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Samsung Android XR Headset Rumored to Release Next Month, Undercutting Apple Vision Pro

Samsung could be launching its Project Moohan mixed reality headset next month, according to a report from South Korea's ETNews (Korean), which hopes to take on Apple Vision Pro in the prosumer XR segment. Citing industry sources, ETNews maintains that Samsung’s Mobile Experience...

Shuhei Yoshida, Industry Veteran & Main Figure Behind PSVR, Departs Sony

Shuhei Yoshida (aka 'Shu') has left Sony, closing a near 32-year chapter of his life with the company. Yoshida announced he was leaving Sony back in November, setting his retirement date for January 15th, 2025. Now, the one-time President of...

“Oh shit, the game is successful,” Says ‘Gorilla Tag’ Dev After 1.5M Player Milestone & Quest...

First-time indie VR developer Kerestell Smith was taken aback at the reception of his Early Access multiplayer VR game, Gorilla Tag. The unassuming lo-fi title, which plays like a game of multiplayer tag, has found a synergistic combination of interesting...
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‘Monster of the Deep: Final Fantasy XV’ Gets New English Language Trailer

Monster of the Deep: Final Fantasy XV fishing game for PSVR just got a new English language teaser trailer. The Japanese version was teased on stage at the Tokyo Game Show (TGS) this past week. The Final Fantasy VR experience lets you head out...

Analysis: ‘Half-Life: Alyx’ Adds Nearly 1 Million VR Users to Steam in Record Gain

The launch of Half-Life: Alyx saw nearly 1 million additional monthly-connected headsets over the prior month, a leap that nearly tripled the previous largest monthly gain. Each month Valve collects info from Steam users to determine some baseline statistics about what kind of...
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Sony Releases Trailer for PSVR Sci-Fi Space Adventure ‘Farpoint’

The PlayStation pre-E3 event revealed a number of upcoming PSVR titles, and among the group of was a new sci-fi space adventure called Farpoint. The newly announced VR shooter opens with a man and a woman stepping foot on an...
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MythBusters’ Adam Savage Steps Inside Nvidia’s ‘VR Funhouse’ Physics Playground

Nvidia takes Mythbuster's Adam Savage inside their VR Funhouse application which is a sandbox for new technologies made possible with the company's latest Pascal-based GPUs. Nvidia created VR Funhouse as an example application showcasing many of their proprietary real-time physics...

Exploring XR User Interface Interactions in ‘Idea Engine’

Idea Engine allows you to create and share VR and mixed reality experiences. Building such a general-purpose tool requires complex user interfaces. In this Guest Article, developer Brett Jackson shares his approaches to UI interaction. Guest Article by Brett Jackson Brett...

New PlayStation VR Demo Disc Available as a Free Download Starting Today

There are those who said the era of the demo disc had come to an end. Alas, Sony is set to release a second VR demo disc to give players a fresh taste of some of the top and...

‘The Midnight Walk’ Hands-on Reveals Artfully Twisted Horrors, Coming to PSVR 2 & PC VR in...

The Midnight Walk is coming to PSVR 2 and PC VR headsets on May 8th, offering up a twisted adventure featuring a massive number of models built out of clay, scanned and rendered in the game's environment. MoonHood, the Sweden-based studio...

Adobe’s Project Aero Aims to Help Creators Build AR Content

Adobe recently unveiled a new project that aims to take the company further into the realm of augmented reality. Called Project Aero, the newly announced AR authoring tool and multi-platform system that will soon deliver a way for developers...

iRacing Season 4 Update Brings Oculus Rift DK2 and SDK 0.4.2 Support

These last few weeks have been the best ever for VR racing fans, with updates to Assetto Corsa and Grid: Autosport both bringing Oculus Rift DK2 support. Now, iRacing, the biggest sim racer out there, has gone live with...

Valve Reveals Timeline of Vive Prototypes, We Chart it For You

Welcome to Valve's Steam VR Mini-museum Virtual reality is still in its infancy. Many hard problems are being worked through and thus, the hardware to deliver compelling VR experiences is still evolving. Anyone who's followed the VR space for a while...

‘Thief VR: Legacy of Shadow’ Hands-on: The Most Promising VR-Native Stealth Game Yet

Thief pioneered the stealth-action genre starting in the late '90s, and now the storied franchise is finally coming to all major headsets in its first made-for-VR game. I had a chance to go hands-on with the latest build of Thief VR:...

‘Sparc’ Comes to Vive & Rift with Cross-play Support for PSVR

Despite the news that CCP Games is shelving VR for the time being, the company promises that their last title Sparc will not only go on, but CCP is carrying through with plans to launch the game on both the Oculus...
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