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just tried it out, seems to work very well even in Fallout https://steamcommunity.com/games/250820/announcements/detail/1696061565016280495

A Texas company called Thrust Vector is using an Oculus Go inside airborn training aircraft to simulate various scenarios. The cofounders say they've flown "probably 2 dozen full approaches in full VR, all the way down to about 50 feet above the runway." The current incarnation of the system...

Lenovo Explorer Mixed Reality Headset on sale at B&H for $100. HMD only, no controllers, picked one up for my newly acquired iRacing addiction. They also have 10 condition used ones for $75, YMMV vary on that tho...

Haptic feedback gloves are typically bulky, heavy, and power hungry, which limits both practicality and affordability. But researchers from EPFL and ETH Zurich developed a 2mm thick haptic feedback glove that weighs less than 8 grams per finger. The glove can exert a 40 newton holding force on...

Assetto Corsa Competizione has added virtual reality (VR) support in the Early Access Release 2 patch for the game. In this Steam discussions thread, owners of the game say that the VR is very rudimentary as it is a proof-of-concept addition to the game's alpha testing phase. The first-gen...

Coinciding with the wider availability of the Magic Leap One, Weta Workshop showed off a new trailer for "Dr. Grordbort's Invaders" at L.E.A.P. Con. The game will be available for free, and is rumored to include some sort of multiplayer functionality. More info should be coming out of L.E.A.P...

While the Magic Leap One has technically been out since August, it was only available in select cities, and involved a representative coming to help set up the device. But now the Magic Leap One Creator Edition is widely available across the US. The company is also offering a 0% APR financing...

The announcement trailer for Borderlands 2 VR has been released. I have logged so many hours into these series of games over the years and now it is getting a port to virtual reality. I hope that it is coming to Steam as the game's official page only lists PSVR for now. The iconic...

Facebook's Oculus subsidiary is testing the waters for investments into location-based VR centers such as movie theaters and arcades in malls. They seek to strike deals with the producers of VR content and the owners of the establishments to use and promote Oculus products. They also seek to...

SteamVR has been updated with a lot of bug fixes and a reprojection and timing update as Valve says that they have "improved the smoothness and reliability of the reprojection system. More improvements are planned." The performance of the compositor distortion renderer has been increased by...

HaptX Inc has finally unveiled their HaptX Gloves Development Kit that features touch feedback and natural interactions in VR for the first time. The kit contains 2 gloves which feature 130 tactile actuators per glove to provides realistic touch across the hand and fingertips. The gloves also...

The first DiRT Rally game had a wonderfully immersive VR mode that added layers of suspense, concentration, and genuine fear to the already challenging racing game. A few days ago a Codemaster's spokesperson was asked if VR was a planned option for the upcoming sequel called DiRT Rally 2.0...

Soon you will be able to watch YouTube VR on your Oculus Go headsets! Want to get up close and personal with your favorite rockstar, sit in the driver's seat of a race car, or experience a trip that takes you out of this world? YouTube VR turns every video on the platform into your own virtual...

Here is the Lone Echo II 360 Experience VR Trailer. The regular trailer can be found here and more information about the title can be found on the game's website. Jack and Liv are back! Launch into Lone Echo II with this 360 experience from Ready At Dawn and Oculus Studios. Learn more about...

Oculus has announced the Spring 2019 availability of the $399 Oculus Quest standalone VR system. The wireless system doesn't need a PC or smartphone to experience VR content. It features six degrees of freedom touch controllers, state of the art optics and built in audio. Sensors in the...

HTC has graciously extended their offer of granting developers 100% revenue sharing from the Viveport subscription until the end of the year. Normally HTC would take 30% of the subscription revenue and the developers would get 70%. Viveport now boasts a library of over 500 titles and 5x the...

Facebook will be live-streaming the Oculus Connect 5 event in VR for those with an Oculus Go or Samsung Gear VR and the Oculus Venues VR app. Rift owners using Rift Core 2.0 can use embedded Dash panels and Group Hang-Out to watch it in VR. The rest of us mere mortals will have to watch the...

Angry Birds FPS: First Person Slingshot is a new game for the Magic Leap One Creator's Edition AR headset that was developed in partnership with the AR/VR studio Resolution Games and Rovio Entertainment. Head-tracking and the ability to use the Magic Leap One's controller as a bow adds...

Holy moly, the first few minutes is a head rush, and your brain is grappling with the fact that you're tethered and can't walk everywhere (well even if you weren't tethered.) Where the heck is my noclip so I can fly around? It's crazy immersive like really being some place else, I can't...

Slime Rancher is one of the highest rated games on Steam as it currently has a 95% rating. Developer Monomi Park has announced that the game is getting a free VR update later this year. The free VR Playground DLC will allow gamers to use their VR headsets and wands to vac, feed, and play with...

