Qualcomm Says Its New GPU Is 35% Faster Than Oculus Quest 2’s

Qualcomm announced its 2021 flagship chipset this week, Snapdragon 888. It claims the new GPU is 35% more powerful than the one in Oculus Quest 2. Standalone VR headsets like Quest use the same mobile chips as high end smartphones. Your phone has limited cooling capabilities so can usually only sustain its peak performance for a few minutes,...

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Knock-Off The Colossus | Playing whacky games on VR Roulette!

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VR Roulette Episode 8: Knock-Off The Colossus

Welcome to VR Roulette! This is our LIVE weekly game show on YouTube that’s streamed (usually) on Wednesdays. We select a list of weird, quirky, and/or bizarre VR games and take turns spinning the wheel to see what we’ve all got to play next. Tune in with us live on YouTube at 8:30am PT today! Read our announcement article for more details. Jamie and...

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Population: One Winter Event, 12 Days Of Chaos, Begins December 3

A new Winter event to celebrate the holiday season is coming to Population: One, starting on December 3. The event is called 12 Days of Chaos and will add new bonuses in-game and change the map to a Winter-themed setting. Developers BigBox VR shared some early details of the event with us, which it says will be Population: One’s biggest event yet...

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Watch: Medal Of Honor Multiplayer Trailer Includes Bomb-Hiding Mode And More

Respawn has finally revealed Medal of Honor: Above And Beyond’s multiplayer modes and, as promised, there are some interesting ideas here. Facebook’s Oculus today tweeted a new trailer for the game, seen below. It gives us our first look at the online portion of the PC VR shooter, which arrives on December 11th. Based on the trailer, we now know there...

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NVIDIA’s $399 RTX 3060 Ti Claims 2080 Super Performance

NVIDIA just launched RTX 3060 Ti, its most affordable ‘Ampere’ architecture graphics card yet. It’s a new product using its GA104 GPU, first used in the RTX 3070. There’s 20% fewer cores and 5% lower clock speeds but it’s $100 cheaper. GA104 is one of 2 of NVIDIA’s newest ‘Ampere’ architecture GPUs built with Samsung’s 8nm process node. The other...

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Farpoint Developer Working On ‘Something Special’ After Two-Year Silence

It’s been a long time since we’ve heard from Farpoint developer, Impulse Gear, but the studio hasn’t gone anywhere. A blog post on the studio’s website — the first in over two and a half years — yesterday confirmed that the team was alive, kicking and still working on a VR project. “We’ve been hard at work exploring the possibilities of VR, learning...

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Solaris: Offworld Combat Update Adds Squads, New Map, And More

Solaris: Offworld Combat is getting squad support in its biggest post-launch update yet this week. The update will also introduce a brand new map, several fixes and improvements, and will enable players to freely move their non-primary hand. When Solaris first launched it delivered on the promise of fast-paced, easy-to-pickup-and-play thrills with...

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Slaying soldiers & aliens in Antarctica | Frostpoint VR: Proving Grounds Launch Day

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Metro, Dead Island, Kingdom Come Have ‘Good Opportunities’ For VR – Koch Media

Koch Media says some of its biggest franchises have “good opportunities” for VR going forward. Metro VR, anyone? Two months ago, Koch announced the acquisition of Arizona Sunshine developer, Vertigo Games. It was a surprising move for the company, which also owns other games publishers like Deep Silver under its own label and is connected to Saber...

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