Zenith is a brand-new upcoming VR MMO from two developers that co-founded Ramen VR after working on the Overwatch-like VR shooter, Conjure Strike, together. Reportedly, the game will feature a bold anime art style and looks like a mixture of a futuristic/sci-fi cities and post-apocalyptic environments judging from the concept art above and embedded below:...
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Freediver: Triton Down Review – An Underwater Adventure Better Than It Has Any Right To Be
Freediver: Triton Down could have gone wrong at any one of its cramped, claustrophobic turns. It is, simply put, The Poseidon Adventure in VR; an underwater survival experience in which you steal pockets of air between long, murky dives into the depths of an enormous vessel. The elevator pitch is compelling, but matching execution with...
Bandai Namco Is Opening A New VR Arcade With, Mario, Dragon Quest And More
Another day, another Japanese VR arcade that we’re intensely jealous of. This time it’s the latest from Bandai Namco, which looks to offer a greatest hits of its VR software. Mazaria is a gigantic VR facility opening soon in the Toshima Ward in Tokyo. Namco has previously drawn headlines for its VR Zone arcades that...
Snapchat Turns Wrigley Field into the Upside Down for ‘Stranger Things’ Promotion
With the third season of Netflix’s hit series Stranger Things set to debut July 4, it’s time to crank up the hype machine, this time, in augmented reality. For its latest promotion, Netflix has summoned the AR powers of Snapchat to bring “the upside down,” the alternate dimension from the show, to Chicago’s Wrigley Field...
VR Cop Game Crisis VRigade Is Getting A Sequel This Year
Crisis VRigade was a modestly popular VR cop game. Well, I say ‘cop game’, I mean the kind of game where a lone SWAT soldier blows up helicopters with RPGs. Anyway, it’s getting a sequel in the near future. Developer Sumalab’s Diego Martín confirmed the news on Saturday. He posted a brief teaser for Crisis...
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This is an Augmented reality application to promote the Starmus Festival V in Zurich, Switzerland. This app is proposed by Swiss Society of Virtual and Augmented Reality (SSVAR) which is a partner of Starmus. The fifth edition of Starmus is back to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the man’s First Step on the Moon. One...
Oculus Quest Developer Shares Tricks To Optimize Rift And Vive Ports
In the days leading up to Oculus Quest’s launch, the company’s head of third-party content told VentureBeat that porting higher-end PC titles to the standalone platform was more about art asset formatting than code optimization. Now early third-party Quest developer Immerse is revealing exactly how art reformatting brought a PC-caliber enterprise training app to the Quest in only five weeks....
Hands-on: The War of The Worlds Combines Theater With VR In London
Jeff Wayne’s The War of The Worlds: The Immersive Experience is a musical interpretation of the classic H.G. Wells science-fiction story. The project has been around for some 40 years as a rock opera musical experience with an album that’s sold 14 million copies and many sell-out stage performances too. Now, it has been re-created...
OnShape VR Looks Like A Cross Between Beat Saber And Human Tetris
We know, we know; another day, another Beat Saber wannabe. But OnShape from Odders Lab does have a few interesting twists and turns that raised our eyebrows. Specifically, the game looks like a cross between Beat Games’ smash hit and, oddly enough, Tetris. In the eye-catching teaser trailer below an animated player first dodges incoming...
You Can Play Tennis With Andy Murray At Wimbledon This Year (In VR, Obviously)
The real Andy Murray might not be taking to the court for the Men’s Singles tournament at Wimbledon this year, but the virtual one is raring to go. You’ll be able to play alongside the tennis world champion during the event this July. American Express is hosting a ‘Champion’s Rally’ in which players will put...