Oculus has turned on wireless PC streaming for the Quest 2

Oculus is turning on its Air Link PC streaming feature for the Quest 2 virtual reality headset. Air Link is part of the Oculus v28 software update, which recently started rolling out to Oculus headset owners. Facebook Reality Labs head Andrew Bosworth ... more - theverge

Oculus is rolling out its new and more expressive avatars starting today

Oculus is beginning to roll out redesigned avatars that are more expressive and customizable than those that launched in 2016. They’ll appear starting today in just a few games for the Quest VR platform, including Epic Roller Coasters , PokerStarsVR ... more - theverge

Humble extends its Spring Into VR Bundle into next week

Job Simulator, HTC Vive Last week, Humble launched its Spring Into VR Bundle, which includes a pack of games for use with a virtual reality headset. Originally set to end on April 21st, the company has decided to extend the deal until April 28th, giving ... more - theverge

The Oculus Quest 2 VR headset is on sale for the first time

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The Oculus Quest 2 head-mounted display launched last October, and if you are on the hunt for a deal on this VR headset (unfortunately, not a bundle deal), Verizon is offering a 10 percent discount for both ... more - theverge

Capcom’s Resident Evil 4 VR remake launches later this year

Capcom Facebook Reality Labs has offered more detail about a virtual reality remake of Resident Evil 4 , following Capcom’s original announcement last week. The game will launch later this year exclusively on Facebook’s Oculus Quest 2 headset, although ... more - theverge

The Tamagotchi Pix has a built-in camera for taking pictures with your pet

image: Bandai Today, Bandai is announcing the Tamagotchi Pix: a combination of its classic Tamagotchi pet-rearing toy line with a new built-in camera for taking pictures with your digital pet. The Pix is shaped like a hatching egg, with the top part ... more - theverge

Samsung’s Galaxy Buds Pro are available refurbished for 45 percent off

Photo by Becca Farsace / The Verge At Best Buy, you can get a refurbished set of the Samsung Galaxy Buds Pro truly wireless earbuds for $110 today in the silver colorway. This model released just a few months ago alongside the Samsung Galaxy S21, and ... more - theverge

HTC downplays leaked Vive Air headset, says it’s just a concept

Leaked images appeared to show a new fitness-focused VR headset from HTC. HTC has downplayed leaked images that appeared to show a new fitness-focused VR headset built by the firm. Pictures and details of the HTC Vive Air leaked online earlier this week ... more - theverge

Amazon is opening a hair salon in London to trial new technology

Amazon’s latest bricks-and-mortar experiment is, unexpectedly, a hair salon. The company is opening its Amazon Salon in London’s East End Spitalfields area, where it says it will trial “the latest industry technology.” This includes an augmented reality ... more - theverge

Fitness-focused HTC Vive Air VR headset revealed in new leaks

Images of an upcoming fitness-focused virtual reality headset from HTC, dubbed the Vive Air, have leaked online. Details about the product were published by the World Design Guide (which we spotted via Engadget ) as part of its annual awards. It seems ... more - theverge

Google adds Pac-Man, Hello Kitty, Gundam mechs, and more to AR search

Google has added a bunch of popular Japanese characters to its AR feature in mobile search, which has previously featured animals, historical artifacts, and dinosaurs. The list of characters is taken from Japanese pop culture including anime, TV, and ... more - theverge

The Oculus Quest 2 headset comes with a free accessory at Newegg

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge If you’re hunting for an Oculus Quest 2 VR headset, Newegg has an appealing sale happening on bundles that will net you a free accessory. For $350, you can get the 64GB headset (normally $300 by itself) with ... more - theverge

Facebook says no ‘Oculus Quest Pro’ this year

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Andrew Bosworth, VP at Facebook’s Reality Labs, has given some more hints as to what’s in store for future Oculus hardware. In an audio Q&A with John Carmack on Twitter Spaces transcribed by UploadVR , ... more - theverge

A Resident Evil 4 VR remake is launching on Oculus Quest 2

Capcom Resident Evil 4 will be rereleased in virtual reality on the Oculus Quest 2 headset. Resident Evil 4’s VR remake will be a collaboration between series publisher Capcom, Oculus parent company Facebook, and the independent studio Armature. While ... more - theverge

Oculus now allows developers to sell subscriptions to their Quest apps and games

Rec Room is a popular VR app Developers who have apps or games on the Oculus Store can now sell recurring subscriptions to their titles, as opposed to offering them for a one-time fee or choosing to handle the subscription process independently. This ... more - theverge

The next Oculus Quest 2 update brings native wireless PC streaming and a 120Hz mode

