Flat2VR Parent Studio Opens VR Native Publisher ‘Impact Inked’

Impact Reality, parent company of Flat2VR Studios, has opened a new publishing wing dedicated exclusively to bringing VR natives to market. Impact Reality announced in March 2024 it was forming Flat2VR Studios, a team led by VR modders dedicated to...

[Industry Direct] PHI Studio & Agog Are Seeking Immersive Artists for a Four Week Residency Program

Industry Direct by PHI Studio Industry Direct is our program for sponsors who want to speak directly to the Road to VR newsletter audience. Industry Direct posts are written by sponsors with no involvement from the Road to VR editorial...

‘Puzzling Places’ is Finally Coming to PC, Arriving with VR and Flatscreen Support

Puzzling Places (2021) has been a long-time favorite immersive puzzle game, bringing a heap of its real-world scanned 3D jigsaw puzzles to players in both virtual and mixed reality. Now developer Realities.io is preparing to release it on PC, which...

Popular Extraction Shooter ‘Ghosts of Tabor’ is Finally Coming to PSVR 2 This Week

Ghosts of Tabor (2024) has been available on Quest and PC VR headsets since 2023, arguably becoming the premier extraction shooter in VR to date. While we initially expected the PSVR 2 version to arrive shortly after its early access...

Spacetop Launches Windows App to Turn Laptops into Large AR Workspaces

Late last year, Sightful announced it was cancelling its unique laptop with built-in AR glasses, instead pivoting to build a version of its AR workspace software for Windows. Now the company has released Spacetop for Windows, which lets you...
video

VR Design Unpacked: The Secret to Beat Saber’s Fun Isn’t What You Think

Our series Inside XR Design highlights and unpacks examples of great XR design. Today we’re looking at Beat Saber (2019) and why its most essential design element can be used to make great VR games that have nothing to do with...

Quest Devs Can Now Publish Apps That Use the Headset’s Cameras to Scan the World

While Meta's Quest has always relied heavily on cameras for tracking location of the headset, controllers, and the world around the user, developers haven't had the same privileged access to the headset's cameras. Earlier this year Meta gave developers...

Apple is Adding visionOS Support to Open-source Game Engine to Expand Development Options

In a rare move, Apple is directly adding support for its visionOS platform to the Godot open-source game engine. The move expands the range of tools that developers can use to build content for the headset. Like the popular Unity...
video

‘GHOST TOWN’, The Follow-up to a Top-rated VR Puzzler, Launches on Quest—Coming Soon to PC VR & PSVR 2

GHOST TOWN is the latest VR game to launch from Fireproof Games, a studio whose previous title, The Room: A Dark Matter, is one of the best and most rated VR puzzle games to date. Ghost Town is now available on...

Android XR Is Coming – Just Don’t Expect Google to Shout About It Yet

Google released the schedule for its upcoming I/O developer conference, which includes developer-focused sessions promising to deliver more insight into its upcoming Android XR operating system. At least from the schedule, it doesn't seem Google is getting that vocal...