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New ‘Lone Echo’ Launch Trailer

Lone Echo, the upcoming zero-G, sci-fi adventure from Ready at Dawn, has a brand new trailer proceeding its July 20th launch date. In the game's initial announcement trailer, we got a look at its unique locomotion scheme as well as some of...

Two Ways to Play Non-VR Games With the Oculus Rift or HTC Vive

Games that are specifically developed for VR are always going to look and play the best in a VR headset, but let's face it, most of us probably have huge libraries of traditional games, and you may be wondering...

‘Lone Echo’s’ Virtual Hands Are an Unexpected VR Innovation

Oculus had talked much about 'Hand Presence' with the launch of their Touch VR controllers last year, but few games have implemented the controllers in such a way that truly deliver on that promise. Combined with Touch, Lone Echo's impressive...

Vive Deluxe Audio Straps Back in Stock on Monday, Vive Pre Adapter Kit Available With Promo Code

The Vive Deluxe Audio Strap is a more ergonomic strap with integrated headphones for the HTC Vive, and when it launched last month, it was only on sale for less than 48 hours until stocks ran dry in the EU and US. Now...
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Vive Tracker Used to Create Pressure Sensitive Photoshop Stylus for VR

Developer Jimmy Gray recently posted a short video (see above), showing the latest version of a DIY motion-tracked VR stylus prototype. Using an HTC Vive Tracker mounted above a stylus-shaped unit, a VR stylus can be tracked and rendered, usable...
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Group of Men “Marry” Anime Characters in a VR Wedding Ceremony

Japan is an exceedingly normal place when it comes down to daily life, but for some reason the culture's social norms are—how should we put it—famously elastic. As reported by Vocativ, virtual reality played a big part in a recent marketing campaign for...

BBC’s VR Documentary ‘Easter Rising: Voice of a Rebel’ Launches on Rift and Gear VR

The BBC's newest VR documentary, Easter Rising: Voice of a Rebel, today launched on Gear VR and Oculus Rift. The 13-minute documentary takes you through one man's memories on a journey back to a defining moment in Irish history, the armed...

‘Dead Secret’ is Getting a Sequel, Coming Later This Year

Dead Secret (2015), Robot Invader's first-person mystery thriller for PC, Gear VR and SteamVR-capable headsets, is getting a sequel called Dead Secret Circle. The second installment in the series is slated to come to VR and traditional platforms in 2017. Like its predecessor, Dead...

Magik Gallery – Highlighting Artists Using VR as Their Canvas

Nick Ochoa curated some of the top artists producing work entirely in VR for the Magik Gallery show that happened in San Francisco, CA on May 20th. It was an ambitious effort to introduce VR creation tools for artists...

‘Fantastic Contraption’ Gets PSVR Release Date & Price – Exclusive Levels, Native 120 FPS Rendering

Fantastic Contraption, one of the first (and still one of the best) VR puzzle games out there, is finally coming to PSVR on July 11th and has been specially tuned for the platform, including unique levels not seen elsewhere...