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High-flying Shooter ‘STRIDE’ Releases on PSVR Today

After a few delays, the high-flying parkour madness of STRIDE (2021) is finally making its way to PSVR today. Created by Joy Way, the studio known for VR games OUTLIER and AGAINST, Stride is all about jumping and shooting your way through increasingly...

Snap Acquires Brain-Computer Interface Startup NextMind

Snap announced it's acquired neurotech startup NextMind, a Paris-based company known for creating a $400 pint-sized brain-computer interface (BCI). In a blog post, Snap says NextMind will help drive "long-term augmented reality research efforts within Snap Lab," the company's hardware team...

Meta is Nudging VR Devs Towards ‘Horizon Worlds’ with Training, Funding & More

Meta today announced it's expanding the company's VR developer programs to include training on how to build games and experiences inside Horizon Worlds, Meta's growing social VR platform. Devs can also nab some cash too—a strong incentive to help Meta...
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Roguelike Bullet-hell ‘MOTHERGUNSHIP’ Coming to Quest 2 & SteamVR

The studio behind MOTHERGUNSHIP (2018) announced it's releasing a VR reimagining of the roguelike shooter this summer on Meta Quest 2 and SteamVR headsets. Dubbed MOTHERGUNSHIP: FORGE, developers Terrible Posture Games says the roguelike bullet-hell shooter is releasing on June 16th, 2022. Like the original,...

An Official NFL Game is Coming to Quest & PSVR

The National Football League (NFL) and sports tech company StatusPRO, announced at GDC 2022 that they're partnering to create an NFL-licensed VR game, which is targeting Meta Quest and PSVR. The game, which is still unnamed, is said to "bring...

‘Zenith: The Last City’ Studio Closes $35M Series B, Aims to Create Metaverse Platform

Ramen VR, the creators behind crowd-funded VR MMORPG Zenith: The Last City, announced it's closed a Series B round of $35 million, something the studio says will allow it to significantly expand in size as it aims to develop Zenith into...

FOV Ventures Raises $18 Million to Fund European Metaverse Startups

FOV Ventures is a newly formed venture capital firm which plans to invest in early-stage metaverse startups. The firm says it has raised an initial $18.1 million as part of its first fund. Founding partners David Haynes and Petri Rajahalme announced...

Missing Apps & Account Issues on Quest Largely Fixed, But Linger for Some

Earlier this month Meta acknowledged a Quest account issue that which led to some users being logged out of their headsets and others missing their library of apps entirely. A "majority" of affected accounts have been fixed, according to...

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

While Oculus doesn’t offer much publicly in the way of understanding how well individual apps are performing across its VR storefronts, it’s possible to glean some insight by looking at apps relative to each other. Here’s a snapshot of...

Qualcomm Launches $100M Fund to Help Build the Metaverse

Qualcomm, the company known for its mobile Snapdragon processors for smartphones and XR headsets, announced a new Metaverse Fund. The chipmaker says the new fund will be a launchpad for XR developers and companies working to build the metaverse. At...

Qualcomm & Square Enix Partner to Create AR Games

Qualcomm and Square Enix today announced a partnership that will see the creation of XR experiences by Square Enix, which includes the Japanese company's subsidiary studios and intellectual property. Announced at the annual Game Developers Conference (GDC 2022) in San...
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VR’s Most Popular Battle Royale Just Got Its Biggest Map Ever

POPULATION: ONE (2020), VR's most popular battle royale, just got an update across all supported platforms that includes the game's largest map to date, which comes along with a few other cyberpunk goodies. Called 'Metropolis', the new map promises to...

‘Moss: Book II’ is Coming to PSVR This Month, New Gameplay Here

If you're excited to jump back into the storybook world of Moss, you won't have to wait much longer. In two weeks, you'll be able go head-first into another adventure with little Quill in the upcoming sequel, Moss: Book...

Quest Parental Controls to Include Locks on Apps, PC VR Linking & More

Meta announced it's bringing some new parental tools to Quest headsets in the next few months which are aimed at giving parents more control over what their teens see and do in VR. Meta's VR headsets, which are only intended...

Import Records Reveal Sony Has Shipped Thousands of Dev Kits, Possibly PSVR 2

United States import records from late 2021 onward show that Sony Interactive Entertainment has shipped thousands of boxes containing developer kits from Asia to the US. The exact contents of the boxes hasn't been specified, however Sony's next-gen PlayStation...
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