2023 Sections
Revamped Meta App Reintroduces Quest Users to Some of the Best Immersive Art Out There
Meta has revived its VR Animation Player (2019) with the new release of Theater Elsewhere, a fresh iteration of the free animation player app that allows users to experience immersive, hand-painted worlds created with in VR art app Quill by Smoothstep...
Acer Takes Majority Control of StarVR with $5M Capital Injection
Starbreeze and Acer announced a new capitalization plan for StarVR, the upcoming high field of view (FOV) VR headset, that will see Acer inject $5 million into the project and take a 66 percent majority control of the joint venture.
Starbreeze made quite...
Disney in Talks with Jim Henson Company to Bring ‘The Muppets’ to VR
Jim Henson's Muppets could be coming to VR following talks with Disney—possibly offering a clue at the sort of content Meta reportedly hopes to bring to its next VR headset.
Disney held an event on June 14th celebrating the 70th...
Vision Pro Update to Finally Let Developers Make Co-located AR Experiences
Apple's next big Vision Pro update, coming in visionOS 26 later this year, is adding the ability for developers to create co-located AR experiences so users can interact with the same app, 3D model, and more.
There probably aren't a...
Microsoft and Sony Join Other Industry Giants in Support of OpenUSD Standard
Last year, Pixar, Adobe, Apple, Autodesk, and NVIDIA announced the Alliance for OpenUSD, an organization to advance and proliferate the USD file format as the future standard for creating and distributing 3D content. The standard, which is a framework...
Hands-on: Infectiously Weird Movie Creator App ‘Mindshow’ is Now Free on Steam
Mindshow, the app that lets you create animated movies with the use of a VR headset, is now available for general release on Steam following its invite-only alpha. Letting you essentially jump into an avatar, record physical movements, simulate facial...
Update: ‘Earthlight’ Developer Experimenting With PSVR
Opaque Space, a studio working in collaboration with NASA to build space-themed VR experiences, have started experimenting with PSVR.
Update (02/06/18): In a previous version of this article, it was incorrectly reported that studio's latest experience 'Earthlight: Spacewalk' would be coming to...
‘Racket: NX’ Leaves Early Access, Bringing ‘Breakout’ Style Room-scale Gameplay to VR
Racket: NX (2018), the futuristic VR racket game, has left Early Access on Steam and the Oculus Store.
Developed by Tel Aviv-based studio One Hamsa, Racket: NX puts a stylish VR spin on some classic game mechanics made famous in titles such...
Valve Updates ‘The Lab’ with Index Controller Support & Latest VR Tech Stack
Valve launched The Lab as an experimental VR playground way back in 2016. Today the company is updating the game to bring it up to speed with the company's latest VR tech stack, including Index controller support, overhauled physics, spatialized...
Media Molecule: ‘Dreams’ PSVR Support Coming ‘as soon as possible’
Dreams, Media Molecule's creation-focused game, launched out of Early Access lat week, but without the hotly-awaited addition of PSVR support. Although the studio has spoken very little about its plans to support PSVR in the preceding months, a Video Games...
Missing Apps & Account Issues on Quest Largely Fixed, But Linger for Some
Earlier this month Meta acknowledged a Quest account issue that which led to some users being logged out of their headsets and others missing their library of apps entirely. A "majority" of affected accounts have been fixed, according to...
‘Into the Radius 2’ Coming to PC VR Headsets This Summer via Steam Early Access, Trailer...
CM Games, the developer behind the single-player survival shooter Into the Radius (2020), confirmed in a new gameplay trailer that its long-awaited sequel is coming to Steam Early Access this summer.
Update (April 15th, 2024): The game, which has both a...
Somnium Begins Shipping VR1 PC VR Headset in the US, Announces Incoming Price Hike
Somnium Space, the Prague, Czechia-based social platform creator, has officially begun launching its PC VR headset, Somnium VR1, in the US. Additionally, the company announced its streamlining the number of available variants, bringing it to just three consumer-focused versions,...
HTC Vive Pro Headset Review: Welcomed Improvements Overshadowed By a Steep Price
Set to launch this week, on the two year anniversary of the original Vive, HTC's Vive Pro shows the progress the company has been able to make on their VR headset in the same span, though it isn't being...
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...



















