The Entire VR Industry in One Little Email The Daily Roundup is our comprehensive coverage of the VR industry wrapped up into one daily email, delivered directly to your inbox. Email Address Thanks to Steam’s hardware agnostic approach, it’s become the defacto repository of all things PC VR (excluding Oculus exclusives, of course). Every major PC […]
An Estimated 58 Million Steam Users Now Have VR Ready GPUs
The Entire VR Industry in One Little Email The Daily Roundup is our comprehensive coverage of the VR industry wrapped up into one daily email, delivered directly to your inbox. Email Address High PC hardware requirements are one reason why VR is often touted as being highly expensive, but as GPUs have gotten more powerful […]
Microsoft to Acquire Bethesda's Parent Company ZeniMax for $7.5B – Road to VR
The Entire VR Industry in One Little Email The Daily Roundup is our comprehensive coverage of the VR industry wrapped up into one daily email, delivered directly to your inbox. Email Address Microsoft today announced that it’s entered into an agreement to acquire ZeniMax Media, the parent company of game studio Bethesda Softworks. According to TechCrunch, […]
Will Facebook Horizon be the first step toward the metaverse?
The excitement around a metaverse is growing, as it’s not just an idea from science fiction anymore. Facebook Horizon, a user-generated virtual reality world that is still in closed beta testing, might be one of the first steps toward creating one. The metaverse is the universe of virtual worlds that are all interconnected, like in […]
Facebook's Aria Prototype AR Glasses Start Real-world Testing This Month
The Entire VR Industry in One Little Email The Daily Roundup is our comprehensive coverage of the VR industry wrapped up into one daily email, delivered directly to your inbox. Email Address Facebook is continuing its push toward delivering AR glasses and it’s showing some of its development out in the open; Project Aria is […]
Can Oculus Quest 2 overcome Facebook’s tarnished reputation?
Calling myself “deeply conflicted” about Facebook’s upcoming standalone VR headset Oculus Quest 2 would be an understatement. My long but not perfect memory can’t recall any device this compelling from such a seriously troubled company — one that’s hoping to win new customers even as employees keep jumping ship over crises of conscience. That polarized situation from a […]
Facebook to Discontinue Rift Product Line in 2021 – Road to VR
The Entire VR Industry in One Little Email The Daily Roundup is our comprehensive coverage of the VR industry wrapped up into one daily email, delivered directly to your inbox. Email Address Capping off dwindling interest in the PC side of the VR spectrum, Facebook said today that it will discontinue the Rift product line […]
Every Oculus Quest Game Announced at Facebook Connect 2020
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The Surprising Brilliance of Vacation Simulator's VR Paintbrush Tech
The Entire VR Industry in One Little Email The Daily Roundup is our comprehensive coverage of the VR industry wrapped up into one daily email, delivered directly to your inbox. Email Address Having released the ever popular Job Simulator as a launch title for the HTC Vive back in 2016, Owlchemy Labs is one of the most […]
Leap Motion Exploires Designs for Single-handed Shortcuts in VR & AR
The Entire VR Industry in One Little Email The Daily Roundup is our comprehensive coverage of the VR industry wrapped up into one daily email, delivered directly to your inbox. Email Address For new computing technologies to realize their full potential they need new user interfaces. The most essential interactions in virtual spaces are grounded […]