2023 Sections
Steam Launches First ‘VR Weekend Sale’, 181 Vive and Rift Titles Discounted
Steam has launched the first VR Weekend Sale giving steep discounts on VR titles for the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift, including a huge 20-game bundle at 30% discount.
Looking to bolster your VR game library? Vive and Rift owners...
‘Dota 2’ Releases Social Spectator Mode ‘VR Hub’
Dota 2 today released free DLC that lets you watch live and recorded matches from SteamVR compatible headsets. The new VR Hub adds a social component to the game that lets you and your friends watch Dota 2 together like never...
Oculus CTO Shares VR Dev Tip: ‘The Formula for Avoiding Aliasing’
Oculus CTO John Carmack is an OG of the game development world has demonstrated a deep understanding of the ins and outs of computer rendering. In a detailed technical post published on Facebook, he shares a useful tips with...
‘L.A. 2097’ is Your Own Little Slice of ‘Blade Runner’
L.A. 2097 is VR experience loosely based on the tech-noir classic film Blade Runner (1982), and although offering only a single re-imagined scene from the film—Rick Deckard's high-rise apartment balcony—the demo holds a surprisingly tight grip on the imagination. We spoke with project creator...
Kite & Lightning Raises $2.5M for ‘Bebylon’, a “mini-Sword Art Online”
Kite & Lightning, an LA-based studio known for some of the burgeoning VR industry's most polished experiences, today announced that their next big project, the VR vehicular melee party brawler Bebylon Battle Royale, has been funded to the tune of $2.5...
Exploring Methods for Conveying Object Weight in Virtual Reality
With no way of generating resistive force feedback with today's VR motion controllers, how can we make users feel and behave as though virtual objects have varying weights? Creative agency B-Reel explored several approaches and open sourced their experiments for...
Limited Edition DOTA 2 Championship HTC Vive Now Available
Feeling your immersive adventures leave you lacking in the style department? Want to stand out from the VR crowd? Then this new limited edition HTC Vive headset might be for you.
Given the distinctly tethered nature of the current generation...
HTC Vive Accessory Store Now Stocks Things You Actually Need
Want to know how much a replacement HTC Vive Base Station or SteamVR controller would set you back should the worst happen? HTC's Vive accessory store has been updated to include these items, along with some eye opening prices.
The HTC...
Immersive Game Design Lessons from ‘Pokémon Go’
Pokémon Go has quickly become the #1 mobile game of all time, and while there's been some debate as to whether it should be considered Augmented Reality or not, it's clear that location-based gaming has taken to the next...
PlayStation VR Game Prices Previewed in Amazon Listings
Listings on Amazon have revealed prices for some PlayStation VR games, giving an idea of what Sony plans to charge for the first wave of virtual reality titles to hit the console platform.
PlayStation VR launches in October and we've...
Designing a VR Experience for Streaming Spectators on VREAL
What are the game design considerations for creating a VR experience that will be compelling for not only the primary player, but also the spectators who may be watching it on a livestream with VREAL? This was the big...
OSVR Launches Pre-orders for HDK 2 VR Headset, Begins Shipping July 29
Starting today OSVR is taking pre-orders for the HDK 2, the modular, open source ‘Hacker Development Kit’ VR headset which the organization says will ship starting on July 29th.
Sold in its basic configuration for $399, the new HDK 2 will be largely the same...
Valve’s Only VR Title, ‘The Lab’, is the Highest Rated Game on All of Steam
Among more than 9,000 games on Steam, Valve's VR title The Lab is heading the platform's list of top rated games.
Valve's The Lab is a free VR-only title that offers players eight short room-scale experiences which range from photogrammetry to castle...
‘Mr. Robot’ 360 Experience Set to Stream to all Major VR Headsets For Limited Time
Mr. Robot fans take note: a special one-time-only 360 experience is headed your way for Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, Gear VR and Google Cardboard-enabled smartphones exactly at 10:45 AM PST on Thursday, July 21st.
According to a report by Entertainment Weekly, the 360 experience...
‘The Assembly’ Review
The Assembly is a first-person adventure game that wants to put your moral fiber to the test. Much like a novel, the game alternates back and forth between two characters: a brilliant neurologist entering the shadowy research institute eponymously dubbed 'The Assembly', and...




















