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[ad_1] Photo: Amazon Studios All four films forge new ground by putting new kinds of characters in familiar horror situations One year ago, horror-centric studio Blumhouse Productions launched a new movie-anthology series for the Halloween season, releasing four...

[ad_1] One of VR’s most popular titles, Beat Saber, launched a multiplayer update one year ago today. While the Facebook-owned studio behind the game said it hoped to launch multiplayer simultaneously on all platforms, a delay to the mode on PSVR has...

[ad_1] Image: Dreamworks The show jumps into the modern era in a surprising twist The How to Train Your Dragon franchise will return with a new sequel series: How to Train Your Dragon: The Nine Realms. Except this time, there is a twist. The new series from...

[ad_1] After a nearly two-year delay, Lone Echo II is finally here to bring us full circle on Jack & Liv’s story. Was it worth the wait? Read on to find out. Lone Echo II Details: Available On: Oculus PC Release Date: October 12th, 2021 Price: $40...

[ad_1] Image: Paramount Pictures The sequel-ish rebooty horror movie arrives in January The Scream franchise is back with its most meta horror-parody yet. In the first trailer for Scream 5, or technically just Scream, the franchise is caught halfway between a sequel...

[ad_1] Magic Leap today announced that it has raised $500 million in new capital at a $2 billion valuation. This comes ahead of the launch of its upcoming AR headset, Magic Leap 2, which it promises will be smaller, lighter, and tuned to be an “all day”...

[ad_1] Ian Fleming never imagined it, but the precedence of Casino Royale and Skyfall demanded it [Ed. note: This story contains major spoilers for No Time to Die.] No Time to Die is a curious name for a movie in which James Bond has all the time in the world to do...

[ad_1] Horizon, Facebook’s social VR space built around user-generated content, was announced more than two years ago, but the company still isn’t quite ready to send it out the door. Instead, Facebook this week announced it is rebranding the project as...

[ad_1] Image: Warner Bros. Pictures Looking back at the underestimated 2005 occult noir An Angel City taxi cab delivers John Constantine to his afternoon exorcism. As Constantine gets to work, fighting to free a girl from the demon inside her, he realizes this isn’t...

[ad_1] Tinker Pilot has been in the works for a few years now, aiming to deliver a PC VR simulator experience that lets players build their own sci-fi cockpit and outfit it with 1:1 digital counterparts of things like HOTAS flight sticks, pedals, joysticks and more....

[ad_1] Image: Maxis/Electronic Arts Which packs should you invest in? The Sims 4 has lots of downloadable content in the forms of Expansion Packs, Game Packs, Stuff Packs, and more recently, Kits. These are all paid packages that add a plethora of new content to the...

[ad_1] Swordsman (2020), the physics-based combat sim for PSVR and PC VR headsets, is bringing its bloody sandbox battles to Oculus Quest at some point next year. Developers Sinn Studio announced in a recent tweet that Swordsman is slated to arrive on Oculus App Lab...

[ad_1] Photo: Eric Lang/Twitter A celebration of the ugly yellow hunk of plastic that was the Diana Jones Award The Diana Jones Award trophy, one of tabletop gaming’s most prized objects, has gone missing and is feared lost. After changing hands for more than 20...

[ad_1] Facebook Connect is certainly the marquee VR event this month, but it looks like other companies are hoping to steal a bit of the spotlight. First HTC teased an upcoming product to be revealed next week, and now high-end headset marker Varjo says it plans to...

[ad_1] Image: Microsoft Coming Nov. 15, along with a matching headset A new Xbox controller celebrating the 20th anniversary of the company’s Xbox game console is on the way, Microsoft announced Thursday. The controller has a translucent face — so you can see some of...

[ad_1] Canon, one of the world’s leading camera makers, today introduced a new dual-optic lens which captures 180° stereoscopic views through a single sensor on the company’s high-end EOS R5 camera. Canon today announced what it calls the EOS VR System...

[ad_1] Graphic: James Bareham/Polygon A full month of streaming recommendations, from horror movies to Halloween specials and weird videos Halloween is, sincerely, one of best times of the year. There’s candy, there are costumes, and maybe most importantly, everyone...

[ad_1] French startup Lynx today launched the long-awaited Kickstarter campaign for Lynx R-1, a standalone headset capable of both VR and passthrough AR. It’s looking to grab some eyeballs too with more of a consumer-focused price, starting at $615 (€530). Lynx...

[ad_1] Image: Nintendo/Twitch Look out, Mario Super Smash Bros. Ultimate game director Masahiro Sakurai not only revealed the game’s last DLC fighter on Tuesday, he also announced a batch of new Mii Fighters. That includes the addition of Doom’s Doom Slayer and...

[ad_1] HTC recently said that it will host an online Vive event next week, but has only teased minimal hints about what it plans to announce. Regulatory filings spotted by Road to VR suggest a new standalone HTC Vive headset will be revealed. It’s been less than...

[ad_1] Image: Superbrothers/Pine Scented An awe-inspiring odyssey I don’t function well under pressure. So when my parents and teachers told me that I’m the last hope of my people, I was prepared to be pretty stressed about the next steps. Then, a couple of hours...

[ad_1] HTC is gearing up to hold what seems to be a new product unveiling on October 14th, or just ahead of Facebook Connect on the 28th of that month. The company says we’ll be hearing about some “big news in a small package.” HTC announced the...

[ad_1] Waltz of the Wizard is a spell-casting VR experience that got much deeper with the entrance of the ‘Natural Magic’ expansion on Quest and SteamVR headsets in July, which fundamentally changed the game by bringing a new magic-based combat system and...

[ad_1] Pico Interactive’s next generation headsets—the Pico Neo 3 Pro and 3 Pro Eye—are now shipping to businesses worldwide, and they’re looking to undercut both Oculus and HTC by offering a pretty appealing set of specs at one of the lowest prices...

[ad_1] John Carmack, legendary programmer and key player in the Oculus Rift genesis story, announced recently that he’s won a decisive battle within Facebook to finally release root access to Oculus Go, the 3DOF standalone VR headset launched in 2018. Carmack...

[ad_1] Respawn Entertainment and Oculus today announced that the PC VR game Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond (2020), notably one of the worst-rated Oculus Studio partner titles, is being slimmed down to fit on Oculus Quest 2. Launch is slated for sometime “later...

[ad_1] Back in July Facebook announced that it had spun up a new organization internally to begin building part of the metaverse, a series of interconnected virtual experiences and worlds that the company believes is the next step for human communication and...

[ad_1] Ultrawings is an arcade VR flight sim that’s been on the market since 2017 and has become something of a classic in its own right. Now developer Bit Planet games says it’s “all-in” on the sequel, Ultrawings 2, which is poised to launch...