GDC 2019

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Facebook’s Jason Rubin on Quest, Rift S, & the Direction of Oculus

Last week at GDC Oculus revealed their first new PC VR headset in three years, the Rift S. We sat down with Facebook's Jason Rubin, VP of AR/VR Content & Partnerships, to learn more about the strategy behind Quest and...

‘Trover Saves the Universe’ to Launch on PSVR in May, Rift & Vive in June

Justin Roiland's VR studio Squanch Games announced last year that their upcoming game Trover Saves the Universe was exclusively targeting PSVR and PS4 consoles. This week at GDC 2019 though it seems the studio has reversed that decision, as the comedy platformer...

Valve Psychologist: Brain-computer Interfaces Are Coming & Could Be Built into VR Headsets

Valve's resident experimental psychologist Dr. Mike Ambinder took the stage at GDC 2019 today for his talk on the state of brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) and how they'll inform the future of game design. In his talk, Ambinder put forth...
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New ‘Asgard’s Wrath’ Gameplay Video Reveals Dungeon Crawling in Action

Asgard's Wrath is an upcoming combat RPG from Sanzaru Games, the studio that created Rift exclusives Marvel Powers United VR (2018) and Ripcoil (2016). It's slated to launch on Rift and the newly unveiled Rift S in 2019, although to whet our...

Rift S Isn’t the Headset Fans Want, But Facebook Wagers It’s What Their Ecosystem Needs

While to some Oculus' announcement of the Rift S represents the newest and best version of a good VR headset, to others it's a far cry from what they hoped Oculus would be able to deliver three years after...

Oculus is Considering an Over-ear Headphone Accessory for Rift S

Oculus announced its next iteration of Rift this week at GDC, Rift S. While there's a few key differences about the upcoming hardware specs-wise, it seems the company has also taken a page out of Go's playbook by including...

Hands-on: ‘Shadow Point’ is a Clever Room-scale Puzzler Narrated by Sir Patrick Stewart

Coatsink, the studio known for VR games Augmented Empire (2018) and the Esper series, unveiled a new puzzle game at GDC 2019 this week that's slated to be a day-one launch title for Oculus Quest. We got a chance to go hands-on...

Epic Games to Award $100 Million to Devs with New ‘MegaGrants’

Epic Games today announced at GDC that the company is set to turbo-charge their long-running developer grant initiative with 'MegaGrants' and the largest pool of funds yet, $100,000,000. Epic have been running developer-focused funding initiatives for many years now, with...

‘Space Junkies’ Open Beta to Land on All Major VR Headsets Tomorrow with Cross-play

Ubisoft is getting ready to launch its next big foray into VR with the multiplayer shooter Space Junkies, which is set to launch on March 26th. But first, users on PSVR, Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, Windows VR will have a free...
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Oculus Rift S Revealed with Inside-out Tracking, Resolution Bump, & New Ergonomics

Oculus today announced the new Rift S headset which ditches external tracking sensors in favor of a five-camera inside-out tracking system. The headset also gets a slight bump in resolution over the original Rift while moving from OLED to...

Hands-on: ‘Asgard’s Wrath’ Offers Deep Combat, But Not Without a Steep Learning Curve

At a special GDC Oculus media event this week we got a chance to go hands-on with Sanzaru Games' upcoming Norse-themed action adventure game Asgard's Wrath, presented on Oculus' newly unveiled 'Rift S' headset. It's beautiful, difficult, and will definitely require...
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Full Reveal of ‘Star Wars Vader Immortal’ Quest Launch Title Coming Next Month

ILMxLab is to finally demo its upcoming Star Wars Virtual Reality series, Vader Immortal at the annual Star Wars Celebration event in April. We reported on ILMxLAB's latest immersive VR experience way back in October last year, after the studio...

Pimax’s Answer to Rift’s Asynchronous Spacewarp ‘Brainwarp’ to Exit Beta This Week

Pimax today announced their Brainwarp software will be coming out of beta soon with the official launch of Brainwarp version 1.0. Like Oculus' Asynchronous Spacewarp, Brainwarp was designed to reduce the massive hardware requirements needed to run the headset's high resolution...

HTC Planning Lip-tracking Module Dev Kit for Vive Pro

Today at GDC, HTC announced plans to make available a lip-tracking module for the Vive Pro. The company says it doesn't currently have plans to consumerize the device, but instead wants to make it available for research and experimentation. HTC...
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Breakout VR Hit ‘Beat Saber’ Confirmed as Oculus Quest Launch Title

Beat Games is getting ready to take their massively successful block-slashing rhythm game to new heights, as Oculus today announced that Beat Saber (2018) is coming to Oculus Quest at launch. According to an Oculus blog post, the Quest version of the game will...
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