Yesterday, Mozilla launched a virtual reality and mixed reality browser called "Firefox Reality". The new browser is based on the mainstream, 2D version of Firefox, and comes with all the privacy, security and performance updates new builds of Firefox have. However, Mozilla re-designed the...

The third revision of the SteamVR Knuckles has been refined in multiple ways to improve energy efficiency, input feel, strap design and more. The SteamVR Knuckles EV3 ship with access to tech demos complete with source code for developers to test out the functionality of the devices. Unity...

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1508356684 This is crazy, feels like yesterday that the EV2 version was shipped to devs, now we have a new EV3 version...theres a strong possibility that we could get the consumer Knuckles in the very near future if all goes well...

Assetto Corsa Competizione has been released onto Steam in a truly Early Access manner as the game features a single car and track to compete on. Basic multiplayer won't be included until the scheduled update on November 14th of 2018. Also there is no mention of when the Nvidia RTX features...

Bandai Namco showed off a new VR Trailer for Ace Combat 7 at PlayStation’s TGS Lineup Tour. Ace Combat 7 is scheduled for a cross platform release in January 2019. As of now, VR support is limited to an unknown number of missions in Playstation VR, but Bandai Namco hasn't explicitly ruled out...

As promised back in August, Viveport subscribers can now play a wide selection of Vive games on an Oculus Rift. HTC is offering a 14 day free trial for the subscription service, and posted instructions to get your Oculus Rift running Vive games. A list of "Oculus Compatible" games can also be...

This is 100% not newsworthy, but it did give us a chuckle. This is what "Captain Kirk" had to say about a recent VR experience of his. “It’s so real: it’s the stuff of nightmares … We’ve got to be really careful because you could put somebody into a psychosis.” That said, we have run through...

The International Data Corporation (IDC) conducted a study into 2018's decline in the number of VR headsets sold. First they found that many of the screenless viewers that were bundled with phones have been discontinued and they accounted for a large portion of the market. Tethered headsets...

As promised back in August, VIVE Wireless Adapter pre-orders are open on the Vive site today. HTC claims the swappable battery is good for 2.5 hours of runtime, and that the WiGig wireless display technology keeps latency down. The Vive and Vive Pro versions cost $299 and $369, respectively...

I can't seem to find an answer to this. When I play a 180 or 360 degree video on my Lenovo Explorer everything looks huge. The people and objects look like giants, some videos are worse than others. I've tried "Mermaid VR" and "Skybox" and have the same issue with both. There seem to be some...

Missed the announcement. Looks like 9/5 is he preorder date Msrp 299$ https://www.vive.com/us/wireless-adapter/

Palmer Luckey has a vested interest in VR as he was the founder of Oculus VR and designed the Oculus Rift head mounted display (HMD). He ordered a Magic Leap and sent it off to iFixit to help others to learn how it is constructed. In his latest blog post, he gives his honest assessment of the...

I'm planning on making an mITX relatively SFF build with the plan to get into VR in a year or two. I've seen the release of HTC Vive WiGig Wireless Upgrade which seems to need a PCIe slot. Is it expected that future most futures wireless implementations will require a PCIe slot, and that an mATX...

The HTC VIVEPORT has been an exclusive monthly subscription service for VR aficionados who own the HTC VIVE HMD. Now the HTC VIVEPORT subscription service has added Oculus Rift support for certain games. This move makes sense as most VR titles on Steam support the HTC VIVE and Oculus Rift...

The Humble Store is having an up to 75% off sale on select VR titles. I'm finally going to get GORN. Anyone else have a suggestion? You can save an additional 10% off your purchases at the Humble Store by signing up for the Humble Monthly.

https://www.vrfocus.com/2018/08/starvr-are-teasing-a-new-headset-to-be-revealed-next-week/ https://www.roadtovr.com/starvr-teases-new-upgraded-high-end-headset-next-week/ It seems they are going to compete with the Pimax 8k. I hope they show something that will compete with Half-Dome too.

Nvidia is going to livestream CEO Jensen Huang's presentation on the center stage at SIGGRAPH 2018. This event will occur at 4 p.m. PT on Monday, Aug. 13. Even if the new Nvidia GPUs aren't revealed; there are plenty of interesting talks by Nvidia employees going on during the conference...

MIcrosoft HoloLens hasn't gotten off to the fastest start as the device has been relegated to researchers, developers and limited industrial uses. At the Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Microsoft gave a demo of the recently released Research Mode which allows developers...

Creators can order their very own Magic Leap One starting at only $2,295. After ordering, a person will set the device up for you. I would assume that a person intelligent to write software for the device can set it up themselves. The device specifications are listed here and CNET was allowed...

Researchers at the Keio University Graduate School of Media Design in Tokyo have designed a set of robotic arms, worn as a backpack, that allow a second person to control them remotely through VR. The person wearing the backpack can be provided assistance with tasks by the robotic arms...