Facebook expects to keep spending heavily on VR and AR in 2019. During its Q3 2018 earnings call earlier this week the company announced that it expects a 40 – 50% increase in spending in 2019 compared to 2018, taking full-year capital expenditure to around $18 billion to $20 billion. CEO Mark Zuckerberg rounded off...
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Escape With Me: How A Mobile Phone Game Led To The Creation Of Beat Saber
XRDC is a very tiny event. It takes place near the end of the year in San Francisco (formerly it was called VRDC, but the industry is expanding and they wanted it all under one roof) and a few dozen industry executives, developers, luminaries, and press all gather together to network, try out a few...
Mix of startups and industrial giants makes Munich more than just Germany’s ‘other’ tech hub
Munich’s rise as a tech hub, mixing startups and older industrials, shows how Germany’s entrepreneurial ecosystem differs from other European countries.Read More Source: Mix of startups and industrial giants makes Munich more than just Germany’s ‘other’ tech hub
How To Use A PS4, Switch Or Xbox One Controller With Oculus Go
Oculus Go is a wonderful VR headset that’s easy to jump into with a great motion controller to play games with. But, sometimes, you just can’t beat the response and control afforded by a proper gamepad. Oculus Go allows you to connect a more traditional controller via Bluetooth. But, don’t worry, you don’t have to...
Vive Studios Boss: ‘We Need To Get Better At Marketing’ Content
HTC’s Vive Studios division acknowledges that it needs to ramp up its work in marketing, especially with more challenging non-gaming apps. Vive Studios was announced back in 2016 and is similar, though certainly not identical, to the Oculus Studios division at Facebook. The team pledged to do everything from publishing content made with partners to...
Magic Leap Releases Series of Video Sessions from Inside the L.E.A.P. Conference
Magic Leap’s recent L.E.A.P. conference was free to all who registered in time, but if you weren’t able to make the trip to Hollywood, the company just released video of some of the sessions that took place over the course of two days. The sessions, which are really discussion panels, are spread over three videos...
5 Things We Want From Oculus Rift S
Earlier this week a report from TechCrunch threw out “Rift S” as a possible name for the next hardware iteration of the Oculus Rift. The Rift S is suggested to have the Insight tracking system which will ship first on the standalone Oculus Quest early next year, and the decision to ship it as the...
The Biggest VR Releases Of The Week 10/28/18
Last week we had a massive new VR shooter hit Early Access in the form of War Dust, putting 64 players on the same map in two teams of 32 each. This week, there’s nothing quite that ambitious. Instead, we’ve got a free edition of one of VR’s most visually striking shooters, an Oculus Go...
GIVEAWAY: Win A Free Copy Of In Death On Steam For Rift, Vive, Or Windows VR
Hopefully your aim is good because our latest giveaway is for a Steam key to grant access to the bow and arrow-focused archery roguelike, In Death! We’ve got 10 Steam copies ready to hand out, for free, no strings attached. All you have to do is enter into our giveaway right here or down in the widget below. Winners will be randomly selected. All...
VR Game Releases For November 2018
Every month we aim to round up each and every VR game release for you in one single place — this is November’s list. Don’t worry — we’ll continue highlighting the best ones at the end of each week too. With the door closed on October, we’ve just been through another great month of VR...
