Road to VR

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Recently released on the Quest store, Cubism is a spatial puzzle game with a slick minimal presentation. Designed by a solo indie developer Thomas Van Bouwel as a side project, the game impressively holds the highest user rating among all Quest apps with more than 100 reviews, according to our latest ranking.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The article Dejan has written is a big collection of tutorials, suggestions, and tips about developing applications that use hand tracking. It starts with how you can install Unity and get started with hand tracking development and then proceeds with some suggestions about hands tracking UX.

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VRScout

MARCH 29, 2023

This new game mode utilizes various technologies—from passthrough and hand tracking to mixed reality—to offer a variety of challenging strength-building routines. You instead follow a virtual trainer through set routines that target 16 important muscle groups. per month via the Meta Store.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Vertigo Games adds a new song and support for mixed reality powered by the Quest’s Passthrough technology. Last month, Vertigo Games ( Arizona Sunshine, After the Fall, Traffic James ) released its latest game on the Oculus (Meta) Quest, Unplugged , allowing you to rock out in VR using your very own air guitar.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 4, 2022

This way, if there is a problem with the first group that receives it, the company can pause the distribution and solve it before causing bugs to all the millions of Quest users (with subsequent shitstorm on Reddit). It means that the updates are not distributed using region groups (e.g. different language packs). Features gating.

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ARPost

JUNE 8, 2023

Where previous Quest headsets were announced at last year’s Connect – Meta’s biggest annual event – the Quest 3 was announced through a relatively low-key social media campaign on the morning of the Meta Gaming Showcase. Hand-tracking does play a huge part in the Vision Pro announcement, as the Vision Pro doesn’t have controllers.

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Upload VR

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Here are our picks for the top 25 best Quest 3 games available now. Our list of best Quest 2 games and best Quest 3 games will be updated and maintained separately. For games that were previously released on Quest 2, we've often linked our original reviews of those games in our recommendations below.

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ARPost

APRIL 27, 2023

Whether it’s a group of friends or a family, it’s all part of a shared adventure, similar to cinemas, arcades, and many other leisure activities. They currently have 70 venues in over 26 countries and target intense, gaming-like scenarios. You wear a backpack but throughout the whole game, you will only need to hold one prop: the gun.

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VRScout

JULY 11, 2021

In this social VR experience, groups of up to six players strap into VR backpacks and embark on a location-based free-roam adventure throughout the halls of the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. There’s even foot and hand tracking, allowing you to see your teammates’ exact movements in VR in real-time.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Unlike many other location-based experiences featured at The VOID, Avengers: Damage Control relies entirely on hand-tracking when it comes to player interaction. The use of hand-tracking technology in favor of physical weaponry adds a certain uniqueness to the experience, one that sets itself apart from past immersive releases.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Every year I make this prediction game about what Facebook is going to announce at Oculus/Facebook connect, and this year won’t be an exception! We know it : Zuck is going to announce a full restructuring of all the Facebook group, under a parent company probably named Meta, Horizon, or something similar. New Facebook Name.

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VRScout

JUNE 11, 2020

And now we have high-resolution VR with hand and eye-tracking which is an important step towards breaking down a barrier that has been holding VR back from broader adoption in some industries. The next demo I tried was set in an airport control tower, where eye and hand tracking played a crucial role.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

The headset has a very nice design and features these specifications: Standalone 6DOF headset 1600×1600 resolution per eye 90Hz refresh rate 90° FOV RGB AR passthrough Innovative lenses that make the headset more compact Integrated audio Controller-free hand-tracking Eye-tracking 6GB of RAM 128GB of storage WiFi 6 (802.11ax), Bluetooth 5.0,

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Road to VR

JULY 31, 2023

Apple has a tendency to undervalue gaming initially, though perhaps reluctantly, eventually acknowledges its importance. Image courtesy Apple Considering just how much time and effort Apple has spent talking about AR, you may be surprised to find out Vision Pro can actually play VR games.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 13, 2020

Image by Epic Games). Sony invests $250M in Epic Games. Sony has announced that it has made a big investment of $250M in Epic Games through one of its subsidiaries. The long-term results of these partnerships are unforeseeable, but we can still play the speculation game. Rockstar is working on AAA VR open world game.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 13, 2021

Honor to all the other countries, some of them probably deserved more than us, but I think Italy won because we were a true team, a group of people that supported each other for a goal they craved to reach. It doesn’t have controllers (you just use your hands), but you can buy external controllers by Finch to use with it.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 23, 2022

3D puzzle game Shores of Loci is set for an Early Access release on Quest 2 via App Lab and SteamVR on May 24th. Road To VR went hands-on with it and reported it is a nice game with gorgeous visuals The Last Clockwinder is officially slated to land on Meta Quest 2 and SteamVR headsets on June 2nd, 2022. Some news on content.

