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Virtual Boy Wario Land is a painful, nostalgic experience

The unimaginatively titled Virtual Boy Wario Land could be considered Wario’s first true standalone game. Wario Land released first for the Game Boy in 1994, but it featured the subtitle “Super Mario Land 3” to not scare off anyone unsure about controlling Super Mario Land 2’s antagonist. There are no such qualifiers for Virtual Boy […]

Virtual meeting platform Vowel raises $10M

A new GamesBeat event is around the corner! Learn more about what comes next.  Virtual meeting platform Vowel today announced that it raised $10 million in a series A round led by Lobby Capital. The capital, which brings the company’s total raised to $17.8 million, will be put toward product development and expanding the size […]

Virtual financial assistants: What’s taking so long?

Presented by Abe.ai For those of us that are regulars at fintech and artificial intelligence (AI) conferences and follow the development and innovation around AI, virtual financial assistants (VFAs) have gotten a lot of attention at these events for a few years now. But lately it seems that VFAs might be becoming old news — […]

Virtual Desktop Gets Synchronous Spacewarp On Quest 2

Virtual Desktop now has a beta of its own take on Facebook’s Asynchronous Spacewarp (ASW) – and the extrapolation is actually better. Since just after the first Oculus Quest launched in 2019, without official PC support, Guy Godin’s app Virtual Desktop has offered wireless PC VR streamed over your home WiFi network. Facebook initially rejected […]

Fable Studio opens its virtual beings Wizard Engine to collaborators

Fable Studio is opening its virtual beings Wizard Engine to collaborators in fashion and nursing. The San Francisco company built the engine to manage its virtual character Lucy, an 8-year-old animated girl from the Wolves in the Walls virtual reality experience. Lately, Lucy has made appearances at the Sundance Film Festival and SXSW as a […]

Virtual Desktop On Oculus Quest Now Supports PCVR Streaming

Virtual Desktop on Oculus Quest now has official support for PCVR streaming. At launch, this functionality was barred by Oculus, but the company has since changed its position – you’ll no longer need to go through the lengthy sideloading process to play PCVR games through Virtual Desktop. The latest update brings a few smaller additions […]

Virtual Desktop Quest Update Turns Hand Tracking Into Virtual Controllers

You can operate your PC in VR with nothing but your bare hands in the open air while wearing an Oculus Quest headset. Hand tracking support rolled out recently in the latest update to Guy Godin’s Virtual Desktop app. The feature turns what’s already an enormously powerful VR-based utility into an even more flexible tool. […]

Le Mans 24h Virtual receives record TV and digital audiences

Ground-breaking event delivers more than 22.8 million views across linear TV and online digital channels, with over 48.9 million social impressions during race week. The first ever virtual edition of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, held last weekend on 13-14th June, has registered massive audience viewing figures and online viewership, breaking previous records for […]