SSVAR blog talking about virtual reality,augmented reality and mixed reality.
A new addon for Half-Life: Alyx offers a couple test chambers inspired by Portal 2 that you can solve in VR without a portal gun. The mod is called ApertureVR – Thinking Without Portals and it does a fantastic job recreating the look, feel and sound of Valve’s classic Portal 2 adapted with Half-Life: Alyx’s...
Two VR experiences available on Oculus Quest have been nominated for Emmy Awards. The experiences — Inside COVID19 and Felix & Paul Studios’ Space Explorers: The ISS Experience — are nominated in Outstanding Interactive Program 2021 category, up against two other non-VR titles. Last year, The Messy Truth VR won an Emmy for Outstanding Original...
Xbox boss Phil Spencer has once again shot down any hopes for an Xbox VR headset in the near future, but hasn’t ruled out Xbox software appearing on other headsets. Appearing on the latest episode of the Kinda Funny Gamescast, Spencer said that Microsoft didn’t really have any plans for “bespoke accessories” like VR or...
A Township Tale is a deeply ambitious VR game, but your first few hours will likely be incredibly intimidating. The town building sim arrives on Oculus Quest tomorrow, but it’s still very much an early access title, and the tutorials on offer right now are pretty meagre. Without a little help, it’ll be easy to...
Demeo and Blaston developer Resolution Games closed its Series C funding round with $25 million, which it says will allow for new titles, continued game updates and studio growth. This brings the studio’s total funding to $38.5 million. The Series C round was led by Qualcomm Ventures LCC and BITKRAFT Ventures, along with Knutsson Holdings...
Google continues to bleed experts in AR and VR technology as Facebook Reality Labs staffs up for a bigger push into hardware. The latest move to Facebook is Joshua To, a key Google director who led “a large team of product designers, artists, writers and researchers focused on supporting our wearables and hardware efforts,” according...
A bunch of new music is coming to FitXR, thanks to several new partnerships with music labels such as Sony Music and Warner Music. The virtual fitness club with now feature tracks by artists such as Tiësto, Calvin Harris and many more. The new partnerships strike deals between FitXR and eight major and indie record...
Prolific producer and Grey’s Anatomy creator Shonda Rhimes could expand her work into VR content at Netflix. Rhimes and Netflix are extending a content relationship with Rhimes’ Shondaland Media after the original partnership ironed out in 2017 helped break records this year for the streaming company with 82 million households tuning in within the first...
Tarzan VR might be VR’s strangest game yet, but oddball hilarity doesn’t disguise incredibly shallow offerings. More in our Tarzan VR review. I’ve done a lot of strange things in my time covering VR. I’ve made out with aliens, saved Baby Shark and braved the nauseous dangers of Rollercoaster Dreams. But none of that even...
Back in March, we wrote about the launch of Return to Rapture, a full Half-Life: Alyx VR mod from Wim Buytaert. If you played the experience then you might know that a second part is on the way, and it’s sounding even more ambitious than the first. Wim Buytaert — now backed by a team...
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