2023 Sections
Facebook Artist Unveils Impressive Oculus Quest Experience ‘The Last Oasis’, Built in ‘Quill’
Facebook Art Director Goro Fujita works at the company's Social VR team, and while he's typically occupied with creating modest, but fantastical “quillistrations” as a part of his daily regime using Facebook's first-party art tool Quill (2017), Fujita today unveiled...
‘Superhot VR’ Has Now Generated More Revenue Than The Original PC Game
Superhot VR (2016) just celebrated a big milestone. Having sold more than 800,000 units across all supported platforms, developers Superhot Team say the VR title has now generated more revenue than their original hit PC game Superhot (2016).
It's no surprise the...
‘Cubism’ Aims to Artfully Tickle Your Brain With Its Solid Dissection Puzzles, Demo Now Available
Cubism is an upcoming VR puzzle game from indie developer Thomas Van Bouwel that challenges you to think in 3 dimensions. Inspired by puzzles like the Soma cube, or a cube composed of smaller Tetris-like geometric pieces, Cubism tasks...
Oculus Launch Avatar Lip Sync Plugin for Unity
Oculus have released a dedicated Unity plugin which aims to automatically detect and transform an audio stream from speech into virtual character lip movements automatically.
It seems that the substantial investment in research and development at Oculus over the last...
Video Gives Us a Peek Into the Future of How AR and VR Will Work Together
We're all waiting for the day when you can put on a singular, tether-free headset and experience all the 'R's that VR/AR/MR have to offer—and NormalVR, a "small but focused" group of passionate immersive media creators just gave us a peek...
Preview: ‘The Crystal Curse’
The Crystal Curse is death-defying puzzle game created by Sigtrap Games for HTC Vive. Make sure to invite your friends and family though, because much like the breakout hit Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes, The Crystal Curse requires more than one person...
Valve Sends ‘Knuckles’ Controller Dev Kit to Revive Developer
Valve isn't being shy about their support for Jules "LibreVR" Blok, the developer behind Revive, a hack which allows the Vive to play games from the Oculus store. Having patched SteamVR on more than one occasion to ensure Revive's...
Former Oculus CTO: Don’t Expect Cheaper VR Headsets Than Quest After Horizon OS Release
Meta announced last week it's set to release Horizon OS (ex-Quest OS) to select third-party OEMs, marking a monumental shift in how the company hopes to compete with Apple now that it's released Vision Pro. While Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg...
Snap Inc. & Niantic’s New Partnership Could be a Big Moment for City-scale AR Positioning and...
Snap Inc., the company behind the Snapchat social app and Spectacles AR glasses, has teamed up with Niantic Spatial to bring accurate geospatial capabilities to the Snapchat and Spectacles platforms. The partnership could be mutually beneficial as Snap's platforms...
‘Ghosts of Tabor’ Studio’s Next Shooter ‘Silent North’ Launches into Early Access in March
Ghosts of Tabor studio Combat Waffle is nearing launch of Silent North, the studio’s next VR shooter that promises plenty of multiplayer zombie survival action, with Quest and Steam early access launches planned for sometime in March.
Published by Beyond Frames Entertainment, Silent...
Survival-Exploration Game ‘Space Pirates and Zombies 2’ Launches Out of Steam Early Access November 7th
Space Pirates and Zombies 2, a single player, space-based survival-exploration game from indie studio MinMax Games, is officially heading out of its year and a half-long stint in Steam Early Access on November 7th, including its fully featured VR port that supports the...
‘Demeter’ is an Intriguing MR Platformer for Quest That Actually Reacts to Your Room
Meta announced a new mixed reality platformer for Quest called Demeter that uses your furniture and walls so you can solve puzzles and challenges, tasking you to guide a pint-size hero get back to her world.
Developed by Novelab and...
Meta Reveals Next Generation Aria Glasses for Research and Experimentation
Meta today revealed its next-gen glasses, Aria Gen 2, which the company intends to release to third-party researchers working on machine perception systems, AI and robotics.
The company revealed its first iteration of Project Aria back in 2020, showing off a...
Meta Appears to be Readying a Quest 3 Charging Dock to Streamline Usage
A new charging dock from Meta, apparently for Quest 3, has been revealed through regulatory certification. As with Quest Pro's dock, the goal of the new dock is certainty to streamline headset usage by encouraging users to keep it...
XEODesign’s Nicole Lazzaro on Design Leadership in VR
XEODesign's Nicole Lazarro has been researching emotional reactions of gamers in VR to discover the unique properties of the medium. You can't just port a 2D game into VR and expect it to work, and so she's calling for...



















