Final Assault is one of the better takes on the real-time strategy genre in VR. Good news for PSVR fans, then; they’ll be able to play it pretty soon. Developer Phase Lock Interactive this week confirmed that the game is coming to PSVR in Q4 2019. Not only that but the PS4 version of the...
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No Man’s Sky And Until You Fall Livestream Schedule
Check out our schedule of planned VR gaming livestreams this week and don’t forget to tune in over on YouTube once we’re live. Plus, if you’re curious about how we livestream the way we do look no further than this handy guide for general tips and this guide specific to our Oculus Quest setup. Every week we will post a...
Haptic Surgery Platform FundamentalVR Increases Authenticity With Eye-Tracking
FundamentalVR is on a mission to make VR surgery simulation as robust, convincing and efficient as possible. Recently, it made a small but significant step towards that goal with eye-tracking. Usually when we hear about eye-tracking’s importance to VR, it’s to do with foveated rendering. Eye-tracking as a means of input often feels like an...
No Man’s Sky Patches Fix Crashes, Now Works With Windows MR Headsets
Just two days after launching the major Beyond update which added VR support, Hello Games has already released four patches to fix a plethora of crash-inducing bugs. On PlayStation VR, performance is acceptable however users were reporting crashing issues, especially on the PlayStation 4 Pro. Less than 12 hours after the release, Patch 2.04 was...
No Man’s Sky VR Review-In-Progress: Fully-Realized Virtual Universe
No Man’s Sky VR support has officially arrived in the Beyond Update and we’ve got our work-in-progress review right here. Expect a full, scored review next week. Every game of No Man’s Sky begins both exactly the same and completely differently for each person. New players always awake on a strange, unfamiliar planet with nothing...
VRecap #4: LA Noire PSVR, Mitchell Moves And Win No Man’s Sky!
Hey, you. Yes, you. Tear yourself away from No Man’s Sky for a second; it’s time for the VRecap. Yes Hello Games’ hugely anticipated VR update hit this week. But, as you’ll likely know, things haven’t gone according to plan so far. Surprisingly, we’re not just talking No Man’s Sky this week; Oculus is saying...
Fact Check: Is Cosmos HTC’s ‘Lightest Vive Yet’?
Last week HTC made the claim that its upcoming headset, the Vive Cosmos, was its lightest yet. This caused a little confusion. In the image below HTC claims Cosmos weighs 645 grams. This makes it HTC’s “lightest Vive yet,” according to the company. We weighed an original 2016 consumer Vive with its strap attached and...
NOW LIVE: No Man’s Sky VR Code Giveaway Livestream
Check out our schedule of planned VR gaming livestreams this week and don’t forget to tune in over on YouTube once we’re live. Plus, if you’re curious about how we livestream the way we do look no further than this handy guide for general tips and this guide specific to our Oculus Quest setup. Every week we will post a...
How Cloudhead Games Worked With Valve To Make Aperture Hand Lab
Over the last five years Denny Unger and his partners at Cloudhead Games would talk about possible VR projects with some of the world’s largest companies. Cloudhead staff would build pitch decks and work out the fundamentals of VR games that could become dream projects for everyone involved. That is, if the funding partners ever...
No Man’s Sky VR Guide: How To Customize Your Character’s Appearance
Now that No Man’s Sky VR support is officially live, millions of players around the world are exploring the far reaches of space for the very first time inside a VR headset. One of the most common questions I’ve seen from friends while playing and introducing them to the game is how to customize your...