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It was looking like a pretty quiet week for PlayStation VR releases. As it turns out, one of fall’s most anticipated VR experiences launches on the platform tomorrow for free. Activision and Infinity Ward’s Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare Jackal Assault VR Experience is hitting the PlayStation Store on November 4th. Previously it was thought...

HTC’s Viveport is quickly growing from a simple storefront into a much wider-reaching platform, with iterations on PC and mobile. But Viveport is also looking to branch off from selling content to consumer devices in a big way with a push towards arcades that HTC says will be worth “$100 million”. Viveport Arcade is a...

Lyrobotix is developing a portable outside-in positional tracking system for mobile VR headsets that uses a combination of ultrasonic and Lighthouse-like tracking. While big names in the VR space hope to create a robust inside-out positional tracking solution for mobile VR headsets, one company wants to simply reduce the cost and friction of what we...

Playful Corp is the developer behind one of virtual reality’s first, and most beloved video games: Lucky’s Tale. This Oculus Rift title is a love letter to the 3D platforming era of Super Mario 64 and Banjo Kazooie. The titular Lucky is a cute little fox that managed to jump, spin and dash his way into...

Unity’s impressive demonstration of its Editor VR software was the highlight of yesterday’s Unite conference keynote. Though extensive in the tools it provides, it also represents a more accessible, user-friendly development engine that we might all be using one day to create virtual worlds. As it turns out, that day might not be too far...

During the opening keynote to their annual Unite conference yesterday, Unity announced that their in-development VR authoring tool EditorVR, which allows creators to step inside and work on their projects using virtual reality, is on its way within the next couple of months. Here’s a video of the full demonstration which showed off the latest...

When UK-based VR studio Rewind asked me if I wanted to come and see a demo of its eye-tracking tech demo for the upcoming FOVE 0 headset, I was intrigued. Not just because it was a device and experience I’d yet to get my head into but also because Rewind wasn’t a company I’d previously...

This Halloween season wouldn’t be complete without creepy, gore-filled action games, so Gear VR users should be thankful for the timely release of Drop Dead. This zombie-themed shooter will instantly feel familiar for anyone who spent hours in dark arcades (or in front of TV screens) playing light gun games like House of the Dead....

It’s been a long road for FOVE, the creators of the eye-tracking VR headset that hit Kickstarter last summer, but today the company launches pre-orders for their first commercially available product, the FOVE 0. Pre-orders start at a special discount price of $549, available from today until November 9 at 8 a.m. PT (local time), with the price...

Fresh off the release of its VR tribute to Contra, Gun Sight, Climax Studios is back this week with the announcement of two new games for two new platforms. The first of these is Towers for Tango, a new app for Google’s Project Tango 3D capture tech, currently seen in the just-launched Lenovo Phab Pro...