Another contender is stepping into the ring on Oculus Quest. Grab Games’ Knockout League hits the platform soon. The slapstick VR boxing game will launch on the standalone headset on October 17. An Oculus Store listing for the game confirms as much. Knockout League is a little different from other VR boxing games like Creed: […]
In an interview with AVSIM, the Head of Microsoft’s upcoming next generation Flight Simulator stated that the team will “try our darnedest” to add VR support. “Right after the E3 trailer came out there was a lot of people making that exact assumption, that ‘oh yeah this better be supporting VR right from the get […]
A seemingly uninteresting patent recently granted to Sony may reveal some features of the hotly-rumored new PSVR 2. Let’s Go Digital first spotted the patent for a ‘data processing device’. Now, the patent itself isn’t directly detailing a new version of PSVR, but some of the diagrams used to illustrate the patent reveal PSVR features […]
Facebook recently updated its Content Guidelines for Oculus Quest to include a new section titled “Oculus Platform Abuse Policy” that could affect certain types of sideloaded Quest content. For those unfamiliar, “sideloading” is the term generally applied to content loaded onto some types of modern computers from sources not explicitly approved by content reviewers. Facebook’s […]
After deciding he wanted to do more with his life than Candy Crush Saga, Tommy Palm cofounded Resolution Games in 2015. He started the company to make virtual reality games for mobile virtual reality, starting with the fishing game Bait!. VR platforms kept morphing under his feet, but Palm has expanded his reach to augmented reality and still kept a […]
A few weeks ago HTC finally revealed the release date and price for the HTC Vive Cosmos: October 3rd for $699. We tried it out briefly, but now after spending about a week with a review unit we’ve got our full and finalized review. To be perfectly honest the Vive Cosmos is in a difficult […]
At Oculus Connect 6 last week Facebook’s chief VR researcher revealed something you might have missed: his division is going to build an integrated next generation concept prototype VR headset. So far, Facebook Reality Labs has been revealing feature prototypes. These prototypes demonstrate one future technology such as varifocal or face tracking. But a next […]
We are all waiting for the predictions of Mike Abrash to come true. The head of Facebook’s Reality Lab believes virtual reality has the same potential as the personal computer, and that it will become the most powerful creative and collaborative environment ever. As he does each year, he pointed to a bright future in […]
This week at the Oculus Connect 6 (OC6) conference in San Jose, CA I got the chance to try out a brief demo of The Room VR: A Dark Matter from Fireproof Games, a newly announced entry in the long-running puzzle series. The Room VR was announced during OC6 and they had two demo pods […]
At Oculus Connect 6, Facebook’s chief VR researcher stated that the company won’t deliver a truly next generation VR headset “any time soon”. Abrash has spoken about his predictions for when a next generation VR headset will arrive on multiple occasions. His first concrete vision of a next generation headset was delivered at Oculus Connect […]