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You don’t see a lot of sequels in the VR space yet. Not only is it rare to have a game successful enough to fund and/or warrant a follow-up, but consumer VR headsets just haven’t been around very long yet so developers haven’t had the time. Well, Vertigo 2 from Zulubo Productions is bucking those trends....

The Museum of Other Realities is available now in early access for $20. The curated art museum offers visitors access to a “cross section of the free-ranging experimentation present in the relatively new medium of virtual reality art.”  The initial launch includes the work of 12 different artists with numerous updates planned in the coming...

The Video Electronics Standards Association this week released the spec for DisplayPort 2.0, the next generation royalty-free video cable standard. DisplayPort 2.0 provides a 3x increase in total bandwidth compared to the previous DisplayPort 1.4a. This means the max payload bandwidth increased from 25.92 Gbps to 77.37 Gbps. Diagram from VESA Among the potential use...

A major new addition is live now in popular single-player PC VR simulation game Hot Dogs, Horseshoes and Hand Grenades. Update 73 is inspired by Team Fortress 2 and officially sanctioned by Valve Corporation. H3VR’s developers at RUST LTD. are adapting the classic weapons from Valve’s 2007 shooter Team Fortress 2. The guns come with a...

Earlier this year, Facebook showed off its research towards photorealistic avatars and high quality VR face tracking to drive them. This week, Facebook showed off improved facial tracking for these avatars, more accurately capturing the user’s facial expression. The researchers use two headsets to achieve this tracking quality. The regular headset features three cameras facing...

During the Index VR headset launch party Valve CEO Gabe Newell stated that the company is “looking into several methods” for making the headset untethered: “As I said, shipping a product is truly the beginning. There are some obvious next steps. It’s simple for us to broaden our distribution from outside the US and EU into...

Oculus PC software Public Test Channel version 1.39 brings important improvements to Touch controller tracking on Oculus Rift S. We tested the update today, and found that it dramatically improves controller tracking close to the headset, and noticeably reduces cases of controller occlusion breaking tracking. Since the Oculus Quest uses the same Insight tracking system,...

Over the next few days the Valve Index will finally start arriving on people’s doorsteps. The headset brings improved comfort, resolution, audio, field of view and more to VR. We’re pretty darn excited about it. But that’s only one part of Index’s offerings. Also arriving this week are the Index Controllers (previously known as the...

Valve Index is in a class by itself. This is true in at least three respects: 1.) Fine adjustments to the HMD’s optics and field of view take clarity and visual comfort to levels never seen before. 2.) Basic hand signals as well as grasping and release sensations enabled by wearable hand controllers are unique...