A Swedish teenager built a tracking kit to dramatically lower the cost of VR body tracking. With the help of JA Sweden, a non-profit promoting student entrepreneurship, Anton Bill Månsson and two friends founded a startup called Stonx. This week they opened preorders for a front-facing dev kit. No VR system on the market today comes...
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SSVAR blog talking about virtual reality,augmented reality and mixed reality.
Free New Facebook Demos Showcase Oculus Quest Hand-Tracking To Devs
Facebook posted two Oculus App Lab experiences aimed at developers, including a new version of its First Steps showcase using hand-tracking tech. Both First Steps and the other title, Tiny Castles, are free to download via the service but shouldn’t be thought of as fully-fleshed out gaming experiences. First Steps itself is an extension of...
Zombieland VR: Headshot Fever Coming This Spring To Quest, PSVR, And PC VR
Zombieland VR: Headshot Fever is a new House of the Dead-inspired shooter coming this Spring from Sony Pictures Virtual Reality and XR Games to Quest, PSVR, and all major PC VR headsets. I don’t know many people that would say VR needs more zombie games or more wave shooters, but here we are anyway. It’s...
Resolution Games Debuts First Look At Demeo Gameplay In New Trailer
Resolution Games debuted a first look at gameplay from its upcoming tabletop dungeon crawler Demeo, which is coming soon to Quest, PC VR, and non-VR PC with cross-platform play. With Demeo, Resolution is bringing tabletop RPG gameplay into VR by creating a virtual environment where up to four players can meet and play through a...
HTC Vive Seems To Be Teasing A Hardware Reveal
HTC Vive is teasing… something. The company’s official Twitter account release an image of what looks like the Vive logo on what looks like a plastic surface of some kind with the message “It’s your move”. Well, we guess it’s our move to figure out what the company is teasing? It’s your move. pic.twitter.com/BEdC37BiTb —...
After The Fall Also Coming To ‘Yet To Be Announced’ VR Platforms
After a long silence, yesterday saw the return of Vertigo Games’ After The Fall with a new cinematic trailer and a Summer 2021 release window. But a press release also teases the game is coming to “yet to be announced VR platforms” in the same timeframe. That wording is a little unclear, either suggesting the...
Fantasy Puzzle Game Flow Weaver Hits Quest Next Week
Stitch Media and Silverstring Media’s fantasy puzzle game, Flow Weaver, arrives on Oculus Quest and Rift headsets next week. The title touches down on March 11th and is now available to wishlist in the coming soon section of the Quest Store. In Flow Weaver, players awaken to find themselves trapped in an unknown dimension, and...
Fracked Is a PSVR Exclusive Shooter From The Maker Of Phantom
UK-based VR developer nDreams today announced its next project, a PSVR exclusive shooter named Fracked. The game was announced over on the PlayStation Blog today. It’s coming to PS4 but will, of course, be playable on PS5 via backwards compatibility with some enhancements exclusive to the console. The game is a first-person shooter (FPS) designed...
New Zenith VR MMO Trailer And Screenshots Show A Gorgeous Fantasy World
A new trailer and screenshots revealed today for upcoming VR MMO Zenith show a gorgeous fantasy world we can’t wait to explore. It’s also getting a new subtitle, changing the name to Zenith: The Last City. Zenith: The Last City VR MMO Developers Ramen VR previously announced during the Kickstarter campaign (where it raised over...
Song In The Smoke Survival Adventure Coming To PSVR And Quest This Year
Newly announced survival adventure game Song in the Smoke will see you trying to fend off beasts with a bow and club as you try to survive the night. The new game from 17-BIT was just announced with a PlayStation VR trailer — it should launch this Spring — and the developers are planning to...
