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[ad_1] Image: New Line Cinema Journey through our Year of the Ring series The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring debuted around the world on Dec. 19, 2001. And over the last 20 years, the trilogy, adapted from J.R.R. Tolkien’s sprawling work by Peter...

[ad_1] Earlier this year Meta announced the acquisition of Within, the studio behind the VR fitness app Supernatural. While the price of the acquisition wasn’t disclosed, a report this week claims Meta hoped to pay $400 million for the studio but the deal may...

[ad_1] Image: Lionsgate Santa got you a bag of cinema It’s holiday movie season and every year there seems to be a deluge of new Christmas films coming from Hallmark and Netflix. But for many of us, it’s also the time of year to visit some classic favorites like It’s...

[ad_1] Social VR hangout app Bigscreen just got a bunch of improvements in a new update available now. The update brings a range of enhancements across all supported headsets, including boosting room size to 15 people. Bigscreen is a social VR hangout app that lets...

[ad_1] Image: Sony Pictures Spider-Man, Spider-Man, many villains in Spider-Man Spider-Man: No Way Home is officially in theaters and yes — it really does have all those villains from the trailer. Green Goblin, Doc Ock, Electro, the Lizard, and Sandman are back, and...

[ad_1] So you’ve got your greasy mitts on a Meta Quest 2, and you’re wondering what to buy after you’ve exhausted all of the best free games and experiences available on the standalone headset. Whether you’re into active games, puzzles, or just...

[ad_1] Image: Lionsgate From cannibalistic coming of age stories to superhero family dramas What’s the best movie I can watch on Netflix? We’ve all asked ourselves the question, only to spend the next 15 minutes scrolling through the streaming service’s oddly specific...

[ad_1] Japanese startup Diver-X has finally launched its Kickstarter for HalfDive, a unique VR headset that’s designed to be used while laying down, drawing some pretty clear inspiration from hit anime Sword Art Online. HalfDive isn’t a brain-computer...

[ad_1] Warner Bros. Pictures Maybe popcorn movies need Affleck more than he needs them At least one Batman plans on hanging up his cowl. Ben Affleck, in an interview with The Playlist, didn’t specifically mention his role as the Caped Crusader, but spoke broadly about...

[ad_1] Developers looking for a unique Linux-based workstation may be interested to hear that SimulaVR, the startup behind its own open-source VR Linux distro, is creating a standalone VR headset that aims to offer just that. Dubbed ‘Simula One’, the...

[ad_1] Photo: Peter Kramer/HBO Two very different shows approach the same dark emptiness This was supposed to be a season of growth for Tim Heidecker on On Cinema at the Cinema. With subscriptions funded by the HEI Network, and supported by his loving wife Toni,...

[ad_1] Following an initial announcement eight months ago, Meta has released its latest avatar system for all Unity VR developers, including support for App Lab titles and limited support for non-Oculus platforms like SteamVR. Update (December 13th, 2021): Meta today...

[ad_1] Photo Credit: A24 The Florida Project’s director is back with an incredible feel-bad comedy When Mikey Saber (Simon Rex) arrives in Texas in the opening moments of Red Rocket, he’s immediately ordered to leave. “You said you weren’t gonna step your foot in...

[ad_1] Oculus Link and Oculus Air Link allows you to use your Quest or Quest 2 to play PC VR games, opening up a world of high quality content that you simply won’t find on the Quest Store. Here’s a breakdown of the Oculus Link and Air Link recommended...

[ad_1] Graeme Hunter All the money in the world can’t buy friendship Actor Jeremy Strong is having a week that his Succession character Kendall Roy could only dream about. And only part of it has to do with what happened on the season 3 finale, ‘All the Bells Say,”...

[ad_1] Meta today announced it’s updating a bug bounty program for its hardware products, something intended to reward anyone outside of the company who reports security vulnerabilities. With some new payout guidelines in place, Meta is ostensibly aiming to...

[ad_1] GEOFFREY SHORT/NETFLIX Can a show get a chance to be good in 2021? Netflix’s cancelation of it’s live-action Cowboy Bebop reflects a company following the data. While the show, which was first announced back in 2018, opened with a bang on the service’s top 10,...

