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Envelop VR Closes Series A Funding With Google Ventures to Deploy VR Productivity Environment

Envelop VR, a company working on a productivity focused virtual reality environment, today announced they'd closed their Series A funding at $5.5 million with additional investment from Google Ventures. While VR is great for entertainment, it's also has potential to revolutionize...

Hands-on: Logitech’s MX Ink for Quest Could Legitimize VR Styluses as a Whole

Over the last decade I've reported on and tested many different VR styluses, but none of them have actually caught on. But the new MX Ink stylus for Quest stands a real chance at legitimizing the VR stylus as...

Open-source Modeling & Animation Tool ‘Blender’ Now Includes Basic VR Support

Blender, a popular free open-source modeling and animation tool, just launched its 2.83 update, which brings basic VR support via the OpenXR API. The recent release lets users step into their 3D scenes to see them up close and...

‘Superhot VR’ Has Now Generated More Revenue Than The Original PC Game

Superhot VR (2016) just celebrated a big milestone. Having sold more than 800,000 units across all supported platforms, developers Superhot Team say the VR title has now generated more revenue than their original hit PC game Superhot (2016). It's no surprise the...

PSVR Gets Rift-Like Audio Solution with ‘Mantis’ Aftermarket Headphones

Peripheral manufacturer Bionik are building a Rift-life aftermarket integrated headphone solution for the PlayStation VR called 'Mantis' and, they look pretty neat too. Regardless of which VR headset you personally may prefer, there's little argument that the Oculus Rift's solution...

Valve Brings Custom Keybinding to SteamVR, Letting VR Apps Support All Compatible Controllers

SteamVR includes de facto support for several VR devices, although sometimes games just don't support a particular controller—or if they do, it may not be configured properly. To remedy this, Valve has introduced a new SteamVR Input system, now in...
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‘Star Trek: Infection’ is Bringing a Slice of VR Body Horror to Quest 3 This Year

Star Trek is getting a new VR game soon, this time injecting a hefty slice of body horror into a single-player narrative, pitting you against an infection ravaging your starship. Called Star Trek: Infection, the VR-native survival experience lets you step into...

‘Astro Bot Rescue Mission’ to Get Free Demo Next Week on PSVR

Astro Bot Rescue Mission (2018) is objectively an overwhelmingly great VR game, earning our first ever review rating for good reason. Starting next week, you'll be able to find out why when a free demo lands on the PlayStation...
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MacGyver-inspired Puzzle Adventure ‘Fixer Undercover’ Comes to Quest & PC VR Next Year

Indie studio Creativity AR announced its MacGyver-inspired VR puzzle adventure Fixer Undercover is coming to Quest and SteamVR headsets next year. The studio released a demo of Fixer Undercover on Quest last year via the now-defunct App Lab, offering up...

‘Beat Saber’ Sells 100K Units in First Month for $2 Million in Revenue

In its first month, Beat Saber has sold 100,000 copies across Steam and Oculus, generating $2 million in revenue—another big milestone of success for a game still in early access and made by a three-person indie studio. Update (05/28/18): Hyperbolic...

PlayStation VR Passes 3 Million Units Sold

Sony today announced that PlayStation has sold more than three million units, showing consistent sales over the course of the headset's nearly two years on the market. Announced on the official PlayStation blog today, the three million unit milestone is...

PlayStation’s ‘Big Games, Big Deals’ Sale Kicks off, Including Discounts on Some Top PSVR 2 Games

PlayStation has kicked off its big 'Big Games, Big Deals' promotion today, putting a massive number of PS5 and PS4 games on deep discount. While there are only a handful of PSVR 2 and PSVR games among the lot,...

Apple Job Listing Seeks Game Technologies Engineer That is “comfortable with AR and VR concepts”

Posted earlier this summer, yet another Apple job listing seeks candidates with AR and VR proficiency. Apple says that their 'Game Technologies Engineer' role falls under the company's Interactive Media Group, which "provides the media and graphics software foundation across...

Newly Revealed PSVR 2 Features Add Long Overdue Conveniences

Even though the original PSVR headset is still getting some new game releases, it's decidedly a last-gen headset... or maybe even a last-last-gen headset depending upon how you look at it. Luckily the forthcoming PSVR 2 is ready to...

Adventures in Multiplayer VR with Radial-G and an Oculus Rift LAN Party

Take a room full of geeks, a collection of networked gaming PCs, a trio of Oculus Rift DK2s and the latest virtual reality racers and what do you have? A somewhat unconventional christmas party. The place, an office building somewhere in the...
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