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April 1, 2021
Vankrupt Games’ Pavlov VR has become one of the most successful PC VR shooters since its launch in 2017 and its still in Steam Early Access. It’s been a big week for the studio thanks to the launch of its Oculus Quest compatible version Pavlov Shack Beta launched yesterday for the standalone headset as a free download, allowing 4 vs 4 teams to compete in this realistic shooter. Founder and CEO of Vankrupt Games Dave Villarreal confirmed in a tweet a little later on that the “Player cou...
March 17, 2021
Share Puzzling Places by Realities.io might have been available as a sideloaded Oculus Quest app for a year now but it has been gaining traction of late. After being one of the launch titles for Oculus’ App Lab, today the developer has revealed Puzzling Places is on course for a PlayStation VR launch at the end of the year. Best described as a meditative virtual reality (VR) 3D puzzler, the studio takes photogrammetry scans of beautiful places around the globe and turns them into hyper-real...
March 5, 2021
Share Once an experimental feature, great things were expected of Oculus Quest’s hand tracking yet that’s not really come to pass, with only a handful of titles utilising it. Oculus is trying to encourage more developers to give the feature a go by releasing two of its own projects, First Steps With Hand Tracking and Tiny Castles. First Steps should sound familiar to most Oculus Quest users as the app came supplied with the original headset back in 2019. It helped introduce owners to the ...
March 2, 2021
Best Prebuilt PCs for Oculus Quest 2 and Oculus Link Android Central 2021 The Oculus Quest 2 is the best VR headset you can buy right now. While you can play a lot of VR games natively on the device, theres the option to unlock hundreds of AAA games by connecting it to a PC via the Oculus Link cable. The best part is that you can easily find prebuilt gaming machines that will let you unlock the full potential of your Quest 2. So without further ado, here are the best prebuilt PCs for the Oculus...
February 25, 2021
February 25, 2021 You can now wirelessly stream Half-Life: Alyx, Boneworks, H3VR and other PC VR-only games to Oculus Quest and Quest 2 in Virtual Desktop without sideloading. Developer Guy Godin won full Oculus Quest store approval for the much-loved Virtual Desktop wireless feature for streaming PC-based SteamVR and Rift games. The addition comes more than 20 months after the feature was removed at Facebook’s request, and a couple weeks after submitting the feature to Facebook’s new App L...
February 24, 2021
Might need to be quick, it may not last too long.
February 19, 2021
Snoop Dogg is performing his DJ set on Oculus Venues. The set is part of a Black History Month collection celebrating Black creatives. The set will be live on February 19th at 6 pm PST and will last for approximately one hour. Snoop Dogg and Tidal are teaming up with Oculus to on a live concert featuring a DJ set from the famous rapper. DJ Snoopdelic, as hes known, will perform a one-hour set on the Oculus Venues app. Oculus Venues is a neat experience for Facebooks VR platform that lets you wa...
February 18, 2021
Source: Oculus With the v25 Quest 2 update, Oculus added App Lab, a new way for developers to sell beta experiences through the Oculus Store so users can access these apps without sideloading or developer access. Lowering the hurdles for the Quest Store allows smaller studios or indie devs to launch demos, pre-releases, or full paid experiences without meeting Facebooks rigorous quality standards. Quest 2 App Lab games arent visibly listed on the Oculus Store, so well explain all the different ...
February 18, 2021
65 unique levels: Car Parking Simulator In this dynamic car simulator, youll drive an SUV, Sedan, Hatchback, or even an F1 car for some reason, as you navigate bizarre obstacles and terrain, and try to park your car with as few crashes as possible. Theres also a City Mode with moving traffic and a Free Roam mode for exploring.$10 at Oculus Store Raft VR: OceanCraft Stranded in the middle of nowhere on a tiny raft, youll slowly build it into a floating home while fishing and growing plants to ...
February 17, 2021
Share There are plenty of puzzle videogames for virtual reality (VR) headsets yet few offer the classic jigsaw experience. realities.io’s Puzzling Places is one such title to offer this style of gameplay, just with 3D models of real places. Today, the studio has announced the latest update for its beta app, refining the experience whilst adding several new puzzles for free. Puzzling Places has been available via SideQuest for almost a year now, providing a free prototype of one 3D jigsaw –...