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Mind-bending VR Adventure ‘The Under Presents’ Coming to Steam This Week

The Under Presents (2019), the multiplayer theatrical adventure originally built for Quest and Rift, is heading to Steam on April 16th, which includes support for all standard SteamVR-compatible headsets. Created by indie studio Tender Claws, known for its breakout hit VR experience Virtual...
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Multiplayer Sci-fi Adventure ‘Downward Spiral: Horus Station’ to Launch This Spring on PSVR, Rift & Vive

Downward Spiral: Horus Station is an upcoming sci-fi adventure game from 3rd Eye Studios, a Finish studio featuring industry veterans from games such as Alan Wake, and Halo 5, and movies including Wall-E, Gravity, and Prometheus. While Horus Station is technically the second installment in the series following last year's Downward Spiral:...
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‘Pinball Labs’ to Bring Accurate Pinball Simulator to VR, Kickstarter Now Live

That pinball-playing street gang you joined for protection as a kid ('The Pinball Wizards', duh) have laughed at you your whole life. Why? You never owned your very own pinball machine! Ok. The premise is bad, but the pinball...

VIVE – the Very Immersive Virtual Experience that Fuses Motion Capture with the Oculus Rift

Naturalistic input for users wishing to take that extra step towards full body immersion for their virtual reality experience is still some way off. You can see the pieces forming and coming together, and things are evolving quickly, but...
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Design Your Dream Kitchen with the HTC Vive (video)

A result of the AEC Hackathon, Helsinki - this neat prototype application lets you don the HTC Vive virtual reality headset, pick up the SteamVR controllers and sculpt your own designer kitchen. A simple but neat user interface lets...

‘Sprint Vector’ Closed Beta Launching in January, Intel to Sponsor eSports Tournament

California-based VR developer Survios has revealed their upcoming action game Sprint Vector will launch in closed beta in January 2018. The game will feature in eSports tournaments before its official launch, including the Intel-sponsored Alienware VR Cup. Sprint Vector is the second...

Launching Next Week, ‘Iron Man VR’ Shows New Combat Gameplay, Armor Station, & More

Iron Man VR is the next big PlayStation VR exclusive; the title is being published by Sony and developed by studio Camouflaj. Following a demo of the game released last month, and a ahead of next week's July 3rd...

‘NewRetroArcade: Neon’ Bringing Multiplayer and “Huge Amount of New Content” to HTC Vive

Developer Digital Cybercherries has today announced plans to develop a new version of their acclaimed virtual arcade. NewRetroArcade: Neon will be built for SteamVR and will include multiplayer, motion-controls, and room-scale capability for the HTC Vive. Launched all the way back in 2014, NewRetroArcade is a...

‘Paper Beast’ Sandbox Mode Looks Like a Cross Between ‘Viva Piñata’ and ‘From Dust’

The curiously crafted PSVR exclusive Paper Beast got a new trailer today revealing a sandbox mode which looks like a cross between Viva Piñata (2006) and From Dust (2011). Paper Beast is an intriguing title set to launch in Q1 (though no specific release date...

Rumor: Apple Reportedly Partners With Valve to Develop AR Headset

Apple is developing an AR headset; so much is clear from its many AR-specific job listings and even its latest version of iOS, which includes a stereoscopic renderer. The questions of what, how, and when are all patently up...

‘Skydance’s Behemoth’ Patches Coming This Week to All Major VR Headsets

Skydance's Behemoth (2024) launched last week across all major VR headsets with the proviso from the studio was planning patches to address a variety of performance and gameplay issues. Developer Skydance Games says we can expect a patch on December 12th,...

Penalty in ZeniMax v. Oculus Reduced to $250M, Motion to Halt Headset Sales Rejected

Bloomberg reported this week that the $500 million penalty levied at Oculus in last year's case brought by ZeniMax has been reduced to $250 million. A motion seeking to prevent sales of Oculus products using code attributed to ZeniMax...

Audio Highlights of VR News from 6 Major E3 Press Conferences

There were a lot of VR games announced over the past two days at E3 by AAA game publishers. I watched all of the press conferences from Sony, Ubisoft, Bethesda, Microsoft, EA, and Oculus' appearance at the PC Gaming...

New Thinner, Lighter HTC Vive 3-in-1 Cable Spotted in the Wild

An HTC Vive customer has posted images of a replacement headset cable which looks to significantly reduce the size and weight of the original. One of the aspects most mentioned in the first rush of reviews to appear after the...

‘L.A. Noire VR’ for PC Gets Minigames Previously Exclusive to PSVR

Rockstar Games brought L.A. Noire: The VR Case Files (2017) to PSVR in a surprise launch last September, bringing along with it some minigames to keep you shooting, punching, and driving with moxie well after you'd interrogated your last suspect. Now,...
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