SSVAR blog talking about virtual reality,augmented reality and mixed reality.
A lagging trend of the past few months has been witnessing startups that COVID seemed poised to kill end up scaling back some of those deep cuts and taking off again. Not all spaces have been quite so lucky, in particular, lately we’ve seen a host of location-based virtual reality startups shut their doors. Virtual...
Back in February, we wrote about the release of Pokemon VR, a free fan-made game to sideload onto Oculus Quest. It was a fun multiplayer app with some issues. Six months on, though Pokemon VR on SideQuest has evolved into something pretty special. The game — which was recently updated to version 1.5 — now...
The new Medal of Honor VR game, Medal of Honor: Above And Beyond, is coming this holiday, and we’ll see a new trailer this week. Gaming host Geoff Keighley confirmed as much in a tweet with new artwork today. The tweet below confirms a Holiday 2020 release window for the game, also confirming that a...
A week after announcing it will soon require Facebook sign-ins for VR devices, Facebook is renaming Oculus Connect to Facebook Connect. The new iteration of the company’s VR developer event will be taking place digitally on September 16th. In addition to its focus on VR, Facebook Connect will also give more time to the company’s...
Facebook has a new name for its entire VR and AR team – Facebook Reality Labs. Okay, a sort of new name. Previously, Facebook Reality Labs referred to the R&D division of the company’s VR and AR work, which itself started out as Oculus Research. As of today, though, that refers to every element of...
Facebook is moving further away from the Oculus brand. The company says it is changing the name of their augmented reality and virtual reality division to “Facebook Reality Labs,” a division which will encompass the company’s AR/VR products under the Oculus, Spark and Portal brands. The company’s AR/VR research division had its title changed from...
Amazon is rolling out a new augmented reality shopping tool, Room Decorator, that will allow you to see furniture and other home décor in your own space. While the retailer had experimented with AR tools in the past, what makes Room Decorator different is that it’s capable of virtually adding multiple products to the room...
The entire Star Wars: Vader Immortal trilogy hits PSVR today and, from what we’ve seen so far, it’s a solid port. But it does have a few issues that hold it back from being the best version of the game. On a technical front, what we’ve played so far holds up nicely. Vader Immortal already...
A new event in AltspaceVR, called ‘Magicians in VR’, will see prominent figures come together to virtually “educate, entertain and inspire the immersive content creation community with relevant insights about the art of magic.” The event is set to take place on Wednesday October 7 in Altpsace from 1:00pm PST. The event will discuss how...
Back in April, we wrote about an impressive VR dungeon crawler named Ancient Dungeon that made its debut on PC VR headsets. Now, though, you can try its early version on Oculus Quest. An early version of Ancient Dungeon is now available on Itch, and can be installed via SideQuest. Developer Eric Thullen is accepting...
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