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Is Supernatural’s $20-a-month subscription worth it for VR fitness

Posted byby Jason Wilson
May 10, 2020
7 min

It’s been over two weeks since Within launched Supernatural, its radical new VR subscription service on Oculus Quest. It’s a $20-a-month app that wants to...

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Waltz of the Wizard’s new movement system works with Oculus Quest hand-tracking

Posted byby Jason Wilson
May 10, 2020
2 min

New movement updates to Waltz Of The Wizard: Extended Edition aim to make traversing large spaces in VR more comfortable — and they will...

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Niantic CEO’s public service message: Take a walk

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
May 9, 2020
3 min

Niantic CEO John Hanke has a reputation for being purposeful with his work in games like Pokémon Go, like getting people to go outside...

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Cats Your Vote mobile game aims to boost U.S. election awareness

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
May 9, 2020
3 min

A team of University of Southern California video game students has created Cats Your Vote, a free-to-play social mobile game that aims to increase...

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Virtual and augmented reality investment at 2013 levels in first quarter

Posted byby Jason Wilson
May 9, 2020
3 min

While Digi-Capital’s AR/VR Analytics Platform tracked over $4 billion AR/VR investment last year, virtual and augmented reality investment dropped in Q4 2019 and Q1...

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Sony shows off research on next-gen finger-tracked VR controllers

Posted byby Jason Wilson
May 9, 2020
2 min

Past patents have suggested that Sony is working on finger-tracking for a new VR motion controller, possibly the PlayStation Move 2, to be paired with...