Impressive ping pong simulator Eleven Table Tennis released on Oculus Quest on February 27 and in roughly two weeks sold more than 12,000 copies of the $20 game for the standalone headset. The game by For Fun Labs released in December 2017 on the Oculus Store for Rift and in June 2016 on Steam. Since...
Later this month, developers can start building “prototype” Quest & Rift apps with the OpenXR API instead of the Oculus API. Just to clear up any confusion here: OpenXR is not the same thing as OpenVR. OpenVR is Valve’s API for SteamVR, entirely unrelated to OpenXR. While OpenVR works on all PC VR headsets, it...
In a blog post kicking off their Game Developers Showcase this week, Facebook revealed that more than 20 Oculus Quest titles have surpassed $1 million in revenue on the Quest platform alone. The official statement on the Oculus blog post reads, “More than 20 titles have passed the $1M revenue mark on Quest alone—a trend that...
Today during the introduction video for the Facebook: Game Developers Showcase, Chris Pruett, Director of Content Ecosystem, Oculus, revealed an interesting stat regarding just how popular the Oculus Quest has been since its release in May of 2019. “We look at the folks that turned on their devices around Christmas [in 2019] and 90% of...
As part of their Game Developers Showcase, Facebook revealed details of a future update to the Oculus Quest that will bring a redesigned user interface (UI). The new UI will allow easier access to settings and browser windows while in VR apps, without having to return to Oculus Home (in apps which support this). In...
Community Download is a weekly discussion-focused articles series published (usually) every Monday in which we pose a single, core question to you all, our readers, in the spirit of fostering discussion and debate. For today’s Community Download, we want to hear what you think about the Coronavirus and its impact on VR, specifically VR arcades....
Today the first-ever all-digital Facebook: Game Developers Showcase kicked off in lieu of the annual in-person Game Developers Conference (GDC) event in San Francisco, CA. GDC was canceled earlier this year due to the spread of COVID-19 and it would have been held this week. This is the first day of the Showcase but we’re...
If you’ve been waiting on news for the Five Nights At Freddy’s: Help Wanted Oculus Quest port then, don’t worry, the game’s still on track. Developer Steel Wool Studios confirmed as much in a recent blog post. The company noted that “things are very fluid with the COVID-19 pandemic” but the port remains on schedule....
Two Bit Circus in Los Angeles closed its location for the month, and a VR tournament cancelled the portion of its event to be held at VR arcades, as the response to the coronavirus shifts on a daily basis. On March 13, before the closure, the Los Angeles entertainment venue sent an email saying Two...
The Citadel is one of the most iconic structures in all of Valve’s Half-Life series. It’s a hulking behemoth, casting a long shadow over the totalitarian streets of City 17. Now, one rebel has actually managed to climb it… in VR. YouTuber 3kliksphilip had the rather brilliant idea following the release of environments from the...
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