2023 Sections
‘Compound’ Updates Bring New Weapons, Enemies, & More
A series of Early Access updates to Compound have brought a handful of fun new weapons to the game's 8-bit rougelike gameplay, culminating in a "massive overhaul" which introduces new enemies and offers SteamVR Input for custom input binding between controllers.
Compound...
Zombie Shooter ‘Arizona Sunshine’ Now Available on Oculus Quest, Trailer Here
Arizona Sunshine (2016), one of VR's early acclaimed titles, launched nearly three years ago on PC VR headsets, bringing with it VR gunplay and zombie-killing like few had ever experienced in the new medium. Arizona Sunshine has finally come to Oculus...
Preview: ‘Pistol Whip’ Finds Its Own Beat by Fusing Rhythm & Shooting
Pistol Whip is described by its creators as a 'mashup between SUPERHOT VR and Beat Saber'. While it would be easy to take bits of each but still fail to find synergy, Pistol Whip is indeed a mashup of...
‘Half-Life: Alyx’ Patch Adds Continuous Turning, WMR Tweaks, and Crash Fixes
A small patch to Half-Life: Alyx has added continuous turning, made adjustments to a key gesture for Windows VR users, and squashed a few bugs.
While continuous turning is never a default in VR games because it makes many people dizzy,...
Hands-on: ‘Trover Saves the Universe’ Subverts Action-Platformer Genre to Hilarious (and Bizarre) Effect
Rick and Morty co-creator Justin Roiland's has a game studio called Squanch Games, and their next big VR title, Trover Saves the Universe, looks to subvert another genre to an always weird, always hilarious effect. And while the reveal yesterday on...
BigBox VR Secures $5M Financing to Further Develop VR Battle Royale ‘POPULATION: ONE’
BigBox VR, the VR studio behind the critically-acclaimed multiplayer shooter Smashbox Arena (2016), today announced that it has secured $5 million in a seed funding round led by Shasta Ventures, with additional funding from GSR Ventures and Pioneer Square Labs...
‘Beat Saber’ Tops the Charts Again as PSVR’s Most Downloaded Game in March
The immensely popular block-slashing rhythm game Beat Saber (2018) reigns supreme once again as the most downloaded PSVR last month.
Having released on PSVR in November 2018, Beat Saber has gone on to nab the number one spot not only in January and February of...
Walmart Product Listing May Point to Quest 2 Pricing & Storage Sizes
An ostensibly premature Walmart product listing may point to both the price and available internal storage sizes for the upcoming Oculus Quest 2.
At the time of this writing, Walmart currently has a mystery Oculus headset listed, which neatly fits...
Critically Acclaimed Rhythm Action Game ‘Thumper’ is Coming to Quest at Launch
Oculus announced that Thumper (2016), the popular rhythm-action game, is officially coming to Quest at launch.
The company released the news via a blog post as a part of their on-going 'Quest Countdown'; exactly when the clock is supposed to strike zero,...
Former Oculus CTO “unconvinced” Mixed Reality Apps Will Sell Headsets (like Quest 3)
Less than 48 hours after Meta fully unveiled Quest 3, John Carmack, legendary programmer and former CTO of Oculus, expressed doubts about mixed reality's ability to increase headset sales.
Carmack departed Meta late last year, concluding what he called at...
Pimax Has Two New Headsets on the Way While Older Promises Remain Unfulfilled
Pimax announced two new PC VR headsets today—both said to be launching this year—but it's more than a year behind schedule on other products.
"Pimax has never been short on ambition, but its execution hasn’t always kept up."
That's a line...
Update: This Homebrewed Mini 3D-Tracked Sensor Module Only Cost $3 in Parts
Dr. Masahiko Inami, a professor at the University of Tokyo's Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, recently tweeted a picture of an incredibly small, homebrewed 3D-tracked sensor module that has us reeling at the implications for ever-smaller tracked...
‘Disembodied’ is an Inventive Platformer for Quest That’s All About Hand-tracking
Disembodied is a unique platformer coming to Quest that answers the question: how do you build a 'traditional' game entirely around hand-tracking?
Retroactively adding hand-tracking to existing games is a bit of a mixed bag. Sometimes it works just fine, like in...
Meta Buys Dev Behind VR Fitness App ‘Supernatural’, Its Sixth VR Studio Acquisition in Two Years
Meta (formerly Facebook) today announced its sixth VR studio acquisition. This time it's Within, the studio behind the popular Quest exclusive VR fitness app Supernatural.
Meta announced the acquisition of Within on the Oculus blog saying that the studio will be...
Vision Pro’s Next Big Update Will Add Anchored Widgets That Live Around Your House
Apple today announced at WWDC that Vision Pro is getting spatialized Widgets, coming along when visionOS 26 drops later this year.
On basically all of Apple's devices, Widgets are designed to offer up personalized and useful info at a glance.
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