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GameFace Mobile VR Headset Will Also Tether to PCs Through Valve’s OpenVR

GameFace Labs showed off their latest prototype mobile VR headset at E3 last week, a device that promises to deliver both a standalone Android-based mobile VR experience and a tethered PC experience in the same headset. GameFace calls their prototype headset a head...

Quest Pro Update to Bring MR Passthrough Recording, Quest 2 Support for Pro Controllers

Meta's v47 software update for the Quest platform is packed with quality-of-life features that look to improve the user experience across Quest Pro and Quest 2, offering things like better media sync, an avatar mirror, and the ability to directly...

Survey: 78% of AR/VR Developers Not Planning Platform-exclusive Content

In a survey published by VRDC, AR and VR developers are largely leaning toward platform agnostic development for their next projects. While Oculus and Valve/HTC continue to take two different approaches to stoking the development of VR games and applications—Oculus...

HTC Joins VirtualLink to Support Connection Standard for Future VR Headsets

Back in July, many of VR's biggest players announced the VirtualLink Consortium, a group unified around creating a connection standard for future VR headsets. HTC was seemingly the odd one out back at the initial announcement, but this week...
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Rave in VR at Tonight’s Free HEAVYGRINDER Show in ‘TheWaveVR’

TheWaveVR, a social music platform for VR performances, debuts its third major show, this time bringing EDM duo HEAVYGRINDER into VR for a live and interactive virtual reality concert. You can join the fun for free tonight, July 26th, at...

Sharp Unveils Prototype VR Controller, Combining Haptic Gloves & Standard Buttons

Sharp announced it's releasing a prototype VR haptic controller in Japan, which aims to reproduce the sense of touch in VR while serving a familiar button layout. Japan-based Sharp says its VR haptic controllers can let users sense texture thanks to...

PSVR 2 Launch Day Games Now Include 40+ Titles, Updated List Here

PlayStation today revealed an updated list of launch day and "launch window" titles for PSVR 2. Notable highlights include Demeo, Gran Turismo 7, Horizon Call of the Mountain, and Resident Evil Village, although there's no word on when VR's favorite...

Universal VR Web Dashboard, ‘V’, Gets Support for Vive & SteamVR Headsets

The uni-lettered V is a web-based dashboard that runs inside of the VR apps you know and love, allowing you to access web apps like Netflix, Spotify, Slack, and do pretty much anything else you can do through a...

Hands-on: ‘Beat Saber’ is Every Bit as Fun as It Looks

At GDC this year, I had a chance to step into Beat Saber, an upcoming rhythm game from Czech Republic-based indie studio Hyperbolic Magnetism that tasks you with slicing flying cubes with lightsabers to electronic dance music. If that sounds cool to...

HTC and Valve Announces New VR Headset ‘Vive’ Partnership –Breaking

At HTC's 'Utopia' event at the Mobile World Conference, the company just announced a partnership with gaming giant Valve, seemingly including the production of a new VR headset. We're gathering info, but it seems the unit which comprises '70 sensors'...

Beyeonics Raises $11.5M to Further Develop AR/VR Surgical Visualization Platform

Elbit Systems, an Israel-based defense company, recently announced that its medical technologies subsidiary Beyeonics Surgical successfully concluded its first funding round of $11.5 million, which the company says will be used to expand product development and accelerate commercialization of its...

‘Beat Saber’ Scoring Explained – It’s All in the Technique

With the release of Oculus Quest, more and more players are jumping into Beat Saber. And while it's easy enough to cut cubes to the beat, there's a trick to achieving the highest score. Here's how scoring works in Beat...

Lytro Picks up Limitless Team to Build Tools to Work With Light-fields in Game Engines

Limitless, a company developing content and tools for creating cinematic VR experiences, has joined Lytro to build out tools for combining light-fields and real-time rendering directly in game engines. As we noted recently, Lytro is positioning its light-field tech as...

First Look at ‘Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice’ VR Edition

Ninja Theory, the minds behind BAFTA award-winning action-adventure game Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice (2017), have brought the full, uncut title to Oculus Rift and HTC Vive headsets. We got an exclusive first look at the game's new VR edition, which...
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Story-driven VR shooter ‘Of Lies & Rain’ Early Access Release Date Confirmed for September

Of Lies & Rain is an upcoming story-based VR shooter headed to Quest, PSVR 2, and PC VR. A new trailer confirms an early access release date of September 10th. Following the recent release of its demo earlier this year,...
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