Earlier today a media leak confirmed the existence of a new untethered VR and AR headset from Sulon and AMD, known currently as the 'Q'. Now, a video demonstration has appeared which may show that hardware in use. Titled 'Magic Beans',...

VR has the capability to take us into completely new realms, and experimental artist Isaac "Cabbibo" Cohen has been creating some of the most surreal and transportive experiences that I've seen. I had a chance to try out a...

WhiteMoon Dreams, the developers behind PSVR arena shooter StarBlood Arena (2017), released a statement recently bidding farewell to its community. Earlier this year, the studio announced that their online-only game would be going dark; the official date for server shutdown...

Rec Room is a new social VR platform for HTC Vive from indie studio Against Gravity, and as a project currently in Early Access for the low low cost of absolutely free, it's quickly becoming a success on Steam. At the time of this writing, more...

Joy Way, the studio behind parkour action-shooter STRIDE (2022), announced that high-flying follow-up STRIDE: Fates is coming to Quest next month as a "full-fledged sequel" to Stride. Update (October 23rd, 2023): Joy Way announced that Stride: Fates is coming to Quest on November 9th....

Oculus has teamed up with Crytek to share a series of VR game design learnings. The second and latest post in the series explores eight prototype methods for moving or rotating in virtual reality. Keeping players comfortable in VR is...

Social and Multiplayer VR can be incredibly compelling, but the process of actually 'finding' your friends in VR is still a clunky and often frustrating process. Oculus is developing a new set of social and multiplayer tools which stand...

HTC today announced Vive Flow, its latest standalone VR headset. While the company just recently released the enterprise-focused Vive Focus 3, the Vive Flow aims for the consumer market with a compact size and feature-set that HTC has designed...

Oculus Story Studio, the company's in-house content creation studio that has produced a number of highly polished experiences, recently released a surprising 'tell all' blog post detailing just what sort of tools the team of VR content creators use. Story Studio has the funds, and...

The newly announced Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses, and the 'Neural Band' input device that comes with them, are still far from proper augmented reality. But Meta has made several clever design choices that will pay dividends once their true...

Efficient text entry without an actual keyboard remains an industry-wide challenge for unlocking productivity use-cases in XR headsets. Researchers have created a comprehensive catalog of existing text entry techniques to codify different methods and analyze their pros and cons....

Developer Digital Cybercherries has launched the New Retro Arcade Tech Demo on Steam for the HTC Vive. The tech demo is functionally identical to the game seen previously on the Oculus Rift, but now with support for the Vive's...

One of our favorite VR games, Fantastic Contraption, is heading PlayStation VR. The gameplay makes great use of motion controllers to allow you to craft solutions to puzzling platforming problems. Fantastic Contraption released originally as one of the launch bundle titles...

A recently released fork of one of the premier VR mods for Half-Life 2 (2004) added a number of features that should make you feel a little less like Gordon Freeman, and a little more like John Wick. Mod creator...

Initially slated for release last year, Nuremberg, Germany-based indie studio Pixel Maniacs have announced that the first-person puzzle shooter ChromaGun VR is headed to PSVR next week. The original ChromaGun targeted a variety of platforms including PC, mobile, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Nintendo...