Another long-lost Google Daydream exclusive is making its way to less-dead headsets next week. Fire Escape, an engaging interactive VR series from iNK Stories, will arrive on Steam with support for the Valve Index, Oculus Rift and HTC Vive headsets. The app originally arrived on Daydream over a year ago, when the platform was already...
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Ancient Dungeon Is An Impressive Physics-Driven Dungeon Crawler You Can Try Now
VR has no shortage of dungeon crawlers to slash through, but Ancient Dungeon definitely warrants a look. Solo-developed by Eric Thullen, you can try out this procedurally-generated title for free over on Itch.io. The best way to describe Ancient Dungeon is essentially Rogue Legacy or Dead Cells, just for VR. Every time you boot up...
Watch: Half-Life: Alyx’s Unused Combine Tripwire Weapon
Half-Life: Alyx featured a number of weapons and items unlocked throughout the campaign. However, community members discovered left over files for what seems to be an unused weapon – the Combine tripwire. As you progress through chapters in Alyx, you slowly gain new weapons and items, most of which use Combine technology. In the latter...
Facebook Researchers Present ‘PinchType’ Typing System For Hand Tracking
Researchers at Facebook Reality Labs came up with a virtual keyboard for controller-free hand tracking in VR or AR called PinchType. Text input in virtual reality is currently considered an unsolved problem. When seated, PC VR users are unable to see their PC’s keyboard, and in room scale experiences it’s inconvenient to access. Standalone VR...
Media Molecule Says Dreams PSVR Support Now In QA/Bug Fixing Phase
Creative Director and Co-Founder of Media Molecule, Mark Healey, stated on Twitter that Dreams’s PSVR support is now in the bug fixing, localization and quality assurance phase of development, indicating that it’s quite close to release. Healey posted a video of a new piece of content coming in the ‘VR update’ that shows a dynamically...
Stealth Horror Game Follia To Launch With VR DLC
Yet more VR chills await you next week. Indie developer Real Game Machine recently confirmed that its upcoming stealth horror game, Follia: Dear Father, will arrive on April 30 alongside a DLC that adds VR support to the game. We were originally expecting the game to launch late last year but, obviously, that didn’t happen....
Five Nights At Freddy’s VR On Quest Making ‘Immense’ Progress With Updates Coming ‘Soon’
Five Nights at Freddy’s VR is still on track to hit Oculus Quest very “soon” as the game’s developer recently shared on Twitter that they’ve been making an “immense amount of progress” lately. This is great news for Oculus Quest owners looking forward to one of the scariest VR games out there. The Five Nights...
Fighting Jeff With A Crowbar As Gordon Freeman – Half-Life: Alyx Mod
A new mod for Half-Life: Alyx by modder cj_beans introduces a sandbox-style map where you can play as Gordon Freeman and spawn various items, weapons and enemies. That also means you can fight Jeff as Gordon, using your trusty crowbar… kind of. Since the release of Half-Life: Alyx last month, the modding community has been...
Magic Leap Layoffs, Alyx Mods Roll Out & Win Pixel Ripped 1995 – VRecap
The top VR stories this week include: Magic Leap’s major team cuts, Half-Life: Alyx’s mods now rolling out, VR Ears absolutely smashing its goals in its Kickstarter & plenty of great releases! Let’s get on with this week’s VRecap. News The news of Magic Leap laying off its employees shook the industry, with the company...
The Under Presents Is Live VR Theater By Way Of David Lynch, And You Need To Try It Now
It’s taken me too long to get here, I know. The Under Presents, Tender Claws’ latest VR extravaganza, has been available for six whole months and much like Virtual Virtual Reality before it, I’ve been sleeping on it. Not because I didn’t want to dive in — I’m a huge fan of the team’s work...
