‘POPULATION: ONE’ Gets Medieval in ‘Kingdom Age’ Event, Starting August 5th
POPULATION: ONE (2020) is getting some fresh content starting this week that aims to bring a medieval twist to the battle royale shooter. Called ‘Kingdom Age’, the two month-long event is slated to kick off August 5th, and will include four “big events” which will feature new areas to explore and rewards to win. There’s still […]

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2. August 2021
Oculus Head of Developer Relations Leaves for Niantic as it Ramps up Lightship AR Platform
Niantic announced today that long-time Oculus employee Dan Morris, Head of Developer Relations, is joining as the company’s new Director of Developer Relations as Niantic ramps up its Lightship AR platform, which aims to bring to third-party developers the same ‘world scale’ tech that enables Pokémon Go. Dan Morris has been at Oculus since 2015, spending […]

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‘Carrier Command 2 VR’ Release Date Set for August 10th
Carrier Command 2, which was confirmed just a few weeks ago to be getting full VR support, is now set to launch on August 10th. Carrier Command 2 is a PC-based reboot of the now 33 year-old Carrier Command which crosses elements of vehicle simulation with real-time strategy. Instead of just interacting through a simple UI, Carrier Command 2 is played […]

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‘Moss: Book II’ Will Be Bigger Than the Original, Introduce New Progression & Interactions
Moss: Book II, a direct sequel to the lauded original, was finally announced earlier this month. And it hopes to answer what was perhaps the original game’s biggest problem: it was too short! In an interview with the game’s Design Director, Josh Stiksma, we learned that, this time around, the second ‘book’ in the series is set […]

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30. Juli 2021
Social VR Platform ‘ENGAGE’ Generated Over $1.4M in Revenue in First Half of 2021
VR Education, the virtual reality software firm behind ENGAGE, has reported a significant uptick in revenue generated by the social VR platform so far this year, with revenue from Engage in 2021 nearly doubling over the same period last year. The Waterford, Ireland-based company has created a number of bespoke educational experiences over the years alongside […]

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nDreams Opening Second VR Studio Focused on Live-service Games
nDreams, the studio behind Phantom: Covert Ops (2020) and the upcoming PSVR exclusive Fracked, announced today it’s opening a second VR development studio called nDreams Studio Orbital, which will focus on creating games as a service for VR. nDreams Studio Orbital will be headed by Chris White, who previously worked as a senior product manager at FitXR, […]

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29. Juli 2021
Varjo XR-3 Hands-on: Varjo’s Headsets Keep Getting Better, Even as They Get Cheaper
By now it can be said that Varjo is making the world’s most high-end VR headsets, and not just because they’re slapping on a hefty price-tag. With a core premise of ‘retina resolution’ that really delivers, Varjo’s headsets keep getting better even as they’re getting cheaper. Their visual performance offers an early glimpse of what […]

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‘Garry’s Mod’ Sequel ‘s&box’ Gets VR Interface Foundation & Destruction Physics
S&box is an in-development sandbox game/engine designed as a sequel to the legendary Garry’s Mod (2006), a game that turned Valve’s Source Engine into a multiplayer playground and content creation tool which has spawned games, memes, and machinima. In the latest s&box development update the studio revealed the latest additions to the software’s VR support. Update (December […]

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Facebook Creates New Internal Organization to Build “the Metaverse”
Facebook Reality Labs, the company’s AR/VR research and development team, announced the creation of a special product group focused on developing its future vision for “the Metaverse.” Apparently Facebook is betting big on the idea too, as it hopes in the near future to be viewed more as “a metaverse company” than a social network. […]

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28. Juli 2021
Oculus is “All in on OpenXR,” New Developer Features Will Come to OpenXR Only
Oculus is making hard shift away from its proprietary developer APIs in favor of OpenXR, an industry-backed project that aims to standardize the development of VR and AR applications. As of the latest SDK update, the company says OpenXR will become “the preferred API for all new applications going forward.” Oculus announced this month that […]

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