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‘Bounce Arcade’ is Like VR Pinball for Your Fists—And Exactly the Kind of Creativity VR Needs...

Bounce Arcade, recently announced and launching this Fall, looks like a unique fusion of pinball and VR, in a way that's truly native to the medium. It's an example of the body of VR-native gameplay mechanics that's still in...

Google’s First ‘Beam’ Videoconferencing Device is ‘HP Dimension’, Coming Late 2025 at $25,000

HP announced last year it was going to be the first to offer hardware based on Google Beam (formerly 'Project Starline'), the light field-based 3D videoconferencing platform. Now, HP unveiled 'Dimension', which is being pitched to enterprise at $25,000...

CryEngine 3.8.1 Released, Adds Oculus Rift and Linux Support

Crytek have announced the launch of the latest iteration of their CryEngine game engine. The big news is, it finally includes native support for the Oculus Rift VR headset. CryTek are another company seemingly reinvigorated in the face of the...

Rothenberg Ventures Doubles Down: Committing Another $1 Million to Funding AR/VR Startups

Rothenberg Ventures, the San Francisco based VC firm behind the 'River' VR accelerator is opening their doors for a second class of VR startups. The company seeks to invest another $1 million across 10 companies after a successful inaugural...

‘Bigscreen’ Launches on Oculus Home, Update Brings Custom Avatars and More

Bigscreen, the social VR app which brings you and your computer's desktop into VR with your friends, is launching on Oculus Home today and getting an update with new features and better performance. Bigscreen, which launched on Steam back at...

Beaming the ‘Matrix’ into Your Eyes: Otoy CEO on the Future of Real-time Lightfield Rendering

At Unity's Unite keynote in November, Otoy's Jules Urbach announced that their Octane Renderer was going to be built into Unity to bake light field scenes. But this is also setting up the potential for real-time ray tracing of...

VR Games Showcase Returns in August, Promising Major New Game Reveals & Updates

VR Games Showcase returns for its Summer 2025 event next month, promising a load of major XR game reveals and updates. The show kicks off on August 12th at 8:40 AM PT (local time here) with a special edition of...
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Exclusive: ‘Audica’ Preview & Track Reveal – Blast the Beat

Audica is the intriguing upcoming VR "rhythm shooter" from veteran rhythm gaming studio Harmonix. Today we've got a preview of the game through an exclusive first look at one of the 10 tracks that will ship with the game's...

Indie VR Hit ‘Gorilla Tag’ Becomes First Quest Title to Top 100K Reviews

In terms of reviews and revenue generated, Gorilla Tag  is by far one of the most successful games on the Quest platform. Now it's the first to top 100,000 user reviews. As first reported by Mixed, the humble game of...

‘Minecraft’ is Also Now Dropping PC VR Support in 2025 in Addition to PSVR

Mojang announced last month it was dropping PSVR support for Minecraft in 2025, which was mostly understandable considering the headset is now eight years old. In the release notes of the latest Bedrock update though, the studio says PC...

VR RTS ‘Cosmic Trip’ to Leave Early Access with New “Fully-featured” Strategy Mode

First-person real-time strategy VR game Cosmic Trip will leave Early Access on May 24th. Developer Funktronic Labs is readying the ‘fully-featured’ RTS mode for the v1.0 launch, along with a digital Deluxe Edition which adds an artbook and soundtrack. Since...

Valve VR Programmer Aims to Extend SteamVR with AR-like Utilities, Launches ‘Aardvark’ Platform in Early Access

Long-time Valve VR programmer Joe Ludwig, working in his own capacity, is building an open-source platform to bring AR-like utilities into virtual reality. The project, called Aardvark, is something of an evolution of an extension of VR dashboards as...

‘Job Simulator’ Coming to PlayStation VR from Owlchemy Labs

Job Simulator, the virtual reality title by Owlchemy Labs, is coming to PlayStation VR. Announced at PlayStation Experience today, the title is now set to come to all three major headsets. The ironically boring sounding Job Simulator is actually one...

uSens Grabs $20 Million Series A Investment for ‘Inside-out’ Tracking Tech

This week uSens announced a $20 million Series A funding round led by Fosun Kinzon Capital. Usens is one of the early developers of hand and head tracking tech; according to the announcement from the company this investment will help launch...

Oculus Link Upgrades Will Bring 90Hz & Full Resolution to Quest 2, Native Interface Integration

Although Facebook is discontinuing its PC-only Rift product line, the company says that PC VR content will live on thanks to Oculus Link, which allows Quest and Quest 2 to tether to a VR ready PC and play high-end...
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