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‘Unearthed Inc: The Lost Temple’ Review

Unearthed Inc: The Lost Temple is a puzzle adventure game that puts you in the shoes of a fresh recruit to a treasure hunting company. With telekinetic powers and an obligatory wise-cracking robot sidekick named Droid, you venture deep into the Amazonian...

Valve Takes ‘Onward’ Developer Under its Wing

VR exclusive online military simulator Onward has been wowing room-scale VR audiences since its inception and now lone developer Dante Buckley has been invited to continue development under gaming giant Valve's roof, at least for a short time. One of...

‘Athena’ is a New Lighthouse Tracked VR Gun Controller from Ilium VR

Ilium VR are working on a new VR-centric gun peripheral which plans to use Valve's SteamVR 'Lighthouse' tracking to bring realistic weapon control to virtual reality games. Shooting things in games is cool. Shooting things in VR can be infinitely cooler....

Experimental VR Alzheimer’s Therapy App Made Just Hours After Plea by Child of Afflicted Father

After a recent bout of news articles detailing an experimental Alzheimer's Disease therapy that has showed promising results in mice, the child of an afflicted father made a plea to the VR community to create a VR app which...

The Best HTC Vive Deal Yet: $100 Discount + $100 Gift Card + Free Shipping

Microsoft's after-holiday sale has one of the best HTC Vive deals we've seen yet, offering $100 off of the headset's original price along with an additional $100 gift card to the Microsoft Store. Various stores have been offering $100 off...
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‘Sairento VR’ Mashes Up SUPERHOT & Raw Data for Something Even Cooler

Sairento VR is a new made-for-VR first person action game which manages to distil everything that was cool about SUPERHOT VR, Raw Data and adds its own locomotion system for something which promises to be even cooler than either of...

AR Optics Company Lumus Secures Further $30M in Funding

Lumus Ltd. recently confirmed a $30 million funding round led by Quanta and HTC. Lumus is a leading provider and developer of augmented reality technology. Following from the $15 million funding led by Shanda Group and Crystal-Optech in June, Lumus...

‘Rec Room’ Update Adds Private Lounge Space and Invite-Only Activities

A new update to popular Social VR app Rec Room adds a new invite-only space where friends can gather to play new activities in a private space. And now, players can host their own invite-only activities. Normally, when you load into Rec...

Smart Solution Makes Handheld VR Cinematography Easy with a Real Virtual Camera

VFX professional Kert Gartner has been pioneering new ways to make capturing virtual worlds as compelling as filming in the real world. His latest technique makes a real virtual camera out of an extra Vive controller and a smartphone. You may...

First Ever Steam Awards Finalists Include Two VR-enabled Games

Tabletop Simulator (2015) and Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes (2015) are the two virtual reality-enabled games nominated for the very first Steam Awards. The winners will be announced on New Year’s Eve after a period of public voting. Introduced during the...
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‘Fantastic Contraption’ Puzzle-crafting Fun is Coming to PlayStation VR

One of our favorite VR games, Fantastic Contraption, is heading PlayStation VR. The gameplay makes great use of motion controllers to allow you to craft solutions to puzzling platforming problems. Fantastic Contraption released originally as one of the launch bundle titles...

Classic ‘Serious Sam’ Gets “Full Locomotion” VR Version ‘The First Encounter’, Next Week

Croteam VR, the developers behind the popular first person shooter Serious Sam, are bringing their classic original instalment of the franchise to VR platforms next week with a new Early Access release called The First Encounter which promises full...
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Jimmy Fallon’s ‘Tonight Show’ Debuts Virtual Reality Pictionary Segment with ‘Tilt Brush’

NBC's popular late night talk show The Tonight Show with host Jimmy Fallon has debuted a new segment called Virtual Reality Pictionary which uses the HTC Vive and Google's Tilt Brush VR paint app. Jimmy Fallon is no stranger to VR. As far back...

Visualising UI Solutions for Our Mixed Reality Future

Augmented and Mixed Reality technologies are rapidly evolving, with consumer devices on the horizon. But how will people interact with their new digitally enhanced lives? Designer Ben Frankforter visualises several ideas he's had to help bring about the arrival...

‘ROM: Extraction’ Review

Shooting a gun in VR is a pretty powerful experience, and the feeling of being able to look down the sights and blast away the baddies with a well-aimed shot is pretty cathartic to say the least. With games like...
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