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‘Metro Awakening’ Review – Atmospheric, Claustrophobic, and Eventually Monotonic

Metro Awakening brings the post-apocalyptic tunnel-dwelling franchise to VR for the first time, but is it a good fit? Read on to find out in our full review. Metro Awakening Details: Publisher: Vertigo Games Available On: Quest, PC VR, PSVR 2 Reviewed On: Quest 3 Release Date: November...

Hands-on: Meta Ray-Ban Display Glasses & Neural Band Offer a Glimpse of Future AR Glasses

The newly announced Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses, and the 'Neural Band' input device that comes with them, are still far from proper augmented reality. But Meta has made several clever design choices that will pay dividends once their true...

New Meta Developer Tool Enables Third-parties to Bring Apps to its Smart Glasses for the First...

Today during Connect, Meta announced the Wearables Device Access Toolkit, which represents the company's first steps toward allowing third-party experiences on its smart glasses. If the name "Wearables Device Access Toolkit" sounds a little strange, it's for good reason. Compared to...

22 Great VR Games for Relaxation & Meditation on Quest, PC VR, and PSVR 2

In times like these it's nice to be able to get away from it all, if only for a brief moment. If you have a VR headset you're one of the lucky people who can enter other realities from...
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Hands-on: ‘Clone Drone’ Gets Endless ‘Skyscrapper’ Update July 27th, Bringing a Ton of New Content

Clone Drone in the Hyperdome (2024) is pretty amazing on its own, offering up enough frangible voxel-baddies to swing a katana at across its Crashloop story mode. Coming July 27th, Clone Drone is getting a fresh injection of content with its...

Meta Admits There’s a “Goldilocks Zone” for VR Session Length Due to Form Factor Concerns

It's been the same basic story for more than a decade now: wearing a VR headset is easy, but not as easy as simply looking at a monitor. While a lot has changed since the early days, Meta admits...

‘Batman: Arkham Shadow’ Review – Arkham Comes to VR in (almost) All the Right Ways

Batman: Arkham Shadow stays true to the series formula, but did developer Camouflaj manage to make the game feel truly at home in VR? Read our full review to find out. Batman: Arkham Shadow Details: Publisher: Oculus Studios Developer: Camouflaj Available On: Meta Horizon (exclusive to...

Meta Researchers Reveal Compact Ultra-wide Field-of-View VR & MR Headsets

Ahead of an upcoming technical conference, researchers from Meta's Reality Labs Research group published details on their work toward creating ultra-wide field-of-view VR & MR headsets that use novel optics to maintain a compact goggles-style form-factor. Published in advance of...

Pico Reportedly Developing Slim & Light Mixed Reality ‘Goggles’ to Rival Next-Gen Meta Headset

Pico, the XR headset maker owned by TikTok parent ByteDance, is reportedly developing a mixed reality device aimed at rivaling Meta's next-generation XR headset. According to a report from The Information, Pico is currently working on a pair of mixed...

‘Alien: Rogue Incursion’ Review – A Thrilling but Repetitive Fight Through Xenomorph Hordes

Alien: Rogue Incursion is the first full-blown VR-native in the storied franchise, serving up hordes of Xenomorphs in an authentically 'Aliens' universe. Developed by VR veteran studio Survios (Creed: Rise to Glory, The Walking Dead: Onslaught), Rogue Incursion presents a veritable balancing...

‘Mobile Suit Gundam: Silver Phantom VR’ Quest Hands-on: Promises of Immersion Dulled By Restrictive Gameplay

Mobile Suit Gundam: Silver Phantom is a new sort of VR film hybrid for Quest, mashing up a movie's worth of real-time rendered narrative with sprinkles of first-person gameplay, billing itself an 'interactive anime'. On paper, it sounds really cool,...

Meta Leak Suggests Smart Glasses With Display is Nearing Launch, Includes Wrist-worn Controller

Meta recently unveiled Oakley Meta HSTN, the company's latest smart glasses created in collaboration with EssilorLuxottica. Now, data miner and serial leaker 'Luna' has obtained images of what appears to be Meta's next pair of smart glasses, this time...

Bigscreen Reveals ‘VRChat Edition’ of Beyond 2e PC VR Headset, Releasing in September

Bigscreen unveiled a new 'VRChat Edition' of its slim and light Beyond 2e PC VR headset, which the company says is specifically designed for die-hard users of VR's most popular social platform. Bigscreen began shipping the first production units of Beyond...

‘Reach’ Hands-on – A Cinematic & Immersive VR Adventure I’ve Been Waiting For

Reach is the debut title from nDreams Elevation, coming to all major VR headsets next month. I got a chance to go hands-on with the Quest 3 version during the first in-person VR Games Showcase event in London earlier this month,...

Quest 3S vs Quest 3 vs Quest 2 Compared with Detailed Specs

After a torrent of leaks, Meta has finally unveiled Quest 3S at Connect today, detailing every reason why it thinks Quest and Quest 2 owners ought to upgrade to the company's latest and now most affordable mixed reality headset....
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