2023 Sections
Facebook Messenger Comes to Oculus Quest in New Update
Facebook announced that the v25 software update for its Quest platform is set to include Facebook Messenger, which will be available to anyone who is logged into their Facebook account on either Quest or Quest 2.
This will allow users...
Parents Who Gift Quest 2 to Kids Under 13 Years Old are in for an Unfortunate...
Christmas day has come and the evidence suggests that Quest 2 was a hot gift item this year. While it may have inspired screams of joy, it turns out that kids under 13 years old aren't actually allowed to...
Panasonic VR Startup Shiftall Announces ‘superlight’ PC VR Headset, New Full Body Trackers
Panasonic subsidiary Shiftall announced it's releasing a new version of its MeganeX PC VR headset along with the next generation of its HaritoraX wireless body trackers.
The company calls its next SteamVR headset 'MeganeX superlight', which is said to be...
Case Study: The Design Behind ‘Cubism’s’ Hand-tracking
Hand tracking first became available on the Oculus Quest back in late 2019. Out of enthusiasm for this new input method, I published a demo of Cubism to SideQuest with experimental hand tracking support only a few days later....
One of the First Oculus Rift Games is Currently One of Vision Pro’s Best
Proton Pulse, originally created for the Oculus Rift DK1 development kit in 2013, has been re-released on Apple Vision Pro this week. Practically untouched from its original head-tracked input scheme, the game marks a soft reset in XR game...
Magic Leap Shakes up Leadership with New CEO
Magic Leap, maker of one of the best AR headsets on the market, is making a major change to its leadership with a new CEO that will face the challenge of carving out territory for its transparent AR technology...
Google Teases Android Smart Glasses Ahead of I/O Developer Conference Next Week
Google may be getting ready to unveil a pair of smart glasses at its Google I/O developer conference next week, ostensibly hoping to take on Ray-Ban Meta Glasses.
In a promo for Google I/O, Android Ecosystem President Sameer Samat showed...
‘Mindshow’ Update Lets You Collaborate on Creations with Your Steam Friends
Mindshow, the app that lets you make animated movies in VR, just pushed an update that now lets you collaborate with your Steam friends to create something truly unique.
The new 'VR Sharing' function lets you share and remix shows from inside the...
‘Transference’ Review: A Thrilling Film-like Adventure for the Digital Age
Transference (2018) is a single-player psychological thriller that takes place in a shadowy reflection of reality—the simulation of a family's collective minds who've presumably been corrupted after the father, a scientist, tests his breakthrough procedure on himself, his wife, and...
Horror Mystery ‘A Chair in a Room: Greenwater’ to Arrive on PSVR Later This Month
A Chair in a Room first came to Google Cardboard and Oculus Rift DK1 as a free demo back in 2014. Later arriving on Steam as a full game for HTC Vive and then Oculus Rift, we always wondered...
Quest is Getting a Third-person Spectator View for Casting
The latest update to the Oculus Integration for Unity includes a beta release of a spectator camera capability which will allow developers to show a third-person view to spectators watching on a smartphone or web browser.
Today if a friend...
Quest Parental Controls to Include Locks on Apps, PC VR Linking & More
Meta announced it's bringing some new parental tools to Quest headsets in the next few months which are aimed at giving parents more control over what their teens see and do in VR.
Meta's VR headsets, which are only intended...
Magic Leap Commits to OpenXR & WebXR Support Later This Year on ML2
In an ongoing shift away from a somewhat proprietary development environment on its first headset, Magic Leap has committed to bringing OpenXR support to its Magic Leap 2 headset later this year.
Although Magic Leap 2 is clearly the successor...
Update to ‘PSVR 2 App’ for SteamVR Makes it Easier to Diagnose Controller Tracking Issues
Sony has released an update to the PlayStation VR2 App which allows the headset to be used with SteamVR content. The update makes it easier to diagnose controller tracking issues which have been proven problematic.
The latest update to PlayStation VR2...
‘Puzzling Places’ is Finally Coming to PC, Arriving with VR and Flatscreen Support
Puzzling Places (2021) has been a long-time favorite immersive puzzle game, bringing a heap of its real-world scanned 3D jigsaw puzzles to players in both virtual and mixed reality. Now developer Realities.io is preparing to release it on PC, which...


















