It’s time to get hype; The Upload Holiday VR Showcase is coming your way at 9am PT/12pm ET/5pm BT on November 27 2019. Yup, we finally have a time to add to the date we announced alongside the VR Download and Culture Show last month. If you’re in the US be sure to be up […]
A new application package on the Oculus Quest seems to indicate that the device may receive a feature called the ‘Oculus Assistant’ in a future update. The application appears in the Quest’s v10 firmware, listed under the ‘Unknown Sources’ tab of the library for those who have enabled Developer Mode on their device. The package […]
Today Owlchemy Labs released a major update for Vacation Simulator that adds in subtitles for multiple languages along with a slew of visual enhancements to aid accessibility for players. Supported subtitle languages include English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, and Spanish which is a great selection of option for players around the world. Coincidentally, the news […]
RGB Haptics is a new Unity package which enables developers to easily add high quality haptics to their VR apps and games. RGB Haptics was developed by a Seattle based startup called RGB Schemes, which develops VR games and developer tools. The startup was inspired by seeing Nintendo’s use of haptics for its “HD Rumble” […]
Audio Trip is out now in Early Access on Steam and we’ve spent a few days putting this latest VR rhythm action game through its paces. Read on to find out how it fares! “Does VR really need another rhythm action game?”, you might be asking yourself right now. It seems like VR developers really […]
Welcome to Live in VR! Our weekly roundup of everything that’s happening in headsets for you to enjoy with your eye holes! This week we’ve got lots of esports to check out in Venues, some Halloween-focused goodies in Bigscreen, and lots of productive talks and meetups in Altspace. Oculus Venues ESL One: Hamburg 2019 – […]
In Steven Spielberg’s 2018 adaptation of Ernest Cline’s 2011 novel Ready Player One, on the Planet Doom in the network of simulated places known as The OASIS there’s a climactic battle for control over that fictional multiverse. In the film, set decades in the future, fans of The OASIS run down physical streets decked out […]
You could perceive it to be a bad week for VR. Firstly, Google confirmed that its new Pixel smartphone won’t be supporting its Daydream VR platform. In fact, it’s outright stopped selling the Daydream View, essentially acknowledging its demise. Shortly thereafter, the BBC announced the closure of its VR Hubs, confirming it will no longer […]
A new firmware update for Oculus Quest improves the quality, stability, and latency of TV casting as well as adding support for more cast devices. Oculus Quest included the ability to cast the headset’s view to a TV since the headset launched back in May, using Google’s Cast technology. However, it only supported three Cast […]
Asgard’s Wrath is one of the medium’s richest action RPGs to date (read our review here), and as such, it is positively teeming with secrets and hidden quests to find. That said, the biggest and best side quests in Asgard’s Wrath are stored away in optional dungeons, called Labyrinths. While many treasures and points of […]