Community modders found a way to enable support for Half-Life: Alyx assets in Hammer, Valve’s authoring tool, allowing users to create custom playable maps. The method is a workaround solution to facilitate modding and custom level creation until Valve officially supports mods and updates Hammer, as promised last November. Back when Valve announced Half-Life: Alyx,...
Sony’s PSVR headset has proven to be something of a white knight for VR. Despite being technically inferior to the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive on almost every level, PlayStation leveraged 20+ years of industry experience to create an awesome line-up for its PS4-based device. PSVR is home to many of VR’s best games and...
Remember Witching Tower? It was a fun dark fantasy action game that released on PC VR headsets two years ago. Next week, it’s getting a spin-off. Developer Daily Magic Productions will release Witching Tower: Heroes in Early Access on April 29. The game builds on the original Witching Tower, casting players as a warrior sent...
Over the last three weeks the engineers at VR startup Spaces started working 16 to 18 hour days from home in social isolation in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Within a few days they had a barebones version of a free add-on for Zoom and other video conferencing apps which allowed for joining the conversation...
Tower defense and strategy games are genres that are slowly becoming more and more prevalent in the VR world. In the early days, many VR developers focused on FPS and puzzle games, but now we’re seeing more and more strategy games emerging as time goes on. Djinni & Thaco: Trial By Spire is one of...
When Holoride showed off its in-car VR entertainment solution last year, it was clear the Audi spin-off was planning to turn famous Hollywood properties into interactive 3D experiences that will thrill backseat passengers. Now the company is adding a group of advisors from the movie, mixed reality, and transportation industries to bolster its push into the marketplace....
The Key plays on a lot of familiar VR tropes. It can at times be whimsy and fantastical, with underwater paradises and companions that dance and sing when you poke and prod them. In fact, its surplus of pleasantries reaches a point in which it all feels a little too familiar. Until it doesn’t. Without...
Facebook seems to be steadily turning the Oculus Quest standalone headset into a more advanced platform with each subsequent update to its system software. Facebook says the latest update, version 16 of the system running Oculus Quest rolling out this week, allows the set up of “your roomscale Guardian boundaries without controllers by using hand...
Audioshield originally released in 2016 for PC VR, but now four years later, it’s available on the Oculus Quest. Since the original release on PC VR, a lot has changed and there’s some tough competition in the rhythm VR genre. Here’s our review of Audioshield for the Oculus Quest to see just where it stacks...
If you’ve ever dreamed of attending a prestigious film festival, now’s your chance. In response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the VR portion of the annual Tribeca Film Festival is moving online this weekend. If you have an Oculus Quest or Oculus Go (sorry, Rift owners) you can watch this year’s Cinema360 line-up, a collection...
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