Asgard’s Wrath’s cinematic intro trailer was great, but it left us with plenty of questions. This single-player fantasy role-playing game (RPG) promises 30+ hours of action, but how does it actually play? This new gameplay video gives us some idea. Oculus Studios Executive Producer Mike Doran posted the clip on Vimeo over the weekend. It’s...
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Steam Awards 2018 Finds Its VR Game Of The Year
After months of user-voting, Valve finally announced its Steam Awards 2018 winners this month. It was Bethesda’s Skyrim VR that took home the award for VR Game of the Year. Skyrim VR fought off some stiff competition in this year’s category although, sadly, most other entries were from other years. VR Chat, Superhot VR and...
Why did Apple wait 20 months after ARKit shipped to name a lead AR marketer?
Augmented reality has had a rough start, and remains modestly adopted years after early hardware and software launched. But Apple could change that.Read More Source: Why did Apple wait 20 months after ARKit shipped to name a lead AR marketer?
Glitch and Mozilla launch WebVR starter kit for building VR websites
If you thought that creating VR content was too difficult, Glitch and Mozilla now have a free tutorial series that will teach you how to make a VR website.Read More Source: Glitch and Mozilla launch WebVR starter kit for building VR websites
PlayStation US Boss: PSVR’s Change In 10 Years ‘Will Be Dramatic’
PlayStation’s Shawn Layden has us hopeful that PSVR 2 will happen. And maybe even PSVR 3 and 4, for that matter. In a recent interview with Game Informer, Layden, who heads up Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) US, said that PSVR’s change over the next 10 years will be “dramatic”. Talking about the future for the...
Fresh Evasion Update Lets You Get Competitive With Friends
VR bullet hell shooter Evasion is getting a new update today. It adds a competitive twist to the co-op gameplay. The Killstreak Update, as it’s called, goes live today at 10am PT on Rift, Vive and PSVR. Chief among the additions is a new scoring system. Every level in the game now features leaderboards to...
New Pokémon GO Augmented Reality Photo Feature Lets You Strike a Pose with Pikachu
The actual augmented reality portion of Pokémon GO is about to get even more fun for players. On Tuesday, the company revealed GO Snapshot, an extension of AR+ Mode facilitated by ARKit and ARCore that will enable players to pose Pokémon characters in augmented reality for photo capture. “We’ve been inspired by the incredible photos...
Pokemon Go’s Snapshot Feature Turns Your Phone Into An AR Camera
We all remember Pokemon Snap, right? The classic Nintendo 64 game in which you drove around on-rails through a variety of levels taking candid photos of unsuspecting Pokemon in their natural habitats. As a kid, I was obsessed with uncovering all of the secrets and hidden photo opportunities. Now, the team behind the mobile AR...
Space Junkies Coming To PSVR, Full Launch Next Month
The long wait for Ubisoft’s next VR game, Space Junkies, is almost over. Not only that, but it’s coming to PSVR too. Ubisoft announced today that the zero gravity shooter will hit PSVR, Rift, Vive and Windows VR headsets on March 26th. The PSVR edition isn’t too surprising considering the ESRB rated the game for...
2019 Events Schedule: The Major VR/AR Conferences And Festivals
Some of the biggest virtual reality and augmented reality technology announcements of the year will be made in connection with the events listed on this page. We’ll update this list from time to time as we get updates about major new events in 2019, like Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference. Also, if we’ve missed a major...