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Upload VR

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

But the lack of tracked controllers makes it unsuitable for many kinds of games and experiences playable on other headsets. Surreal Touch is a self-tracking controller designed to solve this problem. Alongside launching the campaign, Surreal Interactive also revealed new PC VR streaming gameplay footage.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 6, 2019

In 2015 he launched the first VR escape game in the world. He started selling VR escape games and now he is CEO at Avatarico. The company created 5 VR escape games and sold them to more than 100 locations across the globe. Since 2015 there are 200 000 customers played these games. . ” LB VR types.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 14, 2023

The headset should be operated through the use of hand tracking and eye tracking , exactly like the Vision Pro. Then the Vision Pro beta for the Unity game engine has not been distributed yet, so many Unity developers can’t build applications for the Vision Pro, yet. But now things may change.

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ARVR

DECEMBER 5, 2020

XR Hub There is a high chance that you are already a member of this group. This group has been started by one of the most active XR Developers on YouTube. Join Dilmer Games?—? XR Creators This group has been started by XR Bootcamp, which is one of the best online bootcamps for aspiring XR Enthusiasts. Have some ideas?

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 11, 2023

But not all the applications work well with hand gestures: for instance, most action games would suck with it. I think that for a small startup that is shipping its first product, it may make a lot of sense: for a company of that size, it is better to handle a smaller group of high-paying customers than doing the opposite.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2024

The last cycle before this one was the Quest one, which started to make virtual reality known to the mainstream audience for what concerns games and fitness. Mark Zuckerberg has been incredibly smart in entering this field before all the others, so now he already has a strong headset with a great content catalog around gaming.

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ARPost

MAY 14, 2020

The Finalists for Best Consumer App Are: Five Nights At Fredy’s AR Special Delivery – the augmented reality version of the viral jump-scare game. Exozet – a company providing remote VR training for groups like Siemens. ARcade Sports – a multiplayer online game that moves so fast it needs 5G.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 26, 2023

PS Remember that there is an ongoing giveaway of physical copies of the Sam&Max game for PSVR for all people in North America! One is social VR , and in fact, Steam Link has already integrated this tongue-tracking technology with VRChat, so that your avatar can show the tongue to other avatars. Last week, people said January.

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Upload VR

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Venice Immersive returned once more with the Venice International Film Festival, and we went hands-on with a number of projects from creators worldwide. As someone who's traditionally been nearly exclusively focused on video games, I'm slowly finding my feet with film festivals. These festivals aren't geared to consumers directly.

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VRGames

MARCH 30, 2023

Incorporating various technologies like passthrough and hand tracking to mixed reality, this game mode has users ditching motion controllers in favor of real dumbbells to target 16 important muscle groups via an interactive muscle map. Rather […]

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 3, 2023

Although, an emerging presence in the development space is hand and eye tracking. AR/VR/MR headsets are increasingly equipped with hand and eye tracking technology. Previously, commercial XR devices like the Meta Quest had experimented with hand-tracking features which improved as the device matured.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

We have OpenXR from Khronos Group, a common standard for virtual reality and augmented reality applications to support any suitable hardware, however, this solution is still in its infancy and has not yet become the default target for AR/VR apps. Not restricted to specific hardware, anyone will be able to connect to the metaverse.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

update”, is already directed in that sense, since it brings support for hand tracking and colocation. The game is now fully playable without controllers, a feature that will be very important to be compatible with the headset from Apple. And its latest update, dubbed the “Mixed Reality 2.0

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ARPost

JULY 16, 2020

VRChat , the group bringing the VR Awards online, is a free-to-play virtual world currently in early access on Steam , Oculus , and VIVEPORT. YouTube news, games, and product reviews channel ThrillSeeker. VR Game of the Year. Asgard’s Wrath , the action RPG by Sanzaru Games. Fitness game Synth Riders by Kluge Interactive.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Volkswagen Group is back again with yet another VR project that continues to prove just how much faith the German automaker truly has in the immersive medium. We’ve seen the company use the technology before on everything from collaborative group meetings between team members to a simulator that lets you drive an Audi in a sandbox track.

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ARPost

JUNE 5, 2023

The “Building Open Standards for the Metaverse” panel moderated by Moor Insights and Strategy Senior Analyst Anshel Sag brought together XR Safety Initiative (XRSI) founder and CEO Kavya Pearlman, XRSI Advisor Elizabeth Rothman, and Khronos Group President Neil Trevett. Apple’s tendency to operate outside of standards was discussed.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 14, 2019

According to the demo video (linked below), the unnamed “R&D prototype” looks to include both 6DOF head-tracking as well as hand-tracking, and appear to be a standalone unit similar to Microsoft HoloLens. The experience is set to end on December 8th. Otherwise you can sign up here (Japanese).

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 10, 2023

Although, an emerging presence in the development space is hand and eye tracking. AR/VR/MR headsets are increasingly equipped with hand and eye tracking technology. Previously, commercial XR devices like the Meta Quest had experimented with hand-tracking features which improved as the device matured.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 25, 2020

But the greatest feature is that finally Oculus is accepting hands-tracked applications in the Oculus Store from the 28th of this month! People are engaged in the device and this means that they buy games, making the Oculus Store a profitable platform for developers. They are all very interesting to be read.

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VRScout

APRIL 1, 2020

Brain-computer interface systems like Neurable’s VR game Awakening uses an electrode-laden headband, connected to an HTC Vive HMD, to track brain activity. The software analyzes the data to figure out what should be happening in a game. Brain-Computer Interfaces.

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