Next week sees Facebook kick off the first ever Oculus Gaming Showcase. On April 21st at 3pm PT the company will air a digital event filled with upcoming VR games featuring new trailers and full reveals. Naturally, the show’s being kept under wraps, but a handful of games and developers are confirmed to be taking...
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Skateboarding Game VRSkater Finally Hits Early Access In April
Back in 2019 we wrote about VRSkater, an ambitious attempt at a VR skateboarding game. This month, it’s finally releasing. Deficit Games will launch an Early Access version of VRSkater on Steam on April 30. To celebrate, the studio released a new trailer which you can see below. Skateboarding might not seem like something that...
Inxile’s Frostpoint VR Is Already Shutting Down
Just over four months on from launch, multiplayer shooter Frostpoint VR is already shutting down. An update on the game’s Steam page, published over the weekend, confirms the PC VR title will see its servers deactivated on May 9th. No reason was given for the move and no mention was made of refunds for existing...
Oculus Quest 2 To Get PC VR Air Link, 120 Hz, And Desk Support
Facebook’s latest update to the Oculus Quest 2 software will add an Air Link mode to play PC VR games wirelessly. The v28 update will also include 120 Hz support for Quest 2 as well as Infinite Office updates that include bringing your desk into VR and the ability to see a bluetooth-enabled Logitech K830...
Snapchat Launches Monumental Perspectives AR Project
Snapchat announced the launch of a new AR project called Monumental Perspectives, which lets Snapchat users view five augmented reality artworks placed across Los Angeles. The project is a collaboration between Snapchat and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). The AR monuments have been by created artists and technologists who are part of...
Pico Neo 3 Includes Snapdragon XR2, Optical Controllers And Physical IPD Adjustment
Pico Interactive revealed the specifications for its Neo 3 headset and it is looking a lot like Oculus Quest 2 minus Facebook. However, the headset is being pitched only to consumers in Asia. The new headset is pitched as running the Qualcomm Snapdragon XR2 platform with a switch to optical controller tracking. The earlier Pico...
Swarm Hands-On: A Great Mixture Of Swinging And Shooting
The latest arcade shooter has arrived on Quest, but with a swinging twist. Here are our impressions of Swarm, available now on the Oculus Store. Swarm is a entertaining distillation of a few other elements we’ve seen in VR before. It’s got fantastic swinging mechanics for traversal, solid arcade gunplay and a wave-based enemy structure...
Cosmic Platformer Straylight Coming To Quest, PC VR, PSVR In Q3 2021
Straylight, a new VR platformer set in space, will launch later this year for Oculus Quest, PSVR and PC VR. The game will see you use stars as anchor points to pull yourself through space, with easy-to-learn, hard-to-master gameplay that “finds inspiration in the white-knuckle, pixel-perfect platformers of yesteryear.” Here’s a description from Dr Bloc,...
VZfit Fitness Service Comes To Oculus Quest Store With Google Street View
VZfit will launch its subscription fitness service on the Oculus Store for Quest with smart bike and Google Maps Street View integration. The workout service is listed as coming soon on the Oculus Store, though it was previously available for Quest outside the store. VZfit’s focus is on transporting users to exercise virtually anywhere around...
Intel Takes Us Inside to Reveal How HoloLens 2 Is Transforming Computer Chip Production
The enterprise applications powering the adoption of the HoloLens 2 are only just ramping up as developers continue to work with the still relatively new hardware. But one tech giant, namely Intel, is showing off how it’s already harnessing the features of the HoloLens 2 to transform its internal operations. • Don’t Miss: Hands-On with...