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Owlchemy Labs Shows Off New Convenience Store Level in ‘Job Simulator’

Owlchemy Labs's Job Simulator has become a staple demo in the HTC Vive demo reel thanks to its fun and intuitive room-scale interactions with everyday kitchen items. The studio has just revealed a teaser of another job that will...

Google Acquires Owlchemy Labs, VR Game Studio Behind ‘Rick and Morty VR’, ‘Job Simulator’

In an interesting move, Google has acquired Owlchemy Labs, makers of the multi-platform hits Job Simulator (2016) and Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality (2017). As far as VR game studios go, Owlchemy Labs is not only one of the most senior, but...

New Apple Job Listing Seeks ‘VR/AR Programmer’ to “use VR and AR to… enable development of...

Apple is investing in additional VR savvy, with more job postings trickling out of the multinational tech giant's own internal job site. Although Apple hasn't left us with many clues as to what they might be working on at their Santa...
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New Trailer Announces PlayStation VR Horror ‘White Day’

Koreans like their horror it seems, which means that the release of this new teaser trailer for ROI Games developed title White Day will likely be welcome indeed. The title has is about to launch on IOS and PC in Korea...

HTC and Valve Announces New VR Headset ‘Vive’ Partnership –Breaking

At HTC's 'Utopia' event at the Mobile World Conference, the company just announced a partnership with gaming giant Valve, seemingly including the production of a new VR headset. We're gathering info, but it seems the unit which comprises '70 sensors'...

Racing Game “Sprint Vector” is an Intense Workout with VR Locomotion that Just Works

Sprint Vector is an "adrenaline platformer" racing game that relies upon a unique locomotion technique of swinging your arms in order to run through an obstacle course. It's the latest game from Raw Data developer Survios, but with a...
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‘Psychonauts VR’ Experience Coming Exclusively to PlayStation VR – Breaking

Taking to the stage at PlayStation Experience, developer Double Fine has announced a Psychonauts VR experience which will be exclusive to PlayStation VR. Having recently announced a sequel to cult-classic Psychonauts (2005), Double Fine has just announced that the studio is also working...

AltspaceVR Seed Investment Tops $5.2 Million, Software Details Revealed Today at SVVR #13

Altspace VR has today announced significant follow-on funding to their initial investment round which more than doubles the company's seed funding, putting the total now at $5.2 million. The company, which has been largely in stealth mode, intends to...

Sony Supporting but Not Funding “Non-gaming content” for Morpheus, Says Yoshida

Shuhei Yoshida, President of Sony's Worldwide Studios, recently revealed that Sony won't be producing or funding any first-party "non-gaming content" for Project Morpheus. In a recent interview with GamesIndustry.biz, Yoshida revealed his thoughts on 360 videos, and their place within the...

5 Insights for New VR Developers from DreamWorks Animation Head of Technology Product Development

At Samsung's 2014 developer conference last week, Warren Mayoss, Head of Technology Product Development at DreamWorks Animation, took to the stage during the second day keynote to talk VR. Mayoss shared some of the initial work that DreamWorks has...

‘Recent History of VR’ Cartoon from Cloudhead Games is Fun if Incomplete

Resident programmer at Cloudhead Games has illustrated (literally) the huge progress that's been made in the last few years in VR hardware, culminating obviously in GDC 2015 and it's Valve Steam VR revelations. It's sometime difficult to take stock of...

One-on-one Consulting with Epic, Unity, and Oculus Available to VR Devs at Connect

Oculus' forthcoming Connect 2 conference is a resolutely developer focused event and these events, offering 1:1 face-time with experts in both Unity and Unreal engines, specifically on the mechanics of building a VR project, may just be the ticket...

Fallout 4 VR Shows that Triple-A VR will Bring Triple-A Prices, Pre-Order Now

At Bethesda's E3 briefing last night, the studio announced that Fallout 4 VR will be coming this year for the HTC Vive, but with AAA virtual reality PC content, comes prices to match. Update: A previous version of this article...
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‘Until Dawn: Rush of Blood’ is a New Horror FPS Coming to Playstation VR

Shuei Yoshida, Sony's president of its worldwide studio, announced a new game at Paris Games Week today targeted for the Playstation VR headset. The exclusive PSVR title is called Until Dawn: Rush of Blood. The newly revealed title from Supermassive Games is a first-person shooter that takes...

24 VR Startup Pitches, Launch Partner Presentations, Vive Demos and More, Tomorrow at VR Launchpad

VR Launchpad, the VR startup showcase, is upon us. Tomorrow the halls of the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA will be filled with a diverse group of hand-picked VR startups alongside investors, media, and VR influencers. And it's...
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