Meta Planning Web-based Version of ‘Horizon Worlds’ With Lower Creator Fees Than Its VR Platform
Meta announced earlier this week it would eventually allow creators to sell items on its social VR platform, Horizon Worlds, adding that the company would take around 50% of revenue as its cut. Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth now says however Horizon...
‘Half-Life 2’ VR Mod Shows Off New Progress with Gravity Gun Gameplay
Many years before the release of Half-Life: Alyx, a group of fans built a rudimentary Half-Life 2 VR mod which allowed the game to be played with early VR headset development kits. Unfortunately the mod eventually lost compatibility with newer hardware...
HTC Brings OpenXR Public Beta to Vive Focus 3
HTC announced this week it is making available an OpenXR public beta for the Vive Focus 3. OpenXR is designed to make it easier for developers to create a single app that's cross-compatible with multiple OpenXR-supporting headsets.
OpenXR is a royalty-free...
Apple Says Steep ‘Horizon Worlds’ Creator Fees Show Meta’s “Hypocrisy”
Earlier this week Meta announced that it would begin testing tools to let creators sell things for real money in Horizon Worlds and would charge a fee of 47.5% of their earnings. The fee structure seemed at odds with prior...
Genies Secures $150M Series C to Expand Development on Metaverse Avatars
Genies, a 3D avatar company, announced it's raised a $150 million Series C investment, something it says will be used to hire more engineering talent and continue development on its non-fungible token (NFT) based "avatar universe."
The round was led by...
Virtual Social Platform ‘Rec Room’ Hits 3 Million Monthly Active VR Users
Rec Room, a social VR game which also supports non-VR devices like PC, console, and mobile phones, has reached an impressive 3 million monthly active VR users, which the company says is just a fraction of its total monthly...
‘Pokémon Go’ Studio’s New Game, ‘Peridot’, Leans Further into AR Gameplay
'Pokémon Go' studio Niantic announced Peridot today, its latest game which the company says leans further into AR than prior projects.
When developer Niantic launched Pokémon Go back in 2016, many heralded it as 'the first major augmented reality game'. But...
PSVR Shooter ‘Fracked’ is Coming to PC VR in May
Fracked (2021), the action adventure game from veteran VR studio nDreams, is set to leave PSVR exclusivity in May, as it's landing on PC VR headsets via Steam and Viveport.
The run-and-gun VR shooter is slated to release on PC VR headsets...
Meta Plans to Take Nearly 50% of Creator’s Earnings in ‘Horizon Worlds’
This week Meta announced that it was beginning to test selling tools so that creators can sell things inside of Horizon Worlds and earn real money. Now the company has offered up more detail about how that will work, including the...
Report: Meta Quest 2 Pro Said to Feature Higher-Res Mini-LED & Pancake Lenses, Arriving in 2022
Tech analyst Ming-Chi Kuo is known for making predictions based on Apple supply chain leaks, but this time Kuo alleges Meta is getting ready to release a 'Pro' branded follow-up to its most popular VR headset to date, Quest...
