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How Core Gaming Can Mesh With High-Intensity In VR
When you think about a high-intensity game in VR, what comes to mind? Is it the thought of fighting endlessly against an opponent that takes hundreds of hits to go down? Throwing thousands of...
25 Active VR Games That Could Benefit From Oculus Quest’s Inside-Out Tracking
With the Oculus Quest coming up in Spring 2019, and the new efforts from Oculus's competitors to bring their own standalone devices up to 6DOF with inside-out tracking, the VR world is going to...
10 VR Fitness Game Ideas We Want To See On Oculus Quest
I’ve given no shortage of advice to developers lately with my recent pieces offering game design tips, developer critique, and philosophies on self-embodiment in VR. And if you're a game developer in the VR space,...
Why Extra Haptics Are A Thrilling Prospect For VR Fitness
With a swing of your arm, you drive the side of your mace into Alduin’s jaw and render his menacing dragon body lifeless. In your hands, the haptics in your controllers recoil and buzz....
How VR Embodies Your Sense of Self
Self-embodiment is one of the driving forces in VR experiences and games. When you enter VR, whether it be to exercise or watch a movie, you are placing yourself directly into the action. Inarguably,...
The Best VR Fitness Game Will Be Socially Engaged (And Out of This World)
It's not news that VR games excel in serving out heightened fitness output and improved physiological health. Hundreds of millions of data samples gathered by the VR Health Institute over the past several years...
Motion Sickness In VR Sucks (Here’s What To Do About It)
You finally brought home your new VR headset, and you rushed to your computer (or PS4) like a kid on Christmas morning to set it up. Naturally, you jumped into a game and started...
Five Design Tips for Developers Looking To Write VR Fitness Games
Now that the gaming industry is booming, you might be curious about dipping your own toes into the waters of game design.
Naturally, you're on the hunt for strategies that successful game developers might use—besides...
Friends Make It Easier To Get Fit in VR
When you play games and work out in VR long enough—like anything else you do that eats your energy—it can get difficult to find the motivation to keep going. Especially if you're getting sick...
Own a PSVR and Wanna Get Fit? Try These 8 Games
Recently, a friend approached me and asked whether it would be worth buying a PSVR headset for his PS4. Or, if it would be better to go all-in with a new gaming PC and...