Hands-on: ‘I Expect You to Die 2’ Demo Brings Another Deadly Dose of Seated Adventure

I Expect You to Die 2: The Spy and The Liar is upcoming sequel to the breakout VR spy-themed adventure game. We went hands-on with the game’s new demo, which again puts you in hot seat for another round of Bond-flavored puzzling. In short: it’s definitely something to watch out for when it launches later […]

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‘Pistol Whip’ is Getting a Modifier System & ‘Smoke & Thunder’ Campaign This Summer

Pistol Whip (2020), the action rhythm-shooter from Cloudhead Games, is getting a update this summer that will bring both a so-called ‘Styles System’, which aims to remix gameplay by letting you choose from a number of new modifiers, and the game’s next Western-themed campaign. The studio, which announced the news during UploadVR’s recent game showcase, says the Styles […]

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Red 6 Raises $30 Million for In-flight Military AR Training Platform

Red 6, a company building an aircraft platform with augmented reality capabilities designed for military training, says it has raised a $30 million Series A investment to further its mission. Founded in 2018, Red 6 is the creator of the Airborne Tactical Augmented Reality System (ATARS), which brings augmented reality into the cockpit of training […]

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Spacewalk to Install First New Solar Array Concluded

NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Thomas Pesquet concluded their spacewalk at 3:26 p.m. EDT, after 7 hours and 15 minutes. In the seventh spacewalk of the year outside the International Space Station, the two astronauts installed a new ISS Roll-Out Solar Array (iROSA) into its mounting bracket on the far …

Spacewalk activities continue after Shane Kimbrough troubleshoots spacesuit

About three hours into today’s spacewalk, NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough made his way back to the Quest airlock at the International Space Station to reconnect his spacesuit to an umbilical connection and restarted it. The reset corrected the issues with his spacesuit’s display and controls module that provides him information about the status of his …

Astronauts Begin Spacewalk to Install Roll-Out Solar Arrays

ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Thomas Pesquet and NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough have begun their spacewalk outside the International Space Station to install and deploy the first new ISS Roll-Out Solar Array (iROSA). The spacewalkers switched their spacesuits to battery power at 8:11 a.m. EDT to begin the spacewalk, which is expected to last about …

NASA TV is Live as Astronauts Get Ready for Spacewalk

NASA Television coverage of today’s spacewalk with NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Thomas Pesquet is now underway and is also available on the NASA app and the agency’s website. The crew members of Expedition 65 are preparing to go outside the International Space Station for a spacewalk expected to begin …

Facebook Launches New Gaming Fan Groups as Part of its Broader Push into the Gaming Space

Facebook has announced a new group type designed to help it grow gaming communities on the platform.

LinkedIn Provides New insights into the Evolving Marketing Career Landscape [Infographic]

LinkedIn has shared some new insights into how marketing roles have changed over the past year.

Twitter Shares New Insights into Rising Tweet Engagement Around Sports [Infographic]

Twitter has provided some new insights into the rising engagement around sports in the app.

TikTok Becomes Major Sponsor of VidCon 2021, Taking Over from YouTube

Could this be a changing of the guard in the digital creator space?

Niantic, Hasbro Announce Transformers: Heavy Metal AR Game Coming This Year

Transformers roll out (onto mobile devices)! Transformers: Heavy Metal is a mobile AR game using the Niantic Lightship platform, launching later this year.

Turtle Beach Reveals Elaborate Microsoft Flight Simulator Controller

This new Microsoft Flight Simulator controller looks incredible, but VR fans beware…

The 25 Best Oculus Quest Games And Best Oculus Quest 2 Games – Summer 2021

It’s safe to say that Oculus Quest came out of the gates swinging. That makes picking a list of the best Oculus Quest games and best Oculus Quest 2 games pretty tough. Facebook’s standalone VR headsets, which seem to have singlehandedly reignited the entire VR industry, launched with over 50 apps in 2019. In the…

Cloudhead CEO Talks Funding VR’s Next Big Games

Cloudhead CEO says plenty of VR studios have “big games” in limbo, but they need to grow financially before they can make them.

Echo VR Adult Community Prepares for Charity Cup

Echo VR Adult Community Prepares for Charity Cup

VR gamers from two Echo Arena community servers have partnered up for the Tyro Charity Cup to present a fun, friendly event designed to benefit charity. Open to Tyro players of all levels, 100% of proceeds will be donated to non-profits selected by the top three teams following the June 26-27 event.

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The 20 Best Rated & Most Popular Quest Games & Apps – June 2021

While Oculus doesn’t offer much publicly in the way of understanding how well individual apps are performing across its VR storefronts, it’s possible to glean some insight by looking at apps relative to each other. Here’s a snapshot of the top 20 Oculus Quest games and apps as of June 2021. ?? Why We Publish This […]

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PSVR Shooter ‘Fracked’ Gameplay Trailer Reveals More Explosive Action, Coming Summer 2021

Fracked, an upcoming single-player shooter, just got a brand-new gameplay trailer that shows off more of its high-energy action. Developed by nDreams—the same team behind Oculus exclusive Phantom: Covert Ops (2020)—Fracked is heading exclusively to PSVR sometime this summer. The updated gameplay trailer was revealed at both IGN’s ‘Summer of Gaming’ event and UploadVR’s game showcase. In it, we get […]

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‘Demeo’ Campaign DLC ‘Realm of the Rat King’ to Release June 28th

Demeo (2021), the tabletop dungeon crawler from Resolution Games, launched back in early May with a single adventure module, which pits up to four co-op players against a mountain of ghoulies and one very powerful Elven Queen. The studio has now announced that it’s bringing its first post-launch module to the game on June 28th. […]

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‘Nerf Ultimate Championship’ is a New Arena Shooter Coming to Quest in 2022

Hasbro and VR studio Secret Location announced over the weekend that a Nerf-brand multiplayer shooter is coming to Oculus Quest sometime next year. Called Nerf Ultimate Championship, the arena shooter is said to offer what Secret Location calls “a wide range of new and classic blasters as you leap around fantastic arenas in intense head-to-head team […]

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Watch Spacewalkers Install New Solar Arrays on Wednesday

NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Thomas Pesquet are scheduled to exit the International Space Station’s Quest airlock Wednesday for a spacewalk to install and deploy the first of six new solar arrays to help power the orbiting laboratory. Live coverage of the spacewalk will air on NASA Television, the agency’s website, …

Astronauts in Final Preparations for Wednesday’s Spacewalk

Two spacewalkers and their assistants are in final preparations one day before the first of two excursions begins to install new solar arrays. The rest of the Expedition 65 crew focused on science and maintenance activities at the International Space Station. Two astronauts, Shane Kimbrough of NASA and Thomas Pesquet of ESA (European Space Agency), …

Twitter Launches New Insights Series Analyzing the Latest Trends in Media and Entertainment

Twitter has launched a new series to provide insight into emerging entertainment and media trends.

Twitter is Working on New Controls Over Who Can @Mention You in Their Tweets

Twitter is working on new controls over who can @mention you in their tweets.

LinkedIn Granted New Opportunity to Restrict Data-Scraping in its App

The US Supreme Court will allow LinkedIn to pursue a case over user data scraping, which had previously been allowed by the Federal Court.