VR Short Film ‘Asteroids!’ from Baobab Studios Now Available
Interactive VR short film Asteroids!, the follow-up to Emmy award-winning VR short Invasion! (2016) is now available for Gear VR, Daydream, and Windows MR headsets. From the director of the Madagascar...
View ArticleOculus Now Lets Gear VR Devs Post Notifications to Better Communicate With...
For developers, it’s not easy grabbing a player’s attention when their game is getting a big update, or an important in-game event is about to happen. In effort to remedy this, Oculus is opening up...
View Article‘Oculus Venues’ Live Event App Now Available on Go and Gear VR, Event...
Oculus Venues, the social app that allows ‘thousands of users’ to watch live events en masse in VR, is now available on Oculus Go and Gear VR starting today. The company has also published a full list...
View ArticlePopular Mobile Shooter ‘Zombie Gunship’ Now Available on Oculus Go & Gear VR
Limbic Software’s popular Zombie Gunship franchise is finally making its way from Android to VR in Zombie Gunship Raptor (2018), a first-person, helicopter-based zombie shooter for Oculus Go and Gear...
View ArticleLatest Gear VR + Controller Combo Now $90 for Limited Time
Last month’s launch of Oculus Go, the $200 standalone VR headset, has stolen much of the virtual limelight as of late, but owners of recent Samsung flagship phones can still get in on many of the new...
View ArticleWatch World Cup 2018 Matches for Free in ‘Oculus Venues’ Starting This Weekend
The World Cup is due to kick off today, and Oculus announced that US residents will be able to watch select matches of the quadrennial football championship for free in Oculus Venues, the company’s...
View ArticleOculus Announces Asymmetric Co-op Heist Game ‘Covert’ for Oculus Go & Gear VR
Los Angeles-based White Elk Studios, a team founded by former members of the God of War team, and Oculus Studios today announced a new co-op game called Covert. The couch co-op game is said to feature...
View ArticleSpell-caster ‘The Wizards: Trials of Meliora’ Comes to Oculus Go & Gear VR,...
Carbon Studio, the Poland-based studio behind PC VR games The Wizards (2018) and Alice VR (2017), just brought a new single-player game to Oculus Go, Gear VR, and Xiaomi Mi VR. Dubbed The Wizards:...
View ArticleCoatsink’s ‘They Suspect Nothing’ to Get First Big DLC Next Month, Including...
They Suspect Nothing (2018), the Oculus Go & Samsung Gear VR title from Coatsink Software, is getting its first big DLC since it initially launched back in May. Dubbed ‘Overclocked’ DLC, the...
View ArticleOculus Now Lets You Record Abusive Behavior on Go & Gear VR
Oculus released an update yesterday that brought screen casting to its standalone VR headset, Oculus Go. In a measure to increase user safety on the platform, the company also launched a new security...
View ArticleSamsung Reportedly to Release “multiple AR and VR products” in Coming Months
Samsung hasn’t really said much about VR since the release of Samsung Odyssey+, the hardware refresh to its Windows Mixed Reality headset that came to market in October 2018. However at Augmented World...
View ArticleQuest Gets ‘Oculus Venues’, Finally Connecting Quest Users with Oculus Go &...
While Oculus Quest was devoid of any of Facebook’s social VR applications at launch, Oculus Venues is finally available for the headset. That means that, for the first time, Quest users will have a...
View ArticleOculus CTO Explains Why “Gear VR’s days are numbered”
Oculus CTO John Carmack took to the stage at Oculus Connect 6 to give his patented stream-of-thought speech. Here, he gave what he called a “eulogy for Gear VR,” as he detailed the failings, and some...
View ArticleSamsung is Terminating Its VR Video Apps on All Devices
With the end of Samsung Gear VR, it seems the South Korean tech giant is also doing away with its VR video apps as well. The company is ending service for all of its Samsung XR apps across the web,...
View ArticleFacebook is Retiring Oculus Go, Announces New Content Distribution Platform...
Facebook announced that, at the end of this year, it will officially retire Oculus Go, its 3DOF standalone headset. In early 2021, the company will also be making way for more apps on Quest with a new...
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