SteamVR 1.17 lets you pin windows to your controllers, adds field of view & world scale sliders, and fixes more than a dozen bugs. This update is the culmination of months of beta releases – the previous stable version shipped back in February. Docking individual windows was already possible with 3rd party extensions like OVR...
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First Warhammer: Age of Sigmar Tempestfall Gameplay Arrives
Carbon Studios has long been teasing its upcoming Warhammer VR game, Tempestfall, with elaborate CG trailers. Today, we got our first proper look at gameplay. The first full footage of Warhammer: Age of Sigmar Tempestfall is below. As the name suggests, this title is set in a different part of the Warhammer franchise to last...
Sniper Elite VR Releases July 8 For Quest, PSVR & SteamVR
Rebellion revealed Sniper Elite VR will launch July 8, 2021 on PlayStation VR, Steam VR, Quest and Rift. A new trailer for the shooter showcases some of the gameplay. You’ll play as an “Italian partisan, fighting fascism in a powerful World War II story told through his harrowing memories as you protect your fellow countrymen...
Warhammer 40K: Battle Sister Launches On Rift Today
The Oculus Rift version of Warhammer 40K: Battle Sister launches today. Battle Sister first launched on Quest late last year, when developer Pixel Toys told us it would aim to bring the game to other headsets in 2021. You can check out a trailer for the Rift version below, which boasts improved graphics over the...
Low-Fi Spin-Off Tech Demo Agency Launches On Quest Via App Lab
Blair Renaud, developer of Technolust and upcoming VR title Low-Fi, announced that a tech demo for the upcoming Low-Fi spin-off, Agency, is now available for Quest via App Lab. The demo itself is quite short, coming in at around two minutes. You can’t move or interact with anything either — you’re stationary but control two...
Little Witch Academia VR Racing To PSVR And PC VR Next Month
Little Witch Academia: VR Broom Racing is making its way over to PSVR and PC VR headsets next month. The game lands on both platforms on July 15th. However it’s priced at $39.99 on PSVR and $29.99 on the Oculus Store and SteamVR. We’ve reached out to developer UNIVRS to ask why the price is...
No Man’s Sky Gets Huge Visual Overhaul With Prisms Update
Hello Games announced the Prisms update for No Man’s Sky today, which brings a significant and stunning visual overhaul that improves the game’s aesthetic and adds new effects and features. The sheer number of new visual effects is too large for us to list — the best way to explain the new visuals is to...
Facebook’s Spark AR platform expands to video calling with Multipeer API
At today’s F8 developer conference, Facebook announced new capabilities for Spark AR, its flagship AR creation software. Since Spark AR was announced at F8 2017, more than 600,000 creators from 190 countries have published over 2 million AR effects on Facebook and Instagram, making it the largest mobile AR platform, according to Facebook. If you’ve...
Early DecaMove Review – A Little Device That Goes A Long Way For VR Locomotion
We’ve got a first look at the new device from Megadodo Simulation Games. Read on in our early DecaMove review. Megadodo Simulation Games is a company with a lot to prove. Last year it appeared as if from thin air to announce an ambitious SteamVR headset, touting HP Reverb resolution and a $450 price tag....
Quest 2 May Soon Support Any Keyboard Through A Passthrough Rectangle
YouTuber Basti564 dug into Oculus Quest 2’s system software & found a dormant ‘Pass-through Keyboard’ feature. Currently Quest can show one specific keyboard inside VR: the Logitech K830 US version. A computer vision algorithm leverages the cameras on the headset to track the shape & keys and represent it with a premade 3D model. You...
