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‘Mobile Suit Gundam: Silver Phantom VR’ Quest Hands-on: Promises of Immersion Dulled By Restrictive Gameplay

Mobile Suit Gundam: Silver Phantom is a new sort of VR film hybrid for Quest, mashing up a movie's worth of real-time rendered narrative with sprinkles of first-person gameplay, billing itself an 'interactive anime'. On paper, it sounds really cool,...
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The Best Shotguns in VR (and what makes them feel great) – Inside XR Design

Our series Inside XR Design highlights examples of great XR design. Today we’re looking at shotguns in several different VR games to learn what makes them feel great in the player's hand. In doing so, we'll uncover the secret...
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‘Bounce Arcade’ is Like VR Pinball for Your Fists—And Exactly the Kind of Creativity VR Needs...

Bounce Arcade, recently announced and launching this Fall, looks like a unique fusion of pinball and VR, in a way that's truly native to the medium. It's an example of the body of VR-native gameplay mechanics that's still in...

Quest 3S Hands-on: Quest 2 Visuals with Quest 3 Power at an Unbeatable Price

Meta has finally revealed its latest headset, Quest 3S. Although it retains some of Quest 2's flaws, it creates much needed parity in power and features, all at an unbeatable price. Quest 3S has not only just been formally announced,...

Hands-on: ‘Metro Awakening’ on Quest 3S Brings Snappy Shooting and Smart Scavenging

Metro Awakening is one of the most anticipated VR games launching this year and we finally got a chance to try it for ourselves on Meta's newly revealed Quest 3S. Metro Awakening is coming to Quest 2, Quest 3S, and...

Hands-on: ‘Batman: Arkham Shadow’ Brings the Series’ Signature Combat to VR

Next year VR will get its first big Batman VR game, exclusively on Quest 3. We went hands-on with the game and found out what it's like to be the brawler behind the mask. My first impression of Batman: Arkham...

Hands-on: ‘Action Hero’ Revives ‘SUPERHOT’ with a Clever Premise

First released eight years ago, SUPERHOT VR is not just a notable VR classic—it's still a great game. Although it never got a sequel, it left enough of a mark for not just one but several spiritual successors. The...
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Hands-on: New VR Shooter ‘VENDETTA FOREVER’ Mashes ‘Pistol Whip’ & ‘Superhot’ Into Something Unique

Veteran VR studio nDreams has made several shooters with innovative mechanics over the years. That experience seems to have guided the studio's publishing interest as well; the newly announced VENDETTA FOREVER, developed by MeatSpace Interactive and published by nDreams, uses...

The Most Anticipated VR Games of 2024 Coming to Quest, PSVR 2, and PC VR

There are a ton of VR games coming this year, although there are a few big names we're really holding out hope for. Many of them are targeting all major VR headsets (thankfully), with only one actual Quest 3 exclusive...

‘Half-Life: Alyx’ on PSVR 2 Would be a Win-win-win for Valve, Sony, & Players

There's at least six really good reasons why getting Half-Life: Alyx onto PSVR 2 is a good idea, and it would be a net positive for everyone involved. So what do we gotta do to make it happen? Despite launching in...

Hands-on: Sony’s New MR Headset Impresses with Clarity & Ergonomics, But Still Needs Tuning

Sony's new headset, officially dubbed the SRH-S1 "content creation system" combines a compact form-factor with novel controllers. I got to check out the headset first-hand at AWE 2024 and came away impressed with the headset itself, even if the input...

Hands-on: Logitech’s MX Ink for Quest Could Legitimize VR Styluses as a Whole

Over the last decade I've reported on and tested many different VR styluses, but none of them have actually caught on. But the new MX Ink stylus for Quest stands a real chance at legitimizing the VR stylus as...

SOUL COVENANT Review – Ineffectual Melee Sandwiched in a Very Skippable Story

SOUL COVENANT is an action RPG from the core members who brought you the SOUL SACRIFICE series. While the game does a few things to translate the franchises's melee combat and giant monsters into a VR-native experience, adherence to the series'...

Vision Pro is Hands-down the Best Movie Experience You Can Have on a Plane

After an eight hour flight, I can say that Apple has largely nailed the Vision Pro use-case of movie watching on a plane. But a few key improvements stand to make it more widely appealing. Nobody looks forward to an...

‘Silent Slayer’ Preview – Dr. Van Helsing’s Deadly Game of Operation

I went hands-on with Silent Slayer: Vault of the Vampire, an upcoming horror-puzzle for Quest from Schell Games that tasks you with defusing various arcane traps protecting a coven of sleeping vampires. Much like the studio's pioneering VR puzzle franchise I...
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