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Meta is Nudging VR Devs Towards ‘Horizon Worlds’ with Training, Funding & More

Meta today announced it's expanding the company's VR developer programs to include training on how to build games and experiences inside Horizon Worlds, Meta's growing social VR platform. Devs can also nab some cash too—a strong incentive to help Meta...

HTC Partners to Stream VR Games to Vive in China, Cutting VR-Ready PCs Out of the...

Oculus and HTC have already reduced the prices of their respective headsets, with the Oculus Rift now selling for $500 and HTC Vive for $600. While graphically-capable PCs are cheaper than ever thanks to new GPUs and software optimizations,...

Varjo Secures $5.8M Investment to Accelerate Military-Grade XR Hardware

Varjo, the Finland-based maker of high-end XR headsets, announced it's secured a €5 million (~$5.8 million) minority investment from THEON, the Greece-based manufacturer of military imaging systems. Structured as a convertible loan, the €5 million investment also includes the option...
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‘The Lost Bear’ to Launch on Oculus Rift Before Christmas

The Lost Bear (2017), Odd Bug Studio's cinematic 2D VR platformer for PSVR, is making its way to Oculus Rift headsets in time for Christmas. With its charming hand-drawn style, The Lost Bear follows Walnut on her journey home through a strange and abandoned world...
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SUPERHOT VR Dev Responds to Oculus Exclusivity Criticism, Free to Kickstarter Backers

One of the earlier titles to be used by Oculus to demonstrate the potential of virtual realit gaming SUPERHOT is to be completely reworked for a new VR specific version that's built for motion controls, and in particular Oculus...
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‘Deadly Delivery’ Brings Co-op Package Delivering Dungeon Crawler to Quest & PC VR Later This Year

Flat Head Studios, the team behind time-bending VR puzzle We Are One (2023), announced its next VR game: Deadly Delivery. The game's trailer shows off a clever mashup of a package delivery sim and dungeon crawler, casting players delivery goblins slinging packages to...

Vision Pro Finally Gets Native ‘YouTube’ App with Full Immersive Video Library

Vision Pro users have been waiting over two years for a native YouTube app. Now, it's finally here—thankfully also including support for immersive videos. The News Google first announced that a YouTube app was "on the road map" shortly after Vision...

New Views of HTC’s Unannounced VR Headset Emerge

After confirming the upcoming reveal of "game-changing VR headsets" at the VIVECON event next week, HTC continues to ramp up the teasing with new glimpses of an unannounced VR headset. Spotted by Road to VR commenter Andrew Jakobs in promotional emails...

‘Firewall Zero Hour’ to Get New ‘Containment’ Map in DLC Drop Tomorrow

First Contact Entertainment today announced that Firewall Zero Hour (2018), the studio's PSVR team shooter, is getting a new map just in time for Christmas. The game's third DLC will feature 'Containment', a free map set in an infectious disease...
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Real-time Strategy & MOBA Inspired ‘Spuds Unearthed’ Available Now

Spuds Unearthed, a mashup title which combines real-time strategy and MOBA elements, has launched on Rift and Vive headsets following nearly nine months in Early Access. Set in a persistent battlescape where players contend against one another for planetary control,...

Analysis: ‘Half-Life: Alyx’ Adds Nearly 1 Million VR Users to Steam in Record Gain

The launch of Half-Life: Alyx saw nearly 1 million additional monthly-connected headsets over the prior month, a leap that nearly tripled the previous largest monthly gain. Each month Valve collects info from Steam users to determine some baseline statistics about what kind of...

BigScreen is Making Virtual LAN Parties Real, Beta Signups Now Open

BigScreen is a new VR application which brings you and your computer into a shared virtual space with your friends. The company is today leaving stealth to announce the closing of a seed round and that former Convrge creator Hayden...

Preview: ‘The Gallery: Heart of the Emberstone’

The sequel to Cloudhead Games' early room-scale VR hit, The Gallery: Episode 1 - Call of the Starseed (2016), is nearly here. We got our hands on a limited preview of the soon-to-release Heart of the Emberstone, and if the little we played...

GDC 2018 Survey: 33% of Game Devs Are More Interested in VR Than Any Other Platform

Ahead of the 2018 Game Developers Conference in March, the organizer, UBM, has released their sixth annual State of the Game Industry survey, offering insight into the thoughts of some 4,000 game developers. While many developers may not be...

Oculus Rift Easter Egg in Sony’s Morpheus Presentation

Little icons accompanied many of the slides during Sony's Morpheus announcement presentation at GDC 2014. One slide in particular included a nod to Oculus. For those not familiar, the eye icon used on the slide is the same used for...
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