Facebook’s Q4 2020 ‘Other’ revenue was more than double Q4 2019. CFO David Wehner explained the increase to investors as “due to strong Quest 2 holiday sales”. The company’s non-advertising revenue in quarter 4 of 2020 was $885 million, up from $346 million in Q4 2019. That’s an increase of 156% year-over-year. Oculus Quest 2 launched...
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Mark Zuckerberg: Quest 2 ‘Is On Track To Be The First Mainstream VR Headset”
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg offered some of his strongest comments about the strength of the company’s business in virtual reality in an earnings call with investors. Quest 2 “is on track to be the first mainstream virtual reality headset,” Zuckerberg said during the call. “Facebook has done more than any other company to help virtual...
Wraith: The Oblivion – Afterlife Slated For Release This Spring
Fast Travel Games offered a new peek inside its upcoming VR horror game Wraith: The Oblivion – Afterlife and confirmed a spring 2021 release window for the title. The new trailer shows a look at “The Shadow” — a guide and narrator throughout the game. Check it out in the new teaser: A post on...
Job Sim Dev Owlchemy Is Still Making Games Despite Google VR Retreat
The last few months have seen Google wind down a lot of its VR work, but the developer of Job and Vacation Simulator says it isn’t going anywhere. Yesterday brought news that Google was making its VR creation platform, Tilt Brush, open-source. Hidden inside the announcement was the snippet that Google itself will no longer...
Gorn Oculus Quest Livestream: Wireless Bloodbath!
Gorn hits Oculus Quest later this week, but you can watch team Upload play it today in our Gorn Oculus Quest livestream at 8:30am PT/4:30pm GMT! Free Lives’ brilliantly bloody battle sim is finally making the jump to standalone VR. We’ve already been hands-on with the port and it’s shaping up really well. Join Jamie...
HaptX Gloves DK2 Get Big Upgrade But The Price Is Still A Secret
HaptX just announced the new version of its state-of-the-art VR input device – HaptX Gloves DK2. Gloves may be the ultimate goal for VR input. Some use the term “haptic gloves” to refer to finger tracking with basic vibration motors on each finger, but companies like HaptX go much further. HaptX gloves have “true-contact haptics”...
Skydance Hiring For ‘Next Generation Of Games’ As TWD Turns 1
The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners turned 1 this week, and in a celebration video members of developer Skydance Interactive teased they can’t wait to share “what’s next”. The two-minute video, recently posted on Twitter, has individual members of the development team thanking fans for the game’s first year, in which it generated more than...
Pistol Whip’s Epic 2089 Campaign Mode Blasts Onto PSVR Today
Pistol Whip on PSVR is getting a free update today to bring over the free, new campaign mode, 2089, that debuted on PC and Quest last month. Pistol Whip 2089 deviated from previous Pistol Whip releases in the sense that it added a “cinematic” campaign mode rather than just individual song tracks like it had...
Google Open Sources Tilt Brush
Google open sourced its groundbreaking art app Tilt Brush, representing the latest move by the tech giant to cease development of its first efforts in virtual reality. Google acqui-hired the developers behind the art application in 2015 as hype around VR built up ahead of the release of Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. It became...
Gorn Graphics Comparison! Quest vs PC vs PSVR
Source: Gorn Graphics Comparison! Quest vs PC vs PSVR
