Half-Life: Alyx will have an option to play the entire game with just a single controller. Valve’s Greg Coomer confirmed as much in a recent interview with Tested. He revealed that, although two-handed play was very important to Alyx, the studio was also working a one-handed mode for accessibility. An options menu seen in IGN’s...
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Nreal AR Glasses To Get Controller-Free Hand Tracking Soon
Nreal Light AR glasses will get controller-free hand tracking in a near-future software update, thanks to a partnership with Qualcomm-backed Clay AIR. Nreal Light Nreal is a China-based company founded in 2017 with the goal of delivering lightweight consumer AR glasses before the major tech companies. Their first product is called Nreal Light. Instead of having on-board...
The Best Oculus Quest Pong Pong Game: Eleven: Table Tennis vs Racket Fury
Finding the best Oculus Quest ping pong game is a bit like trying to find the most immersive game on the headset. Ping pong is one of those rare things that just works in VR. There’s no need to run around a massive world and the slight jolt of controller vibration is actually a pretty...
‘Defy Distance’ Put To The Test As Coronavirus Forces Facebook To Work At Home
A contractor at Facebook’s Stadium East office in Seattle was recently diagnosed with the COVID-19 disease (caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus) and now all employees of the company working in Seattle are encouraged to work from home until the end of March. Seattle is home to Facebook’s VR and AR long-term research division — Facebook...
The VR Download: More Half-Life Hinted, Index Stock Returning, Facebook SideQuest, Coronavirus
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Half-Life Alyx Footage, Nreal Hand-Tracking & Win Eleven Table Tennis VR – VRecap
New Half-Life: Alyx footage, new hand-tracking tech, new VRecap – let’s go! Did you check out the new Half-Life: Alyx footage released this week? We got a good look at gameplay, including enemies, weapons, and incredible physics from opening doors to interactions with nearly every object in sight. The thing that got me the most...
HTC Aims To Host 2020 Vive Ecosystem Conference In VR, Citing Coronavirus
The return of HTC’s annual Vive Ecosystem Conference later this month aims to be held, for the first time, in VR, spurred in part by the ongoing Coronavirus crisis. Vive China President Alvin Wang Graylin confirmed the news today on Twitter. The conference will be held on the Engage platform on March 19, starting at...
The Best Media Apps Available On The Oculus Quest
The Oculus Quest is one of the hottest VR headsets on the market right now. While there’s a great selection of games for the Quest, there’s also a bunch of media apps that are perfect for when you want to kick back and watch something in VR. Here are the best VR media apps available...
Good Goliath Is A PSVR And PC VR Game With Giant Combat
Remember Giant Cop, the VR game about patrolling the city streets as, well, a giant cop? Good Goliath is a little like that, if it had a fantasy setting and, instead of protecting people, you used them as weapons. Pretty similiar, then. Announced today from San Diego-based Knocktwice Games, Good Goliath pits you against a...
Join Us On YouTube Today To Discuss The Week’s VR News + Coronavirus
UploadVR’s weekly podcast, The VR Download, is LIVE on YouTube today at 10:30am PST (18:30 UTC)! Unlike regular video podcasts, The VR Download is broadcast from virtual reality! Our team are together in a virtual space, giving us many of the benefits of a studio even though we live on different continents. At the end of...
