virtualreality

Maximum Entertainment and developer studio Merge announce Smalland: Survive the Wilds VR. They describe the VR game as follows:...

We don’t normally cover games this early in development, but Hayden Jackson’s spatial adaptation of pool caught our eye. The app, called 3D Pool right now, exchanges the familiar cue used in games like ForeVR Poolfor a slingshot mechanic with hand tracking, replacing gravity with zero-g and bounding it all inside of a...

Boundary, formerly called Guardian, is certainly useful in virtual reality so you don’t leave your playspace and bump into furniture and walls. But in most mixed reality apps it’s superfluous, since you can already see the environment around you, and downright annoying because it means you can’t utilize your full room as a...

Only time will tell, but I’m curious what everyone’s predictions are. Yes/no and for what reasons?

Yaser Sheikh, head of Meta’s Codec Avatar research, gave a presentation at the Nvidia GTC conference last week, and MIXED was there....

visionOS 2.0 for Apple Vision Pro will release this year, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reports....

There are a number of possible explanations for Quest 3’s higher retention, and the answer may even be a combination of multiple....

ALVR, the app that enables Apple Vision Pro to work on SteamVR, is now available for anyone to download. If you’re interested in VR you’re probably familiar with the three most popular tools to make Meta Quest headsets act as PC VR headsets on Windows: Virtual Desktop, Steam Link, and Quest (Air) Link. But you might not be...

Capcom is keeping online statistics for Resident Evil 4, including the number of players who have tried or played through the free VR mode with PSVR 2. Participation in the data survey is voluntary....

I’ve searched my quest 2 for installed packages and heres some interesting package names ive found. com.oculus.systemux this is likely the system layer that shows the apps. wonder if anyone has decompiled it. meta.skymap.service i have no clue what this is but it sounds cool com.oculus.vrprivacycheckup maybe the mute function...

Some of the reasons I can think of: it’s on a different platform, not enough space, hardware too weak, motion sickness, accessibility, too scary, …

Since Lemmy and particularly this community are still rather small it may not be necessary to come up with a set of rules, but I thought I’d bring it up anyways and get some input....

The latest software update for the Playstation 5, version 24.02-09.00.00, also includes a firmware update for the Playstation VR 2 and the Dual-Sense controllers. It appears that Sony is thus preparing the announced PC compatibility of the PSVR 2....

Supporting up to five players in 2v3 matches, Mannequin tasks two Agents with hunting down shape-shifting aliens called Mannequins. Previously only accessible via the official Mannequin Discord server, Fast Travel Games confirms the open alpha for its asymmetrical VR multiplayer game is out now on SideQuest.

Rebuilt in Unreal Engine 5, Riven is 1997’s sequel to the atmospheric puzzle game Myst. Regarded as one of the 20th century’s most iconic and highest selling video games, the 1993 title helped herald the CD-ROM format in that decade. Confirmation of the sequel’s imminent arrival this year for VR and flatscreen platforms is...

In Humanity, you navigate a crowd of people through increasingly complex obstacle courses. As a dog, you leave instructions in abstract landscapes and watch as the crowd turns, jumps, climbs, pushes, swims, and relentlessly makes its way. A modern take on Lemmings with a focus on spatial puzzles....

VRAL Games, the publisher behind the SBK superbike mobile franchise, announced it’s publishing its first VR motorcycle racing game, coming to Quest and SteamVR headsets later this year....

At the Global Developers Conference (GDC 2024), HTC Vive will cut its revenue share to just 10% for all new VR games and apps added to the Viveport app store starting April 1, 2024. That’s one-third the previous developer fees....

Bloomberg, citing two people familiar with the matter, writes that Sony has halted production of the Playstation VR 2 until a backlog of unsold units is cleared. According to the sources, Sony has produced well over 2 million units.

Number one: We want to take some of these developers who are not doing this for their full-time job right now, but want to make a living making games. We want to make those dreams come true. Number two: We’d like to be able to do some of these things and get them to a platform where everybody can play on. Most of these mods...

The Steam Spring Sale is here, and with it comes massive discounts on VR games. Until 21 March at 18:00 CET, you can save up to 75 percent on selected titles. This includes some VR hits like the PC VR exclusive Half-Life: Alyx and the graphically stunning racing simulation Assetto Corsa, which costs just $5.

Meta Quest has been the leading VR platform for several years with millions of users. For studios and developers looking to build a profitable business in this market, there is no way around the Quest Store....

VR publisher Perp Games announces release dates and new VR games for multiple platforms. All news at a glance.

Assuming you have multiple VR platforms accessible (Quest, PSVR, PC) and a game you want to play releases on all, where do you buy it on and why?

The Game Developer Conference (GDC) is coming up next week, which could give ByteDance’s XR subsidiary Pico Interactive a perfect opportunity to showcase what, according to a recent trademark and leaked controller model, could be its next standalone VR headset....