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‘Light Strike Array’ Fuses PVP Combat with Novel Locomotion, Now in Early Access

For some games, VR locomotion is simply ends to a mean; getting you from point A to point B in an efficient manner so other game mechanics can take the spotlight. Not so in PvP battle arena Light Strike Array, which...
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‘Elite Dangerous’ to See Overhaul in ‘Beyond’ Update, Open Beta Begins January 25th

Frontier Developments today announced an open beta test for the upcoming update to the third season of Elite Dangerous (2014), the open-universe space simulator for VR and non-VR players. Called 'Beyond - Chapter One', the update will officially arrive sometime in Q1 2018...

Survival Game ‘Island Time VR’ Strands You on a Deserted Island, Launching Spring 2018

From Flight School Studio, the creators of Manifest 99 (2017), comes a new survival game that maroons you on a small deserted island, leaving you with only your wits and crafting skills at your disposal. Called Island Time VR, the game is slated to release...

‘Beat Saber’ Developers Working “full-time” on PSVR Version, Slated for Late 2018

Beat Games announced that PlayStation VR users should expect the PSVR version of the hit indie VR rhythm game Beat Saber (2018) to arrive sometime later this year. While it's still uncertain exactly when PSVR users should expect to start slicing...

‘Borderlands 2 VR’ Launches on PC VR Headsets Today, Leaving PSVR Exclusivity

Borderlands 2 VR (2018) is finally headed out of PSVR exclusivity today, with the game's Steam page ready to give PC VR headset users a crack at the VR port of the popular looter shooter. Update (October 22nd, 2019): The Borderlands 2...

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’...

‘StarBlood Arena’ Will Be Free to PlayStation Plus Members in January

PlayStation VR owners will get a chance to hop into the fast-paced StarBlood Arena for free next month, a battle arena shooter from WhiteMoon Dreams and Sony's San Diego Studio. PS Plus members will have free access to StarBlood Arena starting January 2nd going through March 6th - when...

Inception Raises $15 Million Series A Funding Led By EU Media Conglomerate RTL Group

Inception’s ambitions to become the ‘Netflix of VR’ have just received a major boost, with the Tel Aviv-based company closing a $15 million Series A funding round led by media and broadcast giant RTL Group. Launched in October 2016,...

STRIVR Secures $16M Series A Financing to Expand Enterprise VR Training

STRIVR, the immersive VR training company, announced a $16 million round of financing led by GreatPoint Ventures (GPV) that is said to advance the company’s further expansion into the enterprise market. With this investment, GPV Managing Partner Ray Lane...

Zuckerberg: Oculus Quest Pro Could Bring Face & Eye Tracking

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg sat down with CNET for an interview where he speaks about the company's progress on its next generation of VR devices, namely what it might include in the 'Oculus Quest Pro' standalone headset. Zuckerberg previously spoke about...

Apple Says Steep ‘Horizon Worlds’ Creator Fees Show Meta’s “Hypocrisy”

Earlier this week Meta announced that it would begin testing tools to let creators sell things for real money in Horizon Worlds and would charge a fee of 47.5% of their earnings. The fee structure seemed at odds with prior...

HTC Files for ‘Vive Cosmos’ VR Headset Trademark

With middling smartphone sales and a loss of a major portion of its smartphone IP and engineering team to Google last year, HTC appears to be full steam ahead with VR headsets as of late. Now, a trademark filing has surfaced...

Lemnis Demonstrates Latest Varifocal Lens Tech in New VR Headset Prototype

Eye-tracking is an important technology that many would consider a 'must have' for the next generation of VR headsets, although that's just one step towards resolving a long-standing issue in VR that prevents users from seeing the virtual world...

Facebook to Discontinue Rift Product Line in 2021, Will No Longer Build PC-only VR Headsets

Capping off dwindling interest in the PC side of the VR spectrum, Facebook said today that it will discontinue the Rift product line early 2021 and will no longer build PC-only VR headsets. Though the company says “the Rift...

Preview: Not Much Memorable in ‘Remember: Remember’

Everyone agrees: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) is a maddeningly good film. It is too good to tolerate, nearly. There is no one who does not think this; it is True. But everyone knows it’s missing something,...
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