A new app called Brushwork VR offers a way for users to simulate painting on a canvas in VR with any headset that supports immersive WebXR browser experiences. The experience can be launched from your headset at BrushworkVR.com and should work on any WebXR-support headset browser, including Quest 2 and many PC VR headsets. It’s...
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Squingle Offers Psychedelic Puzzles For Quest & PC VR, Available Now
A new psychedelic puzzle game, Squingle, is available now for PC VR via Steam and Quest via App Lab. The game features over 100 levels where you move an orb through a liquid-like substance floating in front of you. Here’s a description from the App Lab listing: Before time there was only Squingle – and...
VR RPG Vengeful Rites Leaving Early Access, Launches July 29
Vengeful Rites, a VR RPG that has been in Early Access since 2018, is launching for PC VR on July 29. When we first tried the game back in 2019, we said it “definitely one of the most promising VR RPGs we’ve seen in quite some time.” Since then, there’s has been several updates adding...
4 Things That Make Fracked A Different Kind Of VR Shooter
Fracked is built on top of a lot of VR shooters that have come before it. But, at the same time, it’s also quite unlike anything else we’ve seen. nDreams’ latest is a fleet-footed spectacle that has its own ideas about how to deliver super-fast action in VR. Here’s four things it’s doing differently to...
Facebook Cancels Head-Mounted BCI Research, Will Focus On Wrist
Facebook Reality Labs is sunsetting its research toward head-mounted thought reading, instead focusing on a wrist-based device. First vaguely revealed at F8 2017, the project’s stated goal was to “create a system capable of typing 100 words-per-minute straight from your brain” without requiring implanted electrodes or other physically invasive techniques. Such a device could act as input...
Steam Deck ‘Has All The Connectivity’ For VR, But Not The Performance
Valve’s handheld gaming system is called Steam Deck and the company is pitching it as “an open PC” that can “connect with any hardware.” The device will ship later this year with prices starting at $399. Valve says there will be a dock sold separately with an image for the accessory showing what looks like...
A Township Tale Is Ambitious, Overwhelming And We’re Not Ready To Review It Yet
A Township Tale already has something few other VR games can claim to enjoy – a fan-run wiki. No, really, I meant to type wiki. See, the mere fact that Alta’s part survival, part town-building universe needs an online encyclopedia tells you a lot of things. First, it suggests the game has genuine depth, and...
Facebook’s VR Content Head Mike Verdu Leaves For Netflix
Mike Verdu, Facebook’s VP of VR/AR Content, is leaving the company and starting a new position at Netflix, working on game development. Verdu joined Facebook Reality Labs back in 2019, at a time when several changes were made to the manager lineup for VR and AR divisions. Verdu previously worked as a Senior VP at...
Half-Life: Alyx Mod Brings Portal 2 Test Chambers To Life
A new addon for Half-Life: Alyx offers a couple test chambers inspired by Portal 2 that you can solve in VR without a portal gun. The mod is called ApertureVR – Thinking Without Portals and it does a fantastic job recreating the look, feel and sound of Valve’s classic Portal 2 adapted with Half-Life: Alyx’s...
Inside COVID-19, Felix & Paul’s Space Explorers Nominated For Emmy Awards
Two VR experiences available on Oculus Quest have been nominated for Emmy Awards. The experiences — Inside COVID19 and Felix & Paul Studios’ Space Explorers: The ISS Experience — are nominated in Outstanding Interactive Program 2021 category, up against two other non-VR titles. Last year, The Messy Truth VR won an Emmy for Outstanding Original...
