Oculus Quest is ‘Out of Stock’ in some countries after being backordered into March. We’ve been closely following availability of the standalone VR headset from Facebook with CEO Mark Zuckerberg saying sales “are stronger than we expected.” In mid-January, shipping estimates for new orders of the headset in the United States from the company’s own...
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How To Download And Install New Custom Songs On Beat Saber (Updated 2020)
Beat Saber is one of the most popular VR games around. However, not only is the rhythm game popular for its base game and DLC tracks, but also for its huge custom map community. There’s a wealth of great community maps available online, and with a little bit of tinkering you can start playing some...
Zero Caliber VR FPS Livestream: Realistic Military Shooter
For today’s livestream we’re going to dive into the slick and realistic VR FPS, Zero Caliber. It’s a modern military focused FPS with solo gameplay across various maps, in addition to co-op and forthcoming PvP modes. If you’re curious about how we livestream the way we do then look no further than this handy guide for general...
Valves Teases SteamVR 2.0 Featuring ‘Customer Experience Improvements’
In a 2019 Year in Review post, Valve detailed an overview of SteamVR improvements in the last year and announced that the team is working on SteamVR 2.0, with an eye on a release during this year. In the ‘Looking Ahead to 2020’ section of the post, Valve wrote, “The team is hard at work...
Facebook Releases Fix For Oculus Rift & Link Stuttering Issue
An apparent fix for the widely reported Oculus Rift & Oculus Link performance issues introduced by the December update has been released. The issue was seemingly introduced in December’s v12 update. Reports emerged on Reddit and the Oculus forums over the past month. The reports described stuttering, judder, frame drops and other issues in a wide variety...
Upcoming Asymmetric VR Game SMUSH.TV Offers Competitive Fun With Up To 5 Players
An upcoming asymmetrical VR game, SMUSH.TV, will allow VR players to compete in a frantic and competitive environment against up to 5 non-VR players. If you imagine playing VR inside a game of Tetris — except that the blocks are also being sent at you in real time by your friends — then you’re probably...
The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners Now Allows Physical Crouching By Default
Another update to The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners has enabled physical crouching by default, which was not originally an option at launch. A controller-enabled crouch via a button press was initially the only option for Saints & Sinners players, which meant that the virtual world moved with you in a 3-DoF-esque fashion if you...
Oculus Browser Adds Experimental Hand Tracking Support For WebXR Apps
The latest 8.0 update to Oculus Browser adds experimental support for the Oculus Quest’s hand tracking feature. That means you can use your hands in WebXR apps, which are VR experiences that run natively on a browser page, without the need to download anything. The feature won’t work in all WebXR apps natively and is...
Moss Accidentally Went Free On Oculus Rift Yesterday
You may have been able to snatch up a free copy of Polyarc’s Moss on Oculus Rift yesterday. Count yourself lucky if so; that wasn’t meant to happen. Rift users discovered the excellent VR adventure game strangely sitting in the Oculus Store for no extra cost yesterday. But there was no mention of a free...
Powered By VR, ‘Golf Pool’ Makes Perfect Sense For Headsets
Golf Pool VR does pretty much exactly what you would expect from the title. That’s right, you’ll able to play 8-ball pool games, but with a golf club in VR. Golf Pool VR is set in five different environments across 10 single player levels, while also featuring a 2-player competitive mode. The trailer, embedded above,...
