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Where to Change Quest 2 Privacy Settings and See What VR Data Meta Collects

In late 2020 Meta began requiring the use of Facebook accounts for all new users of its Oculus headsets, the culmination of a trend of deeper integration between Oculus products and Facebook services. Although the company is soon planning...

‘Ultrawings 2′ Has ’10x More Sales’ on Quest, Developer Says, Despite Design Focus on PC VR

In a seemingly unprompted tweet this week, Ultrawings 2 developer Bit Planet Games said that despite building its latest game with a focus on the PC VR platform, the studio has seen significantly more sales volume on Quest 2. Adding...
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New Footage Shows ‘Red Matter 2’ Pushing the Limits of Quest 2 Graphics

In its announcement of Red Matter 2 earlier this year, developer Vertical Robot made the ambitious claim that it would deliver the "best graphics on mobile VR to date.” And now a new video shows the studio backing up its...

Hidden SteamVR Feature May be Another Clue to Valve’s Rumored Standalone VR Headset

A recent SteamVR beta release included a hidden feature that allows the user's playspace boundary to be set up in a passthrough mode which could eventually be used for existing SteamVR headsets or a future headset from Valve. Users of...

The 20 Best Rated & Most Popular Quest Games & Apps – July 2022

While Oculus doesn’t offer much publicly in the way of understanding how well individual games & apps are performing across its Quest 2 storefront, it’s possible to glean some insight by looking at apps relative to each other. Here’s...

VR Studio Releases Free Unity Development Framework for Building Rich VR Interactions

Veteran enterprise VR studio VRMADA has released a public version of its VR toolset for quickly building immersive interactions for VR within Unity. Called UltimateXR, the studio says the tool is free and open source. Our Guest Article by VRMADA...

‘Zombieland: Headshot Fever’ Studio Raises $7M to Continue Development on XR Games

XR Games, the indie VR studio behind Zombieland: Headshot Fever (2021), announced it's secured $7 million (£5.9m), something the studio says will used to grow both its team and intellectual property as it continues to develop new XR games. The latest funding...

PSVR 2 Spotted in Developer Photo, Studio Claims Fakery

VR indie studio Bit Planet Games tweeted out a photo yesterday of what appears to be the first spotting of PlayStation VR 2 in the wild. The tweet has since been deleted by the studio, which claims it was...

Three Years After Launch, and Still $1,000, Demand for Valve’s VR Headset Remains Strong

A smaller number of people willing to buy an expensive product can really add up, as Valve has found with its high-end Index headset. At the third anniversary of the headset's release—despite its age and never-discounted $1,000 price tag—the...

JRPG ‘Ruinsmagus’ to Release on Quest 2 & SteamVR July 7th

CharacterBank today announced that its JRPG RUINSMAGUS is launching next week, coming to Quest 2 and PC VR headsets via Steam. Update (June 29th, 2022): In a Japanese language tweet, CharacterBank today announced that Ruinsmagus is headed to Quest and...

Apple Reveals Improvements Coming in ARKit 6 for Developers

Earlier this month during Apple's annual developer conference, WWDC 2022, the company gave developers the first look at improvements coming to Apple's ARKit 6 toolkit for building AR apps on iOS devices. Though Apple has yet to reveal (or even...

In Just 7 Months ‘Blade & Sorcery’ Has the Most Reviews of Any Quest Game, Except...

In just seven months, Blade & Sorcery: Nomad, the Quest port of the popular PC VR game, has amassed more reviews than any other paid Quest game, except one. What explains the game's staggering popularity? Update (June 27th, 2022): It was clear...

How (and why) to Sideload Games on Quest with SideQuest

There's are plenty of great apps on the Quest Store, but did you know you can download games, experiences, and useful tools from an entirely different library? With SideQuest, you can expand your horizons with unofficial mods, tools, and...

Report: Apple Analyst Claims Mixed Reality Headset Announcement May Come January 2023

Industry analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, a respected figure in all things Apple supply chain leaks, says the Cupertino tech giant is likely preparing to announce its long-rumored mixed reality headset early next year. Update (June 27th, 2022): Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo reached...

Apple Quietly Released One of The Most Impressive AR Room-mapping Tools

Apple has barely mentioned augmented or virtual reality in its big keynotes lately, however at WWDC 2022 earlier this month, the company quietly released probably one of the best 3D room-mapping tools for mobile AR yet. Called RoomPlan, the ARKit...
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