Valve warned us that supplies for its Index VR headset would be limited when it went back up on sale this week. And it wasn’t kidding. Within less than an hour of going back online, the full Index kit is backed up to shipping after eight weeks. In fact, people on Twitter report that that...
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 whether or not you think Half-Life: Alyx has any chance of living up to...
Rejoice! There was an actual new, just-released VR game featured in last month’s PlayStation Store charts! Well, just barely, anyway. Shadow Legend VR from VitruviusVR featured in the tenth spot in the EU listings for this month. The game is a long-anticipated port of the PC version, which launched back in March 2019. Vitruvius seemed...
Beat Saber gave VR a prime spot on one of the UK’s biggest Saturday night TV shows this weekend. Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway saw its titular hosts go head-to-head in a Beat Saber battle on Oculus Rift S. They compete for the high score and, surprisingly, they’re both pretty good at it, though...
When it comes to my personal use of VR outside of work, you’re most likely to find me trying to perfect disappearing arrow mode on Beat Saber to try and overtake my brother’s high scores (cliché I know). But last year I was given the opportunity to introduce VR to a whole new audience. My TEDx...
A new AR app brings a classic Dr Seuss book to life like never before. Dr. Seuss’s ABC – An Amazing AR Alphabet! adapts the 1963 book of the same name (minus the AR) to smartphones. The app recreates images from the original in 3D and then projects them into the real world using your smartphone’s camera....
Talespin became famous for a virtual reality demo designed to teach managers how to fire a hapless worker named Barry. Now the company has raised $15 million to further develop extended reality (XR) — using technologies such as virtual reality and augmented reality — for enterprise training. Cloud-based learning software provider Cornerstone OnDemand led the funding round and has...
Silent Hill 2 is widely regarded as one of the great horror videogames of all time. This fan-made concept trailer suggests it could be one of the best horror VR games, too. The footage, made by David Post (who did an ace PS1 trailer for Death Stranding, too) reimagines some of Silent Hill 2’s most...
In Bizarre Barber, you play as a hairdresser who is, conveniently, the last one left “after the apocalypse.” Equipped with just one pair of abnormally large scissors, you find yourself in themed, underground subway stations where aliens of different shapes, sizes and colors poke their heads out of carriage windows as they pass by on...
When Half-Life: Alyx releases later this month, it will offer three locomotion options: teleport, shift and continuous. But that teleport option isn’t really a teleport. Confused? Read on. Half-Life: Alyx Teleporting Isn’t Really Teleporting… Sort Of Functionally, yes, teleport will allow you to move from one spot to the next in the game world. But,...
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