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, we want to hear from you in regards to Microsoft’s current stance on VR, specifically with regard to Xbox. During...
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Oculus Quest Custom Home Environments Include Simpsons House And More
Everything you do on your Oculus Quest starts in the home environment – you can change your settings, purchase apps and launch yourself into virtual worlds. Users now have a way to create custom home environments, including locations from The Simpsons and other popular movies and TV shows. From late last year, Facebook started to...
Space Channel 5 VR Hits PSVR This Month, Quest & PC Later
Space Channel 5 VR, the newest entry in the cult hit rhythm action series, comes to PSVR in a few short weeks. The game’s website confirms that the console version of the game launches in the Americas on February 25 2020 for $39.99. It’ll launch in Europe and other territories on February 26. However, the...
Crisis VRigade Gets 3 Player Co-Op Support On PC, PSVR Coming Soon
Fans of Crisis VRigade no longer have to take on the game’s super hard levels on their own. Well, as long as they have a PC they don’t. The first-person shooter just got support for co-op online multiplayer for up to three players on Steam, where it remains in Early Access. This lets you play...
Canon Reveals MD-20 Enterprise AR headset With High Resolution And FOV
Camera giant Canon isn’t a major player in the augmented reality headset space, but it has been selling an $82,000 enterprise-class AR headset to Japanese customers since 2016. This week the company announced a sequel that promises even higher-fidelity AR visuals — enough to “fuse the real world with 3D CG in real time” — for businesses including car...
Apple Seeks Patent For AR/VR Video Recording With Multi-angle Playback
If you’ve watched YouTube streams of conventional 2D videos — such as commentaries on games, TV shows, movies, or trailers — you know that the streams are visually flat: video of the content, sometimes with a person’s face superimposed in the corner for added discussion. But Apple appears set to change that paradigm for augmented and virtual...
Empty January Gives Beat Saber PSVR Charts Top Spot Once Again
PSVR’s ongoing content drought ensured that Beat Saber once again topped the PlayStation Store charts in January 2020. Beat Games’ VR sensation continued to slash on, taking the top spots in both the US and EU. The remaining spots are filled with the same old games like, you guessed it, Blood & Truth, Job Simulator,...
Half-Life: Opposing Force Gets VR Support On Oculus Quest With Lambda1 Mod Update
A few months ago the Lambda1 Half-Life VR Oculus Quest mod added support for the game’s first expansion, Blue Shift. This week, developer DrBeef also added support for the next expansion, Opposing Force. An update to Lambda1 adds a raft of new features, Opposing Force support among them. Released in late 1999, Opposing Force was...
Bigscreen Cinema Kicks Off Horror-Themed Movie Week In VR
Horror week is kicking off in Bigscreen starting today at 5:00 PM PT featuring The Ring and other terrifying movies like Cloverfield and World War Z. The lobby has a new look too, shown in the image above. From February 7th (today) until next Friday, February 14th Bigscreen will be showing World War Z (3D),...
Competitive VR Fighting Game Ironlights Hits Kickstarter Goal
Ironlights, the next VR game from experienced developer E McNeill, has officially surpassed its Kickstarter goal of $15,000. It’s a weapon-based multiplayer VR fighting game coming this Spring to Quest, Rift, and SteamVR headsets. We first learned about Ironlights as the Kickstarter campaign was launching last month and as of this writing there are still...
