2023 Sections
Meta Planning Web-based Version of ‘Horizon Worlds’ With Lower Creator Fees Than Its VR Platform
Meta announced earlier this week it would eventually allow creators to sell items on its social VR platform, Horizon Worlds, adding that the company would take around 50% of revenue as its cut. Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth now says however Horizon...
NASA-backed ‘Mars 2030’ is a Breathtakingly Real Slice of Martian Landscape the Size of ‘Skyrim’
Backed with support from NASA, the development of Mars 2030 is underscored by a singular mission: do everything possible to make the player feel like they're actually on Mars. And that, apparently, means starting with a massive, detailed recreation of...
Yu-Gi-Oh! Card Duels Come to VR in ‘Duel Monsters VR’ Fan Project
Duel Monsters VR is a newly released fan project that aims to put you face-first into the world of Yu-Gi-Oh!, replete with the online multiplayer PvP card dueling made famous is the manga and anime.
Duel Monsters VR supports Oculus Rift, HTC...
Data Suggests Most Expensive Quest 3 is More Popular Than Expected
Quest 3 just began shipping last week and headsets are rapidly arriving in the hands of eager buyers. While the 128GB model appears to be in strong supply, the more expensive 512GB model might be more popular than Meta...
Live Action VR Series ‘The Faceless Lady’ Debuts in ‘Horizon Worlds’ Next Month
There are plenty of live action VR videos out there, but most are fairly short, based entirely around sports, or other things... Coming soon to Meta Horizon Worlds on Quest is a VR horror series called The Faceless Lady, which is bringing six...
‘The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners’ Gets Fresh Gameplay Trailer Ahead of January Launch
Skydance Interactive and Skybound released a new gameplay video for their upcoming VR game, The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners, which is slated to arrive late next month.
Promising crafting, exploration, freedom of choice to side with warring factions, and plenty...
Oculus Quest 2 Surpasses Original Quest in Monthly Active Users
In a look back at 2020, Facebook Reality Lab's head Andrew Bosworth revealed that Quest 2 quietly celebrated a few new milestones shortly after its October 13th launch.
In the blogpost, Bosworth says that despite the need for social distancing...
‘Beat the Beats’ Rhythm-Boxing Game Launches on PSVR 2, Coming Soon to Other Major Headsets
The VR rhythm genre is getting kind of crowded, with many developers looking to replicate Beat Saber's 'hit the thing to the beat' money machine. Enter Beat the Beats, a project indeed inspired by Meta's seminal block-slashing game, although with its...
Apple AR Headset FOV, Codename, and Stereoscopic Rendering Mode Reportedly Found in iOS 13.1
Steadily becoming the biggest open-secret in the industry... more evidence has come to light that Apple in ongoing development of an AR headset. Inside iOS 13.1 beta 3, a developer claims to have found codenames, display dimensions, and fields...
Sony is Permanently Slashing PSVR 2 by $150 in March, Including ‘Horizon Call of the Mountain’...
Sony today announced it's permanently discounting PSVR 2 starting next month, bringing the PS5 and PC-compatible VR headset to $400.
Sony launched PSVR 2 nearly two years ago today at $550. Now, following little fanfare at its two-year anniversary—and no...
VisionOS 2 is Available in Developer Preview Starting Today
Today at WWDC 2024, Apple revealed VisionOS 2, the first major update for its Vision Pro headset. The new version of the software will be available for developers to experiment with starting today.
VisionOS 2 is primarily designed to round...
Tundra Tracker Kickstarter Pushed to March, First Deliveries Expected in July
Tundra Tracker, the upcoming SteamVR tracker alternative to the Vive Tracker, was originally expected to hold a Kickstarter in January, but the company behind the project, Tundra Labs, says the crowdfunding campaign has been pushed back in light of...
Xbox Cloud Gaming Comes to Quest, But You’ll Need Your Own Gamepad
Meta and Microsoft today made good on their word to bring Xbox Cloud Gaming and the Game Pass library to Quest. With a subscription to Game Pass Ultimate and a supported gamepad, Quest can now be used to play...
Ubisoft’s ‘Eagle Flight’ Multiplayer Game Coming to PlayStation VR, Vive and Rift
At PlayStation Experience, Sony has announced that Ubisoft is bringing the multiplayer virtual reality game Eagle Flight to PlayStation VR and to PC on Oculus Rift and HTC Vive VR headsets.
Eagle Flight started as a Ubisoft tech demo, among a number...
Hands-on: Roguelike Bow-shooter ‘In Death’ is Divinely Inspired & Devilishly Fun
In Death is a roguelike bow-shooter from Sólfar Studio, the developers behind Everest VR (2016). Now in Early Access on Steam and Oculus Home, the procedurally generated, medieval-inspired world stretching out in front of you offers a pretty standard selection of monsters,...



















