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Official ‘Fruit Ninja’ Hits the HTC Vive on Early Access

Fruit Ninja, the popular franchise from Halfbrick Studios, has officially made its way into VR. Now available on Steam Early Access for HTC Vive, Fruit Ninja VR lets you slice and dice with the best of them using dual katana swords that are...

Searches for “HTC Vive” Have Caught up with “Oculus Rift” and May Be Accelerating

When it comes to Google searches, "HTC Vive" has recently matched "Oculus Rift" and may be continuing to rise. Google searches for "Oculus Rift" have enjoyed steady popularity since 2013 with major spikes hitting after the company's announcement that it...
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NVIDIA ‘VR Funhouse’ Coming to Steam for Free This Month

VR Funhouse, Nvidia's physics sandbox revealed alongside the GeForce GTX 1080 in May, is coming to Steam this month for free. Nvidia is keeping mum on exact release dates for now. The suite of HTC Vive-compatible mini-games primarily acts as a showcase for the company’s GPU-based physics...

SoundStage Lets You Build Your Dream Music Studio in Room-Scale VR

This is SoundStage, from solo developer Logan Olson, a VR application that aims to let musicians build their own dream music studio, allowing them to play, record and mix from within VR on the HTC Vive. Being a musician can...

Apple Granted Patent for High Field of View AR Display

Apple has just been granted another AR/VR related technology patent, to add to their growing list. In this case it's a transparent, high field of view display which looks to be aimed at the augmented reality sector and, alongside other...

‘Rick and Morty’ VR Experience Could Debut at SDCC 2016, ‘American Horror Story’ and ‘The Man...

While Rick and Morty co-creator Justin Roiland has been known to be working on various VR projects, San Diego Comic-Con 2016 could see the debut of the first such experience that's actually based on the popular IP. Additionally, an American Horror...
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Why New Social VR App ‘Rec Room’ Makes You Smile

Rec Room is a new social VR platform for HTC Vive from indie studio Against Gravity, and as a project currently in Early Access for the low low cost of absolutely free, it's quickly becoming a success on Steam. At the time of this writing, more...

‘SuperHyperCube’ Devs Explain Design Legacy Behind Their PSVR Puzzler

SuperHyperCube from Kokoromi is a curious title from a developer formed by the founder of Fez studio Polytron. But what exactly is it and why should you care? A new video incliding both answer and fresh gameplay has just...

HTC Vive Headset Nearing 100,000 Install Base, Steam Data Suggests [Update]

While between HTC/Valve and Oculus, the companies have been coy on official sales figures, Steam data suggests that the HTC Vive install base is approaching the 100,000 mark. Having launched just about three months ago on April 5th, the HTC...

Immersive Computing Platform ‘Envelop VR’ Begins Closed Beta Program

Envelop VR want to pull your every day computing environment into the virtual realm as the company launch their first closed beta for what they describe as "an immersive computing platform that brings the best out of your PC while...

Combining Game & Story with ‘The London Heist’ + Reflections on Exclusive VR Content

Sony's The London Heist is one of the best fusions of narrative VR storytelling with interactive game components. It's structured as a flashback sequence starting with you being confronted within an interrogation room, and there are branching narratives that...

Catching Up with nDreams’ ‘The Assembly’, Coming to Rift and Vive July 19th

The Assembly from nDreams is coming soon, and with an official release date of July 19th now announced, we thought we'd take some time to catch up on this intriguing story-driven thriller built from the ground up for VR. The...

HTC-led Venture Capital Consortium Represents $10 Billion Earmarked for VR

This week at MWC Shanghai, HTC announced the Virtual Reality Venture Capital Alliance (VRVCA), a consortium of 28 venture capital firms focusing their funds on virtual reality. Collectively, the group represents more than $10 billion in capital aimed at...

Starbreeze Bolsters VR & AR Team with $1.65M Acquisition of ePawn

Starbreeze continues to make strategic VR/AR partnerships as today it has announced a $1.65M acquisition of augmented reality and "toys to life" company ePawn, who bring them some intriguing technologies with potential applications for the immersive space. Starbreeze seems to...

Social Dynamics Within Sony’s PlayStation VR Social VR Experiments

At GDC this year, Sony revealed some of their first experiments into social VR with a four-person demo that was showing at their press event. The avatars looked like South Park characters, and the thumbs up or down gestures...
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