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[ad_1] Google is shaking things up with the reorganization of its AR/VR efforts, Project Starline, and Area 120 in-house incubator, dubbing the internal team ‘Google Labs’. As first reported by TechCrunch, Google is shifting a few of its notable...

[ad_1] Image: Marvel Studios Kaz and Ryan Firpo discuss writing a superhero movie in the ‘grey area’ Kaz and Ryan Firpo found the perfect collaborator in Eternals director Chloé Zhao. While the cousin screenwriting pair had a combined background in documentary film...

[ad_1] Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Tempestfall, Carbon Studio’s upcoming action-adventure game, just got an extended gameplay video to show off some of its combat, puzzles, and rich environments before its November 17th release on PC VR headsets. Carbon Studio says...

[ad_1] Photo: David Lee/Netflix Jeymes Samuel on Westerns vs. sci-fi, turning reggae into Old West music, and miracles on the set After two minutes of talking to writer-director Jeymes Samuel, his Netflix Western The Harder They Fall suddenly makes much more sense....

[ad_1] Varjo’s XR-3 headset has perhaps the best passthrough view of any MR headset on the market thanks to color cameras that offer a fairly high resolution and a wide field-of-view. But rather than just using the passthrough view for AR (bringing virtual...

[ad_1] Image: Marvel Sad Wolverine, put down the picture frame and get ready for X-Men ’97 The 1990s nostalgia wave is real, and Wolverine, Cyclops, Jean Grey, Rogue, Gambit, and Jubilee wouldn’t miss it for the world. Announced out of the Disney Plus Day news...

[ad_1] Resolution Games, which has been making VR games since 2016, estimates that the VR industry currently has around 5 million active VR users. In the VR industry it’s hard to find good data on the number of headsets sold, and even harder to find data on the...

[ad_1] Image: Joe Simon, Jack Kirby/Marvel Comics Beat down the Nazis as two of Disney’s biggest Nazi hunters Captain America and Indiana Jones have three things in common: They hate Nazis, they’re owned by Disney, and they both might be coming to Call of Duty:...

[ad_1] Out-of-home VR destination Sandbox VR today announced an additional $37 million funding round that the company is using to support its continued expansion. In addition to its dozen worldwide locations, Sandbox VR says it’s working to nearly doubling that....

[ad_1] Image: Sunrise Steve Blum, Beau Billingslea, Wendee Lee, and Melissa Fahn sound off on the anime When Cowboy Bebop first exploded onto television screens in a flurry of jazz horns and gunfire, it left a deep and lasting impression on a generation of anime fans,...

[ad_1] Resolution Games, a leading developer of XR content, today revealed a new AR division of the company that will focus more directly on the creation of AR content. Today during the Augmented World Expo conference, Resolution Games CEO Tommy Palm announced on...

[ad_1] Image: Q-Games Sony and developer Q-Games strike deal to revive the quirky PS4 cult hit Pixeljunk developer Q-Games is reviving its very weird PlayStation 4 online adventure, The Tomorrow Children, more than four years after the game shut down as part of an...

[ad_1] Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond, first launched on PC VR headsets last year, is coming to Quest 2 next week. Cross-buy is confirmed, meaning players that bought the game on Oculus PC will own the Quest 2 version as well. Oculus today announced that Medal of...

[ad_1] Image: Konami Konami hopes to work this out and put them back on sale shortly Metal Gear Solid 2, Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, and any anthologies containing those games are no longer for sale online because of expired licenses for historical footage used...

[ad_1] At Connect 2021 last week, Meta revealed a new Quest rendering technology called Application Spacewarp which it says can increase the performance of Quest apps by a whopping 70%. While similar to the Asynchronous Spacewarp tech available to Oculus PC apps, Meta...

[ad_1] Photo illustration: James Bareham/Polygon | Source image: THEGINGERB3ARDMEN How Katie Grogg created the purest puzzling community coffCrossword puzzles are so much fun ... until they’re not. For most casual crossword fans, there will eventually come a point...

