2023 Sections
Immersive Web Company Infinite Reality Raises $3 Billion From a Private Investor
Infinite Reality, a company building an engine for creating immersive web content underpinned with WebXR support, announced it has raised a whopping $3 billion to continue building the company's "vision for the next generation of the internet." Not only...
Relaxing Adventure ‘Arca’s Path’ Launches on All Major VR Headsets, Trailer Here
Arca's Path VR, a single-player VR maze game produced by Rebellion and developed by Dream Reality Interactive, is launching today on all major VR platforms including HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, Windows VR, PSVR, Oculus Go, Gear VR, and HTC Vive Focus.
As a controller-free...
SteamVR Gets a New Dashboard, Finally Ditching Steam Big Picture
From very early on, the SteamVR dashboard had adapted Steam's 'Big Picture' mode which was designed for use on big screen TV's rather than in VR. As it wasn't made with VR in mind, much of its functionality is...
New Startup Artie Wants to Bring AI-driven Avatars to Augmented Reality
Former Felix & Paul chief content officer Ryan Horrigan and former Milk VR and VRSE.works producer Armando Kirwin have banded together to found Artie, a new startup with the mission of bringing AI avatars to augmented reality.
In the video...
‘Sprint Vector’ Review – Innovative Locomotion Makes Adrenaline-soaked Foot Racing a Reality
Sprint Vector (2018) is a VR racing game of a different stripe. Dubbed an "adrenaline platformer" by production studio Survios, the developers behind Raw Data (2017), it actually sticks to some pretty well-established arcade racing tropes pioneered by the Mario Kart franchise. Still, it's...
How to Tell if Your PC is VR Ready
With affordable PC-compatible headsets like Quest 2 and soon even PSVR 2 support, it's easy to jump into PC VR. For the gamers considering purchasing a PC VR headset, one major question marks the starting point on your journey...
Upcoming VR Flight Combat Sim ‘Aces of Thunder’ Expected to Launch This Year
Gaijin Entertainment, the studio behind War Thunder (2013), announced that its upcoming aerial VR combat game Aces of Thunder is headed to PSVR 2 and PC VR headsets sometime this year.
Announced in 2023, Aces of Thunder was originally supposed to launch in...
Zynga Veterans Unveil New VR Studio ‘ForeVR’, Announces $1.5M Seed Funding
A new VR studio founded by a pair of Zynga veterans has emerged from stealth with some not-so-inconsequential funding. Called ForeVR, the studio recently revealed it's also raised $1.5 million to build VR games for all ages. The news was...
Students Create Real World AdBlock, Keeps Your Augmented Reality Ad-Free
The University of Pennsylvania's winter hackathon, PennApps, is now over, and we're not surprised to see a few VR experiences in the winners circle. Brand Killer, an application running on a custom-built VR headset, was unfortunately not among them, but...
Pico Shutdown Rumors are False, Says Parent Company ByteDance
A recent rumor, which alleged that TikTok parent company ByteDance is slated to spin down its XR hardware subsidiary Pico Interactive, is false, the company says.
China-based publication EqualOcean reported late last week that ByteDance is set to "gradually abandon the PICO...
Co-op ‘Ghostbusters’ VR Game ‘Rise of the Ghost Lord’ Coming to Quest 2 & PSVR 2...
First revealed at the Quest Gaming Showcase back in April as Ghostbusters VR, Sony Pictures Virtual Reality and nDreams today unveiled the name of their upcoming four-player co-op: Ghostbusters: Rise of the Ghost Lord. The game is slated to...
New Meta R&D Reveals Shortcut to Ultra-wide Retina Resolution Holographic Displays in XR
Researchers from Meta Reality Labs, Princeton University, and others have published a new paper detailing a method for achieving ultra-wide field-of-view holographic displays with retina resolution. The method drastically reduces the display resolution that would otherwise be necessary to...
Gabe Newell on Brain-computer Interfaces: ‘We’re way closer to The Matrix than people realize’
Gabe Newell, co-founder of Valve, sat down with IGN for a chat about the company, the promise of VR, and Newell's most bleeding edge project as of late, brain-computer interfaces (BCI).
"Personally, the area I'm spending a lot of time on has...
Hands-on: Reactive Grip Haptic Controller Prototype with Vive Tracker, Touch, and Custom SteamVR Tracking
Tactical Haptics, developers of the Reactive Grip controller, are showing their latest prototypes now with attachments for the Vive Tracker, Oculus Touch, and a custom-built SteamVR Tracking solution. The controller employs a unique solution to haptic feedback which aims...
‘Vive N Chill’ Soon to Double Crowdfunding Goal with 2 Weeks Remaining
ViveNchill, the intriguing new bolt-on dual-fan cooling solution for the HTC Vive, has begun its crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo.
Update (7/17/17): The ViveNchill Indiegogo is now at 193% of its $5,000 goal. With 13 days remaining, the campaign appears on track to...



















