Some of VR’s groundbreaking developers blazing a new trail with early VR releases are providing a lower-priced bundle on Steam. The “VR Pioneers” bundle costs around $123.94, or 20 percent off, for a set of incredible games. Normally it would cost more than $150 to get all the games included in this bundle. I-Illusions’ Space...
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Bring Trover Saves The Universe Into AR With This New Snapchat Lens
Trover Saves the Universe is out today, and we were impressed with Squanch Games’ unique brand of humor – developed alongside Rick and Morty’s Justin Roiland. If you can’t get enough of the VR experience, you’ll also be able to take Trover Saves the Universe into AR, thanks to a partnership with Snapchat. In order to...
Pixel Ripped 1995 Is A Full Sequel To Last Year’s Nostalgia Hit
Ready for more VR-fuelled gaming nostalgia? A sequel to Pixel Ripped 1989 is on the way, and it’s jumping six years into the future. Pixel Ripped 1995 will continue the series’ theme of revisiting beloved gaming eras of the past in VR. In the original game, you played through a fictional game series on virtual...
Super Smash Bros Ultimate Just Got Switch VR Support
Nintendo just added VR support to another one of its tent pole Switch games – Super Smash Bros Ultimate. Yup, really. Update 3.1.0 for the game brings limited support for the Switch’s Labo VR headset. You won’t embody a fighter in first-person, but you will watch and play from the sidelines as if you were...
Ultrahaptics Buys Finger Tracking Company Leap Motion
Ultrahaptics announced a “strategic deal” with hand tracking company Leap Motion to combine their startups and technologies. The Wall Street Journal reports Ultrahaptics bought the company for around $10 million. The combination of the two means Ultrahaptics will have tracking and haptic technologies to provide a sense of touch in certain types of products. Ultrahaptics...
Superhot Quest Launch Sales ‘300% Higher’ Than Rift Without Cross-Buy
Superhot VR was one of around 50 titles available when Oculus’ new Quest headset arrived last week. Despite stiff competition, the development team says sales were 300% higher than when it first launched on Rift. The developer didn’t provide any specifics, as to how long that launch window is or, indeed, how many units it...
Once poised to kill the mouse and keyboard, Leap Motion plays its final hand
The company sought to completely change how we interacted with computers, but now Leap Motion is selling itself off. Apple reportedly tried to get their hands on the hand-tracking tech which Leap Motion rebuffed, but now the hyped nine-year-old consumer startup is being absorbed into the younger, enterprise-focused UltraHaptics. The Wall Street Journal first reported...
Using augmented reality, Altoida is identifying the likely onset of neurodegenerative diseases
For the past 19 years, Ioannis Tarnanas, the founder and chief scientific officer at Altoida, has been developing virtual and augmented reality tools to offer predictions about the onset of mental illness in older patients. The company, whose tools have been cleared by the Food and Drug Administration (an earlier version of this article incorrectly...
Snapchat Assists Warriors & Raptors Fans in Rooting for Their Teams with NBA Finals AR Experiences
With the defending champion Golden State Warriors and Drake’s favorite team, the Toronto Raptors, set to face off in the NBA Finals starting Thursday, Snapchat has gifted hoops fans with a pair of augmented reality experiences. For fans in attendance at the games, Snapchat users can scan the banners at each team’s arena to access...
Hands-On: Here’s How Augmented Reality in Google Search Works
Lions and tigers and bears are just a few of the animals that Google users can now bring into their physical environments. Less than a month after previewing augmented reality capabilities in Search at Google I/O, Google has begun to roll out support for embedding 3D content into mobile search results, which can be viewed...