Kowloon Forest doesn’t look like most VR movies. Like so many other experiences, it capitalizes on the sense of scale you get inside a headset. But Kowloon Forest swaps out sweeping vistas and towering stone giants for the cramped confines of Hong Kong. It roots you in squashed apartments and dense city streets in unapologetically...
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Oculus Quest & Go Cloud Saves ‘On The Way’, Will Work Across Oculus Headsets
Cloud saves are coming to Oculus Quest, Oculus Go, and Samsung Gear VR — the Oculus platform mobile headsets. That’s according to Oculus CTO John Carmack on Twitter. Cloud saves are already available on the Oculus Rift store on PC. Developers can save game data to the cloud, and even if a user moves to...
AltSpaceVR Doesn’t Yet Meet Oculus Quest Store Requirements, Planned Launch ‘August’
Social VR platform AltSpaceVR will not be available on the Oculus Quest standalone headset at launch. The app does not currently meet the performance and polish requirements Facebook set out. AltSpace plan to have these issues addressed in time for a launch in August. The information was delivered live in VR by community manager Keegan...
Oculus Quest Social Strategy Unclear Three Weeks Before Launch
The Oculus Quest is less than three weeks away with its May 21 release date fast approaching. The $399 standalone VR headset allows users to freely move around their environments with complete 6DoF head tracking and positionally tracked controllers. At launch it will feature top-rated VR games such as Beat Saber and Superhot as well...
Oculus Quest Hit #1 Selling Video Games Product On Amazon
Preorders of the Oculus Quest VR headset on Amazon briefly hit the #1 top seller in the Video Games category this week. No VR headset has hit this position on Amazon except for the PlayStation VR. As of the time of this writing pre-orders for the standalone headset were hovering around the #10 spot in...
Takeaways from F8 and Facebook’s next phase
Extra Crunch offers members the opportunity to tune into conference calls led and moderated by the TechCrunch writers you read every day. This week, TechCrunch’s Josh Constine and Frederic Lardinois discuss major announcements that came out of Facebook’s F8 conference and dig into how Facebook is trying to redefine itself for the future. Though touted...
Valve Index Full Bundle Preorders Sold Out, Ships By September 30 In USA
Preorders for the $999 Valve Index full bundle have now fully sold out. The preorder button has been replaced with a Reserve button, with the full bundle reading “Ships by Sep 30, 2019” in the USA. In the USA, the initial shipment for the bundle sold out in less than 30 minutes. As of today...
Beat Saber Releases Origins Prototype For First Birthday
Break out the belated cake; yesterday was Beat Saber‘s first birthday! Yes, Beat Games’ Star Wars-aping rhythm action game first hit PC VR early access on May 1 2018. To celebrate the occasion, the studio released a rather intriguing little experience. Beat Saber Origins, as the piece is called, is simply a prototype version of...
Hands-On: Vader Immortal Trains You In Lightsaber Combat Just Like Luke Skywalker
A short slice of Vader Immortal shown at Facebook’s F8 developer’s conference offered a good look at how ILMxLab is using the Oculus Quest VR console. First off, Darth Vader is super intimidating in person. I’m over six feet tall and he towered above me with his hulking half-machine physique. Even if I moved my...
Oculus Quest Demos Will Be Available At Best Buy, Rift S Demos At Microsoft Stores
The best way to decide which VR headset to buy, or if you want one at all, is to try it yourself. If you’re interested in the upcoming Oculus Quest or Rift S, retailers will have demos for each headset starting at launch. The demos are USA-only for now, but hopefully they’ll arrive in more...