In the company’s most recent earnings call, HTC confirmed it’s making a profit on each Vive headset sold, and that the company has sold “much more” than a widely reported 140,000 units. Following recent financial troubles from the tumbling smartphone portion of the company’s business, HTC points readily to their relatively new VR business as...
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Oculus Touch Global Backorder Has New Orders Shipping 10 to 15 Days After Launch
The long anticipated Oculus Touch controllers launch on December 6th. If you’re just putting in your pre-order with Oculus today, you may not have your hands on the device until later in the month. Other retailers may still have unordered stock. Oculus opened pre-orders for Touch all the way back on October 10th. The $200 pair...
Daydream-ready Phone Minimum Requirements Detailed in Android Documentation
The latest Compatibility Definition Document for Android includes a new section specifying what’s required from a ‘Daydream-ready’ phone. Daydream VR is Google’s new high-end mobile VR platform, built directly into Android, but it only works with specially designed phones. For every major release of the Android platform, all the way back to 2009’s ‘Donut’ (1.6),...
‘Pinball FX2 VR’ Coming to Vive and PSVR Along with Walking Dead Table on November 29th
Pinball FX2 VR’s timed exclusivity with Oculus shortly comes to an end, with the game due to arrive on HTC Vive and PlayStation VR on November 29th. At the same time, the popular Walking Dead-themed table shuffles its way onto all VR versions of the game. As one of the launch titles for the Oculus...
Oculus Touch Day-one Launch Lineup Soars to More Than 50 Titles
Oculus today has confirmed that there’s more than 50 Touch-supporting titles ready for the controller’s launch next month. Photo courtesy Oculus Last we heard from Oculus, there were some 35 “full, made-for-VR games” launch titles that would be ready for Touch and Rift by the end of the year. Now the company says that the...
Oculus Rift Black Friday/Cyber Monday Deal Offers $100 in Store Credit
From November 24th to the 28th, purchases of an Oculus Rift headset through Best Buy will be eligible for $100 of Oculus Store credit which can be spent on Rift and Gear VR games and apps. This Black Friday and Cyber Monday, prospective VR adopters will see the first discounts on newly launched headsets. In...
The Immersive Industry Moves Closer to Universal Access as Steam Announces OSVR Support
The Nintendo Entertainment system launched in 1985 with less than 20 titles for consumers to choose from. This year the world’s first high-end consumer virtual reality headsets launched and there are already hundreds of different apps, games and experiences available for them. Finding content is not an issue for today’s VR customer. What is a problem...
Xbox Game Streaming to Oculus Rift is Finally Launching Next Month
Announced nearly a year and a half ago, Oculus and Microsoft are finally making good on their promise to stream Xbox One games into a virtual theater on the Rift. Xbox One users have been able to stream their games to a locally networked Windows 10 PC since the middle of last year. In June,...
HTC Partners on $1.5 Billion VR Investment Fund with Shenzhen Municipal Government
HTC and the Shenzhen Municipal Government announced plans to set up a joint China VR Research Institute, creating a 10 billion RMB (~$1.45 billion USD) Shenzhen VR Investment Fund to accelerate the development of the VR industry in China. China’s third largest city and one of the fastest growing in the world with a population of...
Todd Howard: Bethesda Is ‘Trying To Put All Of Fallout 4 In VR’
A few months ago we interviewed Bethesda’s VP of Marketing, Pete Hines, about the company’s ambitions and plans for virtual reality — including Fallout 4. He was decidedly cautious and was careful not to say too much, a sentiment that’s often reflected throughout Bethesda’s senior leadership, and is a big reason why they maintain such a...
