Quest Fitness Tracker is Getting Baked into Apple Health & Oculus App

Oculus Move is Quest 2's onboard activity layer that tracks just how much you're moving during gameplay. Now the company says its baking support for Move into both Apple Health and the Oculus App itself. First introduced in November...

Valve: New VR Users on Steam Grew by 11% in 2021, Unique Play Sessions Up 22%

New figures directly from Valve reveal the growth of VR users on Steam in 2021. Shared by Valve this week, the Steam 2021 Year in Review gives us some fresh official stats about VR usage on the platform. Valve says "new...

VR Puzzler ‘Shadow Point’ Coming to PSVR This Month, From Studio Behind ‘Jurassic World Aftermath’

Coatsink, the studio behind the Esper and Jurassic World Aftermath series, is finally bringing Shadow Point out of Quest and Rift exclusivity, as the stylish story-driven puzzle adventure is headed to PSVR this month. Shadow Point, a first-person single player game,...
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‘Beat Saber’ OST 5 Music Pack Launches Today, Including New Block Mechanics & 6 New Songs

Beat Saber, VR's favorite rhythm game, has been going strong for nearly four years now and shows no signs of slowing. Today the Meta-owned studio behind the title, Beat Games, launched its next free music pack, OST 5, which is introducing...

Quest Team Shooter ‘NERF Ultimate Championship’ to Enter Closed Beta Soon, Signups Here

NERF Ultimate Championship is an upcoming VR arena shooter that's getting ready to launch into closed beta later this month. If you're looking to go hands-on, there's still time to sign up for your chance to wall-run and blast...

Magic Leap 2 Controller May Use On-board Inside-out Tracking, an Industry-first

A new photo of Magic Leap 2 appears to show the device's controller equipped with cameras for inside-out tracking which would be the first time we've seen the approach employed in a commercial XR headset. Though we learned plenty of...

TikTok Parent ByteDance Partners with Qualcomm on XR Hardware and Software

ByteDance, parent company to TikTok and VR headset creators Pico Interactive, announced at MWC 2022 that it's partnering with Qualcomm, something that could help the chipmaker better diversify as the XR industry continues to expand. During Qualcomm's keynote at this...
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‘Cosmonious High’ Coming to Quest 2 & SteamVR This Month, Gameplay Trailer Here

Google's Owlchemy Labs, the VR studio behind Job Simulator (2016), announced that its upcoming game Cosmonious High finally has a release date for launch on PC VR and Meta Quest 2. Update (March 4th, 2022): Owlchemy Labs announced Cosmonious High is slated to launch...

‘Vox Machinae’ Review – A Deeply Immersive Mech Sim Hampered by Ambition

It's been a long, lumbering journey for VR mech sim Vox Machinae, but the game has finally hit its '1.0' release out of Early Access, now promising a full 10 hour campaign and a fully-featured multiplayer mode for up to 16...

‘Townscaper’ Developer is Looking into VR, Reveals Early Prototype

Townscaper is a clever little town-building experience that gained fame back when it first launched on Steam Early Access in 2020. Now developer Oskar Stålberg has taken interest in VR design, showing a prototype of the pint-sized town creator...