Every week the UploadVR team puts together the new releases for all of the VR platforms. The HTC Vive and Oculus Rift’s are often pretty extensive with games spread across genres and plenty of non-gaming experiences like short films and experimental forms of education. Getting closer to the Holidays, it’s expected that all of the...
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Oculus Nearly Matched The Original ‘Gears of War’ Budget To Fund Epic’s ‘Robo Recall’
Oculus is one of the most prolific stimulators of virtual reality content in the industry today. The Facebook-owned company has been funding VR games and projects for years now through Oculus Studios. In October, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg finally put some numbers onto these ongoing efforts when he revealed that his company had spent $250 million on...
Designing a VR Escape Room Puzzle Game with ‘I Expect You to Die’
VR escape room games are one of the emerging genres that are particularly well-suited for the affordances of VR, and Schell Games’ I Expect You to Die sets the standard for creating this type of puzzle game. I had a chance to catch up with game design director Shawn Patton at GDC in March where...
Hideo Kojima Thinks Devs Are Doing VR Wrong But Won’t Say How To Do It Right
It should come as no surprise that a games industry veteran like Hideo Kojima is excited about VR. What is interesting, though, is what he makes of VR experiences so far. Simply put, he doesn’t sound too impressed. The Metal Gear Solid creator was recently quizzed about VR by IGN Japan, and, according to a...
What VR Headset Makers (not analysts) Have Actually Said About Sales Expectations
If you’re at all involved in the VR space, you likely recently saw a flurry of downtrodden headlines describing “slow,” and “modest,” holiday VR headset sales, with some even calling VR “the biggest loser this holiday.” The impetus of those headlines was a major revision of research firm Superdata’s PlayStation VR sales projections issued on November...
Oculus Launches Developer Preview Of Its WebVR Browser, ‘Carmel’, On Gear VR
Oculus revealed its very own VR web browser, Carmel, back at Oculus Connect 3 in October. Now, you can get a taste of what it offers. Carmel is now available as a Developer Preview in the Gallery Apps section for Gear VR. As the name suggests, the current release is designed for those looking to...
Pixvana’s New Spin Studio Wants To Be Your 360-Degree Video Editing Suite
Pixvana will launch the beta for a new suite of tools designed for virtual reality professionals to stitch, edit, publish and distribute 360-degree content in Q1 2017. Spin Studio includes Spin Publisher and Spin Player, which soft-launched in September, and the new Spin Stitch, Spin Story and Spin Finish. Spin Stitch syncs and stitches clips...
‘Layers of Fear Solitude’ Review: Ho-Hum Horror For Daydream
Just like almost any other horror game made in the last five or so years, Layers of Fear seems perfectly suited to VR support. Bloober Team’s first-person chiller released on PC and console earlier this year to a decent reception. Critics and players loved the mind games the developer played with them, and the haunting...
Get $100 in Free VR Games When You Buy an NVIDIA GPU and HTC Vive
Haven’t decided whether to pull out the credit card and buy the VR system of your dreams yet? Well, NVIDIA is making it that much harder this holiday season with a new bundle that includes three highly rated games for free when you buy a GeForce GTX 1080, 1070, or 1060 GPU and an HTC...
Exclusive: ‘Perfect’ Wants To Be The VR App You Show Your Grandma This Christmas
I was talking to a friend the other night about VR fatigue, and how some of the initial wonder had washed away. The best VR is still incredible, but there are some apps that just don’t pull me in the way they used to. In response, he reminded me that any VR software, no matter...
