Next week sees the first episode of Star Wars: Vader Immortal finally launch on Oculus Rift. As Quest owners will know, it’s a pretty thrilling narrative-driven experience. But it’s also only the first installment of a three-part series. What can we expect from the second episode? According to narrative designer Mohen Leo, we’ll learn to...
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E3 2019: VR Stealth Game Rogan Launches In July, New Trailer Revealed
Rogan: The Thief in the Castle, is shaping up to be one of VR’s most visually-striking games. Don’t believe us? See for yourself in our E3 VR Showcase trailer. Oh, and we have the release date too. The game’s due for release on July 5th, developer Smilegate confirmed to us this week. Pre-orders will be...
Update: HTC To Reveal Vive Cosmos Info Next Week, Image Reveals Headphones
Update: HTC reached out to let us know it’s changed its original tweet. It now says the story of Cosmos will be revealed next week but release info is coming soon. Oh well. We’re unlocking the story of the #HTC VIVE COSMOS, & have so much to share. Stay tuned to our social media next...
Oculus Quest Made $5 Million In Content Sales In 2 Weeks, Facebook Says
Facebook probably isn’t going to tell us how well the Oculus Quest has sold anytime soon, if ever. But it did recently offer one curious metric to measure the kit’s impact. Speaking at the recent Code conference (as reported by TechCrunch), Facebook’s VP of AR/VR Andrew Bosworth reportedly said that Quest had seen $5 million...
E3 2019: Falcon Age Is Coming To The Epic Games Store With VR Support
Could this be the first Epic Games Store exclusive to support VR? Outlerloop Games’ delightful bird-based adventure, Falcon Age, is coming to PC VR this summer. The developer broke the news on the Kinda Funny Games E3 Showcase earlier this week. The store listing has since gone live which confirms that, yes, VR is supported....
Blippar Bounces Back with Web-Based AR Platform
After one of Britain’s “Brothers Bling” bought Blippar out of bankruptcy, the mobile augmented reality company is getting back to business with the addition of web-based AR capabilities to its platform. On Thursday, Blippar revealed that an update of its Blippbuilder AR platform, scheduled to arrive in July, will include WebAR, a toolkit for developing...
UploadVR E3 2019: Best Of Show And People’s Choice VR Game Award
E3 2019 is all but over at this point. We kicked off the week with our massive E3 VR Showcase, a first of its kind deluge of amazing VR game reveals, announcements, and interviews that shined a spotlight on what’s coming over the next several months to VR headsets. And while that was packed full...
E3 2019: Sniper Elite VR Turned Me Into A Deadly Sharpshooter
Rebellion, the same company behind VR games like Battlezone and Arca’s Path, are back with a VR take on their popular non-VR shooter franchise in the form of Sniper Elite VR. As the name suggests in the Sniper Elite games you play as a sniper that’s armed with a long-range scoped rifle and you must...
HTC To Reveal Vive Cosmos Info Next Week, Image Reveals Headphones
Just yesterday we reported that HTC’s next consumer VR headset, the Vive Cosmos, will launch in Q3 2019. Today, the company has confirmed that it will reveal more release info… next week. A tweet just sent out from the HTC Vive account says that the story of Cosmos and details on its availability and release...
Six Years After Adding VR, Lunar Flight Gets Oculus Touch Support
Moon flight simulator Lunar Flight is getting support for Touch controllers, and launching on the Oculus Store. VR Pioneer Lunar Flight was one of the first full games to add VR support. The game released as a regular PC game on Steam in January 2012. DK1, the first public development kit headset from Oculus, shipped...