2023 Sections
Meta and UFC Sign Deal to Tighten Partnership Across All Meta Platforms, Including Quest & Smart...
Meta has signed a multiyear deal with the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) to become its 'Official Fan Technology Partner', which means we could see even tighter integration of the organization's mixed martial arts matches across Quest and the companies...
Meta Sharpens the Axe for Quest 1: First-party Social Ends in March, Security Patches in 2024
It seems Meta is finally taking the original 2019 Quest behind the shed this year, as the company announced it's set to deprecate first-party social features on the device, which includes access to Parties and Meta Horizon Home. Meta also...
Unreal Engine to Add NVIDIA Gameworks VR Support, Including VR SLI
Today at the VRX conference in San Francisco, Epic Games, developers of Unreal Engine, announced that they're partnering with NVIDIA to integrate their Gameworks VR featureset into UE4. VR SLI and Multi-res shading will be availabl in forthcoming updates.
NVIDIA's...
Report: Meta to Open ‘Horizon Worlds’ to Younger Teens Amid Renewed Retention Push
Meta's social VR app for Quest, Horizon Worlds, is lagging behind the competition when it comes to attracting and retaining VR users. According to a leaked memo obtained by The Wall Street Journal, the company is now ostensibly looking to...
Interactive VR Film ‘Human Within’ Brings ‘Black Mirror: Bandersnatch’ Style User Choice to Quest in January
Human Within is a sci-fi interactive VR film coming to Quest in January that explores how AI affects humanity. Departing from standard VR films, which are usually pretty 'one-and-done', the upcoming interactive experience promises to give you the choice in...
Psychological Horror Game ‘MADiSON VR’ Delayed by “a few weeks” on PSVR 2 & PC VR
Previously launched on consoles and PC in 2022, the VR version of psychological horror game MADiSON was set to launch this month on PSVR 2 and SteamVR headsets. Now, just a day before its planned launch, the studio says it's...
HTC Reveals ‘Vive Pre’ Development Kit at CES
HTC has finally taken the wraps off of the second development kit of the Vive VR headset, they're calling it the 'Vive Pre', and the new unit is being shown off here at CES 2016.
The Vive Pre largely seems...
New Free ‘Beat Saber’ Track is an Exclusive Debut from Electronic Band ‘KNOWER’
Beat Saber fans were greeted with an update on all platforms today which has introduced a new free track debuted exclusively within the game.
'One Hope', which was added to the game in an update today, debuted exclusively in the...
‘Shapelab’ 3D Modeling App Launches on Quest in Early Access
Leopoly, the studio behind PC VR modeling software Shapelab (2023), has launched a new version built specifically for Quest headsets.
Called Shapelab Lite, the polygon-based 3D modeling app is now in early access for Quest 3, Quest 3S and Quest...
‘Into Black’ Showcases More ‘Deep Rock Galactic’ Vibes in New Trailer, Coming to Quest in October
Into Black, an upcoming co-op action adventure for Quest, showcased more of its Deep Rock Galactic-inspired gameplay in a new trailer, which also announced the opening of pre-orders.
Developed by The Binary Mill, the VR studio behind Resist, RUSH, Mini Motor...
Update: Meta Resumes Quest 3 Battery Strap Orders Following Charging Debacle
Meta paused shipments of its Elite Strap with Battery for Quest 3 late last month due to a widespread charging fault that would render the battery useless for some users. Meta is now unpausing orders of the device, as...
AMD’s SteamVR Streaming Tool ‘ReLive for VR’ Won’t Support Oculus Mobile Devices
AMD recently launched an updated version of their Radeon Software suite which brought the ability to stream SteamVR games to standalone and smartphone-based headsets, provided you own a supported AMD GPU. Now the company has put future support for...
PlayStation VR All-in Bundle $50 Cheaper Thanks to ‘Free’ Tracking Camera
Amidst all the VR headset price cuts, PlayStation VR is finally seeing a discount, albeit not nearly as dramatic as Oculus Rift's or HTC Vive's.
In the US and Canada, the headset will soon come bundled with a PlayStation Camera—an integral part of...
Hands On: Doom VR is a Curious But Experimental Tech Demo
Bethesda announced during their pre-E3 event that Doom, as well as Fallout 4, would be playable during the show in VR form. I was able to get my head into Doom's HTC Vive powered VR demo, here's my take on...
Meta-owned Sanzaru Games Moves on to “next big thing” Amid ‘Asgard’s Wrath 2’ Final Update
Sanzaru Games, the studio behind the Asgard's Wrath franchise, have released the final content update to Quest exclusive Asgard's Wrath 2 (2023). Now the studio says it's moving on the "next big thing".
As reported by MIXED, Sanzaru pushed its last major content update...




















