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The Oculus Quest is an impressive standalone VR headset that lets you wirelessly enter games from anywhere with full 6DOF positional tracking. One of the only drawbacks to a wireless device is that there is no screen to show what you’re doing such as with a PC monitor or a PSVR connected to a TV....

Early into my Red Dead Redemption 2 career, I happened upon a woman caught beneath her horse. Not yet having established if I would play saint or sinner, I did the decent thing and helped her to her feet. She then asked if I could give her a ride back home, and I was only...

It’s an incredibly frustrating feeling when an immersive VR experience is ruined by a smudge or spec of dust on your optical lens. Instead of reaching for whatever cloth is hanging around and hoping for the best, LensPen is a solution designed to remove blemishes from AR and VR headsets. The company is aiming to...

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...

Ever since I first cracked open the box of my Oculus Quest review unit a few weeks ago I’ve loved using it daily. Getting in and out of VR has never been easier and finally there’s a device that delivers high-quality experiences of the same or similar caliber that we’ve seen on headsets like Rift,...

With the Oculus Quest due to release in just a few more days we’ve got some fresh gameplay from one of its upcoming brand new titles: Ballista from High Voltage. In this game you’ll launch projectiles (often times that includes birds) at fortresses guarding a glowing crystal. Instead of destroying evil pigs like in Angry...

Firewall Zero Hour continues to provide the most engaging competitive first-person shooting experience on PSVR thus far, offering a wide variety of tactical loadout options and a sense of progression that almost decidedly lifts its replayability factor far above many of its counterpart PCVR shooters. On the other hand, assuming you’re a new player, it...

On May 21, Facebook will launch Oculus Quest– a standalone VR headset with room-scale positional tracking and Oculus Touch controllers. Quest is primarily intended for people who don’t already own a gaming PC. But if you do own a PC and a Rift already, you might be wondering if you’ll have to purchase games, experiences,...

As last week’s tease basically confirmed, Microsoft has just announced a Minecraft AR game. It’s called Minecraft Earth and it’s free-to-play. It’s not an extension of the original game but instead an entirely new project. That might sound like an immediate turn-off, but a lot of Minecraft Earth looks pretty intriguing. The game brings many...