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How instant-ramen marketer Samyang built Gen Alpha’s favorite brand
The maker of Buldak has quickly ramped up a marketing team in the U.S. to capitalize on the brand’s consumer love evident in a viral TikTok video.
GORN 2 Hands-On: Absurdly Hilarious Combat Builds Upon The Original Game Well
GORN 2 expands upon the original game well so far, delivering absurdly hilarious combat in our preview while remaining distinctly familiar.
The New Salsa Academy Lets You Break A Sweat In Style
The New Salsa Academy teaches you how to dance one step at a time in VR and mixed reality, and today’s update introduces a new Challenge Mode.
Rockstar Acquires Studio That Worked On Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas VR
Rockstar Games has acquired Video Games Deluxe, the studio that worked on Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas VR before it went on hold and L.A. Noire: The VR Case Files.
How Detective VR Uses Mixed Reality For A Narrative-Driven Mystery
With mixed reality gaming still in its relative infancy, we interviewed Detective VR’s studio about designing a narrative-driven experience with newer tech.
PicotionAI: Playing Pictionary with mixed reality, camera access, and artificial intelligence
Today I want to tell you about a little but very cute project I’ve developed for Pico headsets. It’s called PicotionAI and it is a game that includes mixed reality, camera access, and artificial intelligence! As I have done in other similar cases, I’m telling you this story hoping that it can inspire you to […]
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Online Dating Company Announces $20M Annual Fund to Accelerate “virtual intimacy” Startups
Social Discovery Group, the company behind Dating.com and DateMyAge.com, announced it’s launched a venture studio that aims to “transform virtual intimacy into the new normal” by backing early-stage startups in AI-powered communication, XR advancements, and social discovery platforms. Called SDG Lab, the group has pledged an annual investment of $20 million by providing a “straightforward” […]
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‘Dimensional Double Shift’ is Owlchemy Labs’ Fastest Growing Game, Tapping Into Quest’s Latest Freemium Trend
Owlchemy Labs has been a powerhouse of top-selling VR games, so when the Google-owned studio released Dimensional Double Shift in beta last year for free, it wasn’t immediately clear why the studio behind Job Simulator (2016) was making its first stride into freemium territory. With over 500,000 downloads now though, it’s evident they saw the writing on the […]
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Classic Melee Combat Game ‘GORN’ is Getting a Sequel Later This Year on Quest, PC VR & PSVR 2
GORN (2019), the comically violent combat game from Free Lives, is getting a sequel that aims to bring a double dose of madcap melee mayhem, coming to all major VR headsets later this year. GORN 2 is currently being developed by Cortopia Studios, with help from the teams at Free Lives and Devolver Digital. You might know Cortopia from its rash of […]
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