Announced last year at OC6, the latest entry in The Room puzzle game series is a VR title and will launch next month on March 26. The Room VR will be available on Oculus Quest, PlayStation VR, and SteamVR, and Rift headsets. Unlike many other games, The Room VR will have a simultaneous launch on...
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Martin Luther King Jr.’s Iconic ‘I Have A Dream’ Speech Recreated In VR For New Exhibition
One of the most seminal moments in history has been recreated in VR for a new exhibition, open from tomorrow. Martin Luther King Jr.’s iconic ‘I Have A Dream’ speech can now be experienced inside an HTC Vive Focus Plus at the DuSable Museum of African American History in Chicago. We originally reported on the...
Cut Aliens’ Hair In ‘Bizarre Barber’, Available On PC VR Now
Bizarre Barber truly lives up to its name – the game sees you see play as a barber who cuts aliens’ hair in the middle of a seemingly abandoned subway platform. The game was developed by Synesthetic Echo, supported by Oculus and the NYU Game Center Incubator, and is available for PC VR now. As...
Facebook Cancels F8, Unity and Epic Pull Out From GDC Over Coronavirus
Facebook cancelled the physical portion of its F8 developer conference which was slated for May due to concerns surrounding the coronavirus, COVID-19. Unity and Epic, the companies behind the two biggest videogame development toolsets, also cancelled their appearances at the Game Developers Conference in March. Earlier Facebook, Sony and a growing list of developers cancelled...
You Can Grab HandSpace On SideQuest With Your Tiny Finger Hands
Your fingers are fitted with tiny hands in the new SideQuest app HandSpace. The hands can also become floppy, long, small, big, wrong, or kaleidoscopic. The new controller-free hand tracking app from Daniel Beauchamp, aka viral sensation @pushmatrix on Twitter, offers perhaps the most mind-bending use yet of Facebook’s experimental Oculus Quest hand tracking. We’ve...
Join Us On YouTube Today To Discuss The Week’s VR News + When Will Xbox Get VR?
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...
Space Channel 5 VR Is Out Now With A Free Demo On PSVR, Plus New DLC Details
Space Channel 5 VR (or, if you prefer the stacked full name, Space Channel 5 VR: Kinda Funky News Flash!) is now available for PlayStation VR, with a 10% discount for launch. Plus, we’ve got some little tidbits of news for upcoming DLC. We recently received a new trailer ahead of the game’s launch, and...
More Amazing Oculus Quest Hand-Tracking Demos Show Yo-Yos & Nightmares
Yet more amazing Oculus Quest hand-tracking demos have surfaced online over the past week. Last week we covered a bunch of new demos from developer Daniel Beauchamp, who showcased Quest hand-tracking used for finger skating and more. Since then, Beauchamp revealed two more impressive videos. The first is for this VR yo-yo demo: Spent too...
Waltz Of The Wizard Update Brings New Content And Performance Improvements
Developers Aldin Dynamics provided an update on Waltz of the Wizard today, providing information on the newly released Scavenger update for PC VR, performance improvements and optimizations, along with plans for the future. The team says they are happy with the response to the Enhanced Edition of the game which launched last year and, as...
Cosmophobia Is A Terrifying New VR Horror Game From The Creator Of Dreadhalls
White Door Games, the developer behind one of the original (and still scariest) VR horror games, Dreadhalls, is back. Its new title is called Cosmophobia and it looks equally as terrifying. Like Dreadhalls, Cosmophobia is a first-person, rougelike horror game. Unlike its predecessor, though, this new game has a sci-fi, Alien-like vibe. Players explore the...
