Last week we reported that the Lambda1 VR mod for Half-Life on Oculus Quest had added support for the Opposing Force expansion. Now you can check it out in our gameplay video. Opposing Force was the second expansion to Half-Life, developed by Borderlands studio Gearbox. It cast players as a soldier sent into the Black...
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3D Content Platform Sketchfab Passes 3 Million Members
Sketchfab’s platform surpassed 3 million members last week. The platform allows creators to host 3D content and make it available for sale and download to others. Sketchfab’s online library features 3D content and models created on a variety of different platforms, including content that was created with immersive VR creation tools such as Tilt Brush,...
Phil Spencer Hopes Xbox VR Becomes A ‘No Brainer’, But No Series X Support At Launch
Late last year Phil Spencer, Microsoft’s Head of Xbox, caused a bit of a stir up in the VR industry when he stated that “nobody” was asking for Xbox VR support. Spencer later clarified that, while he liked VR, it wasn’t the company’s focus for its new console, now known as Xbox One Series X....
Sony Paid $229 Million To Purchase Insomniac Games In 2019
Last year Sony Interactive Entertainment acquired Insomniac Games, the developers of critically-acclaimed and commercially successful games for both VR and non-VR formats. Some of their standout non-VR games include Marvel’s Spider-Man on PS4, the Ratchet & Clank series, and the Spyro the Dragon series on PlayStation 1. All of the studio’s VR work was only...
Facebook Acquires Positional Tracking Company Scape Technologies
Facebook acquired a visual-based positional tracking company called Scape Technologies, according to Techcrunch. Scape Technologies was based in London and founded in 2016. It was working on a technology that could pinpoint location with better accuracy than just GPS. The company called this a “Visual Positioning Service,” which worked on computer vision and would allow...
Community Download: When Will VR Be Big Enough For Xbox?
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, we want to hear from you in regards to Microsoft’s current stance on VR, specifically with regard to Xbox. During...
Oculus Quest Custom Home Environments Include Simpsons House And More
Everything you do on your Oculus Quest starts in the home environment – you can change your settings, purchase apps and launch yourself into virtual worlds. Users now have a way to create custom home environments, including locations from The Simpsons and other popular movies and TV shows. From late last year, Facebook started to...
Improving Smart Home Action Reviews
Action submission requiring developer attention These console updates reflect additional internal changes we’ve made to better synchronize the policy and certification review teams, enabling reviewers advance submissions through the process more quickly and reducing delays between Actions being approved and ready for production. We’re excited to bring these improvements to the Actions on Google developer...
Glass Enterprise Edition 2 now available for developers
Glass Enterprise Edition 2 has helped people working in logistics, manufacturing, field services and a variety of other industries do their jobs more efficiently through hands-free access to the information and tools they need to do their job. Enterprises who have deployed Glass with experiences built by our network of solution providers, have seen faster...
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