What launch of an innovative new game platform would be complete without a motion-controlled sports game? To fulfill that need, Oculus Studios and developer Armature bring to the Quest: Sports Scramble. A giant robot tennis ball with arms greets you to give you the ins and outs of the three sports available: Tennis, Baseball, and […]
Seattle-based startup Against Gravity is bringing social service Rec Room to iPhone and iPad soon with invites to a testing release slated to go out this month. The startup is offering a “Rec Room Mobile” signup page for potential access to a testing release of the service on iOS devices. “We will let you know […]
Curious about how we livestream the way we do? Then look no further than this handy guide for general tips and this guide specific to our Oculus Quest setup. Do you know what day it is? It’s the day before the Oculus Quest releases. Tomorrow the Oculus Quest standalone VR headset finally releases on May 21. So naturally we are back […]
Tactical Haptics will launch preorders for its Reactive Grip controller development kit on May 29. The controller uses “haptic feedback” to give you a sense of touch in applications such as virtual reality games. The hope is that the next big frontier for VR technology will be the sense of touch, as the visuals already do […]
The Oculus Quest standalone VR headset is getting the official YouTube VR app, Facebook and Google confirmed today. YouTube VR will join Job Simulator and Tilt Brush in the Quest launch lineup from Google. Vacation Simulator — Google’s newest VR app from its VR development studio Owlchemy Labs — should launch late this year on […]
Schell Games (creators of the highly successful I Expect You To Die) revealed a brand new VR action game earlier this year called Until You Fall. It’s a very different type of game as they have traded the slow-paced and comical puzzle-filled rooms of their spy adventure for fast-paced first-person sword-based combat. We still don’t […]
If you’ve ever tried to use augmented reality tools built with Apple’s ARKit or Google’s ARCore to measure real-world objects, you know that you’ll be lucky to get within an inch of their actual sizes — estimates that are of no practical value when measuring, say, shoe sizes for feet. So when Nike (via CNBC) says it has developed technology that will let its eponymous […]
Curious about how we livestream the way we do? Then look no further than this handy guide! Well, hello there! Yesterday we streamed mostly Vader Immortal and showed off a few other things in the Quest. For today, we’re back to streaming Oculus Quest stuff but this time we’re going to bounce around between various games and […]
The Oculus Quest standalone headset is getting a lot of attention this year, but PC-based VR is still where you’ll find the best graphics and biggest VR games. If you want to get a PC VR headset like Oculus Rift S, Valve Index, or Windows MR headsets here’s how to check if your PC is […]
As its high-resolution VR headsets tend to attract businesses and detail-focused customers, Pimax has been working on controllers with enough performance to match its displays. Today, the company announced two separate options — Sword and Sword Sense — which differ somewhat in features while sharing one big benefit: their batteries can be swapped on the fly, so users needn’t […]