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‘Envelop’ Launches Open Beta of Immersive Windows Desktop Platform for Vive and Rift

Envelop, the virtual reality desktop platform for Windows, has launched as a public beta for anyone with a Vive or Rift to enjoy. After announcing a $5.5 million Series A investment at the beginning of 2016, followed by a closed...

VR Version of Viral Horror Game ‘Slender: The Arrival’ Delayed to Later This Year

Blue Isle Studios and Perp Games announced their upcoming VR version of Slender: The Arrival (2013) has officially been delayed until later in 2025. Slender: The Arrival VR was initially slated to arrive on May 13th across all major VR headsets, including Quest, PSVR...

‘Chiaro and the Elixir of Life’ Review: a Thin Slice of Ghibli With a Side Order...

Chiaro and the Elixir of Life (2018) is a single-player, story-driven adventure game with emphasis on puzzle-solving and some light platforming. Accompanied by your penguin robot pal Boka, you go out in search of the Elixir of Life, a special...

‘Batman: Arkham Shadow’ Review – Arkham Comes to VR in (almost) All the Right Ways

Batman: Arkham Shadow stays true to the series formula, but did developer Camouflaj manage to make the game feel truly at home in VR? Read our full review to find out. Batman: Arkham Shadow Details: Publisher: Oculus Studios Developer: Camouflaj Available On: Meta Horizon (exclusive to...

‘Stormland’ Behind-the-scenes – Insights & Artwork from Insomniac Games

Insomniac Games is no stranger to VR game development. Since 2016 the studio has created three Oculus exclusive VR titles—Feral Rites, Edge of Nowhere, and The Unspoken—but its next (and possibly last Oculus exclusive), Stormland, is unequivocally its most ambitious...

PSVR 2: ‘Pavlov’ & ‘Kayak VR’ Reaffirmed as Top Downloads in First Full Month Since Launch

PlayStation VR 2 launched in late February, and it wasn't certain just how its smallish library of games would stack up in the headset’s first monthly top download report, which critically only accounted for the first week of user downloads....
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‘Walkabout Mini Golf’ Gets Wallace & Gromit Course This Week, Trailer Here

Walkabout Mini Golf developer Mighty Coconut announced its long-awaited 'Wallace & Gromit' paid DLC course is coming this Thursday. Starting July 25th you'll be able to step into the duo's 62 West Wallaby Street residence where you'll play through a...

Free UE4 Template Makes Creating More Realistic VR Hands a Snap

Czech developer iNFINITE Production has released UVRF - a free, cross-platform template for hand presence in VR. The open-source demo offers a framework for use in any Unreal Engine project, as well as a ‘Playground’ scene containing an underground...

Two of the Year’s Most Anticipated VR Games Show First Looks at Gameplay

Two anticipated VR games, Behemoth and Alien: Rogue Incursion, showed their first glimpse of gameplay during PlayStation's State of Play presentation today. Both are set to launch across all major VR platforms later this year. Behemoth First Look at VR Gameplay Kicking...
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VR Design Unpacked: The Secret to Beat Saber’s Fun Isn’t What You Think

Our series Inside XR Design highlights and unpacks examples of great XR design. Today we’re looking at Beat Saber (2019) and why its most essential design element can be used to make great VR games that have nothing to do with...

‘Neos’ Aims to be the Google Docs of VR World Building

We catch up with Sightline creator Tomáš 'Frooxius' Mariančík whose work to create the Google Docs of VR world building with his latest project Neos, is progressing rapidly. We've not heard much of Tomáš 'Frooxius' Mariančík, the developer behind the excellent...

Meta Quest Reportedly Had Over 6 Million Monthly Active Users Last October

A Wall Street Journal report maintains Meta's Quest platform had 6.37 million monthly active users as of October 2022. The report doesn't include a breakdown of which headset is seeing the most engagement, however it's likely a majority of those users...

To the ‘VR is Dying’ Crowd: There’s More VR Users on Steam Than Ever Before

A Road to VR analysis of the latest data from Valve's Steam Hardware & Software shows that VR users on Steam have not only been growing, but are at their highest point in history. First generation VR hardware may not yet...

Google Brings ARCore 1.0 to Multiple Flagship Smartphones, Google Lens Preview Soon

Ahead of Mobile World Congress (MWC) next week, Google announced it's bringing ARCore, it's augmented reality SDK, out of preview and to a number of flagship smartphones in its 1.0 version. Google Lens, the company's tool to help users identify real-world...

HTC, Valve and SteamVR: A 2015 Retrospective and CES 2016 Preview

CES is mere days away and as we edge into 2016, we take a look back at the surprise entry and stratospheric rise of the HTC Vive, Valve's SteamVR flagship virtual reality hardware and, what we might expect to...
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