Virtual & Augmented Reality news

With Stormland finally launching this week you may find yourself wondering how the game’s co-op features work and especially the ‘Cycling World’, which aims to keep the game feeling fresh from week to week. We went straight to developer Insomniac Games for the rundown.Stormland is here; we gave the game a hearty 9 out of 10 in our full review, thanks in large part to satisfying combat, an innovative open world structure that feels truly at home in VR, and full-featured co-op fo

Look! Up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a bioengineered robotic Superman!I’m in the middle of a high-speed surf across an endless sea of white clouds, my arms extended forward like Superman as I steer towards a nearby island littered with eroded structures. I arrive at the base of a large cliff and immediately begin climbing my way up the 90-degree rock wall. Using an arm attachment I discovered earlier in the game, I’m able to whip myself up large port

We’ve rounded up all of the best Black Friday 2019 sales and deals for VR. This list will be continuously updated throughout the month of November and has all deals for all headset platforms, accessories, and hardware.
This year Thanksgiving falls on Thursday, November 28th, which makes Black Friday November 29th. However, ‘Black Friday’ is just a marketing term nowadays and doesn’t actually mean the sales start on that Friday.
In many cases in the weeks leading up to the

The Climb is officially launching on Oculus Quest on December 3, according to a Facebook spokesperson.This VR climbing game was developed by Crytek back in 2016 for the original PC-based Oculus Rift. It was originally developed for the Xbox controller, the Rift’s input before Touch controllers were released. However of course upon the release of Touch the game received a day one patch with full support.The Climb on Oculus Rift. NOTE that graphics will not look like this on Quest!We gave Th

Fast Travel Games has just launched a new exciting VR title called “The Curious Tale Of The Stolen Pets” in virtual reality.This new experience is an interactive tale of childlike wonder. Players will be helping your grandfather solve the mystery of the stolen pets by exploring the unique miniature worlds in virtual reality.
Guided by the voice of your grandfather, you will travel back to the imaginative adventures of your childhood and the worlds you created together. The experience

The Oculus Link beta and forthcoming support for hand-tracking are poised to completely change the VR market.
Facebook’s all-in-one VR headset, Oculus Quest, went on sale in May 2019 for $400 and it is safe to say now, in November, it owned the standalone VR category by itself this year. There’s simply no other device I could recommend people put on their heads with the same ease of setup and roster of games including incredible genre-defining titles like Beat Saber, Pistol Whip, and

From Tender Claws, the studio behind Virtual Virtual Reality (2017), and the New York-based live theater company Pie Hole comes The Under Presents, something its creators call “part game, part theater, part extravaganza.”The Under Presents doesn’t have an official launch date yet, although the studios say that it should land on Oculus Quest “very soon.”
First debuted at Sundance earlier this year, The Under Presents presents a bit of a mashup between

At Lenovo’s Tech World conference in Beijing, the Chinese tech giant unveiled a new AR headset prototype that aims to appeal to business travelers on-the-go.Officially called the Lenovo AR Concept Glasses, the headset features a relatively small and sleek profile, no doubt in part because the headset connects to a PC via cable, meaning it likely doesn’t hold an on-board SoC like Microsoft’s HoloLens. The news was first reported by German publication MIXED.
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Like all Oculus Studios titles, Stormland officially only supports the Oculus platform. Revive, an unofficial mod, has been a reliable way to get Oculus exclusive games to work on SteamVR headsets like Index and Vive, but Stormland didn’t work with Revive at launch. A future update is expected to bring compatibility.Update (November 15th, 2019): With the blessings of Revive developer CrossVR, YouTuber ‘CircuitLord’ has posted a quick fix that should get you playing St

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