Facebook is bringing its elaborate advertising network to the Oculus platform while also announcing that Podcasts are coming to its bread and butter social media side.

It wasn't too long ago that Sony revealed that it had a sequel to its virtual reality gear in development, dropping a number of pictures to show off a device that pinched inspiration from other established kits in the scene and looking better overall. According to a report on UploadVR via "reliable sources", PSVR 2 won't just look and function like an ergonomic dream, it'll be packing some pretty impressive features into its plastic frame as well.

Facebook continues to make big movies in the VR space with the announcement that they have acquired Onward developer Downpour Interactive.

The input devices for PSVR2 are designed to build upon the ideas introduced in the PS5 DualSense controller by unlocking a new way to tap into the sense of touch according to Sony.

PlayStation has a brand new virtual reality headset on the way next year, but until it arrives there’s more than enough time and games to experience on the current PSVR hardware. In fact, there’s half a dozen games on the horizon as the PS Blog unveiled its 2021 slate of VR games to cast thine peepers towards. Here’s a round-up of everything that was announced yesterday.

With Facebook under scrutiny lately for being just kind of awful it’s a pity then that it’s playing hardball with the current generation of Oculus gear.

At some point in our seemingly inevitable dystopian future, we’ll all be replaced by robots, machines, and other automatons. Even the written word isn’t safe, as evidenced by OpenAI’s language generator, which wrote a clear and cohesive op-ed on what it means to be a machine. Of course, these machines work for us. But what if they didn’t? What if …

Hitman has always been a morbidly cathartic game, wherein players could become the ultimate spanner and throw themselves into the elegant clockwork mechanisms of the world around them. That thrill for the kill is about to get even more personal, as Hitman 3 will bring PlayStation VR support to the entire trilogy.