[ad_1] Deep Rock Galactic is a cult-favorite PC co-op game where teams of up to four players dive into perilous caverns in search of precious minerals while battling hordes of alien bugs along the way. The excellently atmospheric game has been subject to requests for...

[ad_1] Image: IFC Films/Shout! Factory Everything to watch this month on Netflix, Hulu, HBO Max, Shudder, and Criterion Channel Somehow it’s November. Didn’t 2021 just start? The weather is getting chillier, those first bites of frost are beginning to nip at nap of...

[ad_1] Tales from Soda Island, an animated VR series built in Quill, just released its latest free chapter which takes users on another wild and beautiful voyage through a world of pure imagination. Called ‘The School Trip’, chapter five is accessible...

[ad_1] Image: Konami Digital Entertainment/Konami via Steam A 20-year-old franchise backslides into NBA Elite territory Konami’s eFootball launch already blew up on the pad, and now, if possible, matters are even worse. A title update to add the former Pro Evolution...

[ad_1] Blade & Sorcery: Nomad almost feels like a work of digital wizardry, as it brings a standalone version of the hit physics-based combat sandbox exclusively to Quest 2 for the first time. Although it doesn’t feel as visually visceral as its bigger...

[ad_1] Image: Nintendo via Polygon Gyroids and a new camera and Kapp’n, oh my! Surprise! Animal Crossing: New Horizons’ massive 2.0 update got an early release on Wednesday evening. Originally scheduled to be released on Friday, Nov. 5, the New Horizons update went up...

[ad_1] Microsoft is making a strong bid to bolster its version of the metaverse as it looks to roll out 3D avatars and immersive meetings for its Microsoft Teams communication platform. You might define the metaverse as essentially an immersive internet where virtual...

[ad_1] Image: Nintendo via Polygon After being away for a year, I had it coming What is it with cute video games and guilt trips? Ever since my first digital puppy (in Nintendogs on the Nintendo DS) turned her back on me after a few weeks of neglect, I’ve fallen prey...

[ad_1] It seems Quest owners are about to get a healthy dose of new features in the v34 update, something Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg says will bring the previously leaked ‘Space Sense’ Guardian system, push notifications in VR from Android phones, and mixed...

[ad_1] new animal emotes Honk honk For years, Twitch streamers have been pointing their cameras at their pets, their farm animals, and even their bees — broadcasting the lives of animals for hours and hours a day. Now the Amazon-owned streaming service is finally...

[ad_1] A sperate, standalone version of the PC VR combat sandbox Blade & Sorcery is going to bring its physics-based carnage to Quest 2 on November 4th. Blade & Sorcery is widely regarded as the premier combat sandbox for SteamVR headsets, letting players take...

[ad_1] Image: Lilith Walther via YouTube Bloodborne’s retrofication is almost complete After months of developer Lilith Walther sharing updates on Twitter, and years of on-and-off again development, the long awaited PlayStation 1 demake of Bloodborne is finally...

[ad_1] If you’re a PS Plus member, you’ll be able to nab three top PSVR titles for free this November that will have you playing from now until the Holiday season. October was a bit of a bust for PSVR owners, as PS Plus only gave out flatscreen titles Hell...

[ad_1] Warner Bros. A most American nightmare Like a horror-movie villain who just will not die, Stephen King haunts us. We’re in the middle of a King revival in movies and TV. The gold rush for marketable intellectual property has made Hollywood return to the...

[ad_1] Meta (formerly Facebook) today announced its sixth VR studio acquisition. This time it’s Within, the studio behind the popular Quest exclusive VR fitness app Supernatural. Meta announced the acquisition of Within on the Oculus blog saying that the studio...

[ad_1] Image: Metrograph Pictures What it means to be human, and how we know if someone is A doppelgänger is a kind of mirror. Literally, of course that makes sense: The German compound word, first published in a 1796 novel, combines the terms for “double” and...

[ad_1] Meta (formerly Facebook) created quite a stir in the VR industry when it announced last year that it planned to require Facebook account logins for new users. The move didn’t go over well in the VR space or among critics at large. This week the company...