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Unreal Engine 5’s New Rendering Tech is Beginning to Make VR Look Startlingly Real

Unreal Engine 5 brings two key features which stand to radically improve the realism of both 3D geometry and lighting. While the features aren't yet fully optimized for VR, early developer experiments are showing impressive results. Unreal Engine 5 launched...

Quest Store Now Supports Timed App Trials Without Devs Creating a Standalone Demo

Meta has announced that developers will be able to opt their apps into providing users with a free timed trial which the company hopes will increase conversion while giving developers an easier path compared to creating and maintaining a...

Quest Store Surpasses $1.5 Billion in Content Revenue, Showing Continued Growth

At Connect 2022 this month, Meta announced the Quest content store has surpassed $1.5 billion in purchased VR content since its launch in 2019, representing continued but decelerating growth likely due mostly to market seasonality. Update (October 18th, 2022): Article...

The 20 Best Rated & Most Popular Quest Games & Apps – October 2022

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...

Pico 4 Shipments Delayed in Europe Due to High Global Demand

Pico released its standalone VR headset Neo 3 Link this summer, marking its first real push to launch a consumer device outside of Asia. Now it's getting ready to ship the follow-up standalone Pico 4, and the company seems...

15 VR Horror Games for an Immersive Fright This Halloween

It's that spooky time of year again, and if you're looking for an extra fright (or fifteen) leading up to Halloween, go no further than these top VR games that are sure to send shivers down your spine. Here's our...

Panasonic’s Latest Shiftall Prototype Brings SteamVR Tracking Module & Index Controller Support

Panasonic brand Shiftall has revealed the latest prototype of its MeganeX VR headset. Along with the updated design the company has shown off a SteamVR Tracking module to add precision tracking to the headset, along with support for Valve Index...

Meta’s Next-gen Avatar Presentation Was Too Good to Be True… For Now at Least

This week Meta showed off a preview of its next-gen avatars during the Connect keynote. Frankly, they looked great! However, there's... less than meets the eye here. When Mark Zuckerberg appeared in Horizon during the Connect 2022 keynote sporting a next-gen...

YouTube is (finally) Coming to Horizon Home Making it Easier to Watch with Friends

Meta announced that Quest users will soon be able to watch YouTube content inside Horizon Home, the first-party social VR space that's finally making it easy to hang out in VR with friends. Meta is slowly... painfully slowly... building out...

Google’s Project Starline Starts Real-world Testing, Bringing Light-field Video Calls to Enterprise Partners

Google's Project Starline is an experimental system for immersive video chatting that aims to close the distance between people without needing an AR or VR headset. At Google's annual Cloud Next conference, the company announced it's rolling out the...

‘Bonelab’ Made $1M in First Hour on Quest, Setting Record as Fastest Selling Game on Platform

At its annual Connect developer conference this week Meta revealed that Stress Level Zero’s Quest 2 game Bonelab (2022) made its first $1 million in revenue less than an hour after launch, making it the fastest-selling app in Quest history. Released late...

Quest Pro vs. Quest 2: Beyond the Paper Specs

Quest Pro has finally been revealed, and while it's a much more expensive headset, inevitably people are interested in knowing how it compares to Meta's next best headset, Quest 2. So here we're going to look at Quest Pro...

Xbox Cloud Gaming to Launch on Quest as Meta Strengthens Microsoft Partnership

Quest 2 users will soon be able to play Xbox games thanks to a growing partnership between Meta and Microsoft announced at Connect that will not only bring Xbox Cloud Gaming to the platform, but also a host of Windows...
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Quest Pro Revealed with Snapdragon XR2+, Face-tracking, & More; Ships October 25th for $1,500

Today during Meta Connect the company finally revealed its high-end Quest Pro headset (formerly called Project Cambria). Priced at $1,500, the headset packs a new Snapdragon XR2+ processor along with a bevy of sensors for tracking the user's expressions...

Meta Reveals Touch Pro Controllers for Quest Pro, Also Compatible with Quest 2

Meta's new Quest Pro headset includes Touch Pro controllers which come with a bevy upgrades, and they'll work with Quest 2 as well. Meta says that Quest Pro and Quest 2 will co-exist as high-end and entry-level headset lines, and...
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