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‘EarthQuest’ is What ‘Google Earth VR’ Should Have Been on Quest

Despite not receiving updates in years, Google Earth VR (2016) on Steam is still one of the most useful and immersive ways to interact with the company's 3D version of planet Earth, Street View and all. There are already a...
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‘Bridge Constructor’ for Quest Brings XR Version of Popular Bridge-building Sim Starting Dec 12th

A familiar engineering puzzle sandbox is coming to Quest this week, offering up a bevy of bridge-building challenges in both virtual and mixed reality on Quest. Bridge Constructor Studio was originally slated to arrive last week, bringing its bridge-building sim to...
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‘Superhot VR’ Spiritual Successor ‘COLD VR’ Gets New February Launch Date

COLD VR was supposed to launch on January 21st, but was delayed last minute by developer ALLWARE and publisher Perp Games, which maintained it still needed a little more polish. Now the studios have announced the game's new, definitive launch date:...

Ubiquity6 Raises $27M Series B, Debuts Its First Public Multiuser AR Experience at SFMOMA

Ubiquity6, the AR startup that came out of stealth earlier this year, announced the successful completion of a $27 million Series B finance round. The latest round was co-led by Benchmark and Index Ventures, with Benchmark taking a seat...

‘Starship Home’ Review – Gardening Across the Universe in Quest’s Most Compelling Mixed Reality Game

Starship Home isn't just a clever and infectiously cute sci-fi gardening game with casual ship management stuff. It's probably one of the best cases right now for how mixed reality developers can break away from the usual gimmicks on Quest...

New AirPods Pro Support ‘groundbreaking ultra-low latency audio protocol’ for Vision Pro

With the early 2024 release of Vision Pro quickly approaching, Apple is steadily updating its products to prepare for the new headset. In addition to an upcoming spatial capture feature on iPhone 15 Pro, Apple also says its latest AirPods...
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‘Red Matter 2’ Announced for Quest 2, Promising to Deliver the “best graphics on mobile VR...

Today during the Meta Quest Gaming Showcase, developer Vertical Robot announced Red Matter 2 for Quest 2, the sequel to its 2018 PC VR game which was eventually ported to Quest. Not only does the studio say the gameplay is expanding...
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‘Hatsune Miku VR’ Rhythm Game for Rift & Vive to Launch March 9th, Teaser Trailer Here

Hatsune Miku, the impossibly saccharine anime pop vocaloid, is coming to SteamVR headsets in a new rhythm game from creators Degica Games and Crypton Future Media. Update (02/27/18): The Steam link is live, and launch date is confirmed for March 9th,...

HTC Announces Consumer Availability of Vive Tracker & New Tracker Accessory Bundles

HTC today announced consumer availability of Vive Tracker, the tracking module that uses Valve's Lighthouse tracking standard. The company also announced North American pre-order availability of a number of Vive Tracker accessory bundles that are slated to make their way to consumers in mid-December. First...

‘Skatrix’ Uses Vision Pro to Turn Your Room Into a Virtual Skate Park

Skatrix Pro, the Vision Pro skateboarding app from legendary skater Rodney Mullen, has just been overhauled to deliver even more convincing mixed reality gameplay thanks to its new 2.0 update. Released as a day-one app for Vision Pro earlier this...

Leaked HoloLens ‘Actiongram’ Videos Show What Interacting with Windows in AR Looks Like

New instructional videos, supposedly leaked from a HoloLens development program, give us a glimpse at what every day interaction with Windows running in Augmented Reality looks like. Microsoft first unveiled their augmented reality headset HoloLens at a special Windows 10 event last...
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Hands-on: Rhythm Game ‘Audio Beats’ is a Hidden Gem That Plays to VR’s Strengths

At SVVR 2017 this week in Silicon Valley, Chinese VR developer organization VRCore brought a range of content to the show representing some of the VR work happening in the West. Among that content was Audio Beats by developer Famiku,...

Ship Battler ‘Battlewake’ to Launch on VR Headsets in September, Quest Version Confirmed

Survios, the VR studio behind Raw Data (2017) and Creed: Rise to Glory (2018), today announced that their upcoming pirate ship battler finally has a release date; it's slated to arrive on September 10th for most major VR headsets. When the studio...

’90s Classic ‘Tomb Raider’ is Coming to Quest & Pico in Unofficial Team Beef VR Port

Team Beef, the modding group behind a slew of unofficial VR ports of classic games, announced their next project is Tomb Raider (1996), which will bring the action-adventure game to standalone headsets Quest and Pico VR. Unlike the version playable through...
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Preview: Visually Dazzling VR RPG ‘The SoulKeeper VR’ Plans For a Full Story With Deep Lore

VR gamers have longed heavily for deeper titles that go beyond the surface-level experiences that make up a large portion of today's VR content. They’ve longed for games with depth and complexity; developer HELM Systems plan to offer exactly...
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