On HTC’s Facebook page today the company showed a new faceplate for the upcoming Vive Cosmos. Vive Cosmos is HTC’s next consumer focused PC VR headset. It was first announced at CES 2019 in January, but HTC still hasn’t given details on specifications or pricing. At the time it had four tracking cameras – two...
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Dark Souls Dev: PSVR Was ‘More Limiting Than Expected’, No More VR Plans For Now
It doesn’t sound like Dark Souls developer From Software will be making another PSVR game. At least on the current headset, that is. Speaking to Destructoid at E3, producer Masanori Takeuchi said From Software has no plans for another VR game. Last year the team released Deracine, a PSVR exclusive that was very different to...
Live Nation & Hyundai Roll Out Augmented Reality Experiences for Concert Goers at Music Midtown Festival
For those about to rock, Live Nation salutes you, now with augmented reality. This week, at the Cannes Lions Advertising Festival of Creativity in France, the live entertainment giant unveiled a suite of AR experiences that music festivals and their sponsors will be able to deploy in their mobile apps to engage attendees. Don’t Miss:...
Impressions – Harry Potter: Wizard’s Unite Feels Like A More Polished, Complicated Pokemon Go
It’s difficult to make AR map-based games unique. Pokémon Go, Ghostbusters World, and now Harry Potter: Wizard’s Unite all feel similar in a fundamental way. They all involve walking around in real life while a virtual avatar does the same on your phone, capturing different types of beasts, and taking on checklist challenges that include...
Rift-Exclusive Spy Thriller Defector Releases This July For $19.99
After skipping E3 2019 altogether, Twisted Pixel is here a week later on a Friday with a big bit of news: Defector is officially releasing very soon on July 11 for just $19.99 exclusively on the Oculus Home store for Rift and Rift S. Facebook announced the news today on the Oculus Blog. To be...
Touring Karts Aims To Level Up The Kart Racer For VR
With the recent releases of Team Sonic Racing and Crash Team Racing: Nitro-Fueled, you’re likely in the mood to try even more kart racing. Ivanovich Games has an eccentric new option for you, Touring Karts, which lets you fire powerful weapons at your enemies and even drink tasty beverages as you race around the track....
Mixed Reality Software LIV Gets Impressive Cross-Game Avatar Support In 1.0 Update
Today LIV, the leading third party mixed reality software, is officially exiting Early Access with its 1.0 release. With that news today also comes one of its biggest updates yet which introduces cross-game avatars for mixed reality capture. This will create an almost Ready Player One meets VRChat style vibe for streamers and content creators because...
Hands-On: Niantic’s Harry Potter: Wizards Unite Brings New Magic to the World of Augmented Reality
Can lightning strike twice? Niantic is betting that it can with its latest augmented reality game based on the best-selling multimedia franchise Harry Potter. If the developer’s name is unfamiliar, then perhaps Ingress, the company’s first mobile game, which not only earned a cult following but also set the template for location-based gaming, rings a...
Tilt Brush Gets Official Index Controller Support, First Look Live
Valve Index headsets won’t start arriving on doorsteps until later this week, but one of VR’s biggest apps just added support for its controllers. Google’s Tilt Brush just got support for the Index Controllers. There are brand new models for both the left and right controllers. You can see them in action in the clip...
Titanfall Dev Respawn’s ‘AAA’ Oculus VR FPS To Appear At OC6
We’ve been waiting for this one. Back at the fourth Oculus Connect developer conference in 2017 (!) we learned Titanfall developer Respawn Entertainment was making an Oculus Studios game. At the time, Oculus gave a vague 2019 window for the game, but we’ve seen nothing from it since. Oculus and Respawn will finally break their...