Shooty Skies Overdrive is bringing shoot ’em up action to the Oculus Quest and Oculus Rift next month, with a SteamVR release coming later in August. The title is being produced in collaboration with Crossy Road co-creator Matt Hall and Melbourne-based studio Mighty Games, and will be their first VR game. Visually, the game carries...
My significant other, who goes by the VR-alias Mint, is a veteran digital artist that didn’t believe her skills would transfer into expressing creativity in virtual reality. She did, however, believe in using virtual reality as a means to socialize with interesting new people. [UploadVR regularly commissions freelance writers to review products, write stories, and...
Oculus Go is already gone from certain areas of Facebook’s official site for virtual reality products after the company confirmed it would cease sales of the headset. The entry level standalone headset’s retirement after two years of availability marks the end of an era for virtual reality. One of Facebook’s technical guides in VR, John...
In early 2021, Facebook plans to let Oculus Quest developers distribute apps to select users without having to go through the store approval process: “In early 2021 we’ll offer a new way to distribute your work in the Quest ecosystem, allowing you to share your apps to anyone with a Quest, without having to be accepted into...
The ‘Lost Horizon’ festival is aiming to be the largest virtual reality music festival yet, with some big names like Fatboy Slim set to perform virtual music sets across several stages. Lost Horizon won’t just be one virtual stage either — it will feature a fully-recreated festival ground for you to explore, dance, and walk...
Facebook will stop selling Oculus Go this year as the company sharpens its focus on fully positionally tracked VR headsets like Oculus Quest. Oculus Go entered the market in 2018 as Facebook’s first standalone VR headset. Priced at $199 and pitched as a media viewer, Go transitioned VR developers supporting Facebook’s products from the earlier...
After months of searching for a regularly-priced Oculus Quest, I was finally able to purchase one recently. The Oculus Quest tutorial wowed me, Beat Saber convinced me of VR gaming’s unrivaled fun, and then Half-Life: Alyx made me a true believer. [UploadVR regularly commissions freelance writers to review products, write stories, and contribute op-ed pieces...
A Weekend Deal slashes the price of The Elders Scrolls V: Skyrim VR on Steam until Friday June 26, bringing the price down 70% off, or just $18 USD. Skyrim is one of the biggest games of the last decade and the VR version is on sale with a big discount, one of the steepest...
Ready At Dawn Studios is the latest VR developer to be acquired by Oculus maker Facebook. The social networking giant purchased the California-based studio for an undisclosed amount. Ready at Dawn will join Facebook’s roster of first-party game development studios working on VR titles under the Oculus Studios banner. Ready at Dawn got its start...
Pew Pew, Stuff Dies is a throwback to the early days of VR gaming, but not in the way you might hope. Arriving this week on SideQuest for Oculus Quest, Pew Pew is a port of an augmented reality (AR) game originally appearing on smartphones. In that version, you fought off virtual monsters in the...
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