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Anticipated VR Adventure ‘Behemoth’ Delayed Until Late 2024

Skydance Interactive, the studio behind The Walking Dead: Saints and Sinners, revealed their next VR game Behemoth is being delayed by a year, now slated to arrive on all major headsets in late 2024. The studio confirmed the delay with UploadVR, also noting that the game now has a new name: Skydance’s Behemoth. First revealed at Meta Connect 2022 […]

Road to VR & Scott Hayden

9. Oktober 2023

Apple’s Approach to Immersive VR on Vision Pro is Smarter Than it Seems—And Likely to Stick

One of the most interesting things about Vision Pro is the way Apple is positioning its fully immersive capabilities. While many have interpreted the company’s actions as relegating VR to an afterthought, the reality is much more considered. Vision Pro is somewhat ironic. It’s an incredibly powerful and capable VR headset, but Apple has done […]

Road to VR & Ben Lang

6. Oktober 2023

The Biggest Announcements at Meta Connect and What it All Means for the Future of XR

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg wearing Quest 3 | Image courtesy Meta

Meta Connect 2023 has wrapped up, bringing with it a deluge of info from one of the XR industry’s biggest players. Here’s a look at the biggest announcements from Connect 2023, but more importantly, what it all means for the future of XR. Last week marked the 10th annual Connect conference, and the first Connect […]

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A New Category of VR Game is Slowly Emerging Right Before Our Eyes

The much lauded Echo VR might no longer be with us, but one of its innovations is living on in a new wave of VR games. Update (March 12th, 2024): Added more games to document the growing trend of arm-locomotion in VR games. In the Beginning Echo VR (and its single-player counterpart, Lone Echo) were among […]

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5. Oktober 2023

Top VR Melee Fighting Game ‘Blade & Sorcery’ in “final stretch” to Huge 1.0 Update

Blade & Sorcery, the hit physics-based combat sandbox, is in its “final stretch” towards releasing its 1.0 update, which is coming with its ‘Crystal Hunt’ story-based mode. Update (May 8th, 2024): The studio says in a Steam news update that its in “full polish and bugfix mode,” calling it “the final stretch” to releasing what amounts to […]

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Road to VR & Scott Hayden

Valve Hires Creator Behind Popular ‘Half-Life: Alyx’ Mod

Half-Life: Alyx Incursion mod | Image courtesy Nate Grove

Like many of Valve’s best titles, Half-Life: Alyx (2020) is a lot more moddable than your average game, which for PC VR headset owners means hundreds of new modes, missions, and mini-games. Now one of the HLA’s most talented modders announced they’ve been snapped up by Valve. Nate Grove was responsible for two of the best HLA campaign-style […]

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3. Oktober 2023

Former Oculus CTO “unconvinced” Mixed Reality Apps Will Sell Headsets (like Quest 3)

Less than 48 hours after Meta fully unveiled Quest 3, John Carmack, legendary programmer and former CTO of Oculus, expressed doubts about mixed reality’s ability to increase headset sales. Carmack departed Meta late last year, concluding what he called at the time his “decade in VR.” Still, it’s clear the key cohort in Oculus’ genesis […]

Road to VR & Scott Hayden

2. Oktober 2023

Early Bigscreen Beyond Pre-orders Slip into Q4 Delivery Window

Bigscreen announced its thin and light PC VR headset, Bigscreen Beyond, is facing delays in production, which the company says will see shipping dates for initial preorders pushed later into October and November. Bigscreen CEO Darshan Shankar says in a blogpost that manufacturing bottlenecks have led to slower-than-expected production rates, making for what the company calls […]

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New Quest Dev Tools to Add Leg Estimation for More Convincing Avatars

Meta announced that it’s offering new developer tools for Quest headsets to make avatars more realistic. The company also unveiled a Quest 3-exclusive upper body tracking feature that supports a much wider range of body motion. Announced at Connect 2023 late last week, Meta showed off some new features coming both to Quest 3 and […]

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Quest 3 Brings a Big Change to Controller Tracking Coverage

Meta Quest 3 brings with it new ‘Touch Plus’ controllers that do away with the tracking ring that’s been part of the company’s 6DOF consumer VR controllers ever since the original Rift. But that’s not the only change. Editor’s Note: for some clarity in this article (and comments), let’s give some names to all the […]

Road to VR & Ben Lang

29. September 2023