[ad_1] VR is finding uses in everything from art and design to training, research, and entertainment. An unexpected byproduct of VR’s immersion is its ability to flip the notion of in-home entertainment being necessarily sedentary. With the right games and...

[ad_1] Image: Amazon Prime Video Not everything can be Spielberg Every morning, Malik Khan (Riz Ahmed) wakes up, checks his eyes for blemishes, then sprays his entire body with bug spray. The earth has been invaded by parasitic microscopic organisms from space, and...

[ad_1] HTC is opening a non-fungible token (NFT) store soon that its says will host all forms of digital art, including AR, VR, and XR pieces. The store, which will open on December 17th, is set to first offer NFTs featuring the works of Art Nouveau artist Alphonse...

[ad_1] Image: Warner Bros. Watch Neo enter the Matrix New footage of The Matrix Resurrections debuted at this year’s The Game Awards — and it packs a whole lot into just one minute. Introduced by Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss, the clip shows Neo (Reeves) following...

[ad_1] Nearly two and a half years in the making, Meta’s most ambitious social VR project, Horizon Worlds, has finally reached open beta. Well kinda. Starting today, the platform is available to those in the US & Canada who are 18 years old or older—on Quest...

[ad_1] Image: Warner Bros. Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, and Rupert Grint reunite Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, and Rupert Grint are back together in the Gryffindor common room for the first time in years in a new look at HBO Max’s upcoming Harry Potter reunion...

[ad_1] After the Fall is a four-player co-op shooter that, like Valve’s Left 4 Dead series, pits you against hordes of zombies across a handful of linear levels, all of which are characteristically dotted with safehouses. After the Fall modifies this familiar...

[ad_1] Image: id Software/Bethesda Softworks While you partied, he studied the gun Kommander Karl is a TikTok creator who aims to teach his followers about animation and games. And some of his TikToks recently went viral, as gamers realized he has a long-running...

[ad_1] The Matrix Resurrections, the fourth installment in the famed series, is set to debut on December 22nd. Later this week the film will get a tie-in game experienced based on Unreal Engine 5, but it won’t be available in VR and that’s a terrible...

[ad_1] Image: Netflix From Attack on Titan director Tetsurô Araki and an all-star team of creators Screenwriter Gen Urobuchi has a strange way of explaining his script for Netflix’s new original anime feature Bubble: “I thought about playing around with a typical...

[ad_1] Fixing up an old tower without tools sounds tough, but much less so when you have an army of robotic clones at your disposal. That’s the idea at least behind The Last Clockwinder, a VR automation game from Pontoco which is slated to hit Quest 2 and...

[ad_1] It’s time for the next DC reimagining Despite being one of the most infamous comic book movies of all time, Halle Berry wants another crack at Catwoman. Except this time, she also wants to sit in the director’s chair. Coming off her directorial debut, the...

[ad_1] Fruit Ninja VR (2016) is a quintessential game for novice VR players thanks to its simple and clear-cut task: slice up flying fruit in VR using your own two hands and rack up the points. Now developer Halfbrick Studios has released Fruit Ninja VR 2 on Steam...

[ad_1] Miles, Gwen, and a new face swing into the multiverse It’s been a big couple of months for Spider-Man and multiverses. Dr. Strange introduced Tom Holland’s Peter Parker to countless other realities in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and now the animated...

[ad_1] Propagation VR (2020), the short VR survival horror game launched on PC VR headsets last year, is getting a sequel called Propagation: Paradise Hotel. During Upload VR’s showcase, developer WanadevStudio unveiled the upcoming sequel, which promises to be...

[ad_1] Image: Sledgehammer Games/Activision Warzone and Zombies are getting a few changes too Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War’s final multiplayer season is coming to a close and its latest patch will pave the way for Call of Duty: Vanguard to take over. Vanguard’s...

[ad_1] With a growing number of affordable next-gen PC-compatible headsets like Quest 2 and HP Reverb G2, there’s more reason than ever to finally jump into VR. For the gamers out there who are beginning to consider purchasing a PC VR headset, one major question...

[ad_1] Image: DICE/Electronic Arts An unwelcome visit from Father Christmas Battlefield 2042 players, many of them already annoyed by the direction and current state of Electronic Arts and DICE’s new game, seemed none too happy to see Santa Claus — or rather a...