‘VRChat’ Competitor ‘Resonite’ Coming to PC VR This Week
Resonite, a new social VR platform from the principal creator behind metaverse app Neos VR, is set to launch into early access on SteamVR headsets this week.
Former Oculus CTO “unconvinced” Mixed Reality Apps Will Sell Headsets (like Quest 3)
Less than 48 hours after Meta fully unveiled Quest 3, John Carmack, legendary programmer and former CTO of Oculus, expressed doubts about mixed reality’s ability to increase headset sales.
Early Bigscreen Beyond Pre-orders Slip into Q4 Delivery Window
Bigscreen announced its thin and light PC VR headset, Bigscreen Beyond, is facing delays in production, which the company says will see shipping dates for initial preorders pushed later into October and November.
New Quest Dev Tools to Add Leg Estimation for More Convincing Avatars
Meta announced that it’s offering new developer tools for Quest headsets to make avatars more realistic. The company also unveiled a Quest 3-exclusive upper body tracking feature that supports a much wider range of body motion.
Quest 3 Brings a Big Change to Controller Tracking Coverage
Meta Quest 3 brings with it new ‘Touch Plus’ controllers that do away with the tracking ring that’s been part of the company’s 6DOF consumer VR controllers ever since the original Rift. But that’s not the only change.
Viveport Anniversary Deal Includes Free Copies of ‘Until You Fall’, ‘Fracked’ and ‘Primal Hunt’
Viveport Infinity, HTC’s Netflix-style game membership, used to be pretty groan-worthy, offering up only a few really great titles and filling out the rest with a shovel-full of either mediocre or downright bad games. A lot has changed in the past few years though, and to celebrate Viveport’s 7th anniversary HTC is sweetening the pot with three games that are worth playing (and keeping).
Sony Drops a Slew of PSVR 2 Game Announcements and Updates
Meta wasn’t the only company churning out VR news this week with the unveiling of its long-awaited Quest 3 mixed reality headset, as Sony tossed out a slew of PSVR 2 game announcements and updates for its surprise ‘VR Day’ on Thursday.
Schell Games is Creating a ‘Kurzgesagt’ Educational Game for Quest, Trailer Here
Popular YouTube edutainment channel Kurzgesagt is teaming up with VR developers Schell Games (I Expect You To Die, Among Us VR) to make an exploration adventure game for Quest.
Xbox Cloud Gaming Coming to Quest 3 in December
Meta announced at Connect 2023 that Xbox Cloud Gaming is heading to Quest in December, meaning you’ll be able to play all of your favorite flatscreen games on offer through Xbox Game Pass Ultimate.
Hands-on: ‘Assassin’s Creed Nexus VR’ Has an Interesting Take on VR Parkour Mechanics
Assassin’s Creed Nexus VR has been in the works seemingly for ages, but one major question has gone unanswered until now: just how does the game’s parkour work?
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.
Quest Store Revenue Reaches $2 Billion, But Momentum Has Slowed Over the Last Year
Coming alongside the big Quest 3 info dump today at Connect 2023, Meta revealed that Quest Store games and apps have generated over $2 billion in revenue. While the store is still earning for developers, looking at revenue over time shows that things have cooled off over the last year.
Meta Will Bring ‘Augments’ to Quest 3, Persistent Mini-apps That Live in Your Room
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced today at Connect, the company’s annual XR developer conference, that it’s going to launch a set of mixed reality mini-apps on Quest 3 that you can stick anywhere in your house.
LEGO Mixed Reality Game Coming to Quest 3 December 7th
Meta announced at its Connect developer conference today that LEGO is releasing a mixed reality game for Quest 3, named LEGO Bricktales.
Meta Exclusive ‘Asgard’s Wrath 2’ Coming to Quest 3 in December
During Meta’s Connect 2023 developer conference today the company revealed the hotly awaited sequel to Asgard’s Wrath, the single-player adventure which launched on Rift in 2019, is coming to Quest 2 and the fully unveiled Quest 3 on December 15th.
