Microsoft Reseach, in partnership with Cornell University, developed a range of techniques to make virtual reality accessible to the visually impaired. VR is a heavily visual medium. Most VR apps and games assume the user has full visual ability. But just like in real life, some users in virtual environments are visually impaired. In the...
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Space Ops Is A Sci-Fi Multiplayer Shooter Launching Next Month
We’ve had quite a nice break from all the shooty shooty bang bang, haven’t we? Lots of the best VR games of 2019 (so far) have been about things other than pulling the trigger. It’s been pleasant, but Space Ops VR promises to bring us back into the fray. This new shooter from Devcube Studio...
Vertigo Games Teases New Arizona Sunshine Reveal Tomorrow
Arizona Sunshine developer Vertigo Games is teasing on Twitter “breaking news” for the franchise tomorrow. Arizona Sunshine is a zombie survival shooter with a voice acted singleplayer campaign and co-op horde mode. We gave it 8.5/10 in our review when it launched, calling it “the best overall zombie shooter we’ve seen yet in VR”. Even...
Google & Childish Gambino Follow Up Pixel Playground Hit with Pharos AR App
Google is going all in with Childish Gambino as its musical champion for augmented reality, as the duo has now dropped its second AR collaboration of the year. After Google launched his Playmoji for Pixel’s Playground app earlier this year, Gambino, the musical alter ego of entertainment multi-threat Donald Glover, released the multiplayer augmented reality...
PS Plus Sale Discounts 20 PSVR Games Until April 30th
Today Sony unveiled a huge sale on the PSN Store that discounts nearly 300 different digital games across PS4, PSVR, and PS3. If you filter the list down to just PSVR games it totals out to exactly 20. The catch here is that this sale is only for PS Plus subscribers. Discounts range from 25%...
Immortal Legacy: The Jade Cipher Review – A Decent Step Forward For The Chinese VR Scene
Sony’s China Hero initiative holds promise. It’s a PlayStation-run incubator designed to nurture talent from an emerging market that often puts style ahead of substance. Chinese-developed games like Reboant offer some of VR’s most striking visuals, but last mere minutes. Others like Seeking Dawn promise hours of gameplay that are padded out with laborious crafting...
Ballista Is Oculus Studios’ Latest Quest Title From High Voltage
Remember High Voltage Software? We haven’t seen them in a spell but they were behind enjoyable Oculus Rift exclusives like Dragon Front and Damaged Core. The team’s making its long-awaited return for the upcoming Oculus Quest headset, though. The team today announced Ballista as part of Oculus’ Quest countdown series. In the game, you have...
PokerStars VR Is Coming To Oculus Quest
If you’re a Poker fan we have good news for you- PokerStars VR is coming to the upcoming Oculus Quest $399 standalone VR headset. The non-VR PokerStars is the largest online real-money Poker platform in the world, with around two thirds market share. The company worked with developer Lucky VR to launch a virtual reality...
Hands-On: Angry Birds AR: Isle of Pigs Reinvents the Franchise for Mobile, but Smartglasses Are Its Destiny
Finland-based Rovio, one of the pioneers of mobile gaming, is now ready to break new ground in augmented reality with its Angry Birds franchise. Along with its AR development partner, Sweden-based Resolution Games, the publisher is following up Angry Birds FPS: First Person Slingshot for the Magic Leap One with a return to its mobile...
New Falcon Age Update Addresses Some Of The Game’s Biggest Issues
We really liked Falcon Age, the VR debut from Outerloop Games, but it wasn’t without its issues. This week’s first update to the PSVR adventure addresses some of the bigger ones. A heck of a lot of tweaking has been done here, largely for the game’s control scheme. You can now switch hands for locomotion...