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Meta Has Sold Nearly 20 Million Quest Headsets, But Retention Struggles Remain

Meta has sold nearly 20 million Quest headsets, but the company continues to struggle with keeping customer using VR. According to a report by The Verge, citing an internal Meta presentation held today, the company has sold nearly 20 million Quest...

PSVR 2 Hands-on: Across-the-board Improvements Are Coming to Sony’s VR Headset

Sony's long awaited PSVR 2 isn't here just yet but after an extensive hands-on with the headset it's clear it'll be worth the wait. Last week I visited Sony's PlayStation headquarters in San Mateo, CA to see PlayStation VR 2...

You Can Get a 26 Foot Oculus Link Cable for $34 With an Active Extender

Oculus Link allows Oculus Quest to become a PC VR headset by tethering to a VR ready PC. While Oculus sells its own (quite expensive) Oculus Link cable, any appropriately high performance USB 3.0 cable will work. Here's an...
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‘Pollen’ Devs Talk Narrative, HTC Vive Integration and Putting Beer Cans into Microwaves

Pollen, a first-person exploration VR game from Helsinki based Mindfield Games, is well on its way for its series of multi-headset launches soon too come, including Sony Morpheus, HTC Vive, and Oculus Rift. We sat down to talk with CEO Ville...

PlayStation VR Game Prices Previewed in Amazon Listings

Listings on Amazon have revealed prices for some PlayStation VR games, giving an idea of what Sony plans to charge for the first wave of virtual reality titles to hit the console platform. PlayStation VR launches in October and we've...

Valve Adds Experimental Stereo-correct Passthrough View to Index

Valve's Index headset has had a passthrough view feature since launch, but the company has just released an experimental update which aims to make the view through the cameras more realistic by creating a synthetic image that more closely...

Steam’s ‘Playtest’ Store Option Aims to Make Beta Testing Easier for Devs & Players

Developers on Steam typically have to generate and seed their beta testers with a bunch of game codes, which can be frustrating to not only manage, but also hand out, requiring communication through multiple platforms like Discord and email....

Official Quest 3S Image Leaks Ahead of Anticipated Meta Connect Unveiling

Meta has leaked an image of the supposed Quest 3S via an update to its PC software, showing off what is likely the upcoming cheaper alternative to Quest 3. As first spotted by Reddit user 'Gary_the_mememachine', the image of can...

Understanding Predictive Tracking and Why It’s Important for AR/VR Headsets

In the context of AR and VR systems, predictive tracking refers to the process of predicting the future orientation and/or position of an object or body part. For instance, one might want to predict the orientation of the head...

Valve Confirms New Vive Base Station Coming This Year

Late last year at Steam Dev Days, Valve talked about a new and improved design for the SteamVR Tracking / Lighthouse base stations, a core component of the Vive's tracking technology. Now the company says it plans to launch...

On the Hunt for VR’s Killer App with Unity’s Head of VR & AR, Tony Parisi

Everyone in the VR industry can envision a world in the next 10 years that’s radically changed by virtual reality. From healthcare, education, social, training, cinema, gaming, and more, VR has a lot of Killer Use-cases. But it seems...

Battlezone PSVR Dev Diary #1: The Importance of Feedback in Uncharted Territory

Welcome to the 1st in our 3 part series of developer diaries from Rebellion covering the making of the forthcoming PlayStation VR title Battlezone, a reboot of the 1980 Atari arcade classic in virtual reality. In this entry, Senior Designer...

‘ViewR’ Lets You Watch a VR Session in Action From the Comfort of Your Phone

Brisbane, Australia-based group #include today released a new app called ViewR that lets you observe a PC VR session in action from an Android mobile device. ViewR essentially inserts another camera into the VR game, letting a spectator hold up their...

VR is Getting an Official ‘Dungeons & Dragons’ Game from ‘Demeo’ Studio

Resolution Games, developers behind VR tabletop game Demeo (2021), announced it's working with Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast to create a VR game set in the Dungeons & Dragons universe. We don't know much about the game for now—including...

Report: Sony Balks on PSVR 2 Game Development

Sony is getting ready to release tethered PC VR support for PSVR 2 this summer, but that may be one of the last meaningful things the company does for its increasingly latchkey VR hardware. According to a report by...
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