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‘Freediver: Triton Down’ is a Short But Worthwhile Adventure Full of Good Ideas

Freediver: Triton Down launched quietly at the end of May, and while the $9 price reflects its short playtime, the title demonstrates a strong grasp of VR game design with a 'swimming' locomotion mechanic which is woven into the...

Hands-on: Sony’s ‘Blood & Truth’ for PSVR is Aiming for AAA Scope, and Off to a...

Sony's London Studio—who built the well received VR Worlds experiences for PSVR—is back. This time around the studio isn't building a slew of PSVR samples, but rather a AAA scope action shooter in the same vein as the acclaimed...

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...

‘Moss’ 1 & 2 Get a Visual Overhaul and 25% Discount in Time for Quest 3S...

Polyarc, the studio behind Moss and Moss: Book II, announced both pint-sized VR adventure platformers are getting visual overhauls and a 25% discount—just in time for the launch of Meta's newly unveiled Quest 3S. The studio says both games are getting all-new...
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VR’s Favorite Combat Sandbox is Bringing Long-awaited Campaign to Quest Next Week, Trailer Here

Blade & Sorcery: Nomad, the physics-based combat sandbox for Quest, has essentially been the little brother to the PC VR game ever since it released in 2021. With the addition of the game's long-awaited 'Crystal Hunt' campaign on Quest next...

‘BEATABLE’ Early Access Review – Casual Rhythm Gaming Cleverly Designed for Hand-tracking

Is Quest's hand-tracking good enough for a rhythm game, which genuinely needs low latency and precise input? After playing the early access version of BEATABLE, which gets you tapping, clapping and snapping to the beat, XR Game's latest entry is...

VR Headset Growth on Steam Takes Its Biggest Leap Yet, Led by Rift S

It appears that the 2019 holiday shopping season may have been the best ever for PC VR headsets. The latest data released this week from Valve shows VR on Steam making its single biggest leap yet, on a path...
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