2023 Sections
‘Swords of Gargantua’ Studio Thirdverse Secures $15M, Aims to Bring Latest Titles to PSVR 2
Japanese VR studio Thirdverse today revealed it's raised $15 million, something the Swords of Gargantua developer says will be used to expand global recruitment and develop new Web3 and VR titles.
In its latest round, MZ Web3 Fund has signed...
Qualcomm Reveals Snapdragon AR2 Processor for Glasses-sized AR Devices
Qualcomm today announced Snapdragon AR2, its "purpose-built headworn augmented reality platform." Differentiating from the company's existing Snapdragon XR2 chips, Qualcomm says the AR2 architecture is better suited for creating AR glasses with low power consumption and compact form factors.
Today...
Co-op VR Stealth Action Game ‘Espire 2’ Releases on Quest 2 Later This Month
Co-op VR stealth action game Espire 2 is headed to Quest 2 later this month with a pre-order discount starting today. A new developer diary video shows the latest in the game's development.
Update (November 4th, 2022): Developer Digital Lode today...
Co-op ‘Ghostbusters’ VR Game ‘Rise of the Ghost Lord’ Coming to Quest 2 & PSVR 2...
First revealed at the Quest Gaming Showcase back in April as Ghostbusters VR, Sony Pictures Virtual Reality and nDreams today unveiled the name of their upcoming four-player co-op: Ghostbusters: Rise of the Ghost Lord. The game is slated to...
Quest Pro Review – Impressive Hardware With a Value Proposition That’s Kind of a Mess
Quest Pro is here and brings with it some welcomed hardware improvements but a dubious value proposition that's highly dependent on someone else making the right apps.
There's two ways to look at Quest Pro:
A better and more expensive...
Meta Confirms Next-gen Consumer Quest Headset Planned for 2023
Meta quietly confirmed that its next consumer-focused Quest headset (likely called Quest 3) will launch in 2023.
While it was a bit more than a year between the launch of the first Quest and Quest 2, it's now been more...
Meta Reality Labs Latest Revenue & Operating Cost Figures Aren’t Going to Make Investors Happy
In Meta's most recent quarterly earnings call the company shared the latest revenue figures of Reality Labs, the company's XR division. In the third quarter of the year the division hit new milestones... unfortunately not the kind investors like...
Hands-on: Quest Pro is the Dawn of the Mixed Reality Headset Era
Quest Pro has finally been revealed and we were lucky enough to be among the first to get a hands-on demo with this interesting new standalone VR MR headset.
Update (October 25th, 2022): Quest Pro releases today—our review unit arrived...
Quest App Lab Soars to 1,440 Apps, More Than Tripling Those on the Main Store
In early 2021 Meta launched App Lab for Quest which allows developers to distribute their games on the headset without going through Meta's curation process. There's now 1,457 games and apps available on App Lab, more than triple the...
Unreal Engine 5’s New Rendering Tech is Beginning to Make VR Look Startlingly Real
Unreal Engine 5 brings two key features which stand to radically improve the realism of both 3D geometry and lighting. While the features aren't yet fully optimized for VR, early developer experiments are showing impressive results.
Unreal Engine 5 launched...
Quest Store Surpasses $1.5 Billion in Content Revenue, Showing Continued Growth
At Connect 2022 this month, Meta announced the Quest content store has surpassed $1.5 billion in purchased VR content since its launch in 2019, representing continued but decelerating growth likely due mostly to market seasonality.
Update (October 18th, 2022): Article...
Quest Pro vs. Quest 2: Beyond the Paper Specs
Quest Pro has finally been revealed, and while it's a much more expensive headset, inevitably people are interested in knowing how it compares to Meta's next best headset, Quest 2. So here we're going to look at Quest Pro...
Quest Pro Revealed with Snapdragon XR2+, Face-tracking, & More; Ships October 25th for $1,500
Today during Meta Connect the company finally revealed its high-end Quest Pro headset (formerly called Project Cambria). Priced at $1,500, the headset packs a new Snapdragon XR2+ processor along with a bevy of sensors for tracking the user's expressions...
Meta Reveals Touch Pro Controllers for Quest Pro, Also Compatible with Quest 2
Meta's new Quest Pro headset includes Touch Pro controllers which come with a bevy upgrades, and they'll work with Quest 2 as well.
Meta says that Quest Pro and Quest 2 will co-exist as high-end and entry-level headset lines, and...
Expect 1-2 Hours of Quest Pro Battery Life, Says Meta; Included Dock May Ease the Pain
Despite a flood of leaks leading up to its official unveiling, there's one thing we definitely didn't know about Quest Pro before today: its battery life. And at Connect, Meta revealed we should expect between one to two hours...



















