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• Facebook wants to use your Oculus data for ads because of course it does

  Oculus this week revealed it's rolling out a batch of new social features tied to Facebook. While the features themselves seem innocuous enough, they come with the caveat that you have to allow Facebook access to your Oculus data. Oculus's new features include chats with friends, ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Viveport Infinity now supports Oculus Quest

  HTC today announced its Viveport Infinity VR gaming subscription service will now officially support the Oculus Quest headset through the Oculus Link beta. Viveport Infinity is a system-agnostic VR subscription service offering hundreds of games and apps for a $12.99 monthly fee. ...

  • Tristan Greene

• How this VR video game is transforming indoor cycle training

  Will Zwift's VR cycling video game provide a welcome escape from the pains of winter cycling? It looks like it will, here ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• Valve's VR extravaganza, Half-Life: Alyx, arrives March 2020

  The day has finally arrived, friends. Valve today officially revealed the first images of Half-Life: Alyx, its new "flagship VR" game in the Half-Life universe. It's a prequel to Half-Life 2, and will be released next March. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2W0N3uKXmo According ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Here's what games I'd be playing if National Video Game Day was a real holiday

  Oh wow it's National Video Game Day again already? I couldn't care less, and neither could you unless you're selling something. It's a stupid, nonsense holiday. But what if it wasn't? What if we lived in a parallel universe where NVG Day was a universally revered high holy day? I ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Cybershoes let you physically walk, run, and jump in VR without leaving your seat

  If you ask me, VR is the best thing that's happened to gaming since the invention of the joystick thanks to the platform's ability to place users inside of a complete alternate reality. Unfortunately, the spell's instantly broken the moment you're forced to take a single step. Cybershoes, ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Embodying taller avatars in VR can make us more confident in real life

  The high immersive capacity of virtual reality is often acknowledged as its main virtue when compared to other media and communication technologies. It is indeed a defining virtue. However, when it comes to the virtue that could really position VR as a powerful positive technology in ...

  • Binary District Journal

• Porn company wants $10K to shoot you screwing in VR before you’re too old to be attractive

  “Yes, time travel is finally possible.” As someone who's written extensively about quantum physics, the arrow of time, and other wacky aspects of our amazing universe, I've waited my entire career to see that sentence pop up in my inbox. I just never expected it would be VR Bangers, ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Using virtual reality could make you a better person in real life

  If you’ve ever participated in a virtual reality (VR) experience, you might have found yourself navigating the virtual ...

  • The Conversation

• TNW's mid-2019 guide to virtual reality hardware

  Virtual reality is a booming technology. Like artificial intelligence and blockchain, it's on a meteoric rise and every big ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Review: Penn & Teller's VR experience is hilarious, magical, and decidedly cruel

  Gearbox today launched Penn & Teller VR: Frankly Unfair, Unkind, Unnecessary, & Underhanded. Anyone who remembers ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Sony's already won the next console war thanks to PSVR

  Sony skipped gaming's biggest event, E3, this year and Microsoft pounced. Xbox stormed the stage with a veritable bevvy of ...

  • Tristan Greene