The Angry Birds Movie 2 VR: Under Pressure is the latest VR game featuring Rovio’s classic characters. We take a deep dive to see if it’s worth your time in our full review below! As the mobile gaming world moved beyond the once formidable Angry Birds and found new juggernauts like Pokemon Go and Fortnite,...
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RoboCo Is An Educational VR Sandbox About Designing Robots
RoboCo (official website) is a unique VR experience designed for kids in grades K-12 to teach engineering and design principles for robotics. Here’s what we thought from a hands-on demo! Everyone knows that robots are the future. One day they’ll make all of our food, drive our cars, handle most jobs, wipe our butts, and...
Snapchat Extends 3D Camera Effects from Spectacles 3 to iPhone’s TrueDepth Camera
After adding dual cameras to its camera glasses, Snap is finally taking full advantage of the depth-sensing abilities of newer iPhones as well, extending the use of its new 3D Camera Mode. Rolling out to Snapchat on iPhone X, XS, XR, and new 11-series iPhones this week, 3D Camera Mode uses TrueDepth camera to capture...
Failspace Finally Gets Late October Release Window
It’s been a long time since we last wrote about anticipated VR co-op game, Failspace. Good news for those of you that have been holding out for its release; it’s coming very soon. Alongside today’s announcement of its new game, developer Hipfire Games also confirmed Failspace will arrive by the end of October 2019. In...
Blastworld Is A PvP Shooter Inspired By Nerf Guns, Demo Here
Onward and Pavlov have you sorted on the military simulation front. Blastworld is a different kind of VR shooter. Announced today, Blastworld is in the works at Failspace developer, Hipfire Games. It’s coming to PC VR headsets and Oculus Quest. In this multiplayer shooter, players wield foam-firing weapons much like Nerf guns. They’re not plastic...
Snapchat Doubles Down on AR Billboards to Promote Snap Originals Series
It looks like Snap’s foray into augmented reality billboards last year was successful, as the company has returned with two more outdoor advertisements for its Snap Originals series. Now through Sept. 24, Los Angeles residents and visitors will have the opportunity to interact with a billboard at 1008 W Sunset Plaza advertising the fourth season...
Respawn’s VR Shooter: Everything We Know About The Oculus Exclusive
In just over a week one of the biggest and most anticipated VR games to date will finally be unveiled at Oculus Connect 6 when Respawn Entertainment pulls back the curtains on its upcoming AAA VR shooter. Oculus announced the game was in development nearly two years ago at Oculus Connect 4, but ever since...
Everything Facebook Reality Labs Has Actually Shipped (So Far)
Facebook Reality Labs (FRL) is the largest known VR research division in the world. FRL was formerly known as Oculus Research, until a rename in mid 2018. Oculus Research was set up in 2014 after Facebook acquired the company, with the goal of developing next generation VR technology. FRL often shows and talks about its...
Mining Sim Cave Digger Coming To Quest, New Expansion Announced
“Immersive Mining Simulator” can safely be filed under game genres I’d probably never play if they weren’t in VR, so thankfully Cave Digger by VRkiwi is on basically every major 6DOF VR headset available. Today, the developers have announced that not only is a massive new update dubbed Railway to the Depths releasing soon that adds...
Community Download: What Do You Think Of The HTC Vive Cosmos?
Community Download is a weekly discussion-focused articles series published (usually) every Monday in which we pose a single, core question to you all, our readers, in the spirit of fostering discussion and debate. For today, we want to hear what you think of the newly detailed HTC Vive Cosmos VR headset. Last week we got...
