Category: The SSVAR blog

FitXR is today launching its third form of virtual workout – high-intensity interval training (HIIT) exercises. Traditionally, HIIT workouts have people exercising in short, sharp bursts and then resting for a few moments before starting up another activity. When we spoke to FitXR last month the company told us its take on HIIT was designed...

There’s been a lot of great VR mods for PC games lately, and Risk of Rain 2 is joining the list, with full motion control support. The full 2.0 version of the mod from DrBibop was launched just a few days ago (thanks to Brian Tate for tipping us off). Unlike the new mods we...

Adding melee combat into Half-Life: Alyx could have been the “logical next step” for the game, according to one Valve developer. Programmer Kerry Davis, who worked on the hand interactions in last year’s VR blockbuster, said as much in an interview with Kotaku last week. “I think that was one of those things that the...

Hand Physics Lab now includes a number of accessibility options, including a colorblind mode and the ability to map finger movements to other fingers. The finger mapping feature should make the game playable for people who have a finger-related disability. The game is one of the few available on Oculus Quest that’s entirely playable with...

It looks like Beat Saber will soon be getting new tracks this week featuring artists like LMFAO and Kendrick Lamar. Update: In a public post on his Facebook page, Mark Zuckerberg posted a video playing a (previously released) Beat Saber track and confirmed that a “new Beat Saber music pack [is] dropping this Thursday” in...

A team calling itself Akiya Research Institute VR Lab wants to turn phones and webcams into a multi-view body tracking system. We found no web presence for any “Akiya Research Institute” beyond the Twitter account started this month. We translated the Tweets – the videos have already gone somewhat viral. We’ve not been able to...

We’re in our virtual studio today talking about the relentless pace of updates for Facebook’s Oculus Quest 2 as well as Snap’s big play into augmented reality announced the same week we reported on DigiLens’ new modular reference design for AR. That’s a lot to get into and, in case you’re unfamiliar, you can join...