It barely feels like a day goes by without another tech company securing vast amounts of investment for their metaverse efforts. Recently, the developers of Fortnite and the Unreal Engine, Epic Games announced it’s raised a further $2 billion to realise their metaverse goals. This comes just under a year after the company raised $1 … Continue reading Epic Raises $2 Billion In Metaverse Investment
Newcomers to the world of VR often experience one of the least-fun elements of the immersive technology quite early on: motion sickness. VR motion sickness occurs because your eyes and brain think they’re moving inside an expansive VR world, but your body is doing nothing of the kind. This disconnect between your brain, body and … Continue reading How to Overcome VR Motion Sickness
The new year has started with a great deal of buzz around the purchase of ‘Call of Duty’ makers, Activision Blizzard, by Microsoft. The deal has set new records and brought a wave of speculation about what Microsoft plans on doing next. With much of the tech world focused on the new iteration of the … Continue reading Everything You Need to Know About Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard Acquisition
Love it or hate it, Zynga has been one of the companies to best crack the code of mainstream gaming appeal. Milking millions from mobile players with addictive virtual skinner boxes such as Farmville. VR hasn’t yet reached the level of mass appeal smartphones have, but it seems two ex-Zynga staffers think it’s not too … Continue reading Former Zynga Employees are Getting Into VR Big Time With New Studio ForeVR
When I first tested out Oculus Link on my Oculus Quest 1, I was absolutely blown away by how well it worked. Coming straight off an original consumer model Rift, it felt like an upgrade, despite running through a convoluted software solution. I tried out everything, including SteamVR titles such as Half-Life Alyx and other Steam games … Continue reading Why Is SteamVR Running So Poorly On Oculus Quest?
If you read our blog regularly, then you’ll know I have made no secret of my dislike for Facebook’s recent decisions around Oculus products. When Facebook originally bought Oculus for a historically significant amount of money, many in the VR industry were concerned. Facebook saw Oculus as a company that could take it into the next generation … Continue reading Things Are Heating Up For Facebook’s (And Oculus’) Monopoly
With the Oculus Quest 2 launching at a very palatable $299 this year, I expect a whole heap of people found one of these excellent VR headsets under the Christmas tree. However, any hardware platform is only as good as the software. Oculus games, despite being cheaper than console games in general, still aren’t cheap. … Continue reading The 10 Games That Should Be On Every Oculus Quest
I remember seeing Myst for the first time in the mid-90s. It was in a magazine, because there certainly was no way we could afford an Apple Macintosh computer capable of running the game. I wouldn’t actually get to play Myst until many years later, but those first screenshots were unforgettable. Myst was a game … Continue reading Iconic Adventure Myst is Reborn in VR
While the first Oculus Rift headsets, whether developer or retail, offered a properly immersive and present experience. However, they still had some major areas where improvement was necessary. Now we’re starting to see a new generation of high-end headset that seems to address what early modern VR has needed since day one. JVC, yes the … Continue reading JVC Shows Off XR Headset With Insane Field Of View
When Microsoft released the latest version of Flight Simulator earlier this year, the title was almost universally praised for its realism and sumptuous next-generation graphics. It seemed like the perfect VR title for these lockdown times, but that didn’t seem to be a priority for Microsoft. Now, according to a report by Road To VR and another … Continue reading Microsoft Flight Simulator Gets SteamVR Support In December 2020
