Echo Combat Flamingo League, a VR esports league featuring Ready At Dawn’s zero-gravity first-person shooter, launches on March 2 amidst much hype from the community as well as sponsors eager to support another competitive league for the game.
Echo Combat was released in November 2018 and featured in the Oculus-sponsored,...
Collegiate VR Esports has expanded to Europe and qualifiers for CVRE Season 1 begin today with teams competing in Beat Saber, a popular action rhythm game title. Students age 13 and up or alumni who have graduated within the previous three years can participate in CVRE Europe individually or...
OhShape (Oculus Quest)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3eOsdkGzyk
One of our favorite fitness games is now available on Oculus Quest. Designed as a video game successor to the show Hole in the Wall, you must go through approaching obstacles by contorting your body into the correct position. A bumping soundtrack keeps up the momentum, and...
A study published by researchers at the University of Vermont suggests that exercise could play a vital role in your mental health. It could even serve as a replacement for antidepressants in certain cases, but could VR fitness also fill this role?
Work out to feel better inside and out
The...
Hole in the Wall was an American television show that originally aired from 2008 to 2009. The show was an adaptation of the Japanese game Nōkabe (脳カベ), meaning "Brain Wall" where players had to contort their bodies to fit through cutouts in a large wall moving towards them....
VR esports fans should draw their weapons and start practicing now for a chance to win some of the $10,000 prize pool in the Virtual Athletics League (VAL) Pistol Whip VR Tournament that will take place over three weekends in March.
Designed from the ground up with VR competitions in...
The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners is a blast to play and get fit in. When you're not bashing your way through hordes of zombies, you're — literally — wading through the murky tension of New Orleans for buried treasure.
There's no doubt that it's a LISS activity. That said,...
Silicon Rising
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZAZmUu1NGQ
A VR cyberpunk game with excellent production values, Silicon Rising is perfect for those who want atmosphere in their shooters. The game features waves of enemies, sniping action, full 360-degree battles, and dual-wielding weapons. There are even driving segments, so you'll need to stay alert at all times...
Finals for the first worldwide VR multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) tournament, the Cradle of Sins Alpha Cup VR Tournament, will be broadcast on Sunday, February 16. Competition kicked off in December with a $10,000 prize pool.
Cradle of Sins is a first-person MOBA game developed specifically for virtual reality...
Augmented reality is one of the coolest technologies to enter the mainstream over the past decade as it mixes the real and virtual worlds together. Games like Pokémon Go have shown just how cool of an experience AR can provide and it has some great fitness uses even though it...
Welcome to Hell.
Saints and Sinners is a very dark game. Skydance Interactive’s grimy take on the Walking Dead might be based on the original comic books rather than AMC’s globally popular show, but it captures the look and feel of the tv series exceptionally well. It’s similarly bleak, depressing,...
Half-Life: Alyx is slated to release in March, and you've only got one month to prepare. Especially if you're a newcomer to virtual reality, you might not be entirely ready to jump right into the action. The main reason for this is that you probably don't have your "VR...
Getting fit in VR doesn't have to be a bore. When you play with enough space around you, you can let yourself loose and 'lean' more into the pace of the action rather than stand in one spot with the rigidity of a mannequin.
The only question is, how much...
Piñata Attack
Want to go to a birthday party with a giant piñata but don’t have any friends? We’re sorry, but you can do so virtually with Piñata Attack! The game puts one player in control of the VR headset as they attack to break a piñata. The other players...
A team of developers at Reality Hack: MIT XR Hackathon recently designed a way to use the immersive environment of virtual reality to help children with dyslexia and dysgraphia.
One of only 350 people chosen to attend this year’s MIT hackathon, Mike McCready, the first President's Applied Research Chair for...
If you've been having fun (and getting in shape) playing PowerBeatsVR but are tired of its song selection, developer Five Mind Creations has a solution. The game's latest update allows you to auto-generate workouts using your own music library. Yes, your dream of turning Limp Bizkit's "Break Stuff" into...
The University of Southern California Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT) is an academic research center that combines creative narrative with advanced immersive techniques such as virtual reality to provide veterans with urgently needed options in the treatment of conditions like post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
Albert “Skip” Rizzo and Arno Hartholt...
Audica (Oculus Quest)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYDbngMmOyo
After previously launching on other platforms, Audica has finally made its way to Oculus Quest. Part shooter and part rhythm game, it’s from the masters of the music game genre at Harmonix. You’ll blast objects in time to the beat, swinging at those that get close and...
Rec Room is still one of the most popular social games in virtual reality. Players love it for all the different things they can do, including create and share their own rooms. We've already written about how to get fit while playing in Rec Room's Rec Royale mode, but...
Last year, publisher Fibrum released a sci-fi shooter called Space Ops VR. Compared against the more established VR shoot'em ups like Onward, Pavlov, or even Firewall Zero Hour, it, well... wasn't great. I suppose the politically correct way of putting it is that it wasn't polished, but that would...