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Jesse Schell on the VR Design Principles of ‘I Expect You to Die’

Jesse Schell has been involved in virtual reality for over 20 years, and he's also the author of the popular The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses. He was able to combine his background in VR and...
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‘Metro Awakening’ to Release on All Major Headsets in November, New Gameplay Revealed

Developer Vertigo Games announced that Metro Awakening, the VR exclusive created in collaboration with the series’ original author Dmitry Glukhovsky, is slated to arrive on all major VR headset November 7th. If you haven't read any of Glukhovsky’s novels, or played Metro...

‘Super Mario Run’ Co-Developer Announces VR Puzzle-Adventure ‘VoxEl’

DeNA, the Japan-based mobile game developer known for their work on several Nintendo properties including Super Mario Run (2016) and Fire Emblem Heroes (2017), announced a new VR adventure game targeting PSVR, HTC Vive, and Oculus Rift. Dubbed VoxEl, the game...

Meta Sharpens the Axe for Quest 1: First-party Social Ends in March, Security Patches in 2024

It seems Meta is finally taking the original 2019 Quest behind the shed this year, as the company announced it's set to deprecate first-party social features on the device, which includes access to Parties and Meta Horizon Home. Meta also...

Facebook’s ‘Oculus for Business’ Quest Enterprise Platform is Finally Openly Available

Facebook today announced that its Oculus for Business program is finally openly available. The program, which was announced more than a year ago, was slow to roll out as Facebook dealt only with a small number of select partners....
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‘Job Simulator’ is Exactly as Awesome As This New Trailer Makes it Look

While shooters and adventure games are a natural fit for VR, Owlchemy Labs' Job Simulator is one of the most unique VR titles to date. It's a genre-defying mix of puzzle, humor, and, in a way, exploration, in a form that...

VR Games Showcase Returns in March, Teasing “biggest line-up yet” of XR Games

Another edition of VR Games Showcase is headed our way in March, which the organizers calling the event the "biggest line-up yet" of XR games. Details are still thin at the moment, most notably of which is the online event's...

Preview: ‘Metal: Hellsinger VR’ is Just a Few Notes Shy of a Perfect Arrangement

Metal: Hellsinger is a very unique flatscreen game, and also has the potential to be a very unique VR game. But it's going to take a little tuning up before launch to really make it sing. If you've never played the...

Oculus is Forcing the Removal of SteamVR Streaming from Quest App, Dev Says

The developer of Virtual Desktop, a Quest app which allows users to stream their PC desktop to the headset for use in VR, says that after the recent addition of a feature which allowed SteamVR games to be played on Quest,...

Impressive Valve-built Environment ‘Winter Peak’ Comes to SteamVR Home

It's hard to get tired of Valve's SteamVR Home when the company keeps pumping out high-quality spaces like Gulping Goat and Candy Emporium as of late. Now on Steam Workshop, the company's open marketplace for environmental additions and asset packs, Valve...
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‘Gungrave VR’ & ‘U.N’ Standalone Expansion to Launch on PSVR in December

GUNGRAVE VR, the next Gungrave series game and prologue to next year's Gungrave G.O.R.E., is set to blast its way onto PSVR next month. The single-player game, which is set after the battle against the series' silver-skinned humanoid monsters known as Orgmen, is...

Ubisoft’s Psychological Thriller ‘Transference’ to Launch Next Week on Vive, Rift & PSVR

Elijah Wood's studio SpectreVision and Ubisoft Montreal announced Transference at last year's E3, a VR thriller-adventure that takes into something of a virtual reality inside a virtual reality. It's only a few more days until the game is officially released, with the...

Oculus and Crytek Explore New & Novel Methods of VR Locomotion

Oculus has teamed up with Crytek to share a series of VR game design learnings. The second and latest post in the series explores eight prototype methods for moving or rotating in virtual reality. Keeping players comfortable in VR is...

Pimax Changes Payment Structure to Make Flagships More Affordable, But Less Refundable

Alongside updates to its PC VR headset lineup, Pimax revealed a new financing plan for Crystal Super and Crystal Light which makes both PC VR headsets more affordable, but also alters the payment structure and returns policy in a...

Oculus is (still) Covering Unreal Engine Royalties for $5M in Revenue Per-game Through 2025

With the recent news that Unreal Engine was permanently waiving engine royalties for the first $1 million in app revenue, we were reminded of a similar program for VR apps based on Unreal Engine 4 that Oculus established back...
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