Last year, while on stage giving my TEDx Talk on the immortalising power of VR, I found myself saying this: “Imagine if, ten years after her death, I could relive the memory of my grandma teaching me how to waltz in her living room? And imagine if, even decades after she passed away she could […]
Manus, the VR company that offers enterprise-level hand-tracking solutions, this week revealed a new full-body tracking solution to complement its existing offerings. Called Manus Polygon, the system works using Vive Tracker pucks. The original Manus solutions already use two of these sensors attached to the backs of your hands to track their positions in virtual […]
When sending an Oculus party invite to a friend who isn’t in VR, they will now receive a notification to their phone. If this notification is accepted, they will auto-join the party upon putting on the Quest. This improvement won’t mean anything to those who choose not to have a Facebook account, of course. Without […]
Second chances. Not everyone gets one. And yet, in Half-Life: Alyx, Valve finds itself with an embarrassment of them. Forget all that ‘back from the dead’ stuff for a minute; you don’t need me to tell you Half-Life has been away for a very long time. More pressing is the make-or-break moment Alyx represents for […]
VR fitness app BoxVR is releasing its first DLC next week, and it’s coming just in time. The Essentials Pack is arriving on Oculus Quest on March 26 for $9.99. Included in the pack are new workout regimes and new songs to box to. 60 minutes of new music is included overall, spanning a range […]
Facebook’s Oculus developer documentation website leaked the code name for a future headset, with a new controller, and the existence of a ‘First Access’ program for some developers. The text showed up on several pages of the developer documentation, with the following message. It was first spotted in a screenshot posted to reddit. UploadVR verified […]
Not many VR games allow you to roam and jump around freely like traditional non-VR games often do, but Orion13 hopes to give players access to that. The first-person VR hack-and-slash title aims to deliver a full-fledged story-based action game to VR players, and during PAX East 2020, I got the chance to run through […]
There aren’t many more panic inducing activities then being trapped in a chaotic situation with little options to free yourself. If you happen to find yourself trapped on a malfunctioning space station and only have your crew to fly on, as you do in Spaceteam VR, then the situation is even worse. During PAX East […]
Nreal is teasing an enterprise-focused standalone AR headset for launch in Q4 2020, a variant of its Nreal Light AR glasses. The company released a darkened concept image of the headset, which we’ve brightened here: This would be Nreal’s second product. Their first, Nreal Light , is pair of AR glasses intended for consumers. Nreal […]
Last month at PAX East we had the chance to check out a preview build of Sniper Elite VR from Rebellion on PSVR using the PS Aim Controller, similar to the demo we played from E3 2019. The Sniper Elite series has earned a strong reputation as of late with its easy-to-play format and iconic […]