What are the best PSVR games you can play today? Find out in our full list! Sony’s PSVR headset has proven to be something of a white knight for VR in the industry’s early years. Despite being technically inferior to the Oculus Rift S, Valve Index and even older headsets like the HTC Vive on...
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Registration Open For Official Eleven Table Tennis August Tournament
Registration is now open for the Eleven Table Tennis August Ranking Tournament, the latest in a series of official monthly tournaments that offer a $500 prize pool. The tournament begins on August 1 and offers serious Eleven Table Tennis players a chance to compete for a $500 prize pool, with matches running across the month....
New York Times Revives Its AR Storytelling on Instagram with Tokyo Olympics Experiences
Old school media stalwart The New York Times mobile-ar.reality.news/news/new-york-times-adds-ar-its-coverage-time-for-winter-olympics-0182577/ launched its augmented reality news content in 2018 with a feature on the athletes of the Winter Olympics. However, after a solid year of AR reporting, the Times all but abandoned its AR news coverage via its mobile app, instead opting to publish AR content via...
Fracked Research and Destroy Gameplay
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Quest 2 Sales Paused As 4 Million Facial Interfaces Recalled
Oculus Quest 2 sales are paused as Facebook adds a silicon cover to the boxes of every new headset, following reports of facial skin irritation with the original foam. Facebook says it is “participating in a voluntary recall of the Quest 2 removable facial interface in coordination with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC).”...
Exclusive New Fracked Gameplay Debuts Base Jumping And More Weapons
Enjoyed last week’s surprise Fracked demo? We’ve got five minutes of exclusive gameplay to hold you over just a bit longer. This new footage debuts a new section of the upcoming PSVR exclusive shooter, including some brand new features. For example, the clip starts with a new weapon – a more powerful pistol with a...
4 Million Quest 2 Facial Interfaces Shipped In USA, Recall Listing Confirms
Facebook has shipped around four million units of the Oculus Quest 2 facial interface in the USA, both separately and included alongside the headset. That much was revealed in a newly-listed alert from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission for the interface, which we today confirmed was being recalled after reports of skin irritation from...
Disc Ninja Combines Frisbee And Golf Next Week On Oculus Quest
Disc Ninja is launching its way onto Oculus Quest via the Oculus Store on August 5. Disc Ninja looks to be a cross between frisbee and golf, using the mechanics or the former with the general hole structure of the latter. The game released in June 2020 for PC VR in Early Access via Steam,...
What Exactly Is Facebook’s ‘Metaverse’ Group Building?
Facebook Reality Labs is “standing up a Metaverse product group”, but it isn’t clear what this actually means. FRL’s VP Andrew Bosworth announced the new effort in a Facebook post, though it’s light on specific details: “The Metaverse is already here as a collection of digital worlds each with its own physics to determine what’s...
Vermillion Available Now For PC VR, Coming To Quest Q1 2022
Oil painting application Vermillion is now available on Steam for PC VR, with a Quest launched lined up for next year. After only previously setting a release window for this summer, the developer behind Vermillion, Thomas van den Berge, confirmed to UploadVR that the app released this week and should be available for PC VR...
