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Pimax Completes $15M Series A Funding Round

Pimax, the Shanghai-based VR headset manufacturer known for their upcoming wide field of view headset Pimax '8K', have raised nearly $15 million in their first post-Kickstarter investment round. According to China-based tech publication YiVian, Pimax announced on December 19th that...

Pico Raises $37M Series B+ Financing, Neo 3 Standalone to Release in Q2 2021

Pico Interactive, the Beijing-based VR headset creator, announced it has secured a fresh funding round of ¥242 million RMB (~$37 million), something the company says will help launch new hardware. Update (March 11th, 2021): Pico has provided Road to VR...

You Can Finally Invite Friends to Your Quest or Rift Game with a Web Link

It's been a long time coming, but Oculus has finally provided a way for players to invite friends to their VR games through a simple web link that can be shared by text, email, DM, or... well, anywhere. This...
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Dev Shares Crash Course on VR Game Optimization for Oculus Quest & Mobile Hardware

VR games need to achieve high, stable performance to look good and play comfortably. Optimization is no easy task, especially with the limited resources of mobile hardware like the Snapdragon 835 processor in the Oculus Quest. But there's a handful...
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Claymation Adventure ‘The Midnight Walk’ Coming to PSVR 2 & PC VR in May, Gameplay Here

MoonHood's upcoming adventure game The Midnight Walk is officially headed to PSVR 2 and PC VR headsets on May 8th, 2025. The new release date trailer shows off some of the first extended gameplay we've seen of The Midnight Walk, including...

Meta’s $130 Elite Battery Strap for Quest 3 is Facing Major Reliability Issues

From flagship smartphones to VR headsets, first-party accessories tend to be pretty expensive. Along with the higher price tag though, consumers typically expect exceptional quality. After all, the product's designers had a head start, so those day-one accessories should...

’90s Classic ‘Tomb Raider’ is Coming to Quest & Pico in Unofficial Team Beef VR Port

Team Beef, the modding group behind a slew of unofficial VR ports of classic games, announced their next project is Tomb Raider (1996), which will bring the action-adventure game to standalone headsets Quest and Pico VR. Unlike the version playable through...
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‘In Death’ is a Medieval Roguelike Bow-shooter from ‘EVEREST VR’ Developer Sólfar Studios

In quite the pivot from virtual tourism experience EVEREST VR (2016), Iceland-based Sólfar Studios has revealed their next VR project, In Death, a VR roguelike bow-shooter that promises procedurally generated crawling for loot and more. Announced today, Sólfar says that In Death is set...
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Hands-on with ‘Panther VR’ Stealth Action Gameplay

Wolfdog Interactive, a studio you might know from VR Dungeon Knight and Skyworld, launched a Kickstarter campaign for their next game: Panther VR. We went hands-on with an early pre-alpha build of this stealth-action game. Cas & Chary Present Cas and...
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‘The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners’ Gets Fresh Gameplay Trailer Ahead of January Launch

Skydance Interactive and Skybound released a new gameplay video for their upcoming VR game, The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners, which is slated to arrive late next month. Promising crafting, exploration, freedom of choice to side with warring factions, and plenty...

‘Gang Beasts’ PSVR Support to Come in Subsequent Update Following PS4 Launch Next Week

Gang Beasts (2014), the multiplayer brawler made famous on PC, is finally heading to PlayStation 4 next week. Although the December 12th launch date means you can technically buy the game, it won't have PSVR support until "some time...

Resolution Games Secures $25M Series C Funding, ‘Demeo’ Surpasses “multi-million dollars” in Revenue

Resolution Games, the studio behind popular multiplayer VR titles Demeo (2021) and Blaston (2020), today announced it has secured a Series C funding round of $25 million. The Stockholm-based company says the investment will be used to bring "proper...

Indie VR Gem ‘Racket: NX’ Launches on Quest with Cross-platform Multiplayer

Indie VR gem Racket: NX (2018) launches today on Oculus Quest with cross-platform multiplayer with the Rift version of the game. Playing out as a techno-future infused mashup between Breakout and racquetball, Racket: Nx feels right at home on Quest thanks...

Apple Positions New iMac Pro for VR Development, Available Starting Thursday

Back at WWDC 2017 Apple finally embraced VR, announcing that it had been working with Valve to bring SteamVR and the HTC Vive to MacOS, along with a number of other announcements about how the company would support VR...

Unreal Engine 4.25 Improves Support for HoloLens 2, Magic Leap, Adds Azure Spatial Anchors

Unreal Engine 4.25 launched this week bringing a host of improvements to the engine's XR functionality. HoloLens 2 and Magic Leap saw the most attention, including the addition of Azure Spatial Anchors, Microsoft's cross-platform system which enables shared augmented...
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