Developer Turns Half-Life: Alyx’s City 17 Into Quest Home Environment

A developer has ported Half-Life: Alyx’s City 17 environment to Oculus Quest.

Spacefolk City Is A Slightly Weird City-Builder For Oculus Quest, PC VR

Spacefolk City is a slightly weird new VR city-builder coming later this year.

Every PSVR Exclusive – The Best And Worst Games Ranked

Every PSVR exclusive game. Ranked. Let’s get to it.

How App Lab DB is helping indie VR games to get discovered

We all know that it is very difficult to be published on the Official Quest Store and we indie developers

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The Secrets of Unboxing Videos

How to create a content marketing strategy your customers will love, in seven steps.

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VR Studio Behind Movie Tie-in Games Aims to Kick-start Original IP with $2M Investment

UK-based VR studio XR Games, known for its recently released Zombieland VR game, announced this week that it has raised an additional £1.5 million (~$2 million) investment to expand its studio with 20 new jobs and a focus on original IP. XR Games has made a business out of building VR games as movie tie-ins. […]

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FTC Sues Facebook Over Alleged Monopolization – What it Could Mean for Oculus

The United States Federal Trade Commission today announced it has filed an amended complaint with the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, renewing its effort to sue Facebook over alleged anticompetitive practices. The initial lawsuit was filed in late 2020 and was tossed out back in June by a judge which argued that the […]

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Stunning View Synthesis Algorithm Could Have Huge Implications for VR Capture

As far as live-action VR video is concerned, volumetric video is the gold standard for immersion. And for static scene capture, the same holds true for photogrammetry. But both methods have limitations that detract from realism, especially when it comes to ‘view-dependent’ effects like specular highlights and lensing through translucent objects. Research from Thailand’s Vidyasirimedhi Institute of […]

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Facebook Surprise-launches New VR Meeting App With Virtual Desktops and up to 50 People

Facebook today is surprise-launching a new app called Horizon Workrooms, a virtual collaboration space that connects both VR and video chat users. With the ability to bring a user’s PC or Mac desktop into the virtual room, the app takes a big step toward turning Quest 2 into a collaborative productivity device. While the long-awaited Facebook Hozion […]

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Robotics, Muscle Research During Ongoing Spacewalk Preps

The Astrobee robotic free-flyers were powered up aboard the International Space Station and cell samples were set up for human muscle research today. The Expedition 65 crew is also headlong into U.S. and Russian spacewalk preparations while working on a variety of other science experiments. NASA Flight Engineer Megan McArthur started Thursday morning turning on …