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At long last, we have our first real glimpse of Star Wars: Vader Immortal Episode 1. The first proper glimpse of the game was revealed at the Star Wars Celebration event in Chicago today. There’s a lot to unpack but let’s start with the good news; the experience is coming to the Oculus Rift S...

Facebook is on the path to platform lock-in with Oculus Quest. In case you are unfamiliar with the concept, “customer lock-in” is an economics idea that “makes a customer dependent on a vendor for products and services, unable to use another vendor without substantial switching costs.” With the standalone Oculus Quest, Facebook is funding Oculus Studios projects for both Oculus Quest...

VRChat today released the requirements for Oculus Quest compatible worlds and avatars. VRChat is a large scale social VR app with lots of user-created and uploaded custom content. It could be thought of as a preliminary metaverse. The platform was announced for Quest 2 weeks ago. However no specific details were given at the time...

DCS World Senior Producer Matt Wagner now has an Oculus Rift S, and he seems highly impressed with its improved resolution over the original. DCS (Digital Combat Simulator) World is a combat flight simulation game. You pilot a range of military aircraft in training and combat simulations. The base game is free-to-play and includes two...

More clues about what to expect from the upcoming Star Wars: Vader Immortal may rest within another VR story from ILMxLAB. Star Wars: Secrets of the Empire, the excellent location-based VR experience from The Void, apparently sets up the upcoming VR series. That is according to Vicki Dobbs Beck, Executive in Charge at ILMxLAB, who...

Own a PSVR? One day you might be able to spectate esports leagues from inside virtual reality. Sony recently filed a patent application titled “Spectator View Into An Interactive Gaming World Showcased In A Live Event Held In A Real-World Venue”. The patent describes using an array of cameras to make the VR user feel...

Wolf & Wood have confirmed a launch date for A Chair in a Room: Greenwater on PSVR for later this month on April 23rd. I first reviewed A Chair in a Room: Greenwater on the HTC Vive almost three years ago. Back then the HTC Vive was the only roomscale VR platform on the market since...

Pour one out for Seeking Dawn’s PSVR support today, folks. After almost a year of uncertainty as well as announcement of a “playable” PSVR build four months ago, Multiverse has officially decided to cancel the planned PSVR port of co-op first-person VR shooter, Seeking Dawn.  The news was first spotted by theVRgrid on Reddit which we...

During the company’s annual “next@acer” conference, Acer announced a new Microsoft-based headset with 2K per eye (4K overall) resolution and physical lens separation adjustment. High Resolution, IPD Adjustment Called ConceptD OJO, the headset uses dual 2160×2160 LCD panels. That means they might be the same panels used in the HP Reverb. Whereas the Reverb’s lenses are...