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I Tried to Play VR With Friends on Quest and it was a Nightmare (Again)
                It feels like every time I try to get friends to have some fun in VR with me, the experience is somehow horribly painful. This time I kept a journal of the entire experience to catalogue the struggles seen...            
            
        Quest 3 Review – A Great Headset Waiting to Reach Its Potential
                Following Quest 2 almost three years to the day, Quest 3 is finally here. Meta continues its trend of building some of the best VR hardware out there, but it will be some time yet before the headset's potential...            
            
        The Biggest Announcements at Meta Connect and What it All Means for the Future of XR
                Meta Connect 2023 has wrapped up, bringing with it a deluge of info from one of the XR industry's biggest players. Here's a look at the biggest announcements from Connect 2023, but more importantly, what it all means for...            
            
        Hands-on: Quest 3 is an Impressive Leap That’s Still Held Back by Software Struggles
                Quest 3 is an impressive leap in hardware, especially in the visual department, but it continues Meta's tradition of building great hardware that feels held back by its software.
Update (September 27th, 2023): Fixed the link to the second page at...            
            
        Bigscreen Beyond – Promising but Incomplete, Just Like This Review
                Bigscreen Beyond is the most interesting and promising new dedicated PC VR headset to come out in years, and while there's a lot to like, we're still waiting on a key piece that will make or break the headset.
Bigscreen...            
            
        Crafting Memorable VR Experiences – The Interaction Design of ‘Fujii’
                Creating a VR that truly immerses the user is no easy feat. To pull this off correctly requires a careful blend of graphics, animations, audio, and haptics that work together in deliberate concert to suspend disbelief and engross the...            
            
        New Quest Update Reimagines the Landing Page, Once Again Sequestering Your App Library
                Instead of taking you right to your library of installed apps, Meta is making yet another perplexing change to the Quest landing page in v57.
Since the earliest days of Meta's VR platform, the company has been seemingly obsessed with not...            
            
        Why Nintendo Hasn’t Made a Real VR Headset Yet
                There's a rumor going around that Nintendo is making a VR headset in partnership with Google. The rumor is still unconfirmed, but when the world's oldest extant gaming company finally thinks it's time to make a dedicated XR device,...            
            
        The 20 Best Rated & Most Popular Quest Games & Apps – August 2023
                While Oculus doesn’t offer much publicly in the way of understanding how well individual games & apps are performing across its Quest 2 storefront, it’s possible to glean some insight by looking at apps relative to each other. Here’s...            
            
        Gibby Presents: Road Testing the Latest Location-based VR Experiences
                Location-based VR has bounced back since the pandemic. So let's get some arcade action! The fastest-growing company, Sandbox VR, has just opened their 40th location worldwide. Gibby’s Guide went out and about to road test the best that the...            
            
        Hands-on: Virtuix Omni One Comes Full Circle with an All-in-one VR Treadmill System
                As far as VR treadmills go, Virtuix is the OG. While the company had set out to make a consumer VR treadmill a decade ago, market realities pushed the company into the out-of-home VR attraction space. But after all...            
            
        The 20 Best Rated & Most Popular Quest Games & Apps – July 2023
                While Meta doesn’t offer much publicly in the way of understanding how well individual games & apps are performing across its Quest 2 storefront, it’s possible to glean some insight by looking at apps relative to each other. Here’s...            
            
        ‘Horizon Call of the Mountain’ Behind-the-scenes – Insights & Artwork from Guerrilla & Firesprite
                
It's a rare treat when we get a VR game with the scope and scale of Horizon Call of the Mountain, let alone to see a much-loved IP reimagined specifically for the medium. Made exclusively for PSVR 2, the game...            
            
        ‘Synapse’ Review – A Power I’ve Been Waiting For
                Synapse is the latest action game from veteran VR studio nDreams, built exclusively for PSVR 2. While you'll do plenty of shooting, players are also equipped with a telekinetic superpower that feels great as a core mechanic. But does the...            
            
        Hands-on: Apple Vision Pro isn’t for Gaming, But it Does Everything Else Better
                While Apple's new Vision Pro headset isn't going to satisfy the existing base of consumer VR users, it's mastering the rest of the basics better than anyone else.
Probably 90% of what consumers are using VR headsets for today is...            
            
         
            




















