An amazing new detail arrives in the latest Half-Life: Alyx update; bottles now have liquid in them. No, seriously, it’s pretty impressive. Update 1.4 for the game, which launched a few hours ago, adds incredibly convincing liquid effects to the many, many bottles strewn along the streets of City 17. Some Valve developers have been...
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Report: PS5 Event Tentatively Scheduled For June 3
It sounds like new official details about Sony’s PS5 console could be revealed as early as next week. Bloomberg is reporting that Sony is planning to host an event for the anticipated next-generation console on June 3. However, the report notes that this date could change. The digital show is intended to showcase games for...
Pico Neo 2 And Its Eye Tracking Variant Now Available Worldwide
Pico Interactive is making its Neo 2 line of standalone headsets available for purchase worldwide. The base model is $700 while an eye-tracking variant powered by Tobii is $900. We tried both models at CES in January and while the eye-tracking wasn’t perfect in the early demo, it also worked without calibration and the electromagnetic...
Blade & Sorcery Gets Massive Magic Overhaul On June 4th With ‘The Sorcery Update’
The new trailer for Update 8, the massive “Sorcery Update” for Blade & Sorcery just dropped yesterday with the reveal that it will hit both Steam and Oculus Home for Rift platforms on June 4th. One of the recurring jokes about this game is that ever since it debuted in Early Access the title has...
Mova Is A $599 Standalone, Hand-Tracked VR Headset Built Around A Social VR Platform
Peter Chou, the former HTC CEO that oversaw the company’s beginnings in the VR space, has a new company working on a new standalone headset that uses hand-tracking named Mova, and it’s making some hefty promises. Mova — originally set to release in late 2019 — is anchored around two core aspects. First, there’s the...
See The First Game From A Brand New VR Studio At The Upload VR Showcase
We promised you brand new game reveals at the Upload VR Showcase on June 8th, but we’ll also be revealing some brand new studios too. It’s all a bit hush-hush for now, but we’ll be debuting the first project from an all-new VR developer, too. We can’t say much ourselves, but the team has its...
Unity Launches Its MARS Augmented Reality Tools June 1
Unity is launching its new augmented reality creation tools collectively known as MARS on June 1. The tools have been under construction for a few years now and are meant to make cross-platform development of robust augmented reality projects easier with Unity. According to Unity, the tools include: WYSIWYG authoring experience Author complex, data-oriented apps...
Beat Saber’s Free Update ‘A Bit Delayed’ On PSVR Due to Technical Issues
Earlier this week Beat Games released a free update for Beat Saber, adding a bunch of new maps. The update was supposed to hit all headsets at the same time, but PSVR players are still waiting. It turns out that some technical issues are causing a small delay in the Beat Saber PSVR update. In...
Qualcomm Expects All-In-One 5G XR Viewers In 1-4 years, Glasses in 5-10
Since Qualcomm provides chips and software for most of the world’s best known virtual and augmented reality headsets, it’s uniquely able to forecast the future of mixed reality hardware. Just ahead of this week’s Augmented World Expo, Qualcomm XR chief Hugo Swart used a Spatial holographic conference to brief media on how that future will likely play out. And though...
See The Latest From Pistol Whip At The Upload VR Showcase: Summer Edition
Excited for next week’s Pistol Whip update? You ain’t seen nothing yet; we’ll have more on the game to share at the Upload VR Showcase: Summer Edition on June 8th (final time TBA). Yup, Cloudhead Games will be returning to the Showcase with yet more news about its ace rhythm shooter, which mashes Superhot, Beat...
