Fourteen-year-old Jason, owner of the Echo Arena team “Milk,” has no idea what he’d like to do when he grows up. Right now he’s more concerned with making it through his freshman year of high school and preparing Milk for the first season of Echo Arena VR Master League.
Jason...
Some time ago I wrote an article on how to create an entire home gym based around the Oculus Quest. The premise was simple; to use a VR headset, and add some basic, and affordable ancillary equipment to create a complete, fully functional home gym setup that could replace...
The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTY4zlP3Mho
The latest game in the always-growing The Walking Dead universe is also one of the most impressive. The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners was built from the ground-up for VR. Set in New Orleans, you must investigate a mystery in the city while avoiding...
Concussions are an issue in nearly every contact sport. This is true not only at the professional level, but also for kids just starting out. To help reduce concussions and inform younger players, TeachAids and Stanford University collaborated to create the CrashCourse VR interactive software. Using the software, young...
While it might be true that the best things in life are free, that isn't typically the case for virtual reality titles. A lot of free games are more like tech demos than fleshed-out experiences and don't have a lot to offer. However, players will still get plenty out...
Slide into your local dungeon and salt the earth with the blood of Tyr's followers, because it's time to delve back into Asgard's Wrath. Like an arrow in the dark, Asgard's Wrath was the top-notch 30+ hour action RPG for the Oculus Rift platform that nobody saw coming late...
In need of the next big sword combat game for your VR device of choice? Metro VR Studios hopes so, as Orion13 is just weeks away and promises to deliver an exhilarating futuristic hack-and-slash experience. A new trailer has been released as we approach its February 13 release date,...
If you're looking to improve your soccer skills, the American retailer Soccer Post may be able to help. It has just entered a partnership with the VR training platform Rezzil, providing players with in-store training technology. You can now improve your game without stepping foot on a pitch.
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Hype is building for Echo Arena VR Master League Season 1, which is set to begin on Monday, February 3.
Teams have been preparing for the highest level of competition and many participated in the Echo Arena VRML pre-season, which took place in late 2019. There were 205 players (including reservists)...
Ashley Riott is a colorful character with a VR origin story as striking as her long pink hair. A freak injury while out running led to her being rendered almost completely immobile, and needing risky spinal surgery. Around this time she discovered virtual reality, a tool she used extensively...
Chinese virtual reality players looking to train their brains in new ways now have a great tool to do so. Enhance VR, a cognitive training tool aimed at improving memory, audio awareness, and more, is now available in the country. Whether you are making use of Oculus Quest or...
“What does wellbeing have to do with virtual reality? Isn’t VR a form of escapism?” I work with mindfulness and VR, and I’ve been asked questions like this many times before. Often, my answers involve some sort of invitation, like “You have to just experience it yourself to find...
The VR Master League (VRML) will kick off the first VR esports competitions of the decade on Monday, January 20 with Downpour Interactive’s Onward and davevillz’ Pavlov.
A community-driven platform the was formed in 2017 by DaKinMan, the VR Master League celebrates its three-year anniversary this month. VRML supports some...
Cloudlands 2 (Steam)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynVyPYudnUU
Available now on Steam after releasing on Oculus Quest over the summer, Cloudlands 2 is not your standard miniature golf game. For one thing, you have a wedge and a driver in addition to your putter! There are 54 holes to play through, mixing standard miniature golf...
Kids love video games, but it is often an inactive hobby that involves a lot of lounging around. Since it's never too early to get your kids involved in living a healthy lifestyle, we recommend introducing children to the best VR fitness games for kids in order to do...
Want a VR weapon-based duel game that lets you feel the roar of an enormous crowd instead of just your enemy's grunts? That is what developer E McNeill is hoping to deliver in Ironlights, an advanced and fluid melee combat game designed to feel as natural as possible.
En garde!
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Strings
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgIhDZPnW10
Strings may just have the most interesting movement systems we’ve seen in a VR shooter to date. The fast-paced game has you destroying enemies with stylized weapons, but you won’t just be walking from point to point. Instead, to move you throw special movement orbs that teleport you to...
While plenty of people have picked up the affordable entry-level headset, the Oculus Go isn't much of a fitness machine. There's a good reason for that as the headset only offers three degrees of freedom rather than the six that are needed for the most immersive virtual reality experiences....
Anyone who has worked out in or even just used virtual reality for an extended period of time knows about the "VR sweats." As your body has trouble determining if it is actually in motion based on what your eyes see, it can have a bit of a short-circuit....
If you own an Oculus Quest and regularly search Youtube looking for virtual reality content chances are high that you are already familiar with the popular Quest channel BMF. The channel’s owner and host Matt Quinlan has already amassed nearly 40,000 subscribers in a short space of time and...