Yet more new VR music game content is here, and you’ll be happy to hear the OhShape PSVR port is shaping up too. The rhythm action game just launched its Party Mode Update. As the name suggests, this adds a new mode in which players can pass the headset around between tracks and compete for...
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Get Rhythm: How Beat Sage Uses AI To Create Beat Saber Maps
Late last month, Chris Donahue and Abhay Agarwal launched an impressive new tool called ‘Beat Sage’, which uses artificial intelligence and neural networks to automatically generate custom Beat Saber maps from any song in seconds. We tried it out, and were left suitably impressed — the resulting tracks are fun, challenging and better than many...
Five More Huge Game Franchises That Got VR Support Even We Forgot About
Earlier this month we highlighted five huge gaming franchises with VR support you’d forgotten about. Well, rather embarrassingly, we forgot about a fair few, too. So we’re back with another round of forgotten VR tie-ins. Remember, we’re not talking mods or well-known ports here; this is strictly a list of franchises we’re dreaming of getting...
AR Copy Paste Uses AI To Transfer Real Objects Into Productivity Apps
As consumers continue to await affordable augmented reality glasses, the key platforms for AR applications have been smartphones — portable devices that use their screens and cameras to create little windows into a merged real and digital world. Now a developer is using AI-backed phones to pull real-world objects into the digital realm, enabling users to instantly transfer...
VR And AR Projects Releasing Online After SXSW 2020 Cancellation
In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, several VR and AR projects that were set to be presented at this year’s SXSW Festival are being released online this month after the festival’s cancellation. The projects include several 360 video projects that will launch on Oculus TV, along with a new AR project called ‘Fragments’ that is...
VRWorkout Is A Free, Hand-Tracking VR Fitness App On Oculus Quest
Free VR fitness app VRWorkout is one of the most intense experiences on Oculus Quest, though you’ll need plenty of space to give it a try. VRWorkout is available for free on the 3rd party store SideQuest. That means it hasn’t gone through Facebook’s policy checks around safety. You’ll be jumping up and down, getting...
Hotel R’n’R Is Coming To PSVR This Month, Leaving Early Access
Here’s an oddly satisfying thing to say on a purely grammatical level: Wolf & Wood’s Hotel R’n’R is landing on PSVR this month. The smash ’em up VR game is landing on Sony’s headset on May 28th. At the same time the game will be coming out of Early Access on PC VR headsets. Check...
Desolatium Is A Lovecraft-Inspired VR Horror Graphic Adventure
Need your VR horror to be a bit more real? First, what’s wrong with you? Second, Desolatium might be up your street. Coming to Kickstarter soon, Desolatium is a point-and-click-style graphic adventure with optional VR support. Spanish developer Superlumen describes it as a distressing psychological thriller where players set out to investigate a recent number...
Valve Launches Half-Life: Alyx Workshop And Community Development Tools
Valve released Steam Workshop support for Half-Life: Alyx alongside a beta release of community development tools. The moment a lot of Half-Life fans have been waiting for is here as the release formally opens up a new era in modding and community VR built around the incredible VR game from Valve which released just a...
NVIDIA CloudXR Aims To Give Enterprise PC Graphics On Standalone Headsets
NVIDIA is launching an SDK for CloudXR, its full-stack cloud VR streaming solution currently intended for enterprise. Standalone VR headsets such as Oculus Quest and Vive Focus Plus are preferred for enterprise use cases because they’re much easier to deploy and manage than PCs. However, mobile chips are significantly less powerful than PC GPUs, limiting...
