Goon Squad, a custom map by Steam Workshop user G Kaf, provides Half-Life: Alyx players a new experience playing as a Combine soldier accompanied by two Combine buddies, trying to make it out of a quarantined sewerage system. Spoilers ahead for those who haven’t played Half-Life: Alyx’s main campaign. Released almost a year ago, this...
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Microsoft Flight Simulator Adds Tons Of New Landmarks In World Update VI
It’s time for another World Update for the ever-detailed Microsoft Flight Simulator, this time with a focus on Austria, Germany and Switzerland. Developer Asobo’s free World Updates pay particular attention to certain areas of the globe that might not have had as much detail paid towards them at launch last year. World Update VI, as...
Pierhead Arcade Comes To Oculus Quest Via App Lab with Cross-Play
The Pierhead Arcade series is best known for bringing amusement-themed minigames to PC VR and PSVR. Now it’s available on Oculus Quest via App Lab. Developer Mechabit launched Pierhead Arcade Quest on the platform last week. From the looks of it, this is a port of the recent Pierhead Arcade 2 (which an old Reddit...
Apple Uses AR To Tease Announcements For Sept. 14
Apple teased its next announcement event for Sept. 14 with an impressive demonstration of AR. Tapping the Apple symbol on the announcement webpage launches a 3D object that, on an iPhone at least, can be positioned and resized in an AR view while casting a glow into the physical environment. If you move your iPhone...
Facebook/Ray-Ban Smartglasses Reveal Coming On Thursday
It looks like we’ll be getting the first details about Facebook’s collaboration with Ray-Ban on a pair of smartglasses later this week. Ray-Ban’s official website just posted a tease with the date 09/09/2021, suggesting we’ll get more details this Thursday. We can see what’s likely a silhouette of the glasses themselves but, other than that...
Oculus Quest 2’s SteamVR Lead Shrinks Slightly During Paused Sales
A month of paused sales seems to have detracted from the Oculus Quest 2’s usage lead in the latest Steam Hardware Survey. August’s results put Facebook’s standalone headset at 32.15% of the overall headset usage on SteamVR. That’s 0.42% less than last month, and perhaps the first time we’ve seen Quest 2’s lead actually shrink...
MechWarrior 5 VR Mod Now Available In Beta
A few weeks back we reported on the reveal of a MechWarrior 5 VR mod that promised to let you experience mech combat inside a headset. Now you can try it for yourself. Creator KITT just uploaded the mod, called VRWarrior, to Nexus Mods, enabling support for both SteamVR and Oculus headsets. You will, of...
Goliath Review: Effective, Innovative Account Of Psychosis On Oculus Quest
Goliath offers an innovative exploration of mental health, even if its best ideas are sparse. Read on for our Goliath review. Knowing where to draw the line with VR is tough. Though it provides fertile ground to explore difficult topics from fresh, effective directions, the risk of overexposure is painfully immediate. I often recall the...
Facebook Teases Ray-Ban Smartglasses Recording In New Video
It sure looks like Facebook is teasing its upcoming smartglasses, made it partnership with Ray-Ban. A recent tweet from the company’s VP of AR and VR, Andrew Bosworth, features a video of the executive on what looks like a vacation with Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg. But Bosworth’s tweet includes an emoji using sunglasses and the...
Puzzling Places Review
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