Today during the introduction video for the Facebook: Game Developers Showcase, Chris Pruett, Director of Content Ecosystem, Oculus, revealed an interesting stat regarding just how popular the Oculus Quest has been since its release in May of 2019. “We look at the folks that turned on their devices around Christmas and 90%...
As part of their Game Developers Showcase, Facebook revealed details of a future update to the Oculus Quest that will bring a redesigned user interface (UI). The new UI will allow easier access to settings and browser windows while in VR apps, without having to return to Oculus Home (in apps which support this)....
Community Download is a weekly discussion-focused articles series published (usually) every Monday in which we pose a single, core question to you all, our readers, in the spirit of fostering discussion and debate. For today’s Community Download, we want to hear what you think about the Coronavirus and its impact on VR, specifically VR...
Today the first-ever all-digital Facebook: Game Developers Showcase kicked off in lieu of the annual in-person Game Developers Conference (GDC) event in San Francisco, CA. GDC was canceled earlier this year due to the spread of COVID-19 and it would have been held this week. This is the first day of the Showcase but...
If you’ve been waiting on news for the Five Nights At Freddy’s: Help Wanted Oculus Quest port then, don’t worry, the game’s still on track. Developer Steel Wool Studios confirmed as much in a recent blog post. The company noted that “things are very fluid with the COVID-19 pandemic” but the port remains on...
Two Bit Circus in Los Angeles closed its location for the month, and a VR tournament cancelled the portion of its event to be held at VR arcades, as the response to the coronavirus shifts on a daily basis. On March 13, before the closure, the Los Angeles entertainment venue sent an email saying...
The Citadel is one of the most iconic structures in all of Valve’s Half-Life series. It’s a hulking behemoth, casting a long shadow over the totalitarian streets of City 17. Now, one rebel has actually managed to climb it… in VR. YouTuber 3kliksphilip had the rather brilliant idea following the release of environments from...
Not many VR games allow you to roam and jump around freely like traditional non-VR games often do, but Orion13 hopes to give players access to that. The first-person VR hack-and-slash title aims to deliver a full-fledged story-based action game to VR players, and during PAX East 2020, I got the chance to run...
While augmented reality hardware hasn’t yet taken off with average consumers, Snapchat is among several smartphone apps that have succeeded in introducing basic forms of AR to millions of people, using camera “lenses” to add digital effects and objects to real-world scenes. Developer Snap released the Lens Web Builder, a tool that simplifies the process of building...
Vicon is already well-known and respected for both motion capture cameras and virtual reality endeavors, so its next step — augmented reality — probably won’t come as a shock to anyone. But professional athletes, trainers, and their teams may be particularly interested in the company’s latest development: an update to the Capture.U motion analysis app that lets users...
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