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How (and why) to Sideload Games on Quest with SideQuest

There’s are plenty of great apps on the Quest Store, but did you know you can download games, experiences, and useful tools from an entirely different library? With SideQuest, you can expand your horizons with unofficial mods, tools, and indie gems of all sorts, both paid and free. Find out how (and why) with this […]

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29. April 2021

There’s Now a Fully-functional Commodore 64 Emulator for Oculus Quest

Commodore 64, the iconic 8-bit computer from the early ’80s, was one of the first home computers for many people back in the day. Its ability to run basic games, office productivity software, and development tools made it one of the highest-selling single home PCs of all time. And now you can experience all of its […]

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22 Great VR Games for Relaxation & Meditation on Quest, PC VR, and PSVR 2

Nature Relaxation Ocean Rift (Quest, PC VR) – $10 Ocean Rift is like an aquarium where you get to swim around with the fish. You’ll get to see lovingly animated sea creatures up close and you might even learn a thing or two with more than 40 narrated points of interest to find. And if you’re […]

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28. April 2021

Bandai Namco Partners with HTC to Bring Anime Content to Viveport

HTC announced it’s partnering with Bandai Namco Pictures, the animation studio and production company, to ostensibly bring a number of its properties to Viveport, HTC’s VR app store and subscription service. It’s not clear in what capacity Bandai Namco’s anime will arrive on Viveport, however the company says its going to roll out “new immersive […]

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HTC Partners with iFixit to Offer Parts & DIY Repair Guides for Older Vive Headsets

HTC has made the pro-consumer move of partnering with popular DIY repair website iFixit to offer replacement parts, repair guides, and more for out-of-warranty headsets. The move contrasts with one of the company’s major competitors, Oculus, which has opted to quickly discontinue older headsets with little recourse for out-of-warranty DIY repairs. HTC announced this week […]

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Campfire Raises $8 Million for MR Headset System Aimed at Product Design & Collaboration

Campfire, a San Mateo, California based startup, emerged from stealth today announcing that it has raised $8 million in venture capital to launch an integrated hardware and software platform aimed at making remote product design and collaboration easy. The platform includes an MR headset (capable of both AR and VR), a tracking device, an accessory […]

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‘AGAINST’ Preview – Crime Fighting Cardio Fit for Batman

Joy Way, the developers of VR parkour-shooter STRIDE, released a free demo today on Steam for its upcoming rhythm game, AGAINST. It’s a strong start; it does an interesting job of mashing up familiar VR rhythm mechanics, tosses in some super hero-style jumps, and soaks it all in spurts of blood. The studio is billing […]

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27. April 2021

You Can Now Sideload Oculus Quest Apps with Your Phone – No PC Required

Oculus App Lab, Facebook’s unmoderated app outlet, has largely stolen the thunder from the unofficial Quest app store SideQuest over the past few months. This is largely due to the ease of use that App Lab offers over SideQuest, the latter of which required you to install a PC-based program to install apps. Now SideQuest […]

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Oculus Begins Rolling Out New Avatars, Eventually Headed to Facebook, Messenger, & Instagram

Facebook is rolling out its latest avatars, Oculus Avatars 2.0, which it hopes will finally unify virtual identify across Oculus applications and Facebook products. In addition to becoming the default avatars for Facebook Horizon and being optionally integrated into Oculus games, Facebook also teased that the new avatars will eventually find their way to the Facebook […]

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VR Dungeon Crawler ‘Ancient Dungeon’ Coming “in a few months”

Ancient Dungeon is a rogue-lite dungeon crawler that found success on Kickstarter last year. It’s aiming for launch sometime “soon,” developer Eric Thullen says, arriving on both SteamVR headsets and Oculus Quest in early access. In a Kickstarter update, Thullen says its latest version (b0.9) is the last substantial update before its early access release, something which […]

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23. April 2021