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Meta Overhauls ‘Horizon Worlds’ Avatar System for More Realistic Representation

Announced at Connect last week, Meta is launching its next-generation avatars in Horizon Worlds today, giving users a lot more customization options to choose from before jumping into the company's social VR platform. Starting today, users can dig even deeper into...

Report: Meta to Open ‘Horizon Worlds’ to Younger Teens Amid Renewed Retention Push

Meta's social VR app for Quest, Horizon Worlds, is lagging behind the competition when it comes to attracting and retaining VR users. According to a leaked memo obtained by The Wall Street Journal, the company is now ostensibly looking to...

8 Cool AR Apps to Try Now That Apple iOS 11 is Here

Apple's newest iteration of the iOS mobile operating system is here, and with it comes the ability to turn your iOS 11 compatible device into an honest-to-goodness augmented reality viewer. Thanks to a few months of lead time with...

Vive Hangs Onto Steam Majority Market Share as Windows VR Headsets Enter the Fray

According to the just-released November figures from Steam’s Hardware & Software Survey, the HTC Vive has scraped its way back from nearly losing the majority market share of VR headsets in use on Steam last month, finally ending a months...

Oculus Connect 4 Day 1 Roundup: Oculus Go, Rift Price Drop, New ‘Santa Cruz’ Prototype, and...

The opening keynote at the fourth annual Oculus Connect developer conference delivered several new product announcements from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, VP of Virtual Reality Hugo Barra, and others. This included new standalone VR hardware, a new price for...

2019 Was a Major Inflection Point for VR—Here’s the Proof

VR adoption is accelerating thanks to the Oculus Quest. We’ve seen over 100 VR titles break $1 million in revenue, growing the total VR software market by 3x in 2019. Top grossing VR titles have cleared $10 million in...

NHL Stanley Cup Final Comes to Quest in ‘Xtadium’ Immersive Sports Viewing App

The NHL Stanley Cup Final kicks off today, June 4th, pitting the Florida Panthers against the Edmonton Oilers in four (and possibly three additional) intense matches. And Quest users will have a rink-side seat to every game. This makes for...

Watch: This Mobile VR Crane Simulator Showcases the Future of Industrial Training

Industrial Training International is readying their VR Mobile Crane Simulator for the March ConExpo Event in Las Vegas. The simulator uses an Oculus Rift headset in combination with a modular rig, in order to significantly reduce the costs of...
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‘Blacktop Hoops’ Graduates from Early Access After Racking up Over 15,000 Reviews

Blacktop Hoops (2024), the popular VR basketball game, is out of early access on Quest, now serving up multiplayer and single player streetball on standalone platforms and PC VR headsets too. Developed by Vinci Games and first released in April...

Ray-Ban Meta Smartglasses Are About to Get Smarter with Object Recognition Beta

Ray-Ban and Meta's second-generation smartglasses are slated to get a lot smarter starting this week, as the company launched an opt-in beta in the US that will hook in the device's camera into AI-powered object recognition, powered in part...

XEODesign’s Nicole Lazzaro on Design Leadership in VR

XEODesign's Nicole Lazarro has been researching emotional reactions of gamers in VR to discover the unique properties of the medium. You can't just port a 2D game into VR and expect it to work, and so she's calling for...

‘Swords of Gargantua’ Gets Rogue-lite Adventure Mode in New Update

Swords of Gargantua (2019), the multiplatform combat arena from Yomuneco and gumi, now includes a new rouge-lite adventure mode that tasks players with going into what the studios call 'The Tesseract Abyss'. The new update is said to put players...

VR Puzzler ‘FORM’ Launches on PSVR Today

FORM, the VR puzzle game that made a splash on PC VR headsets back in 2017, is now available on PSVR starting today. Update (April 7th, 2020): FORM is now live on PSN, priced at $15. Since it's an object-heavy...

FundamentalVR Partners with Mayo Clinic to Develop VR Surgical Simulations, Raises $1.4M Financing

FundamentalVR, the training and data analysis technology platform, today announced a three-year deal to jointly develop surgical VR simulation and education products with Mayo Clinic, the world-renowned academic medical center. FundamentalVR has also raised an additional $1.4 million in financing...

‘Star Trek: Bridge Crew’ Expansion to Bring TNG’s Enterprise-D, Romulans, Borg, and More

Don't abandon ship just yet, because Ubisoft is pushing out its first DLC for Star Trek: Bridge Crew (2017). If you're a TNG fan, now is probably the time to toss out the synthehol and crack that hidden bottle of...
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