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Quest Store Revenue Reaches $2 Billion, But Momentum Has Slowed Over the Last Year

Coming alongside the big Quest 3 info dump today at Connect 2023, Meta revealed that Quest Store games and apps have generated over $2 billion in revenue. While the store is still earning for developers, looking at revenue over...
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‘Fantastic Contraption’ Devs Announce VR Remake for HTC Vive, Coming to PAX Prime

Fantastic Contraption, the free 2008 building game that challenged players to use a variety of tools to get their contraptions from point A to point B, is receiving a 3D makeover for virtual reality on the HTC Vive. According to...

Windows VR Headsets Can Play Oculus Exclusive Games via Revive

The announcement that Steam will support the forthcoming Windows VR headsets was big news which means that owners will eventually have a strong library of VR content to draw from while Microsoft builds up its own library of VR games...
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‘Into Black’ Showcases More ‘Deep Rock Galactic’ Vibes in New Trailer, Coming to Quest in October

Into Black, an upcoming co-op action adventure for Quest, showcased more of its Deep Rock Galactic-inspired gameplay in a new trailer, which also announced the opening of pre-orders. Developed by The Binary Mill, the VR studio behind Resist, RUSH, Mini Motor...

Index Sold Out in all 31 Regions, Valve “working hard” to Meet Demand Ahead of ‘Half-Life:...

With just two months or so until the launch of Half-Life: Alyx, Valve is still struggling to meet demand for its Index VR headset. Our latest check on Valve Index stock and availability shows that nearly every package of the headset...

iRacing Season 4 Update Brings Oculus Rift DK2 and SDK 0.4.2 Support

These last few weeks have been the best ever for VR racing fans, with updates to Assetto Corsa and Grid: Autosport both bringing Oculus Rift DK2 support. Now, iRacing, the biggest sim racer out there, has gone live with...

Getting Ramped up on VR with Microsoft’s Developer Evangelist

Liv Erikson was able to to live out one of her dreams when she stepped into the Star Wars universe to battle against a lightsaber training Remote within Sixense's VR demo. This helped her discover that she has a...

HTC Reveals Vive Proton, a Compact Standalone VR Headset Prototype

As if announcing three new Cosmos headsets wasn't enough, HTC today also revealed Vive Proton. The company is calling this a "prototype" headset with two different flavors: a standalone VR headset and a 'VR viewer' which would be powered...

4 Steps to Start Experimenting with WebVR in 10 Minutes

WebVR is not a new thing — people have been talking about using WebGL to render interactive 3D graphics in the browser for over half a decade, in various different implementations. What is new, however, is the availability of open source libraries...

Alan Yates Says Rift’s Core Features Are a “Direct Copy” of Valve’s VR Research

In a revealing statement on Reddit, Alan Yates, a Valve employee who works closely on the company's Lighthouse tracking system, claims that the Oculus Rift headset is largely derived from Valve's research. Back when Oculus launched the original Rift DK1 Kickstarter campaign in 2012,...
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‘Elite Dangerous’ Support Coming to Oculus Rift at Launch

Frontier Developments, makers of Elite Dangerous, today announced that the open-Universe space sim will be supporting Oculus Rift on day one of its March 28th launch. The good news: if you already own the game, you'll be getting Oculus support for...

Quest Hand-tracking Graduates From Beta, Third-party Apps Launch Next Week

Facebook introduced controllerless hand-tracking in beta on Oculus Quest late last year and it has remained an "experimental" feature ever since. This week the company says Quest hand-tracking will be rolling out as a full-fledged feature, with third-party hand-tracking...

HTC Teases Reveal of “game-changing VR headsets” at VIVECON

You can now register for HTC's upcoming VIVECON event. The free, online event will be held May 11th & 12th, and the company is promising to reveal "game-changing VR headsets," (yes that's plural headsets), alongside presentations from "industry experts,...

Xbox Cloud Gaming Coming to Quest 3 in December

Meta announced at Connect 2023 that Xbox Cloud Gaming is heading to Quest in December, meaning you'll be able to play all of your favorite flatscreen games on offer through Xbox Game Pass Ultimate. Meta's full unveiling of Quest 3...

‘Galaxy Golf’ Review

Galaxy Golf by developer Liftoff Labs disguises a fun physics puzzler as a game of arcade golf in virtual reality. Galaxy Golf Details: Official Site Developer: Liftoff Labs Publisher: Big Fish Games Available On: Steam (Vive, Rift) Reviewed On: HTC Vive Release Date: August 24th, 2016 Gameplay https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFV6vPHUCVY The courses in this game are actually 3D...
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