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Facebook’s new VR headset, Oculus Rift S, brings a lot of additions to the table. But it’s also taking away a few things over the original Rift. One such feature is the ability to adjust the interpupillary distance (IPD) mechnically. IPD simply refers to the distance between your eyes. Everyone has different measurements and that...

Today Facebook brought two of its categories of VR headsets a little closer together. The Oculus Quest standalone headset and the newly-announced Rift S PC VR device both sport inside out tracking. They’re also both due to launch this spring. With the two devices so closely aligned, it looks like Oculus is ushering in a...

I think it’s when I realized I was smiling in the middle of decapitating my enemy, showering my virtual face in blood and eyeballs as his head floated by in slow-motion, that it really hit me how much of a revelation Asgard’s Wrath combat is going to be. I’ve played Skyrim VR to death, had...

Five years ago Mark Zuckerberg directed Facebook to purchase Oculus VR for $3 billion. This was the state of consumer VR in 2014. In 2016, the first consumer Rift shipped for VR-ready PCs. Facebook encountered fierce competition. Valve Corporation powered HTC Vive with its innovative “room-scale” Stream VR Tracking technology. Vive was $800 when it...

Good news! You’ll have a chance to try out Ubisoft’s exciting new zero gravity VR shooter, Space Junkies, this weekend. Even better news: you can do so for free and with cross-play! The multiplayer game is getting an open beta just ahead of launch. It kicks off tomorrow, March 21st at 6PM CET/10AM PDT. On...

It’s common knowledge that Sir Patrick Stewart makes basically anything better. Captain Luc Picard’s dulcet tones, polite mannerisms and ‘oh you’ humor make him one of the best people on the planet. Good news, then, he’s coming to VR. Sir Patrick will star in Shadow Point, the latest game from UK-based Coatsink. You’ll know the...

Now that the 2019 Game Developers Conference (GDC) is in full swing it can be tough to keep track of everything. Each day is jam-packed full of announcements and as we get the time to go hands-on with everything we’ve got impressions and news stories coming out extremely quickly. You can let this article serve...

HP is officially announcing the next-generation of its Windows VR headset line: the HP Reverb. The HP Reverb releases in April and costs $599 for the consumer edition and comes with two Windows VR controllers. The commercial edition of the headset costs and includes a longer warranty, a leather face cushion for quick wipe downs,...