Last year’s Freediver: Triton Down (Quest/PSVR review here) offered a short, sweet adventure with powerful immersion and a compelling mythology. Its ending left a lot of questions, some of which are answered in this follow-up podcast series. The final instalment in the first season of extra story drops just arrived. Whereas the original game saw...
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Pixel Ripped 1995 Hits Quest & PC VR Next Week, PSVR In May
The next entry in ARVORE’s love letter to gaming, Pixel Ripped 1995, hits Oculus Quest and PC VR headsets very soon. The game will launch on Facebook’s standalone headset as well as the Oculus Rift and SteamVR stores on April 23. PSVR fans will have to wait just a little longer, though; the developer says...
OVR Advanced Settings Adds Redirected Walking (But Your Room Probably Isn’t Big Enough)
A major update to OVR Advanced Settings adds redirected walking to steer you toward the center of your play space and away from the edges of your room. For those unfamiliar, OVR Advanced Settings adds a number of useful settings accessible via a dashboard while using Steam inside your VR headset. You can set supersampling...
Oculus Quest Unity SDK References Shared-Space Colocation API
Code found by VR developers in the Oculus Unity Integration reveals Facebook’s shared-space “colocation” API for Oculus Quest. The code was first spotted by developers at Bentham Realities a few weeks ago while working on their upcoming title Hermetika VR. This week the same code was separately spotted by Gerald McAlister from RGB Schemes, a...
Virtual Battlegrounds VR Battle Royale Shooter Out Now In Early Access
After getting delayed around a full year, plus a massive overhaul, battle royale VR shooter Virtual Battlegrounds is now finally out in Steam Early Access for $19.99, plus a 15% launch discount. Virtual Battlegrounds is a VR battle royale first-person shooter that drops players into a large map full of loot, weapons, buildings, vehicles, and...
7 Sequels PSVR 2 Needs To Win Us Over Next-Gen
PSVR 2 isn’t officially announced yet, but that hasn’t stopped us from thinking up our dream sequels for Sony’s next headset. We do know that Sony is working on prototypes for a follow-up headset that would run on PS5. The console is due to launch this holiday season, though we don’t expect to see the...
Rumor: Resident Evil 8 Will Include PSVR Support, Releasing In 2021
We heard earlier this year that Resident Evil 8 is deep into development, will once again feature first-person gameplay, and features the same protagonist as 2017’s Resident Evil 7. Now, according to a recent report from Gematsu, it looks like VR support is once again planned. UploadVR has not confirmed this rumor with any sources...
Viveport Infinity Now Only $27 For The Entire Year In ‘Play At Home’ Sale
Starting today until Sunday, April 19th, all new and renewing subscribers can get 75% off an annual Viveport Infinity subscription. This brings the price down to just $2.25/month, or $27/year. Previously I called Viveport Infinity an “insane value” in my Vive Cosmos review, which shipped with a year of Viveport Infinity for free before converting...
How To Use Your Oculus Quest While Charging The Battery
The Oculus Quest’s biggest advantage is that it’s a mobile headset, allowing you to play cord-free and untethered roomscale experiences wherever you like. However, this means the Quest runs off a limited internal battery and will require charging in-between long play sessions. Still, using the Oculus Quest while also charging it at the same time...
Microsoft Hires Apple 5G Chief To Develop New HoloLens And AI Products
Most of Apple’s key executives and engineers are anonymous, never appearing on stage or in news stories, but Rubén Caballero is an exception — a long-term wireless engineering VP who helped develop multiple iPhones dating back to the original model, and reportedly red-flagged the iPhone 4’s antenna design internally before it became infamous. Now Caballero has joined Microsoft, his...
