpassed all Windows VR headsets in use on the platform. With the original Rift and Rift S, Oculus headsets now...

Facebook is Unlocking AR Capabilities for Developers on Quest 2

Facebook announced today that an upcoming update to the Quest development SDK will include experimental support for a Passthrough API which will allow Unity developers to build AR experiences and features into apps on Quest 2. Although Quest wasn't launched...

Vision Pro Dev Kit Applications Will Open in July

Apple says it will give developers the opportunity to apply for Vision Pro dev kits starting sometime in July. In addition to releasing a first round of developer tools last week, including a software 'Simulator' of Vision Pro, Apple also...

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...
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HTC Vive World Tour Makes 6 Stops in August, Your Chance to Try ‘Room Scale’ SteamVR

Want to step inside the HTC Vive and SteamVR? HTC continues their 'Vive World Tour', hauling the headset around the US and beyond to give folks a chance to try out the new headset. The tour makes five stops...

Hands-on: ‘Project Arena’ Aims for Competitive VR Motion Combat

Project Arena is a competitive ‘full-body’ VR experience from CCP. Using the Oculus Touch controllers, this eSports experiment is far removed from the space simulation themes normally associated with the company, although it retains much of the style and slick presentation. I was able...

Owlchemy Labs Announce New Valve Steam VR Based Project, Debuts at GDC 2015

Hot on the heels of HTC's suprise 'Vive' VR Headset announcement - a partnership with Valve, Owlchemy labs has teased it's newest virtual reality IP, to debut on Valve's Steam VR platform. Owlchemy labs have been at the forefront of...

“Tower defense-inspired” VR Game ‘Home A Drone’ Launches This Week

“Tower Defense-inspired” VR FPS Home A Drone is set to release in Early Access on Steam and Viveport this Thursday. Home A Drone will allow players to fight off invading swarms of enemies by placing structures that automatically target and shoot at...

‘Rec Room’ Studio Raises $5M “to continue to build the future of Social VR”

Seattle-based VR studio Against Gravity has today announced they have received $5M in seed funding to continue to build Rec Room, the studio's social VR platform. Only launching last summer, the app has quickly become a success story, winning over fans on both Steam and Oculus Home with...
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