Baobab’s Crow: The Legend debuts as a free short film on Oculus and YouTube
Virtual reality entertainment is taking a step up today with the release of Crow: The Legend, a new animated short film from Baobab Studios. The...
Echo Combat brings 4v4 zero-gravity combat to virtual reality
Echo Combat debuts on Thursday as the latest zero-gravity robot-fighting virtual reality game from Ready At Dawn Studios. The Oculus Rift with Touch title...
Vive Focus 6DoF controllers hands-on: an impressive start
At an enterprise-focused HTC Vive press event in San Francisco today, we learned about the Western release of the Vive Focus across North America and Europe,...
HTC is committed to the larger XR, AR, and VR ecosystem for Vive
Virtual reality has a bright future, but for the present the consumer VR market is puttering along. Rikard Steiber, senior vice president of VR...
Epic CEO Tim Sweeney continues campaign against closed platforms
Some major questions remain unanswered by Facebook’s Oculus team regarding how open and accessible its Oculus Quest hardware will be to buyers. With some...
Media Molecule’s Dreams beta test won’t launch with VR
More trickles of VR news for Media Molecule’s Dreams this week; the studio has confirmed that PSVR support won’t be included in the upcoming beta for...
Worldscale VR is exciting … and maybe dangerous
Oculus formally unveiled the Oculus Quest last month. It’s a 6DoF (6 degrees of freedom) standalone headset, meaning no tethers and no external computer. Yet...
Oculus reportedly plans Rift S, a small PC VR upgrade that’s not Rift 2
When news broke last week that Oculus cofounder Brendan Iribe was departing the company, the Facebook-owned VR headset maker was quick to claim that...
Virtuix and Funovation launch VR Arena for virtual reality esports
Virtuix tried to get home consumers to use its Omni virtual reality treadmill in years past, without much success. Now the company is targeting...
HTC Vive joins VirtualLink, a cable standard now backed by all major PC VR players
A universal cable standard for virtual reality devices can’t be considered “universal” without the participation of all the major makers of VR hardware. That...