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Headspace Launches Social VR Mindfulness App on Quest That’s More Than Just Meditation

Headspace, the company behind the sleep and meditation mobile app, announced the release of Headspace XR, which combines social VR connection and a number of mindfulness techniques that aims to combat loneliness, anxiety and depression. Developed by Nexus Studios and...

Former Oculus CTO: Don’t Expect Cheaper VR Headsets Than Quest After Horizon OS Release

Meta announced last week it's set to release Horizon OS (ex-Quest OS) to select third-party OEMs, marking a monumental shift in how the company hopes to compete with Apple now that it's released Vision Pro. While Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg...
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New Magic Leap Video Shows Your Home as a User Interface

The secretive augmented reality project Magic Leap enjoy their fantastical teaser videos, but their latest takes a more sober tone by demonstrating the potential for the technology as a user interface to your life. There's not much new that exists...

In-home Helper Robot ‘NEO’ Uses Remote VR Operators to Help with Chores

NEO is a humanoid robot from Palo Alto-based robotics startup 1X that could one day autonomously help out around your home. For now though, it's using human operators wearing Quest 3 headsets to pick up the slack and teach...

‘Front Defense: Heroes’ Early Access Review – Brief Glimpses of WWII Greatness

Front Defense: Heroes (2017), Fantahorn's next installment of its WWII-themed shooter, is available in Early Access today for HTC Vive, now serving up multiplayer action in classic 5v5 shooter fashion. We don't score reviews in Early Access, which is...
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Preview: ‘Eagle Flight’ is a Kinetic Thrill Ride That Surprisingly Doesn’t Make Me Want to Vomit

Eagle Flight, the upcoming multiplayer game from Ubisoft Montreal, looks to be nearing finalization with the latest build we saw at the pre-GDC Oculus Gameday event. And while the game sounds like it ought to make you want to barf, we've finally got a...

‘Headmaster’ & Why the Physics of Stuff Flying at Your Face is so Compelling in VR

When Ben Throop went to the Boston VR hackathon in June 2014, he didn't know that Valve was going to be showing off some prototype VR hardware that had positional tracking. At this point the Oculus DK2 had not...
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‘Electronauts’ Turns Anyone Into an Electronic Music Artist, Gameplay Video Here

Survios, the studio behind Raw Data (2017) and Sprint Vector (2018), showed off Electronauts at GDC this year, their upcoming VR music creation app for HTC Vive and Oculus Rift that makes DJ'ing so easy that even the least musically talented person...

Mod Makes ‘Alien: Isolation’ VR Mode Compatible With Oculus Rift & HTC Vive

Alien: Isolation (2014) is a survival horror game that's rich detail, atmosphere, and tense moments make it a great candidate for terrifying VR experience. A new mod has been released which adds VR support to the game for the...

The ‘Beat Saber’ Music Pack That Always Needed to Happen… is Finally Happening

Beat Saber's next music pack will bring one of the most influential names in electronic music to the game's library of downloadable content: Daft Punk. Go back to some of Daft Punk's earliest albums and you might find yourself saying "this...
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SUPERHOT VR Dev Responds to Oculus Exclusivity Criticism, Free to Kickstarter Backers

One of the earlier titles to be used by Oculus to demonstrate the potential of virtual realit gaming SUPERHOT is to be completely reworked for a new VR specific version that's built for motion controls, and in particular Oculus...

‘Kittypocalypse’ Review

Kittypocalypse is a first-person tower defense game for Oculus Rift that wants to liven up some pretty well-trodden territory. With its army of infectiously cute alien kitties waddling ever closer to your base, your only hope is to find the...

SteamVR Now Supports Automatic Controller Binding, Making Weird VR Controllers a Little Less Weird

Valve released its 1.26 update to SteamVR, which ought to make it easier to play any VR game using any type of motion controller thanks to automatic controller binding. The company initially released a Compatibility Mode in its 1.24 update...

Here’s How ‘Asgard’s Wrath’ Plays on Index and Vive via Revive

Released today, Asgard's Wrath is the latest title published by Oculus Studios, which also means it's technically exclusive to the company's Rift headset. Luckily, there's a free unofficial mod which makes most Oculus content available to non-Oculus headsets. We...

‘Blocked In’ VR Diorama Gets Visual Overhaul and Oculus Runtime v0.7 Update

One of the most original, visually arresting and sombre VR experiences, Blocked In, has just received an update bringing with it a host updates from reworked geometry to Oculus runtime 0.7 support. This test version of the much loved Blocked...
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