We took a month off in May (forgive us! E3!) but June’s Steam Hardware Survey results are in. Put simply, they don’t show much change in the overall landscape. The Oculus Rift still leads the charge with 44.12% of the overall VR headset usage on Steam. Pairing the 40.76% share that HTC Vive has with...
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AR headsets promise new enterprise productivity, but can the startups building them survive?
Just as the Bluetooth headset ushered in an era of hands-free calling, AR startups are trying to convince manufacturing startups that AR headsets will bring new efficiencies with hands-free computing. As Magic Leap and Microsoft have dropped hundreds of millions trying to spend their way into new tech modalities for enterprise customers, smaller players are...
Disney Broadway VR Experience To Put You In Aladdin, Frozen And More
Disney is premiering a brand new VR short film at Siggraph in a few weeks, but it has VR plans for its D23 Expo too. A new VR experience highlighting the company’s array of broadway shows will be on display at the event this year. Little about the piece is known right now but Disney...
Gamescom 2019 VR Games Showcase To Highlight Six Upcoming Games
Despite rising popularity, VR has always struggled to standout at major gaming events. That’s why we put on the first ever E3 VR Showcase last month. Next month, though, a number of independent VR developers will band together to showcase their latest projects at one of the industry’s biggest events – Gamescom. The 2019 iteration...
HTC’s ‘Vive Enterprise Solutions’ Separates Professional And Consumer VR Offerings
There are two sides to HTC’s Vive VR business; consumer and enterprise. The original Vive targets the former market while the subsequent Vive Pro and Focus devices cater to the latter. The company’s messaging around which device belongs in what category hasn’t always been clear, however. With the launch of the consumer-focused Vive Cosmos pending,...
Oculus Summer Sale Kicks Off For Rift And Go But Not Quest
Today marks the official start of the Oculus Summer Sale for the Rift platform on PC and Oculus Go standalone headset. However, the Oculus Quest is conspicuously missing from the sale. We’ve reached out to Oculus for a statement about the exclusion. On the Rift side you can grab a Duo Pack with both Arizona...
VR Ping Pong Pro Is A Sequel To… VR Ping Pong Coming Soon
There’s a new contender in the highly-contested VR table tennis arena. VR Ping Pong Pro arrives this September. Those of you well-versed in this popular sub-genre might recognize that name. This is indeed a sequel to VR Ping Pong from Merge Games and Reddoll. That game first launched on PC headsets in 2016 and came...
How These VR Developers Keep Fans Happy With Free Iterative Updates
Hot Dogs, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades – often referred to colloquially as H3VR – stands out in the saturated sea of VR shooters for a few reasons. For one, it features anthropomorphized sausages as its enemies, making this a relatively child-friendly shooter. Rather than be about respawn rates and fragging enemies, it’s billed more as...
Play Firewall Zero Hour For Free And Earn Double XP On PSVR This Weekend
Firewall Zero Hour is an excellent game. We awarded it our Game of the Year for 2018 and consider it one of the very best PSVR games to date and easily one of the best VR shooters so far. When played with the PS Aim controller it offers an immense amount of depth and tactics...
Gabe Newell: Index VR Headset Is A ‘Critical Milestone’ For Valve
“Throughout the history of Valve we’ve had a lot of significant milestones,” Gabe Newell, President and Co-Founder of Valve Corporation, said at the Valve Index launch party on June 27, 2019. “We had Half-Life, which was our first single player game, we had Source, which was our first engine, we had Counter-Strike, which was our...