It’d be fair to say the Kickstarter campaign for Cyan’s new VR game, Firmament, is going a little slower than anticipated. But the Myst developer just added some enticing stretch goals that might help its cause. In a Kickstarter update this week the company announced a stretch goal to add PS4 support for the game...
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Bigscreen Update Adds 8-Bit, CRT And Night Mode
The social VR app Bigscreen is adding a few new visual options in The Filters Update and one of them is designed with the intent to make your transition out of VR a bit smoother once you’re ready to remove your HMD. The suppresses melatonin, the hormone that regulates sleep-wake cycles, so Night Mode might...
VR Game Releases For April 2019
Every month we aim to round up each and every VR game release for you in one single place — this is April’s list. Check the bolded entries for ones we feel are particularly worth your time. With the door closed on March, we’ve just been a solid month of VR content. Between the surprise release of...
From PC To Standalone: Apex Construct Studio Goes In-Depth On Quest Development
Oculus Quest solves a lot of VR’s biggest issues. It removes the need for expensive PCs, cumbersome wires and external tracking. But there are inevitable trade-offs, the biggest of which being power. Quest’s mobile hardware (powered by a Snapdragon 835 chip) just isn’t as powerful as a PC or even a PS4. Without having extensive...
The definitive Niantic reading guide
In just a few years, Niantic has evolved from internal side project into an independent industry trailblazer. Having reached tremendous scale in such a short period of time, Niantic acts as a poignant crash course for founders and company builders. As our EC-1 deep-dive into the company shows, lessons from the team’s experience building the...
How To Fix Custom Songs And Mods In Beat Saber Using BeatMods
The recent release of Beat Saber’s first paid DLC Music Pack brought with it a ton of changes that rolled out for free to all players on all platforms — including PC. This meant lots of new features and a more polished interface, but it also meant changes to the game’s structure and files in...
80s Stealth Game The Spy Who Shrunk Me Now Has Free VR Support
Finnish game studio Catland has announced immediate VR support for its tongue-in-cheek VR stealth game The Spy Who Shrunk Me and set a date for Taphouse 2: The Taphousening, a sequel to the free-to-play bar tending simulator, which will also receive VR support. It’s coming later this summer. Source: 80s Stealth Game The Spy Who...
Every Oculus Store Game With Cross-Buy Between Rift and Quest (Announced So Far)
Some time in the next few months, Facebook will launch Oculus Quest– a standalone VR headset with room-scale positional tracking and Oculus Touch controllers. Quest is primarily intended for people who don’t already own a gaming PC. But if you do own a PC and a Rift already, you might be wondering if you’ll have...
The Exorcist: Legion VR Is Coming To Oculus Quest
Oculus Quest’s 2019 line-up is looking stronger by the day, but one of VR’s most popular genres has been strangely subdued on the device thus far. Horror games, one of the most powerful VR experiences out there, have only been represented by Face Your Fears 2 thus far. Well good news, scare fans; Quest is...
Patrick Stewart Stars In First Trailer For Oculus Quest’s Shadow Point
Back at GDC in March we were introduced to Shadow Point, the latest from Esper developer Coatsink. As with a lot of Quest games, though, gameplay footage is being kept under wraps. Today we can show you a bit more of it with this first trailer. As you’ve probably heard, Shadow Point stars none other...