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You can download Nintendo's Dragalia Lost, but you can't play it yet
Venture Beat - 26 Sep 2018 23:54
Nintendo has launched its latest mobile game … sorta. Dragalia Lost is out now on iPhone, and it should hit Google Play soon. But while you can download the game, Nintendo’s servers haven’t gone live. So people are...
What the makers of Final Assault learned with their second VR game
Venture Beat - 26 Sep 2018 23:30
One of my early joys in virtual reality was the HTC Vive’s Final Approach from Phaser Lock Interactive. It put you in the middle of a virtual reality landscape, as if you were standing in a table with miniature toys. Y...
A new exchange gives priority to regulatory compliance and security
Venture Beat - 26 Sep 2018 23:10
SPONSORED: Presented by Blockchain.io It has been a while now since cryptocurrencies and blockchain have been defined as transformative for finance and many more industries. Still, even after so many years since Bitcoin'...
Why Insomniac is making its fourth virtual reality game
Venture Beat - 26 Sep 2018 22:30
The contemporary version of virtual reality has only been around for a few years, but Mike Daly is one of its veterans. As a lead designer at Insomniac Games, Daly has now helped create three of Insomniac’s four VR gam...
Fortnite players can merge their accounts in November
Venture Beat - 26 Sep 2018 21:51
Sony is finally letting Epic fix its split-accounts problem. The PlayStation company announced today that it will enable crossplay, and that means you can enjoy Fortnite on PS4 while playing with your friends on Xbox One...
Nate Mitchell interview -- How Oculus is staying the course in greenlighting VR games
Venture Beat - 26 Sep 2018 21:35
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in 2016 that the social network had invested $250 million in virtual reality apps and games for the Oculus Rift VR headset, and it was going to put a lot more into it. And it’s clear t...
Oculus Connect 5: The big gaming announcements
Venture Beat - 26 Sep 2018 21:20
Oculus Connect 5 focused on the Oculus Quest, the new standalone VR headset that is coming out in spring. But the event still had a few gaming-focused announcements, many of which focused on Quest. Virtual reality is an ...
World of Warcraft Classic demo will be part of BlizzCon Virtual Ticket
Venture Beat - 26 Sep 2018 21:15
Blizzard Entertainment announced today that those who buy a BlizzCon 2018 Virtual Ticket will have access to a demo version of World of Warcraft Classic, which re-creates the popular World of Warcraft as it was before th...
Ready At Dawn Studios will launch Lone Echo II for Oculus Rift in 2019
Venture Beat - 26 Sep 2018 21:05
Ready At Dawn Studios won high praise in 2017 for its Lone Echo and Echo Arena virtual reality games. Now the studio will launch a single-player sequel, Lone Echo II, on the Rift in 2019. The game, announced at the Oculu...
Final Assault hands-on -- Real-time strategy combat in VR, without the boring stuff
Venture Beat - 26 Sep 2018 21:03
Phaser Lock Interactive has created a real-time strategy combat game dubbed Final Assault for the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset. It stands out from other VR RTS games because it skips the boring stuff like building...
Space Junkies hands-on -- Ubisoft's crazy VR arcade space shooter with jetpacks
Venture Beat - 26 Sep 2018 21:02
PREVIEW: Space Junkies is Ubisoft’s arcade shooter about flying around space in virtual reality, zooming about in orbital arenas with a jetpack and shooting your friends. While Ready At Dawn’s Echo Combat is a realis...
Stormland hands-on: Giving you the freedom to soar through the skies in VR
Venture Beat - 26 Sep 2018 21:01
PREVIEW: In Stormland, you are an android gardener who traveled to an exotic alien planet to help settle it. But when you get there, you find that the malevolent organization called the Tempest followed you. It killed th...
Vox Machinae takes giant robot multiplayer combat into VR
Venture Beat - 26 Sep 2018 21:00
If you like the sound of clanking metal in your virtual reality games, then Vox Machinae just might be your thing. The VR game for the Oculus Rift was very noisy when I tried it out at a recent Oculus event, and develope...
Oculus chief scientist Mike Abrash still sees the rosy future through AR/VR glasses
Venture Beat - 26 Sep 2018 20:50
Oculus VR chief scientist Mike Abrash has been one of Facebook’s best advocates for motivating developers to commit themselves to virtual reality. At his keynotes, he tries to inspire people to do the hard work necessa...
Vader Immortal Episode I will come to Oculus Quest
Venture Beat - 26 Sep 2018 20:26
We saw a bevy of announcements came out of Facebook’s Oculus Connect 5 conference today, but one of the most exciting might have been from Industrial Light and Magic. It took the wraps off Vader Immortal: A Star Wars V...
Facebook shows off Oculus Home improvements and Hybrid Apps
Venture Beat - 26 Sep 2018 20:08
This year’s Oculus developer conference — Oculus Connect 5 — was chock full of hardware, software, and games announcements, including foveated rendering, visual improvements, and YouTube VR; casting on Oculus Go; a...
Google confirms Dragonfly project in Senate hearing, dodges questions on China plans
Venture Beat - 26 Sep 2018 20:05
During a Wednesday Senate hearing, Google’s chief privacy officer Keith Enright confirmed that the company has a project codenamed Dragonfly — reported to be a censored search engine that’s being prepared to launch...
Oculus Go gets foveated rendering, visual improvements, and YouTube VR
Venture Beat - 26 Sep 2018 19:56
Alongside other announcements today at its Connect 5 event, Facebook-owned virtual reality company Oculus announced a number of new additions to its Oculus Go standalone VR headset: several new visual rendering features ...
Oculus Go is getting casting so you can share your VR experience on mobile, TV
Venture Beat - 26 Sep 2018 19:55
Facebook announced today that virtual reality users will be able to do “casting,” or sharing their VR experiences on the Oculus Go on a mobile device or, eventually, the television. Your friends will be able to see w...
Uber launches Jump electric bike charging stations as part of sustainable mobility push
Venture Beat - 26 Sep 2018 19:30
Uber has announced plans to roll out public charging stations for its dockless electric bikes, a move that constitutes part of a broader alignment with a “sustainable mobility” campaign. Alongside this news, the comp...
Oculus Santa Cruz is Quest, will offer standalone VR in spring for $399
Venture Beat - 26 Sep 2018 19:15
After teases and public demonstrations, Oculus is finally ready to make its third virtual reality headset — previously codenamed Project Santa Cruz — official. Renamed Oculus Quest, it was originally revealed in 2016...
Pimax continues to struggle with 8K VR headset, offers 5K Plus instead
Venture Beat - 26 Sep 2018 18:45
Chinese virtual reality company Pimax made headlines with a Kickstarter campaign to fund development of an “8K” VR headset, but has continued to struggle through the final stages of finalizing and manufacturing the d...