VR Arcade Startup Hologate is Going Big This Year with Its First Large-format Facility
Last year saw the location-based entertainment industry grind to a halt, however now it seems there may be light at the end of the tunnel for at least one VR arcade startup. HOLOGATE, the Germany-based company creating VR arcade tech, announced it’s betting big this year with the launch of its first large-format facility. Called […]

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‘Rec Room’ Studio Estimates Facebook Sold 2-3M Oculus Quest 2 Headsets in Q4
Rec Room isn’t just one of the best free social VR apps out there. In the absence of hard sales data, it makes for an excellent watermark for how things are moving in the industry. Now, according to Rec Room’s downloads on Quest 2, the developers estimate that Facebook has potentially sold upwards of three million Quest […]

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‘MultiBrush’ is a Multiplayer Version of ‘Tilt Brush’ for Oculus Quest
It’s been about a week since Google announced it had stopped active development on VR creation suite Tilt Brush (2016) and made the app open source. Now that it’s in the hands of the developer community, we’ve seen Tilt Brush clones aplenty, however SideQuest app MultiBrush gives it something we always hoped it would have: multiplayer mode on Quest. […]

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Vertigo Games Acquires VR Arcade Game Distribution Platform SpringboardVR
Vertigo Games, the studio behind Arizona Sunshine (2017) and upcoming VR shooter After the Fall, today announced that it has acquired SpringboardVR, creators of the eponymous location-based VR content distribution platform. The acquisition amount was undisclosed, however the move is slated to see several members of the SpringboardVR team transfer to Vertigo Games, something the company […]

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World-building Game ‘Winds & Leaves’ to Release on PSVR July 27th
Trebuchet, the Montreal-based studio behind Prison Boss VR (2017), announced its non-linear world-building game Winds & Leaves is coming a little later than its originally estimated Spring 2021 launch window, now arriving exclusively on PSVR July 27th. The studio also released a new gameplay video to tide us over. Update (June 3rd, 2021): As a part of PlayStation’s […]

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Facebook Messenger Comes to Oculus Quest in New Update
Facebook announced that the v25 software update for its Quest platform is set to include Facebook Messenger, which will be available to anyone who is logged into their Facebook account on either Quest or Quest 2. This will allow users to chat with Facebook friends who own any device with Messenger. The company says in […]

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Parkour-shooter ‘STRIDE’ Delayed on PSVR to “late 2021”
The high-flying shooter STRIDE (2020) from developer Joy Way is making its way to PSVR this year, however it’s coming a bit later than the anticipated ‘early 2021’ release window. Update (March 30th, 2021): Joy Way announced via Reddit that its PSVR version of STRIDE is going to be delayed until late 2021. Here’s the full statement: – […]

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This Developer’s VR Vacuuming Game Gives a Peek into the Future of Gamified Chores
Completing your weekly chores can be an absolute drag, but doing repetitive tasks like vacuuming the house might not always be so boring when VR and AR come into the mix. Reddit user ‘VoxelGuy‘ showcases a novel idea with a VR prototype vacuuming minigame built around a 1:1 virtual representation of his living room, which […]

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Magic Leap 2 Early Access Launch Confirmed for Q4 2021, General Availability in 2022
Magic Leap is getting ready to ship out its so-called ‘Magic Leap 2’ AR headset at the end of this year, which will be done via an early adopter program. Update (April 21st, 2021): Speaking to Protocol, Magic Leap CEO Peggy Johnson reconfirmed that the company’s next-gen follow-up, officially named Magic Leap 2, is headed to […]

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‘Tilt Brush’ Derivative Apps Come to PC VR & Quest Mere Hours After Google Open Sources
Google’s VR art creation app Tilt Brush isn’t free, but the company made it open source a few days ago after announcing it has stopped active development, so it was only a matter of time before independent developers got under the hood to publish their own Tilt Brush-derived apps. Now you can play around with […]

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