2023 Sections
VR & Flatscreen Indie Hit ‘Exit 8’ is Getting a Live Action Movie This Year, Trailer...
Exit 8 (2023), the indie hit walking simulator for PC and VR headsets, is getting a live action film, bringing its Tokyo underground anomalies to the big screen this year.
Exit 8 is being made into a full-length film for worldwide...
Classic Melee Combat Game ‘GORN’ is Getting a Sequel Later This Year on Quest, PC VR...
GORN (2019), the comically violent combat game from Free Lives, is getting a sequel that aims to bring a double dose of madcap melee mayhem, coming to all major VR headsets later this year.
GORN 2 is currently being developed by Cortopia Studios, with...
HTC Partners to Stream VR Games to Vive in China, Cutting VR-Ready PCs Out of the...
Oculus and HTC have already reduced the prices of their respective headsets, with the Oculus Rift now selling for $500 and HTC Vive for $600. While graphically-capable PCs are cheaper than ever thanks to new GPUs and software optimizations,...
Firmware Update Brings Vive Pro Audio Improvements, HTC Looking into Reports of Screen Issues
Following a small rash of reports from new Vive and Vive Pro users, HTC says they're looking into issues regarding mismatched display brightness. Additionally, SteamVR's beta branch brings a firmware update to the Vive Pro which is said to...
Meta Issues Voluntary Recall of Early Quest 3 Elite Battery Straps Due to Charging Fault
A widespread charging fault with Meta's $130 Elite Battery Strap for Quest 3 forced the company to pause shipments back in December and start replacing units on a case-by-case basis. Now, it seems Meta has zeroed in on just which...
Hands-on: New VR Shooter ‘VENDETTA FOREVER’ Mashes ‘Pistol Whip’ & ‘Superhot’ Into Something Unique
Veteran VR studio nDreams has made several shooters with innovative mechanics over the years. That experience seems to have guided the studio's publishing interest as well; the newly announced VENDETTA FOREVER, developed by MeatSpace Interactive and published by nDreams, uses...
Amazon Prime Video is Getting a Well Overdue Relaunch on Quest, Including Offline Watching
Amazon today released a new version of its Prime Video app for Quest, which is letting you do one thing the 2019-era version never got around to: downloading and watching videos offline. That ought to put Travel Mode to...
‘Shattered’ is a Mixed Reality Escape Room That Aims to Thrill, Coming to Quest 3 in...
PlaySide Studios, developer behind the upcoming Quest 3 party game Dumb Ways: Free for All, announced it's releasing a psychological thriller on later this year that turns your physical space into a mixed reality escape room.
Called Shattered, the single-player MR game promises...
‘Meta for Education’ Program Exits Beta, Bringing Quest to the Classroom
Meta announced its 'Meta for Education' program is now out of beta, allowing schools and educational institutions from all over to fill their classrooms with Quest headsets and use a variety of education-focused XR apps and software.
Initially announced last...
More Than 100 VR Games Have Exceeded $1 Million in Revenue
While VR is still young, it crossed an important milestone at the start of 2020: more than 100 VR games have exceeded $1 million in revenue.
In an analysis published earlier this month, VR Fund investor Tipatat Chennavasin made the case...
Facebook Acquires ‘Onward’ Developer Downpour Interactive in Fourth VR Studio Acquisition
Facebook today announced its fourth VR studio acquisition. This time it's Downpour Interactive, the studio behind the popular VR shooter Onward which has been continuously developed since its Early Access launch on PC back in 2016. More recently the game...
Miniature ‘Beat Saber’ Concept Offers a Peek into the Future of AR Games
Oculus released optical hand-tracking on Quest as an experimental feature late last year, and ever since developers have been showing off their own unique and creative ways of integrating users hands into VR. Yet again we look at developer Daniel Beauchamp for...
Two Classic VR Games From Google’s VR Studio Coming Soon to Vision Pro
Owlchemy Labs, the Google-owned VR studio, announced it's bringing the chart-topping VR games Job Simulator (2016) and its sequel Vacation Simulator (2019) to Apple Vision Pro.
The studio's seminal 'Simulator' franchise has had its fair share of success over the...
Apple Vision Pro Gets Ultrawide Mac Virtual Display in visionOS 2.2 Release
Previously only available in beta, Apple has now pushed its panoramic display feature to all Vision Pro users, bringing the choice of three virtual screen sizes when using Mac Virtual Display.
Mac Virtual Display initially launched with a single virtual...
‘Swordsman’ Studio Secures $2.5M to Create New Free-to-Play VR Combat Game
Sinn Studio, the Toronto-based indie behind VR sword-fighting game Swordsman (2020), has secured $2.5 million in a funding round, which is slated to propel the studio as it develops a new free-to-play combat game for VR.
The funding round was led by...



















