Cisco Boosts Vision Pro Meetings with New ‘Webex’ Spatial Video Streaming Update

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Cisco updated its Webex networking app to include even more immersive support for meetings on Vision Pro, which now marries the app with its spatial video streaming hardware.

‘Shattered’ is a Mixed Reality Escape Room That Aims to Thrill, Coming to Quest 3 in December

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PlaySide Studios, developer behind the upcoming Quest 3 party game Dumb Ways: Free for All, announced it’s releasing a psychological thriller on later this year that turns your physical space into a mixed reality escape room.

Watch NBA Courtside in Quest, Including 52 Immersive Games This Season

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The 2024-25 NBA season is here, and Meta has again partnered with the NBA to bring a fat slate of 180-degree immersive games to Quest.

‘Batman: Arkham Shadow’ Review – Arkham Comes to VR in (almost) All the Right Ways

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Batman: Arkham Shadow stays true to the series formula, but did developer Camouflaj manage to make the game feel truly at home in VR? Read our full review to find out.

Apple May Halt Vision Pro Production by Year-End Amid Report of Sharply Reduced Output

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Apple appears to be scaling back production of Vision Pro, and may even halt manufacturing entirely by the end of the year, The Information reports.

VR’s Favorite Combat Sandbox is Bringing Long-awaited Campaign to Quest Next Week, Trailer Here

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Blade & Sorcery: Nomad, the physics-based combat sandbox for Quest, has essentially been the little brother to the PC VR game ever since it released in 2021. With the addition of the game’s long-awaited ‘Crystal Hunt’ campaign on Quest next week, that’s set to change.

‘Minecraft’ is Also Now Dropping PC VR Support in 2025 in Addition to PSVR

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Mojang announced last month it was dropping PSVR support for Minecraft in 2025, which was mostly understandable considering the headset is now eight years old. In the release notes of the latest Bedrock update though, the studio says PC VR is getting the boot too.

Meta Explains Why It Sees Wide Field-of-View Headsets as a ‘bad tradeoff’

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Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth revealed last week a mysterious wide field-of-view (FOV) headset prototyped in the Redmond, Washington-based Reality Labs offices. Bosworth now reveals the research prototype had something close to a 210-degree FOV, however wide FOV displays are a critical tradeoff the company isn’t ready to make.

Top NFL QB Credits VR Training as a Big Part of His Success, Calling It a “flight simulator” for Football

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The Washington Commanders’ offensive coordinator Kliff Kingsbury is all-in on VR training, something the team’s star quarterback Jayden Daniels credits for accelerating his development, the New York Times reports.

Elijah Wood Revealed as the Voice of Scarecrow in ‘Batman: Arkham Shadow’, Coming to Quest 3

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Camouflaj, the studio behind upcoming Quest 3 exclusive Batman: Arkham Shadow, revealed that none other an Elijah Wood both voiced and did motion capture for Scarecrow, aka Dr. Jonathan Crane.

U.S. Army Needs Microsoft AR Headset to Be “substantially less” Than Projected $80K Price Tag

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Microsoft’s contract with the U.S. Army to build a combat-ready AR headset is worth up to $22 billion, but only if the company can deliver the goods at “substantially less than” the projected $80,000 per unit, the Army tells Bloomberg. Requirements also include definitively positive field testing, set to take place early next year.

Why I Think AR Glasses Are the Inevitable Future of the Smartphone

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I was asked recently for my thoughts on Meta’s Orion AR glasses, specifically whether or not such glasses stand a chance of becoming as big as (or replacing) the smartphones in the future.

One of PC’s Best Co-op Horror Games is Coming to PSVR 2 Just in Time for Halloween

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Phasmophobia(2020) is one of the scariest PC VR-supported games, and now developers Kinetic Games announced a release date for PSVR 2.

‘Arizona Sunshine Remake’ Releases on Quest, PSVR 2 and PC VR, Boasting Visual & Mechanical Overhaul

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Vertigo Games released its remake of Arizona Sunshine (2016), the co-op zombie-killing adventure that started it all, boasting overhauled visuals and a new gore system pioneered in Arizona Sunshine 2 (2023).

Quest 3S Review – Value That Can’t Be Beat, With the Same Rough Edges as Its Siblings

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Quest 3S | Photo by Road to VR

Quest 3S is here and brings with it an undeniable value considering its price and capabilities. But many longstanding gripes—largely related to Meta’s Horizon OS—apply here just the same.

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