Good news, Beat fans! Beat Saber Oculus Quest casting is finally available from today at no extra cost! Developer Beat Games just broke the news on Twitter (as seen below). The Quest version of Beat Saber, which launched alongside the headset late last month, was one of a handful of titles that didn’t work with...
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Top Oculus Quest App Passes 1000 Ratings After Just Two Weeks
Oculus Quest exclusive experience Vader Immortal: Episode I has surpassed 1000 user ratings after just two weeks of the device’s release. Oculus Quest is a $399 all-in-one standalone VR headset. That means it doesn’t require or use a computer. Think of it as the first wireless room scale VR console. Why is 100 ratings significant?...
Magic Leap Adds Sketchfab Support to Its Native Helio Web Browser
New York-based virtual content startup Sketchfab is usually at the forefront of the latest developments in augmented reality, so it’s no surprise that the company has locked in yet another major platform. Magic Leap has announced that Sketchfab is its first WebXR partner (a feature found in Magic Leap’s Lumin OS 0.96), a development that...
Here’s What You Need to Run ARKit 3 on Your iPhone or iPad
If you’ve been putting off upgrading your iPhone or iPad, you might want to start shopping for a current-generation device to take advantage of the latest capabilities in ARKit 3. After relegating the reveal of ARKit 3 to the back half of the WWDC keynote on Monday, Apple left some key information about compatibility out...
Rec Room’s ‘Golden Trophy’ Is A Cornerstone Oculus Quest Adventure
Over the weekend I received early access to Rec Room’s first major update since the launch of Oculus Quest on May 21. I gathered in the living room with my family for a three-person adventure in Rec Room’s Quest For The Golden Trophy and the time we spent together ranks as some of the most...
PlayStation Boss: ‘One In 20’ PS4 Buyers Also Bought PSVR
PlayStation VR has found a large on audience on PlayStation 4, selling more than During the interview, Ryan states: “The current generation of VR has exceeded our expectations. When you step back and look at it — and this is the way I like to look at it — one in 20 of the people who...
Daft Punk-Style VR DJ Game Electronauts Coming To Oculus Quest June 6
It looks like Electronauts, the VR DJ game from Raw Data and Creed: Rise to Glory developer Survios, is coming to the Oculus Quest standalone VR headset tomorrow on June 6. We haven’t seen an official announcement yet, but a Reddit user by the name of crazymurdock found the unlisted store page for the game...
Oculus Quest Content Library ‘On Target To Hit 100+ Games’ This Year
In a blog post this week, Facebook’s Oculus division announced that the Oculus Quest store library is “on target to hit 100+ games by the end of the year”. Oculus Quest is a recently released $399 all-in-one standalone VR headset. That means it doesn’t require or use a computer. Think of it as the first...
Snapchat Mutates X-Men Fans via Augmented Reality to Sell Tickets for ‘Dark Phoenix’ Movie
Augmented reality is often likened to granting superpowers to mere mortals, but what about mutant powers? Based on the new Snapchat augmented reality experience promoting X-Men: Dark Phoenix, which debuts in theaters on June 7, the answer is a resounding “yup.” Appearing in the Snapchat Lens carousel on Tuesday, the augmented reality experience, triggered by...
Ellen Degeneres Is Leveraging the Power of Augmented Reality Gaming to Help Save an Endangered Species
Many tech insiders are waiting for augmented reality to go mainstream, but if you look around hard enough, you’ll find that it’s already gone as mainstream as possible, thanks to talk show host Ellen Degeneres. Degeneres and her partner, actor Portia de Rossi, recently teamed up with Krikey, a San Francisco-based augmented reality app studio,...