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SideQuest VR Developers' Reactions to Oculus Quest 2 Launch

In case you missed it, we did a short quantitative analysis on how the Quest 2 launch affected VR game downloads, and in this piece I want to talk about how devs and creators experienced it. Mini from "Attack on Quest"If you haven't played Attack on Quest, go start

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How Has the Oculus Quest 2 Affected VR: A SideQuest Analysis

We all know VR is growing. When I heard many kids were asking Santa for a Quest 2 over a PS5 or Xbox Series X, I knew something was up, so I want to write this as a quantitative approach to growth using SideQuest as a proxy for industry growth

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VR Influencer Showcase: Nathie

A guy that needs no introduction (we're introducing him anyway), Nathie is big time, HUGE time even, and I'm honestly ecstatic to write about him. So who is Nathie? Well to start, he's the king of VR on youtube. There are other very legitimate accounts, some with more subscribers doing

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VR Influencer Showcase: GrumpyDuckVR

A long time ago, way back in JULY of this year, I was running a game hosting website. I posted in a public VR Facebook group to advertise. Not too long after, I got a discord notification. "GrumpyDuckVR has joined your Discord". Grumpyduck, at the time, was idk, like a

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VR Influencer Showcase: ThrillSeeker

Lots of pink and purple, clickbait-y (but legit) titles, and super high production values? If you have spent any amount of time on Youtube poking around the VR space, chances are you've seen ThrillSeekers content. I wish I could say ThrillSeeker has been at this forever, grinded through years of

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VR Influencers You Should Know About (Part 1)

A bit of an editorial, I, like probably most of you, realized that VR is not only here to stay, but it seems to be growing. This article goes out to the people who have been thanklessly grinding for years. It's awesome to see them gain some traction, and hopefully

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VR Influencer Showcase: Eric for President

While I didn't plan to do this around election season, you bet I am going to make a lot of jokes about that. I think most of us would prefer Eric for President, but realistically his domain will probably remain in the VR space, which is quite alright. Eric has

VR Influencer Showcase: Ben Plays VR

I'm a big fan of these influencers with verbs in their names. Seems especially prominent in the VR space, and I'm all for it. Ben Plays VR, well, plays VR. He's been at this for longer than most, and that's pretty special. More than 3 whole years has passed since

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VR Influencer Showcase: Steve Knows (VR)

"VR is for the Curious; it appeals to us as explorers, allowing us to experience worlds that would not otherwise have been possible to explore, giving us opportunities to embody another and look through someone else's eyes, whether that be in a game or in another medium. VR to me

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VR Influencer Showcase: Matteo311

Matteo311, Gaming with Matteo, Your One Channel for VR content - he's known by many callings, and his content spans just about everything imaginable in the VR realm. Matteo is a VR guru, and while I don't know everything about the guy, I know know one thing, he loves VR,

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Top 5 Games Announced at Facebook Connect

Facebook's annual technology flaunting event (just calling it what it is), Facebook Connect, just went down, and for the first time, gamers had a reason to pay attention. Feels weird to say, but like Microsoft once was in console, Facebook is now the LEADING GAMING CONSOLE BRAND IN A GAMING

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The New Kid on the Block - Build Log 1

This is going to be an editorial, so if you don't want to read an editorial, don't read this. Now that I've weeded out all the shoebies, this is actually NOT GOING TO BE AN EDITORIAL, FALSE ALARM. I'm not sure what this is going to be, but I want

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Mortal Blitz: Combat Arena Coming to PSVR in September

SKonec Entertainment’s Mortal Blitz franchise lives on in the latest entry to the series—Mortal Blitz: Combat Arena. Unveiled by PlayStation’s Shuhei Yoshida at the BitSummit Gaiden 2020 event, Mortal Blitz: Combat Arena is a free-to-play virtual reality multiplayer game officially coming to the PSVR this September. Much

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Facebook to Require Login on Oculus Devices

If you’ve been following Oculus VR news over the six years since Facebook acquired the company, you may be familiar with the founder’s promise that users would not be required to login into their Facebook accounts in order to use the device. In March of 2014, Palmer Luckey

Hardware

Oculus 20.0 Releases for Quest and PC

Oculus released a set of updates on August 21st in the form of build 20.0 for both Quest and PC setups. A full list of release notes going back to July 2019 is available on the Oculus website. There aren’t any major drops this time around, but there

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House Flipper VR Is Bringing the House Flipping Experience Straight to Your... Home

VR is all about giving consumers new experiences, and House Flipper VR is primed to do just that. It's a VR port of the original House Flipper, which was released in 2018 for Windows, macOS, Playstation 4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch. While House Flipper VR hasn't yet received a

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Another Major VR Headset Player in the Game

Not necessarily new news, but definitely very exciting news, Varjo just raised another hefty sum of money. $54 Million from a few investors, Varjo continues to to keep the flywheels of progress turning as they keep driving technology forward. If Oculus is consumer, Varjo is enterprise. This Danish company doesn't

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Tower Defense - In VR?

I don't know about you, but when mobile gaming came around, I knew it was here to stay when I got my hands on a good tower defense game. This game, Bloons, changed my life. Okay, that's dramatic, but it definitely got a lot of my time for a few