UPDATE: this article has been updated to incorporate Oculus Rift S Facebook’s line-up of VR headsets is steadily growing. What’s the difference between the Oculus Rift S and Oculus Go? What’s the Oculus Quest? Which should you buy? Read on for our rundown of the current Oculus line-up. Oculus Rift S Rift S is a...
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Magic Leap Adds More AT&T Retail Stores, Reveals Game of Thrones Fan Swag
The Game of Thrones premiere is fast approaching, and along with it, Magic Leap has begun to unveil some of the fan-centric swag associated with its immersive experience based on the hit TV series. On Monday, a contributor to the unofficial Game of Thrones fan site Watchers on the Wall received a special Magic Leap...
Star Wars: Vader Immortal Tease May Hint At New Villain
Yesterday’s Oculus Quest sizzle reel held lots of surprises. We saw the reveal of new games like Creed: Rise to Glory and Vacation Simulator. Perhaps most excitingly, though, we got our first in-game look at Star Wars: Vader Immortal. The story-driven experience will debut on Quest later this year and will get a full reveal...
Hands-On: Dance Central VR Made Me Dance Like No One Was Watching
I’m not a good dancer. You can ask anyone that went to school with me, attended my wedding, or were ever unfortunate enough to witness me playing any of the various Just Dance or Dance Central games and they’ll all agree that I just can’t dance. But that didn’t stop me from having fun with...
Valve is building its own high-end VR headset called ‘Index’
Valve is ready to sell its own full VR hardware getup. The gaming giant behind some classic titles and the ubiquitous Steam store has revealed a teaser image on its site of a VR headset called the Valve Index. Alongside the photo, text reads “Upgrade your experience. May 2019” suggesting a near-term full announcement or...
Posemoji App Lets You Use Your Body to Create Augmented Reality Emoji & Designs
The great thing about augmented reality is that so much is possible using the emerging tools and software, your only real limit is your imagination — that includes making real versions of imagined products. We’re not sure where the idea for the new Posemoji app came from, but it looks like an amazing real-world AR...
Magic Leap Adds New Multi-User & Sharing Features, Improves Hand Tracking in Latest Lumin OS Update
After showing off a prototype of the Grordbattle multiplayer first-person shooter at the Game Developer Conference, Magic Leap has added a new Shared World feature in version 0.95.0 of the Lumin OS update released this week. Shared World, which is still an experimental beta feature, gives users the ability to opt into a shared spatial...
Valve Teases ‘Index’ VR Headset For May
Valve is teasing its VR headset for May. You can check it out right now on Steam, although there are currently no other details listed. The site at least partially confirms our report from late last year. Though we can’t see the full headset, the image does seem strikingly similar to leaked images of Valve’s headset....
Hands-On: Five Night’s At Freddy’s VR Is Just As Creepy As You’d Expect
Earlier this week we learned about the existence of an official Five Night’s at Freddy’s VR game dubbed Five Nights at Freddy’s: Help Wanted. Roughly half of the content will be remixed and adapted versions of levels from across the entire non-VR series and the rest is all new content. In total there are about 40...
Tokyo Chronos Makes The Case For VR Visual Novels With Middling Results
I’m always puzzled by the suggestion that VR ‘needs’ its version of some gaming genres. 3D visuals aside, what’s really gained by putting a turn-based strategy game into headsets? Or a JRPG? Moreover, does the obscure visual novel genre really need a VR equivalent? Tokyo Chronos argues it does, but it makes its case with...