Asymmetric VR Game ‘DAVIGO’ Among Most-Played Steam Next Fest Demos
Steam Next Fest, Valve's indie showcase featuring free demos for upcoming PC games, had the most demo downloads in Next Fest history last month, and among the top titles was the asymmetric VR game Davigo.
Valve announced the 50 most-played...
Meta CTO Says Quest 3 Announcement Timing Had ‘Nothing to do with Vision Pro’
Meta CTO Andrew "Boz" Bosworth said this week that the announcement of Quest 3, which came just days ahead of Vision Pro reveal, had nothing to do with the timing of Apple's first public foray into XR.
"People won't believe...
Meta Introduces ‘Super Resolution’ Feature for Improved Quest Visuals
Meta today introduced a new developer feature called Super Resolution that's designed to improve the look of VR apps and games on Quest. The company says the new feature offers better quality upscaling at similar costs as previous techniques.
Meta...
SteamVR Now Supports Automatic Controller Binding, Making Weird VR Controllers a Little Less Weird
Valve released its 1.26 update to SteamVR, which ought to make it easier to play any VR game using any type of motion controller thanks to automatic controller binding.
The company initially released a Compatibility Mode in its 1.24 update...
Meta Reportedly in Talks With Tencent to Bring Quest to China
Facebook and Twitter have been blocked in China since 2009, but Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is hoping to get back in that country with Quest, according to a Wall Street Journal report.
Citing people familiar with the matter, the report...
HTC Quietly Retires Vive Cosmos in the US
After being out of stock for months, HTC quietly removed the US-facing product page for Vive Cosmos, its modular PC VR headset released in 2019.
The discrepancy was first discovered by Reddit user 'Kody1996', who wondered why the Vive Cosmos...
Report: Samsung Delays XR Headset Due to Stiff Competition from Apple Vision Pro
Samsung's upcoming XR headset, which is meant to compete with Apple Vision Pro, has been delayed by "one to two quarters" from its reported early 2024 release target, according to an SBS Biz (Korean) report.
Samsung announced in February it was developing...
This Quest Pro Game Recreates Sword Art Online’s Lovably Bad User Interface
Looking to immerse yourself into Sword Art Online (SAO)? While there are plenty of VR games that offer the sort of massive multiplayer immersion fans of the manga and anime series have craved over the years, a game built...
China’s Largest Telecom Forms Metaverse Industry Alliance, Including Xiaomi, Huawei, HTC & Unity
China Mobile, that country's largest wireless carier with over 940 million subscribers, has formed a metaverse industry alliance including some of the biggest names in China-based tech.
As reported by Shanghai Securities News (Chinese), China Mobile announced during Mobile World...
Meta’s Twisted Pixel Studio is Building an Unannounced VR Title with Unreal Engine
Following the studio's acquisition by Meta late last year, we haven't heard much about Twisted Pixel, a veteran VR game studio which made several exclusive titles for Meta. Now we've learned of the first details of the studio's next...
