Facebook announced a collaboration with video conferencing application Zoom, integrating Zoom meetings natively into Facebook’s new remote work solution for VR, Horizon Workrooms. The integration won’t arrive until next year but will allow you to “easily join Zoom Meetings and use Zoom Whiteboard all from within VR.” Horizon Workrooms is Facebook’s remote work collaboration tool...
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Mafia VR Mod Is The Latest Release From GTAV Modder
Luke Ross, the VR developer behind mods for Grand Theft Auto V and, more recently, Red Dead Redemption 2, has launched a Mafia VR mod. The mod is based on the Definitive Edition of the game that released last year, and is available to those that subscribe to the modder’s Patreon page. As with his...
I-Illusions Devs Explore ‘Unexplored Space’ Of Arena VR With Space Pirate Trainer DX
I-Illusions broke new ground this month with the release of a multiplayer mode for Space Pirate Trainer that requires a 10 meter by 10 meter play space. Dirk Van Welden and Patrick Hackett from I-Illusions joined us in our studio for a live interview right before releasing the update to every owner of Space Pirate...
Baobab Studios Nabs 9th Emmy Award Thanks To Baba Yaga
Baba Yaga won an Emmy for Outstanding Interactive Media for a Daytime Program at the 48th Annual Emmy Awards, bringing Baobab Studios’ total Emmy awards wins to nine. Baba Yaga also previously won two other Emmy awards — Outstanding Directing Team for Animated Program (Eric Darnell, director, and Mathias Chelebourg, co-director) and Outstanding Individual Achievement...
HTC Vive Pro 2 Full Kit Ships In October For $1,399
The HTC Vive Pro 2 Full Kit will start shipping in October, the company today confirmed. Pre-orders for the bundle are already live in the US and will launch in Europe, Middle East and Africa on September 23rd. The kit costs £1,299 in the UK and you can also pre-order from Vive.com, Amazon, Scan or...
‘Quest Pro’ Face & Eye Tracking References Found In Oculus Firmware
Reddit user Reggy04 dug into the Oculus Quest v32 firmware, finding strings referring to ‘Quest Pro’ as well as face and eye tracking. We obtained the Quest v32 firmware file, decompiled it, and searched it with grep to confirm Reggy’s claims. The Quest Pro reference appears to be from the Hand Tracking setup process: QUEST PRO...
Lavrynthos Is A Brilliantly Smart Mix Of VR Storytelling And Impossible Spaces On Oculus Quest And PC
Lavrynthos offers a fun riff on Daedalus’s Labyrinth using novel techniques. Read on for our impressions! Impossible spaces is a concept that’s severely underexplored in the VR scene. It’s essentially a means of changing an environment as you walk through it: standing in a room, walking around a corner back into the same space and...
Rainbow Reactor Fusion Releases This Week For Oculus Quest
Announced earlier this year, it looks like Rainbow Reactor Fusion is set to release later this week on September 17 for Oculus Quest. Fusion is a color-matching puzzle title that follows up 2019’s Rainbow Reactor, available for PC VR on Steam with support for Valve Index, HTC Vive and Oculus Rift headsets. This follow-up title,...
Microsoft Flight Simulator VR Controller Support Coming Mid-November
A developer roadmap from Asobo indicates that support for VR controllers is planned to launch with Simulator Update VII, currently set for a mid-November release. In their weekly developer update, Asobo posted the usual ‘Virtual Reality Feedback Snapshot’ list which shows the top ‘wishes’ and the most important bugs as voted on by the community,...
Drone control via gestures using MediaPipe Hands
A guest post by Neurons Lab Please note that the information, uses, and applications expressed in the below post are solely those of our guest author, Neurons Lab, and not necessarily those of Google. How the idea emerged With the advancement of technology, drones have become not only smaller, but also have more compute. There...
