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‘Dead Secret’ is Getting a Sequel, Coming Later This Year

Dead Secret (2015), Robot Invader's first-person mystery thriller for PC, Gear VR and SteamVR-capable headsets, is getting a sequel called Dead Secret Circle. The second installment in the series is slated to come to VR and traditional platforms in 2017. Like its predecessor, Dead...

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...

‘Oculus Start’ Program Aims to Help Indies Jump into VR Development

Providing “access, support, and savings” to qualifying indie developers, the new Oculus Start program hopes to encourage and enable the development of great apps from those just getting started in VR. The program, which was introduced in a brief...

Bored During Lockdown? Get an Intro to Quest Development in This Live Online Workshop

An upcoming online workshop by XR development educator Circuit Stream will teach developers the basics of building applications for Oculus Quest. With many of us a stuck at home with some extra time on our hands from not traveling (or...
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‘Starship Home’ Turns Your Room into a Flying Alien Plant Sanctuary, Coming to Quest 3 This...

VR studio and label Creature announced Starship Home, a plant-filled mixed reality adventure that turns your living room into a spacecraft on a mission to save alien flora. Coming exclusively to Quest 3 this Fall, the team dropped Starship Home's first teaser trailer...

‘Skatrix’ Uses Vision Pro to Turn Your Room Into a Virtual Skate Park

Skatrix Pro, the Vision Pro skateboarding app from legendary skater Rodney Mullen, has just been overhauled to deliver even more convincing mixed reality gameplay thanks to its new 2.0 update. Released as a day-one app for Vision Pro earlier this...
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‘Cold Iron’ is a Puzzle-based Shooter Coming to PSVR, Vive & Rift January 30th

Virtual reality is a great medium for shooters. The problem is, because it's so natural to virtually transform motion controllers into pistols, the genre is pretty crowded with low-effort wave shooters at the moment. Enter Cold Iron, a western-themed shooter from indie studio...

Original ‘Wolfenstein 3D’ Comes to VR in Fan Recreation

Wolfenstein 3D (1992), the first-person shooter developed by id Software, kickstarted an entire genre, and now you can play the generational icon in VR. The project, dubbed Wolfenstein 3D VR, features all ten original levels. While the game's patented 2D sprites...

‘Spice & Wolf VR’ Kickstarter Doubles Funding Goal, Coming to Rift, Vive, Go, PSVR & Quest

SpicyTails, the studio behind VR anime experience Project LUX (2018), recently launched a Kickstarter for their latest VR project, Spice & Wolf VR. After having reached their initial funding goal of ¥8,000,000 (~$70,800) in the Kickstarter's first 24 hours, the campaign has now...
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Tested Goes Hands-on with ‘Half-Life: Alyx’ Using 8 Major VR Headsets

Valve let Tested's Norman Chan and Will Smith into their headquarters recently for a multi-hour session with Half-Life: Alyx, the studio's famed flagship VR game coming out in March 2020. Chan and Smith couldn't reveal plot details and some of...

New York City Invests in AR/VR Incubator to Bolster City’s Jobs, Tech Talent

New York City’s Deputy Mayor for Housing and Economic Development, Alicia Glen, recently announced the selection of NYU Tandon School of Engineering to “develop and operate” the “first government-funded” VR/AR hub for education, training, research, investment and business creation...

AR & AI Storytelling Innovations in ‘TendAR’ from Studio Tender Claws

Tender Claws, the creators of the award-winning interactive VR narrative Virtual Virtual Reality, premiered a new, site-specific, interactive AR narrative experience at the Sundance New Frontier called TendAR. It was a social augmented reality experience that paired two people...

Social VR Hits ‘Rec Room’ and ‘VRChat’ Coming to Oculus Quest

On the run up to the headset's Spring release, Oculus today confirmed a handful of new Quest launch titles. Among them are social VR hits Rec Room and VRChat, both known for connecting players and friends across headsets and platforms. Rec Room...

Facebook is Unlocking AR Capabilities for Developers on Quest 2

Facebook announced today that an upcoming update to the Quest development SDK will include experimental support for a Passthrough API which will allow Unity developers to build AR experiences and features into apps on Quest 2. Although Quest wasn't launched...

The Number of Discoverable Quest Apps Has More Than Tripled With the Merging of App Lab

Meta has begun the process of merging 'unlisted' App Lab apps into the main Quest store, more than tripling the number of discoverable apps. App Lab, as many of you know, is the holding zone for apps that didn't get...
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