Microsoft just launched a brand new app for its Windows VR and HoloLens headsets, but you’d be forgiven for missing it. Outings was released quietly onto the Microsoft Store yesterday. It’s a new take on Microsoft Garage’s mobile app of the same name, released in conjunction with a new software development kit (SDK). A quick...
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Hands-On: Make It Rain Music In Deemo Reborn On PSVR
Fans of rhythm games have likely heard of Deemo, the 2013 mobile title that allowed players to turn their phone into a piano and play along to various tracks. Thanks to the success and longevity of the game, developer Rayark has set their sights on virtual reality, and will be bringing the franchise to PSVR...
Paper Beast Is A Fascinating PSVR Game From The Maker Of Another World
Today I Learned: Eric Chahi, the developer behind 1991 classic adventure title, Another World, is still making games. Not only that, but Chahi is actually making his first VR game, Paper Beast, and it looks fascinating. Paper Beast looks both remarkably different and, in other ways, very similar to Another World, though. The game, developed...
Ghost Giant Review: A Bold And Brave Adventure That Hides A VR Treasure
Ghost Giant has all the warmth and wonder you’ve come to expect from VR storytelling. It’s got a twee diorama world of small miracles to explore, cutesy characters to fall in love with and even a handful of subversive themes to pick apart. It doesn’t take long to fall for these charms. But Zoink Games’...
Racket: Nx Is Coming To Oculus Quest, Supports Cross-Buy With Rift
Racket: Nx, the game described as “racquetball meets breakout”, is coming to the Oculus Quest standalone VR system. The developers, One Hamsa, filmed a new trailer for Quest in their home country of Israel. They shot it playing outside in the desert and edited in a sci-fi background. It is just an advertisement but this...
Harry Potter, the Platform, and the Future of Niantic
What is Niantic? If they recognize the name, most people would rightly tell you it’s a company that makes mobile games, like Pokémon GO, or Ingress, or Harry Potter: Wizards Unite. But no one at Niantic really seems to box it up as a mobile gaming company. Making these games is a big part of...
Snapchat Summons Dragons from Westeros to New York for Game of Thrones AR Promo
Spring is here across the US, but, through the lens of Snapchat and augmented reality, winter is coming to New York. After debuting a Game of Thrones AR experience at SXSW, HBO has now taken advantage of Snapchat’s new Landmarker technology to promote the forthcoming final season of Game of Thrones, which airs on Sunday....
Here’s What Information Facebook Stores About Oculus Web Browsing Activity
Oculus Quest and Oculus Go are bringing a lot of new buyers to VR headsets in 2019 and that means a lot of new people using the Oculus Browser to surf the Web. For those unfamiliar, the Oculus Browser lets you visit any normal web page while also including support for virtual worlds built with...
Blade & Sorcery: How One Man Redefined VR Melee Combat Physics
Even though it’s still just in Early Access, Blade & Sorcery is an emerging sandbox VR combat game that’s been gaining a lot of attention as of late. The gladiatorial combat simulator is the brainchild of solo developer KospY, under his studio WarpFrog, and has been available to public audiences since December 2018. It was...
Facebook Workers Put ‘Big Brother Is Watching’ Inside Oculus Touch Dev Kit
Oculus founder Nate Mitchell posted three tweets revealing people working on the Oculus Touch controllers buried “easter eggs” inside the housing of “tens of thousands of Touch controllers.” Here are the tweets: Unfortunately, some “easter egg” labels meant for prototypes accidentally made it onto the internal hardware for tens of thousands of Touch controllers. [1/3]...