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Minor spoilers ahead for Vader Immortal: Episode II. When ILMxLAB released Vader Immortal: Episode I on the Oculus headset, fans of the Star Wars franchise and VR fans celebrated by downloading the experience. The game quickly became one of the top-selling g…

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Facebook is creating an immersive environment called Horizon to tempt people into spending more time in virtual reality. The VR app will be a mix of social places where users can mingle and chat, and other areas where they can play games against each other. P…

0 with 0 posters participating SAN JOSE, Calif.Oculus is clearly bullish on its wireless VR system, the Oculus Quest, which means this week's Oculus Connect conference is chock full of the $400 headsets. The biggest queues at the show, unsurprisingly, have b…

Oculus VR and its parent company Facebook have not yet released the defining social experience for virtual reality. And you might think that is a bit weird for one of the world’s biggest social media companies, and one of its major executives agrees with you.…

Two phrases. The first: "It's no longer a question of 'if,' but a matter of 'when.'" That was the all-caps message that flashed across the giant screens at San Jose Convention Center yesterday before Mark Zuckerberg walked onstage to kick of Oculus Connect 6…

The second day of Oculus Connect for the last couple of years has started the same way, with Oculus CTO and gaming legend John Carmack getting on stage and delivering what feels like a stream of consciousness on the state of VR. This year, however, Carmack to…

On October 18, Nintendo will finally fill a Wii Fit-shaped hole in its product line. The Ring Fit is a kind of spiritual accessor to the numerous fitness titles that helped make the Wiis motion controls such a massive, demographic spanning success. But the la…

If you watch the trailer for Ring Fit Adventure for the Nintendo Switch, it looks silly. A bunch of people around the world making idiots of themselves with the help of a giant flexible ring with a Joy-Con in it. A Ring-Con, if you will. On their left thigh i…

During the opening minutes of Stormland, I kept an eye out for any sort of video artifacting and frame rate slowdowns. But all I saw was a gorgeously constructed virtual jungle and the arms of my injured robot. Walking around the environment and moving my vir…