Modest Gains Bring Rift’s Share of Headsets on Steam to a New High Amid Sale
According to the latest figures from Valve's Hardware & Software survey, Rift has reached its highest historical market share on Steam thanks to modest gains amid an ongoing sale. Despite the new high point, the HTC Vive still holds the...
HP’s New Commercial VR Backpack PC Smartly Docks to Double as VR Desktop
Scheduled for release in September starting at $3,300, the HP Z VR Backpack G1 Workstation is aimed at the commercial market, with high-performance components including an Intel Core i7 CPU and Nvidia Quadro GPU. It features a smart docking...
Developer Offers First Look at Acer’s “Windows Mixed Reality” VR Headset Dev Kit
Software developer Shachar “Vice” Weis has described his first impressions of Acer's Windows Mixed Reality VR headset dev kit on his blog. His company, Packet39, makers of VR game Orbital Injection, recently received the Developer Edition headset made by...
‘Decentraland’ – Using Ethereum Blockchain ICO to Sell Virtual Real Estate
Decentraland is a virtual world that is using the Ethereum Blockchain to sell plots of virtual reality real estate. They're selling an initial offering of the currency they call 'MANA', from August 8 to August 16, 2017, and they'll...
‘Second Life’ Successor ‘Sansar’ Launches Open Beta Today, Pricing Revealed
Linden Lab, the company behind the virtual world Second Life, is today launching successor Sansar into open beta, this time built for the VR era. Though based on much of what the company has learned from running Second Life over the last...
Co-op VR Shooter ‘Gunheart’ Launches in Early Access, From Minds Behind ‘Gears of War’ and ‘Halo’
Gunheart, Drifter Entertainment's co-op VR shooter, launches today in Early Access on Steam for Oculus Rift and HTC Vive.
In Gunheart, you step into the shoes of a robotic bounty hunter looking for cash, something you can grab throughout each level as you squash...
Following Delays, Meta Expects “Volume Shipping” of Meta 2 AR Headset in August
Meta announced and launched pre-orders for its Meta 2 AR headset dev kit more than a year ago, and expected to begin shipping the device at the end of 2016. While the company says a small number of headsets...
VR MMORPG ‘OrbusVR’ Open Alpha Weekend Has Begun
OrbusVR, the upcoming VR MMORPG for Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, is going into a limited-time open alpha starting on July 28th, 2017 at 12 pm CT (your local time) and will last for approximately 60 hours.
Update (7/29/17): The OrbusVR Open Alpha weekend...
Oculus Founder: “Should I try to save AltspaceVR?”
Following this week's news that AltspaceVR, one of the first social VR platforms, is shutting down, Oculus founder Palmer Luckey, who is no longer with the company, queried the community to ask if he should seek to save AtlspaceVR...
Oculus Wants to “Go big” On Opening Their Platform to Third-party Headsets, When the Time is Right
Oculus has been on the receiving end of vocal criticism about its practices of funding the development of VR content with the requirement that it be exclusive to the Oculus platform. For many owners of the Rift's rival, Vive,...
