[ad_1] While Valve worked closely for years with HTC on Vive VR hardware, it’s about to introduce a virtual reality headset of its own. A teaser page on the Steam website shows off this image of the Index, with the tagline “Upgrade your experience” and a May 2019 date. This occurs despite layoffs of some […]
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‘Dance Central’ arrives on Oculus this spring
[ad_1] The new Dance Central will have 32 songs, which is an upgrade from its Xbox One days when it launched with just 10 tracks. And this time around, it’s an online multiplayer game, so you’ll be able to meet up and dance with friends in a VR lounge. You have a few chances to […]
Isle of Pigs’ washes ashore on PlayStation VR
[ad_1] If you’re an Angry Birds diehard, you’ll be happy to hear that Angry Birds VR: Isle of Pigs is available on PlayStation VR for $14.99. And Rovio and Resolution Games have added 13 new levels of play. Angry Birds VR: Isle of Pigs launched on Vive and Oculus Rift in February, and it looks […]
HTC Streamlink turns VR headsets into big screens for console gaming
[ad_1] Just to be clear, HTC isn’t here to replace your PS VR nor Labo VR Kit. Instead, it’s all about playing your usual console games on a much larger virtual screen — and ideally on the sharp 2,880 x 1,600 AMOLED display on the Vive Pro and Vive Focus series. I was able to […]
HTC’s work-oriented Vive Focus Plus headset arrives mid-April for $799
[ad_1] Most notably, you get dual six-degrees-of-freedom controllers instead of the simpler single controller from before. It’ll be much more useful for complex, precise tasks like the medical simulations we tried in February. You’ll also find sharper fresnel lenses that reduce the screen door effect you frequently see with the displays in VR headsets, and […]
‘Iron Man VR’ puts you in the suit
[ad_1] You play, unsurprisingly, as Tony Stark the billionaire genius superhero, jetting around the world, fighting villains alongside other classic Marvel heroes. “We’ve set our sights on not only giving the player thrilling moment-to-moment action,” Camouflaj director, Ryan Peyton, wrote in a Playstation Blog post, “but also a deeply personal, and appropriately funny, narrative that […]
‘No Man’s Sky VR’ puts the universe on your headset for free
[ad_1] No Man’s Sky VR doesn’t lock virtual-reality fans in a mode of their own, but instead incorporates VR players into the existing game universe. VR astronauts can join games with non-VR friends, and they can expect all the same updates that the core game receives in the future. No Man’s Sky Beyond is a […]
The new Oculus Rift S arrives this spring for $399
[ad_1] The Rift S swaps out OLED displays for the LCD panels used in the Oculus Go, which will bump up the resolution from 1080 x 1200 to 1280 x 1440. However, the refresh rate is dipping from 90Hz to 80Hz. The field of view is a little larger than on the Rift too, according […]
‘Beat Saber’ will be available for Oculus Quest on day one
[ad_1] It’s an important addition to the initial Oculus Quest catalog, and possibly the most important. It gives the headset a familiar flagship game on top of the relatively unknown Vader Immortal and the charming Moss. We’d add that the news is well-timed for Beat Saber. Beat Games recent unveiled its first paid music pack […]
Google shutters its Spotlight Stories VR studio after six years
[ad_1] Over the past six years, the team worked on several projects helmed by Oscar-winning directors. One of them was the short film Pearl, which was directed by Patrick Osborne (Disney’s Feast) and became the first VR film to be nominated for an Academy Award. According to Variety, staff members were given a chance to […]