2023 Sections
‘The Walking Dead: Onslaught’ Developers Survios Secures $16.7M Funding
Survios, the studio behind VR titles The Walking Dead: Onslaught (2020), Creed: Rise to Glory (2018), and Raw Data (2017), has secured another round of financing to the tune of $16.7 million. The news was first reported by Venture Beat.
Survios' latest...
New PSVR ‘DOOM VFR’ Bundle Will Include Updated Headset, Launching December 1st
Just in time for Christmas, the much awaited DOOM VFR is getting a PlayStation VR bundle too, giving you everything you need to battle demons from the pits of Hell.
Including a PSVR headset, PS Camera, the new PSVR demo disc and a...
‘ABE VR’ Creators Are Making Survival Horror Game ‘Syren’ – Teaser Trailer Here
Hammerhead VR, the creators of the splendidly creepy ABE VR, a short VR film that puts you at the mercy of a robot gone awry, today revealed a first-person horror game called Syren.
Hammerhead is a VR production studio that’s worked with VR game development,...
Virtuix Omni One VR Treadmill Nabs Support for Some Big VR Games
Virtuix, the creator of the Omni One VR treadmill, announced it now has a lineup of 35 games ready for the device's broader launch later this year, including some big ones.
Omni One was originally pitched in a crowd-based investment...
DigiLens and Mitsubishi Chemical Ready Low Cost Plastic Waveguide Optics for AR
DigiLens, creators of waveguide optics, today announced a "deeper" partnership with Mitsubishi Chemical to bring a plastic version of its waveguide technology to the market. The companies claim the plastic variant achieves "nearly the same" performance as its glass...
Why You Shouldn’t Play ‘Half-Life: Alyx’ Without a VR Headset
Half-Life: Alyx (2020), Valve's made-for-VR entry into the fabled Half-Life series, launched late last month on SteamVR-compatible headsets to near-universal praise. If you don't own a VR headset but still want to play though, I'd caution you against playing it...
Apple Job Listing Seeks Game Technologies Engineer That is “comfortable with AR and VR concepts”
Posted earlier this summer, yet another Apple job listing seeks candidates with AR and VR proficiency.
Apple says that their 'Game Technologies Engineer' role falls under the company's Interactive Media Group, which "provides the media and graphics software foundation across...
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...
4th Part of Epic’s ‘Sense of Presence’ VR Doc Focuses on the ‘Future of VR’
Epic, the company behind the popular Unreal Engine, has released the fourth part of it's series of films looking at virtual reality technology and the industry. It's been an interestingly positive journey thus far and this latest instalment focuses...
PSVR 2 Gets Its Biggest Sale Yet Ahead of PC VR Adapter Release
PSVR 2 has landed its biggest sale yet, dropping the price by a solid 37%, less than two weeks ahead of its forthcoming PC VR adapter.
PSVR 2 launched in early 2023 with a $550 baseline pricetage. While the headset...
HTC Publishes Vive Wireless Adapter Setup Instructions, Suggesting Nearby Launch
HTC's Vive Wireless Adapter, which was first unveiled at CES earlier this year, doesn't have either a price or precise launch date yet (HTC recently said 'late summer'), but now a setup manual has appeared on the company's UK-facing...
Apple Vision Pro Will Have an ‘Avatar Webcam’, Automatically Integrating with Popular Video Chat Apps
In addition to offering immersive experiences, Apple says that Vision Pro will be able to run most iPad and iOS apps out of the box with no changes. For video chat apps like Zoom, Messenger, Discord, and others, the...
Analysis of Valve’s ‘Lighthouse’ Tracking System Reveals Accuracy
Valve's 'Lighthouse' tracking system affords the HTC Vive a 'room-scale' tracking space for the VR headset and its controllers through the use of area-sweeping lasers. But exactly how accurate is it? Oliver Kreylos, a VR researcher at UC Davis,...
Morpheus Exclusive ‘SuperHyperCube’ Shares Heritage With One of Indie Gaming’s Biggest Hits
When I was initially surveying the 17 Morpheus VR titles that Sony was showing at E3 2015, I came across one with a logo that was printed so small on the booth's placard that I could hardly read it. I...
Unity Plugin Aims to Streamline Haptics for VR Developers
RGB Haptics is a new Unity-based tool that aims to make it easier for developers to create and implement haptic effects in VR games.
Haptics are important in games in general, but especially in VR—because the medium gives players significantly...




















