Category: The SSVAR blog

Source: New VR Games – August 2021

Ven VR Adventure is coming to Oculus Quest on August 12. The game is now listed on the Oculus Store for Quest with a release date for next week, August 12. Ven VR Adventure released late last year for PC VR via the Oculus Store for Rift, with the promise of a Steam PC VR...

Earlier this week I installed Blizzard’s Hearthstone, Apple Music, and the flatscreen Android version of Netflix on Oculus Quest 2. To my left, I played a game of Hearthstone with hand tracking while on the right I watched Terminator 2 downloaded locally from Netflix. In the middle of my space sat the Oculus browser, offering...

Sony yesterday held a private conference to brief developers about its upcoming VR headset for the PS5, revealing new details about the device. PSVR Without Parole first reported on the conference, which we’ve independently verified took place yesterday. At the event, the company outlined specs and features for the new device — which has not...

17-Bit’s upcoming survival VR game, Song in the Smoke, still doesn’t have a release date. But it does have plenty of new footage to take in over on Twitter. Over the course of the past month, the developer has been sharing a handful of gameplay clips from the title. Song in the Smoke is designed...

The long-promised Stride story mode and Quest multiplayer are still in the works, but they’ll arrive after this week’s Quest launch. While Stride’s standalone launch won’t be completely identical to the Early Access PC VR version (there will be new features in some modes, but they’re being kept under wraps for now), the three core...

Facebook confirmed that a bug was preventing some users from installing the Oculus PC app to their computers yesterday. Reports from users online started to indicate that issue was impacting people trying to use Oculus services, particularly those attempting to install the Oculus PC app. UploadVR received reports from users experiencing troubles, which many believed...

Yet unrevealed PSVR 2 specs will push the headset even further beyond what we already know about it, according to the Digital Foundry team. In May, UploadVR revealed the first specs for the upcoming PS5-compatible device, confirming a resolution of 4000×2040 pixels (2000×2040 per eye) and gaze tracking capable of foveated rendering among other features....

After a long delay, The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners Aftershocks update arrives on September 23. Developer Skydance confirmed the news on the PlayStation Blog today. Aftershocks is a free update for all platforms that was originally meant to be launching in May 2021, but was delayed at the last minute. The developer cited issues...

With the continued success of the Oculus Quest 2 and the standalone VR form factor, there have been questions about the future of PC VR, the platform that started it all. Other than the obvious technological barriers that existed in previous iterations of virtual reality over the decades, one of the critical components that I...