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WEARVR Weekly Top Ten VR Downloads – August #4

Looking for something fun to play in VR? We’ve got the top 10 downloads from the last week on the WEARVR app marketplace, a cross-platform repository of virtual reality experiences. VRBloX is a virtual reality puzzle game where the object is to...

We Play Elite: Dangerous in the DK2 – In-Depth Hands-On Video

A couple of days ago, I asked you - our dear readers - what you'd most us to try once we received our Oculus Rift DK2s (mine arrived yesterday). Elite:Dangerous has been consistently among the highest requested games you guys...

‘Torn’ Review: Masterful ‘Black Mirror’ Style Storytelling Tarnished by Repetitive Puzzles

Torn is a single player adventure game that's inspired by arguably the greatest sci-fi television of all time, The Twilight Zone and Black Mirror. There's much to like about Torn, but in the end it left me feeling, well, a bit...

Video Gives Us a Peek Into the Future of How AR and VR Will Work Together

We're all waiting for the day when you can put on a singular, tether-free headset and experience all the 'R's that VR/AR/MR have to offer—and NormalVR, a "small but focused" group of passionate immersive media creators just gave us a peek...
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Hands-on: ‘Clone Drone’ Gets Endless ‘Skyscrapper’ Update July 27th, Bringing a Ton of New Content

Clone Drone in the Hyperdome (2024) is pretty amazing on its own, offering up enough frangible voxel-baddies to swing a katana at across its Crashloop story mode. Coming July 27th, Clone Drone is getting a fresh injection of content with its...

HTC Scraps Plans to Bring Daydream-based Vive Focus to Western Markets

HTC revealed their new standalone Vive Focus headset today, poised to launch into the Asian market. Earlier this year the device was teased to be heading to Western markets as part of Google's Daydream platform in 2017, but now...

After Building One of VR’s Most Successful Games, ‘Beat Saber’ Founder Plans to Take a Break...

Jan 'Split' Ilavsky, founder of Beat Games and creator behind VR's favorite block-slashing rhythm game Beat Saber (2018), left the studio late last month, stepping down from his position as the game's Creative Director. Now, Ilavsky tells Road to...

‘Star Wars Vader Immortal’ Review on Quest – Come for the Story, Stay for the Lightsabers

Though Oculus Quest still doesn't launch until the 21st, Oculus has seen fit to give us full access to one of its biggest launch titles: Star Wars Vader Immortal – Episode 1. This "narrative virtual reality adventure" does a...

Nokia and Xiaomi Announce a Long-term Partnership to “Explore” AR and VR

The Finnish and Chinese companies today signed a cross-licensing patent deal ‘focused around the data center’, according to a CNBC report. This will allow Nokia and Xiaomi to develop new products, as they look to collaborate further in areas...

Vision Pro: What’s Real, What’s Hype and What’s Plain Dangerous

Vision Pro is getting a ton of social media engagement after it launched earlier this month, which is great since people are finding out just how Apple's first mixed reality headset can fit into their lifestyles. There are plenty...

‘Spotify’ Finally Comes to Quest, Letting You Listen to Music in the Background

Spotify finally has its own Quest web app, letting you listen to music in the background as you go about your virtual ways. The new Spotify app for Quest isn't an app in the traditional sense, but rather a progressive...

VR Quiz Game ‘Go Guess’ Uses Google 360 Captures to Make You Guess Where You Are

Go Guess (2018) is a new interactive VR quiz game from developers Oblix that tosses you into Google 360 captures and makes you to guess where you are. The twist? You're playing against other people, and you can hobnob...

Immersed Visor’s First Big Showing Heightened Concerns About Deliverability

The Immersed IRL event, held yesterday in Austin, Texas was the company's big moment to showcase its upcoming headset and build confidence that it was on track to deliver on the promise of an ambitious headset. But a botched...

iPhone 16 Adds Spatial Photos and Spatial Audio Capture for Vision Pro

Apple announced its new iPhone 16 is getting a little more spatial with the addition of both spatial photos and audio, essentially putting it in line with Vision Pro's capture capabilities. The company's big event on Monday didn't bring any giant revelations for...

Oculus CTO Explores Next-gen Oculus Go Feature Wishlist

Legendary programmer and Oculus CTO John Carmack took the stage today at Oculus Connect to have another one of his famous off-script, stream-of-thought talks. Carmack was instrumental in architecting the company's mobile VR platform, so when he talks about...
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