In his latest Instagram AMA, Andrew ‘Boz’ Bosworth, Facebook’s Vice President of Augmented and Virtual Reality, teased the potential of Oculus Quest 2 running at a higher 120Hz refresh rate in the future. Bosworth frequently participates in AMAs (‘ask me anything’) on Instagram, where users submit questions and Bosworth can choose to respond to them...
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Piece Together 6 Locales In Puzzling Places Beta On App Lab
One of the first apps available as part of Oculus’ new App Lab service is getting an update adding a ton of new content and features to the game. Puzzling Places was one of the 12 apps that launched with App Lab last week, providing users with an easier way to install experimental non-store content...
StrikerVR Raises $4 Million For Haptic Gun Accessory For Consumer VR
StrikerVR says it raised $4 million in a strategic funding round and plans to “bring its soon to be announced consumer product to market with a variety of content later this year.” The New Orleans-based company previously provided its haptic gun-like accessories to location-based VR setups and plans to use the money to transition to...
Peco Peco’s Design Lead On Building A Unique VR Puzzle Game
Last week I (virtually) sat down with Julien Dorra, the Creative Tech & Design Lead of indie VR startup Bentham Realities. They’re a small team building a unique VR puzzler called Peco Peco. We talked about spatial puzzles, app lab, designing for VR, indie development, and more. “Two years ago, we wanted to start our...
WW1 Biplane Shooter Warplane Plans App Lab Release
The Polish studio Home Net Games confirmed that its dog fighting title Warplane: WW1 Fighters has been submitted to App Lab and is pending approval. Warplane is a made-for-VR game that lets you pilot WWI biplanes through a full campaign on Oculus Quest. The game is not available on the Oculus Store, but through SideQuest,...
The Climb Teases ‘Exciting News’ For This Week
We may finally be getting some more The Climb 2 news this week – the series’ official Twitter account is teasing more info related to the series soon. The tweet includes an image of from the original game, but adds the message: “Stay tuned for surprises and exciting news this week.” The Climb 2 News...
Manus Reveals Professional-Grade SteamVR Tracker
Enterprise-focused VR hardware maker Manus is today announcing a new take on the SteamVR Tracker. The company’s new professional-grade Tracker launches pre-orders today. According to the company, the device features more sensors for accurate SteamVR tracking, as well as an interchangeable battery that apparently offers four and a half hours of use on a full...
Oculus App Lab NEW Games!
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Meet Epic Games’ Metahumans In VR With Amazing Free Demo
Last week Epic Games introduced its Metahumans Creator for Unreal Engine. Now you can meet the first Metahumans in VR. YouTuber ETR VR has done a fantastic job adding in VR support for the samples that Epic released last week. You can download ETR’s demo for free here (it requires a PC VR headset) or...
Oculus App Lab Livestream: Second Wave Of Releases Live!
Oculus App Lab has now been available for a few weeks and yet more VR games and apps have launched on the platform. So what’s new? Join us today at 8:30am PT/4:30pm GMT to find out! App Lab is Facebook’s new way of letting developers release content on Quest without passing Store requirements or sideloading....