Every month we aim to round up each and every VR game release for you in one single place — this is May’s list for 2020. Check the bolded entries for ones we feel are particularly worth your time. So far 2020 has not been a disappointment at all in terms of new VR games to...
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Sony VR Patent Reveals Work On Face Tracking
A US patent granted to Sony reveals research on VR face tracking, a vital technology for the future of multiplayer and social VR. Titled Integration of tracked facial features for VR users in virtual reality environments, the patent describes the use of one or more cameras on the underside or nosegap of the headset to...
Watch: Curious Tale Quest Hand-Tracking Tease Suggests Official Integration Nears
A tease from Fast Travel Games may suggest Facebook will soon let developers officially integrate hand-tracking into their Oculus Quest titles. Fast Travel just teased support for hand-tracking in its charming puzzler, The Curious Tale Of The Stolen Pets. The GIF in the below tweet shows a player interacting with the game’s diorama-sized world, using...
Pixel Ripped 1995 Hits US PSVR Next Week, EU Week After
Pixel Ripped 1995’s PSVR launch isn’t too far behind its PC VR and Quest release. The nostalgia-fuelled VR adventure is arriving on the US PlayStation Store on May 12th for $19.99. It will come to Europe the following week on May 19th. The game initially arrived on other headsets in late April. Pixel Ripped 1995...
Tetris Effect Coming Soon Listing Appears In Oculus Quest Store
Screenshots of an Oculus store listing that went up for a short time indicate that Tetris Effect is coming to Oculus Quest. The game was listed in the ‘Coming Soon’ section of the store for a few hours, allowing several people to capture screenshots before the listing was taken down. Tetris Effect initially released for...
Valve Releases Beta OpenVR Support For Unity’s New XR Plugin System
Valve released a beta OpenVR package for the Unity game engine’s new XR plugin system. Unity is used to make the majority of VR games. When the Unity 2019.3 publicly shipped in January, the engine deprecated support for the built-in VR support, including for OpenVR– Valve’s application programming interface (API) for SteamVR. This was replaced...
Community Download: What’s The Best Star Wars VR Experience?
Community Download is a weekly discussion-focused articles series published (usually) every Monday in which we pose a single, core question to you all, our readers, in the spirit of fostering discussion and debate. For today’s Community Download, we want to know what you think is the absolute very best Star Wars VR game or experience...
VR Dev Releases Custom Oculus Rift S Flip Hinge Modding Guide For Developers
Ever since the ill-fated LG SteamVR headset debuted a handy flip-up feature in its design, we’ve wanted to see one in practically every VR headset. This interesting mod makes that a reality on the Oculus Rift S, but only for a certain set of users. Mark Schramm, who worked on Superhot VR as well as...
Free, Fan-Made X-Wing VR App Is The Best Way To Experience Star Wars Day
Looking for a way to celebrate Star Wars Day but already mastered Vader Immortal’s lightsaber dojo? Check out this great fan-made app for free. Project Stardust is developed by Dylan Stout as part of a research project for the University of Utah. Starting life in 2018, the piece was developed as a means of studying...
Spaceteam VR Launches On Oculus Quest And PC VR May 21
Spaceteam VR launches its “cooperative shouting game” on Oculus Quest and PC VR on May 21. A PlayStation VR version of the game is planned for later this year. The multiplayer party game adapted from the popular phone and tablet title allows up to six players to work together on ” increasingly complex and baffling...