The team behind VR MMO OrbusVR has been extremely generous with the game’s post-launch support. Massive feature updates, content additions, expansions, and new features have all been added to free, but now they’re shifting to paid DLC content. Honestly, I’m surprised it has taken this long. Non-subscription MMOs like The Elder Scrolls Online have been...
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Final Half-Life VR Oculus Quest Update Adds Hands And Fixes Flashlight
After a long road, the developers of Lambda1, the Half-Life VR mod for Oculus Quest, just issued its final major update. Version 1.4.3 of the mod, which lets you play the entire game and its two expansions inside Facebook’s standalone headset, mainly has quality of life fixes. There’s one important one, though; when you’re not...
Downpour Provides An Update On Onward Quest, Full PC Release
Don’t worry, Downpour Interactive hasn’t forgotten about the Onward Oculus Quest port it promised nearly a year ago. Onward was confirmed to be coming to Facebook’s standalone VR headset in mid-2019, just after the kit’s launch. We’d assumed that that might have made it a 2019 window game, but the developer has actually been pretty...
Facebook And Sony Withdraw From The Game Developers Conference
Facebook and Sony are withdrawing from participation in GDC due to concerns surrounding the Coronavirus. “We’re removing Facebook Gaming and Oculus booth footprints and advising all employees to refrain from travel during the show, ” a statement from the company reads. Facebook is the latest major company to withdraw from a technology conference due to...
Boneworks Is Now Available In The Oculus Store For Rift
Stress Level Zero’s Boneworks is now available to purchase on the Oculus Store for the Rift platform. The PC VR game was previously only available through Steam. Boneworks is a physics-driven puzzle and FPS game that released in December last year. It was one of our favorite VR games of 2019, thanks to its “interactive...
Coronavirus: Valve Index Production Impacted, Fewer Units Coming Soon
Valve will have “far fewer” units of the Index VR hardware to sell during the coming months due to the impact of the Coronavirus. In a statement released to UploadVR, Valve confirmed it is working to meet demand for the high-end Valve Index VR headset and they are reassuring prospective buyers that the system will...
New Witcher VR Mod Lets You Walk Around Kaer Morhen
A new mod for the original Witcher game allows you to walk around Kaer Morhen in VR. Sound like a fantasy dream come true? Well, it kind of is — the only problem is there’s nothing else to do in the mod except walk around. And shoo some pigeons. The Witcher is becomingly an increasingly...
HTC Vive Project Proton Concept Devices Offer Potential Future High-End & Mobile AR Wearable Options
Part of the fallout from the canceled Mobile World Congress is that a range of products, ideas, and designs slated for reveal in Barcelona are now being showcased without the framing and context of the massive tech gathering. Two of those releases come from VR giant HTC Vive, which just revealed a couple of new...
Join Us On YouTube Today To Discuss The Week’s VR News & HTC’s Potential Comeback!
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...
Unity Gets Controller-Free Hand Tracking Via Oculus Link For Faster Testing
The latest update to the Oculus Integration for Unity adds the ability to use Quest’s controller-free hand tracking in the editor. Facebook added experimental controller-free hand tracking for Quest in December. It lets you use your hands in the open air to interact with VR content rather than through Touch controllers. This is done through advanced...
