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Vive Tracker Dev Kits Are Shipping to Developers, Applications Remain Open

HTC promised to give away 1,000 Vive Tracker dev kits in an effort to kick start an ecosystem of accessories and VR game implementations for the motion-tracked accessory. Now the company says the first shipments are on their way...
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PSVR’s Weirdest Game ‘Accounting+’ Now Available on Vive & Rift with New Levels

Squanch Games, the studio founded by Rick and Morty creator Justin Roiland, and Crows Crows Crows today released Accounting+ (2017) on HTC Vive and Oculus Rift. Launched first on PSVR back in late 2017, the game also got a big content update...

Gear VR Update Unifies Oculus Home Aesthetic with Rift

The latest update to Gear VR has brought with it a Home aesthetic that ought to be pretty familiar to Oculus Rift owners. The new version of Oculus Home is said to roll out in stages to Gear VR owners, and...

Combining Game & Story with ‘The London Heist’ + Reflections on Exclusive VR Content

Sony's The London Heist is one of the best fusions of narrative VR storytelling with interactive game components. It's structured as a flashback sequence starting with you being confronted within an interrogation room, and there are branching narratives that...

‘Driver4VR’ Emulates Vive Trackers With Kinect for Cheap VR Body Tracking

A new SteamVR mod from the developer behind WalkinVR now allows body tracking by emulating Vive Trackers via Kinect’s motion sensing data, enabling an inexpensive solution for full body motion tracking in VR. The driver, available at the official...

‘Beat Saber’ Sells Over One Million Copies

Beat Games, the Czech Republic-based indie developers behind Beat Saber (2018), announced they've sold over one million copies of their popular block-slashing rhythm game—a figure calculated across all supported VR platforms. Beat Games CEO Jaroslav Beck announced the news in...

VR Headset Growth on Steam Takes Its Biggest Leap Yet, Led by Rift S

It appears that the 2019 holiday shopping season may have been the best ever for PC VR headsets. The latest data released this week from Valve shows VR on Steam making its single biggest leap yet, on a path...

‘Noda’ is a Mind Mapping Tool for Spatial Thinking in VR

Gaming in VR is great, but there's huge potential for the tech to be used for productivity too. One early stab at that is Noda, a mind mapping tool for the Vive and Rift. A mind map is a type...

Vive Dev Kit Signups Closed, “Hundreds” of Kits May Still Be Pending Shipping

As the Q4 2015 launch of the consumer version of the HTC Vive draws near, signups for the Vive Developer Edition have officially ended. Valve says that Vive development kits will continue to ship through the coming months. See Also: HTC...
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Kinetic Rhythm Game ‘Spin Rhythm XD’ is Coming to PSVR 2 This Summer, Free VR Update...

Spin Rhythm XD (2023), the kinetic rhythm-action game, is coming to PSVR 2, PS5 and PS4 this summer, which is also slated to include a free VR update to the original game on Steam. Releasing on July 9th, Spin Rhythm...

Lionsgate Bringing 7 Minute Preview of ‘John Wick VR’ to New York Comic Con

Lionsgate have announced that the VR experience based on the Keanu Reeves film John Wick is to be previewed next week at NYC's Comic Con, where attendees will be treated to a 7 minute sneak peek of the Starbreeze developed...

Google Launches ‘Works With Google Cardboard’ Certification for VR Smartphone Adapters

Today Google is taking the wraps off of a new certification program for VR smartphone adapters. 'Works with Google Cardboard' will allow Cardboard VR apps to adjust specifically for a given VR smartphone adapter and help users see which adapters...

Apple Reportedly on Track to Bring PSVR 2 Controller Support to Vision Pro

Apple is reportedly making good headway on its quest to bring controllers to Vision Pro, as Bloomberg's Mark Gurman maintains a collaboration with Sony to bring support for PSVR 2's controllers to Apple's headset is still on track. Gurman noted...
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Headspace Launches Social VR Mindfulness App on Quest That’s More Than Just Meditation

Headspace, the company behind the sleep and meditation mobile app, announced the release of Headspace XR, which combines social VR connection and a number of mindfulness techniques that aims to combat loneliness, anxiety and depression. Developed by Nexus Studios and...

Comic Book-inspired Horror Survival ‘Lies Beneath’ Now Available on Rift

Lies Beneath (2020), the Oculus-exclusive survival horror VR game from Gunheart (2018) creators Drifter Entertainment, launched late last month on Oculus Quest. Now Rift users can get into the fun too, if you can call being slightly traumatized "fun". We generally liked Lies Beneath...
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