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Oculus is announcing that wireless PC streaming, a 120Hz refresh rate, and improvements to Infinite Office will be coming to the Oculus Quest 2 with the v28 software update, which the company says will be rolling ... more - theverge

The best thing to do in VR is work out

Photo illustration by Grayson Blackmon / The Verge | Photo by Brian Ach / Getty Images Entertainment Supernatural founder Chris Milk on the future of fitness Continue reading… ... more - theverge

How Disney’s ‘real’ lightsaber patent actually works

Josh D’Amaro (Instagram) A real lightsaber. How is that possible? It’s probably not, of course. But when Disney Parks chairman Josh D’Amaro ended his April 8th presentation by whipping out a never-before-seen retractable lightsaber — no video evidence, ... more - theverge

Grab a full year of PlayStation Plus for only $27

PlayStation Plus is available for both PS4 and PS5 owners . | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge If you managed to get your hands on a PS5 — or you own a PS4 — and you want to renew your PlayStation Plus membership, Eneba is offering a great deal, with ... more - theverge

Samsung’s Galaxy SmartTag Plus with UWB to track items with AR is out April 16th

Samsung’s Galaxy SmartTag Plus, the souped-up version of the company’s Tile-like SmartTag Bluetooth tracker (which was released earlier this year), now has a release date: it’ll be out on April 16th for $39.99. That’s a $10 price increase over the standard ... more - theverge

Google’s new AR toy fulfills the childhood dream of digging a hole to the other side of the Earth

Image: Google If you’ve ever wondered where you’d end up if you were to transport directly to the other side of the Earth, Google now has a browser-based AR toy that lets you find out. It calls the site Floom, and the experience is pretty simple: you ... more - theverge

Humble Bundle’s latest offer packs in $215 worth of VR games for $15

Job Simulator, HTC Vive Humble Bundle has launched its latest bundle of games that collects proceeds and sends them to a charity of your choosing. This one’s full of nothing but VR titles, and the minimum contribution required to get everything in the ... more - theverge

Western Digital’s fast 1TB NVMe SSD is $50 off at B&H Photo

Western Digital’s 1TB NVMe M.2 SSD with PCIe 4.0 support in compatible motherboards is cheaper than ever at B&H Photo and the company’s own site. It originally sold for $230, but you can get one now for $180. There are cheaper SSDs that have 1TB ... more - theverge

Facebook says it’s no longer replenishing Oculus Rift S supplies

Photo by Nick Statt / The Verge Facebook says Oculus Rift S headsets “generally” won’t be replenished as they disappear from store shelves, marking the end of the virtual reality system’s life span. As UploadVR reported yesterday, Facebook has confirmed ... more - theverge

Tim Cook says Apple wants to use AR to make conversations better

Photo by Dieter Bohn / The Verge Apple CEO Tim Cook rarely provides details on unannounced products, but he offered some hints about Apple’s thinking on augmented reality and cars in an interview with Kara Swisher for The New York Times this morning. ... more - theverge

Vergecast: WWDC rumors, Clubhouse competition, and the cookiepocalypse

Every Friday, The Verge publishes our flagship podcast, The Vergecast , where co-hosts Nilay Patel and Dieter Bohn discuss the week in tech news with the reporters and editors covering the biggest stories. This week, Nilay and Dieter talk with Verge ... more - theverge

Doom 3 for PSVR is a solid showcase for Sony’s Aim Controller

Doom 3 has a long history with VR, so it’s a little surprising that this week’s PlayStation VR release is the first version ever to go on sale. Almost nine years ago, we visited Id Software luminary John Carmack to see his duct-taped prototype “Oculus ... more - theverge

Microsoft is supplying 120,000 HoloLens-based headsets to the US Army

Image: US Army Microsoft has won a contract to supply the US Army with HoloLens-based headsets. The contract could be worth up to $21.88 billion over 10 years, and CNBC reports that it will involve Microsoft supplying 120,000 headsets. The software maker ... more - theverge

This might be your last chance to get a deal on Super Mario 3D All-Stars

As it promised, Nintendo will pull Super Mario 3D All-Stars , the Switch compilation featuring Super Mario 64 , Super Mario Sunshine , and Super Mario Galaxy , from shelves at the end of the day — both digital and physical. This final day in March 2021 ... more - theverge

Snapchat’s Spectacles might become true AR glasses this time — and there’s a drone

The first generation Snap Spectacles. Snap, the company behind Snapchat, is planning to continue its push into hardware devices with a new pair of augmented-reality glasses and a drone, according to a report by The Information . The Spectacles will reportedly ... more - theverge