2023 Sections
New Unity 6 Feature Makes it Easier for XR Devs to Maximize Text & UI Quality
The latest version of the Unity game engine—which is the basis for the vast majority of XR games made today—is now available to developers as a preview. Unity 6 Preview includes new features to make XR development easier, including...
‘Until You Fall’ Early Access Review: VR Hack & Slash, with Depth
Until You Fall is something of an unexpected title for Schell Games. For a studio which has previously focused on education and puzzle based VR games, Until You Fall brings a surprisingly rich combat experience which successfully fuses meta-game elements in...
New PSVR ‘DOOM VFR’ Bundle Will Include Updated Headset, Launching December 1st
Just in time for Christmas, the much awaited DOOM VFR is getting a PlayStation VR bundle too, giving you everything you need to battle demons from the pits of Hell.
Including a PSVR headset, PS Camera, the new PSVR demo disc and a...
WEARVR Launches $10,000 Competition to Bring New Life to Dev Kit-era Apps
As Oculus has pushed out iterative runtimes to support its consumer hardware, many of the beloved early VR experiments have fallen to the wayside, languishing without support and lost in the annals of defunct software. To remedy this, WEARVR, an independent...
Long-delayed PSVR Game ‘Golem’ to Reemerge at PAX East Next Week
We weren't certain the PSVR title Golem would ever see the light of day after its lengthy delay. It wasn't until the studio assured us late last year that yes, the game was still in production well after its prospective March...
‘Stardust Odyssey’ is a Co-op Space Shooter Coming to PSVR in December
Stardust Odyssey, a co-op spaceship shooter from Agharta Studio, was announced during PlayStation’s 'State of Play' broadcast back in September. Although we're no closer to really grasping what the mysterious title as to offer in terms of gameplay, we...
CREAL Picks up $7.4 Million in Funding for Its Light-field Tech
When we caught up with CREAL and its light-field tech at CES 2020 this week, the founders also filled us in on the latest happenings with the company, including the closure of a recent funding round which, between investments...
Valve’s Gabe Newell: ‘We’re excited to return to Half-Life, VR has energized the studio’
Half-Life: Alyx has finally been revealed with Valve promising a "full-length" Half-Life game "designed from the ground up for virtual reality." On the reveal, Valve founder Gabe Newell says that VR has energized the studio.
In an announcement from Valve today, the company's...
Facebook Disguised Quest 2 Dev Kits as Clothing Irons to Avoid Prying Eyes
Even though Quest 2 was leaked well before it was officially announced, Facebook still did their level best to hide the box from prying eyes while en route to developers, camouflaging it as an ordinary household clothing iron.
Now that...
‘Haptic Shape Illusion’ Allows VR Controllers to Simulate Feel of Physically Larger Objects
In a study lead by Eisuke Fujinawa at the University of Tokyo, a team of students created a procedure for designing compact VR controllers that feel physically larger. Exploring the concept of ‘haptic shape illusion’, the controllers have data-driven,...
Oculus Now Accepting OpenXR Apps on Quest & Rift, a Big Step for Cross-platform Development
OpenXR is a widely supported open standard which aims to make cross-platform VR development easier by allowing developers to build around a single API rather than porting their apps to many different APIs. Today the company announced that developers...
New Quest Update Reimagines the Landing Page, Once Again Sequestering Your App Library
Instead of taking you right to your library of installed apps, Meta is making yet another perplexing change to the Quest landing page in v57.
Since the earliest days of Meta's VR platform, the company has been seemingly obsessed with not...
‘Moss: Book II’ to Release on Quest 2 Next Month
Having received a strong reception on PSVR back at the end of March, Moss: Book II from developer Polyarc is now set to release on Quest 2 starting next month.
Update (June 9th, 2022): Polyarc today announced during UploadVR's Summer Showcase that...
Why Apple Can’t Ignore VR Forever
Apple Vision Pro is coming next year, not only making for the Fruit Company's much awaited first XR headset, but also spurring a resurgence in public interest (and likely investment) in the XR space. At $3,500, Vision Pro is...
Sony Cuts Price of PSVR & PS4 Console by $100 for Week-long Black Friday Sale
With major US retailers already greasing the wheels of their shopping carts in preparation for the yearly scramble we call Black Friday, Sony today announced on the US PlayStation blog that it's temporarily lowering the price of all PlayStation VR...



















