‘Animal Company’ Breaks 1 Million Monthly Users, Passes ‘Gorilla Tag’ as Quest’s Top-earner This Week
Animal Company, the free-to-play early access game on Quest, nabbed the top spot for Quest's highest-earning game this week, overtaking long-time viral hit Gorilla Tag in the weekly charts. Now, developer Wooster Games tells Road to VR it's not only already profitable,...
Meta Delists ‘Max Mustard’ & ‘Richie’s Plank Experience’ from Quest, Citing Violation of Platform Abuse Policy
Toast Interactive announced their VR games Max Mustard (2024) and Richie’s Plank Experience (2017) have been removed from the Horizon Store for Quest. For now, it's unclear precisely why, however the veteran indie studio says the move has left them feeling "betrayed and powerless."
"Unfortunately,...
‘TREKS’ Brings Immersive Walking Tours of Iconic Destinations to Omni One VR Treadmill
Virtuix announced it's releasing an immersive tourism app for its Omni One VR treadmill system that lets you walk through some of the world's most iconic destinations.
Coming to the company's Omni One all-in-one system on March 6th, TREKS matches immersive video up with...
Lauded VR Storytelling Studio Astrea Releases Latest Project on Quest & PC VR
Astrea, the studio and publisher behind a host of VR narrative experiences, including Spheres, Astra, and Mobile Suit Gundam: Silver Phantom, has released an interactive VR experience on Quest and PC VR headsets that lets you embody passengers on a...
Early Versions of Meta’s Orion AR Glasses Envisioned a Neck-worn Compute Unit
Meta revealed its Orion prototype last year to show the progress it has made toward compact AR glasses. Today the company talked more about the prototyping process, especially regarding the 'compute puck' that offloads much of the heavy processing...
Rockstar Games Acquires Studio Behind ‘L.A. Noire VR’ & Scrapped ‘GTA: San Andreas’ Quest Port
Rockstar Games announced it's acquiring Video Games Deluxe, the Sydney-based studio behind L.A. Noire: The VR Case Files (2017) and the shelved Quest port of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (2004).
The details of the acquisition haven't been made public, however Rockstar...
VR Games Showcase to Feature 20+ Games Next Week, Including ‘Hitman’, Flat2VR Ports & More
VR Games Showcase is returning next week, promising to feature 20+ VR games from over a dozen developers and publishers. The livestream, kicking off on March 11th at 12 PM ET, is slated to not only include updates to...
‘Stranger Things VR’ Studio’s Next Project ‘Face Jumping’ Looks Like Another Patently Weird VR Experience
Tender Claws, the studio behind Stranger Things VR (2024) and Virtual Virtual Reality (2017), announced they're debuting another patently weird VR experience at SXSW this week, which is all about swapping perspectives by making eye contact.
The VR experience, called...
Online Dating Company Announces $20M Annual Fund to Accelerate “virtual intimacy” Startups
Social Discovery Group, the company behind Dating.com and DateMyAge.com, announced it's launched a venture studio that aims to "transform virtual intimacy into the new normal" by backing early-stage startups in AI-powered communication, XR advancements, and social discovery platforms.
Called SDG...
‘Dimensional Double Shift’ is Owlchemy Labs’ Fastest Growing Game, Tapping Into Quest’s Latest Freemium Trend
Owlchemy Labs has been a powerhouse of top-selling VR games, so when the Google-owned studio released Dimensional Double Shift in beta last year for free, it wasn't immediately clear why the studio behind Job Simulator (2016) was making its first stride into...















