Today Beat Games announced that its viral sensation VR game Beat Saber had officially sold one million copies across all platforms including PSVR, Steam, and Oculus Home. The news comes on the same day that its first official pack of paid DLC was released, Music Pack 1 in partnership with Monstercat. “In February we reached...
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How Facebook’s Outage Affected Oculus And VR Developers
Facebook’s server infrastructure had the longest outage in its history this week. The social network, Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp were all affected. Since the Oculus platform is hosted on Facebook’s servers, it was also affected. Users Users were unable to download or install Oculus Store apps. Multiplayer games using the free Oculus networking system like...
Spatiate Brings Multi-User Augmented Reality Painting to Magic Leap One
While painting in augmented reality is not a groundbreaking pursuit, the ability for Magic Leap One, iPhone and iPad, and Android users to collaborate remotely on virtual artwork would be. That is what Across Realities is aiming to do with Spatiate, an app that launched on Thursday through Magic Leap World for $9.99. And soon,...
Google Spotlight Stories VR Movie Team Shutting Down – Report
Google’s Spotlight Stories division gave us VR gems like Pearl and Age of Sail. Sadly, though, it appears the search engine giant is shutting the team down this week. Word comes by way of Variety. The site got hold of an apparent email from Spotlight Stories executive producer Karen Dufilho. Sent on Wednesday evening, the...
TrueVR Reveals 10-Player, Full-Body VR Arcade App Tikal
Location-based VR allows multiple people to jump into the same virtual space. That’s not something that’s really possible at home. Everyone would need a PC and you’d probably just spent an hour bumping into each other. But, so far, we’ve only seen groups of around four people in VR at the same time. The Void,...
Ryff raises $3.6 million to place virtual objects in movie, commercial, and TV scenes
Ryff has raised $3 million for an advertising business where it places virtual objects in a scene within a movie, TV commercial, or TV show.Read More Source: Ryff raises $3.6 million to place virtual objects in movie, commercial, and TV scenes
HaptX teams up with FundamentalVR to create VR surgery gloves
FundamentalVR is teaming up with Haptx to create haptic-based surgical gloves that allow surgeons to use their hands and fingers as part of a VR demo.Read More Source: HaptX teams up with FundamentalVR to create VR surgery gloves
LaunchDarkly raises $44 million to help software developers test new features
LaunchDarkly, a startup that provides a feature flagging framework for software development, has raised $44 million in a series C round.Read More Source: LaunchDarkly raises $44 million to help software developers test new features
iPhone-based VR Arcade Passes Kickstarter Goal
A Kickstarter project promising VR arcades powered by iPhones surpassed its funding goal. The project based in St. Louis, Missouri, was launched on March 4 and ends on April 3. About 49 backers — most of them backing their first project — recently pushed the effort past its $5,000 funding goal. A PR person contacted...
VRMod Is Garry’s Mod In VR Because Why The Hell Not
Well, I suppose it was only a matter of time before someone made a VR version of Garry’s Mod. God help us all, it’s now arrived. Well, sort of. VRMod is an early VR version of Facepunch Studios’ anarchic sandbox software. It’s created by Steam user Catse. It offers the massive toybox of tools and...
