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‘Lone Echo’s’ Virtual Hands Are an Unexpected VR Innovation

Oculus had talked much about 'Hand Presence' with the launch of their Touch VR controllers last year, but few games have implemented the controllers in such a way that truly deliver on that promise. Combined with Touch, Lone Echo's impressive...

Zuckerberg Warns Shareholders: Metaverse Investments May Not Flourish Until 2030s

Today during Meta's Q1 2022 earnings call CEO Mark Zuckerberg told shareholders that they should buckle up for the long haul because the company's steep investments in XR and metaverse technologies aren't expected to flourish until the next decade. Today...
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Watch 19 Minutes of New ‘Half-Life: Alyx’ Gameplay Footage & Trailers

The first Half-Life: Alyx gameplay footage was released today by IGN and Valve in the form of three gameplay trailers and a nine minute stretch of gameplay footage. This is the best look yet at how Valve's first full fledged...

New Free Unreal Engine 4 Bootcamp E-Book Offers Superb Intro for Wannabe VR Devs

Unreal Engine 4 launched to developers around the world back in March and immediately impressed. Epic's successor to its near ubiquitous UE3, which dominated much of the last generation of game development, was designed from the ground up to...

Strategy Game ‘League of War: VR Arena’ Comes to PSVR This Fall

Independent developer MunkyFun is bringing League of War: VR Arena exclusively to Sony’s PSVR platform this Fall. Detailed in an entry on the official PlayStation Blog, the studio’s first VR game is described as being similar to ‘holographic chess’...

Meta Leaks Next-gen Smart Glasses with Display Ahead of Connect This Week

It seems Meta has a new generation of smart glasses to show off at Connect this week, and it appears we've just got an eye-full of the long-rumored version with a built-in display, previously codenamed 'Hypernova'. As first reported by...

Hands-on: Logitech is Building the SteamVR Stylus That Needs to Exist

Logitech today revealed the VR Ink 'Pilot Edition', a stylus built for art and design in VR. Built with SteamVR Tracking tech, the stylus works similarly to a typical SteamVR controller, but affords the natural precision that comes with...
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WEARVR Weekly Top Ten VR Downloads – February #1

Looking for something fun to play in VR? We’ve got the top 10 downloads from the last week on the WEARVR app marketplace, a cross-platform repository of virtual reality experiences. Take a thrilling ride through the colorful city on the beach on...

Valve’s Standalone XR Headset ‘Deckard’ Reportedly Launching This Year at $1,200, Leaker Claims

Valve's rumored standalone XR headset, codenamed 'Deckard', is practically the stuff of legend at this point, with speculation brewing since data miners first discovered mention of the alleged device in January 2021. Now, leaker and data miner 'Gabe Follower'...
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‘Project Ghost’ Lets You Bend Time Whilst Dual Wielding Lightsabers

A new early prototype game for the HTC Vive is aiming to bring your time-shifting, lightsaber wielding dreams to life with Project Ghost, a new game, early in production, which mashes together so many individually cool ideas, some of...

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...

PSVR 2 Firmware Update Includes New Support for NVIDIA GPUs, Pointing to Wired PC VR Connection

Sony announced last month it was bringing PC VR support to PSVR 2 sometime this year, although the company didn't specify how or exactly when this would happen. According to the headset's latest firmware update, all signs now point...

Report: Meta Actively Testing PC VR Cloud Gaming for Quest

Meta may be ramping up internal testing for its own first-party cloud gaming service which could let its latest standalone VR headset, Quest 2, play PC VR games without needing your own VR-ready computer. Mention of the 'Avalanche' cloud PC...

Why Ray-Ban Meta Glasses Failed on Stage at Connect

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's keynote at this year's Connect wasn't exactly smooth—especially if you count two big hiccups that sidetracked live demos for both the latest Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses and the new Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses. Ray-Ban Meta (Gen...

Analysis: Monthly-connected VR Headsets on Steam Pass 1 Million Milestone

Valve's monthly Steam Survey has long offered useful insight into the share of VR headsets in use on Steam. But the figures provided are relative to the non-static Steam population, which obfuscates the actual adoption trend of VR headsets...
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