Doctor Who has a knack for reinvention or, more fittingly, regeneration. I don’t just mean in the Doctor’s many changing faces but the way those changes come to shape its tone and feel. And then, on a more molecular level, its ability to shift from bombastic, silly sci-fi epics one week to legitimately terrifying ghost...
T’was the morning before OC6 and all through the metaverse, Mark Zuckerberg was dropping hints about his keynote talk. A short while ago, we reported on what looked like a tease from the Facebook CEO about finger tracking. Now, though, Zuckerberg might be hinting at a possible social VR experience comparable to Ready Player One’s...
On the eve of Oculus Connect 6 Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg teased apparent finger tracking ahead of his talk at the event’s keynote. Zuckerberg posted a video of two virtual hands making the letters O and C and then holding up six fingers, to symbolize Facebook’s OC6 VR developer’s conference. We can’t think of any...
Update: Tilt Five cleared its fundraising goal on Kickstarter in less than 24 hours and will continue fundraising until October 28. Original story: Tabletop AR project Tilt Five is now crowdfunding on Kickstarter with a $299 pledge promising a 31.5-inch square game board and AR glasses to come in 2020. The pledge tiers for Tilt...
We’re a day out from Oculus Connect 6 and a group of software designers are teasing big things. Jonathan Ravasz, Product Design Prototyper at Facebook, recently tweeted about a session he’ll be hosting tomorrow. The session’s title is ‘To Be Announced’ and it will also feature Engineering Manager, Jenny Spurlock. In a tweet, Ravasz added...
Instrument Studio VR is a complete virtual recording studio with “all the instruments and equipment needed to make a record”. The app was developed by Irish musicians Paul Cullen who spent the past two years learning to develop for VR, initially developing a simple virtual drumkit in 2017. He was accepted into Oculus Start in...
Espire 1: VR Operative was slated to finally release on PC VR, Quest, and PSVR all at the same time tomorrow on September 24th but is getting delayed once again, this time for “several weeks” to work out lingering “stability and performance issues.” Digital Lode and Tripwire made the announcement via an update posted on...
If you’re expecting an Oculus Rift 2 to be announced at Oculus Connect 6, you’re going to be disappointed. Oculus Connect is Facebook’s annual VR/AR conference. This year’s Connect starts tomorrow. Connect has been where Facebook announces most new Oculus hardware, software features, and major content. But we don’t expect an Oculus Rift 2 to...
Oculus Quest’s next zombie shooter is a retooled version of Dream Dev Studio’s Death Horizon. Death Horizon: Reloaded is coming to the standalone headset this month. It’s a first-person shooter (FPS) in which players fend off hordes of the undead following a virus outbreak. The original game launched on Gear VR and Daydream two years...
The physics-based VR puzzle game Gadgeteer appeared in the coming soon section of the Oculus store for Quest, after its early access launch on PC VR headsets earlier this year. The store page describes the game as “a physics-based VR puzzle game where you build chain reaction machines to solve fun, intricate puzzles. Your machines...
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