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10 Best Mods And Custom Maps For Pavlov VR
Pavlov VR continues to provide the quintessential FPS experience for players who want frantic, classic game types such as Team Deathmatch and Search & Destroy in a modern-day military setting. While not as hair-raisingly intense or competitive as its distant cousin — Onward, which it is so often compared to — it does constitute a...
Editorial: It’s Time To Stop Punishing Devs For Not Including Smooth Locomotion
Deracine, From Software’s VR debut, came out last week and I really, really like it. For From, it’s a typically weird but also fascinatingly experimental game. Most importantly, though, it feels like something that’s genuinely enhanced by VR, scratching at substance that will one day separate this medium from the rest. In my review, I...
Microsoft’s HoloLens Morphs Paris Museum Model of Mont-Saint-Michel into Masterpiece of AR
Amid the opulent and historic confines of Paris, Microsoft is now hosting an exhibit at a local museum that brings a historic map of a Normandy tourist destination to life in augmented reality. The Musée des Plans-Reliefs, a museum dedicated to 3D military maps dating back to the time of Napoleon and Louis XIV, has...
HTC Accepting Vive Wireless Adapter Returns From AMD Ryzen Owners
A note from the HTC Vive team says the company will begin accepting returns for the Vive Wireless Adapter for “Ryzen-related” reasons. That means if you are a buyer who is experiencing problems with the adapter using it with AMD Ryzen processor inside their PC, you should probably check out the “customer return process” on the Vive...
The Biggest VR Releases Of The Week Of 11/11/18
November, as a whole, is really shaping up to be a big month for new VR releases. There have been some solid new games and plenty of surprising new experience apps to try. If you’re playing catch up, you can check out last week’s list here and our full list of everything dropping in November...
Oculus Is Now A Division Of Facebook Technologies
Oculus VR LLC is no more. The company which was started in 2012 by Palmer Luckey, Brendan Iribe, Nate Mitchell and others is now part of ‘Facebook Technologies LLC’, a subsidiary of Facebook which handles hardware efforts, including Oculus and Portal, Facebook’s new video calling displays. The change “went into effect” in September of this year,...
Harry Potter: Wizards Unite Mobile-Based AR Game Is Launching In 2019
Pokémon GO developers Niantic have this week confirmed that their Harry Potter themed smartphone AR game is launching some time in 2019. The game was first announced a year ago, with the release year originally stated as 2018. The game is being jointly developed with Warner Bros’ Portkey Games subsidiary, which developed the official Harry...
Sony’s EU Black Friday PSVR Store Sale Is Ridiculously Good
It seems Sony is going all out with its PSVR headset this Black Friday season. Not only is the company promoting a ridiculously good $199 bundle in the US, but it’s just launched a sale in the EU version of the PlayStation Store and the savings are massive. Two of PSVR’s biggest recent releases are...
Rumor: PSVR 2 To Ditch Break Out Box, Introduce New Move Controllers
Take this one with a big pinch of salt right now, but some interesting rumors about a hypothetical PSVR 2 popped up online this week. Reddit user RuthenicCookie recently made some claims about Sony’s VR follow-up, which will apparently run on the unannounced PlayStation 5 console. Usually, we wouldn’t touch rumors like these but, in...