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The solo-developed Loony Laps is an arcade toy racer coming to Quest 3 and Quest 3S in Q1 2027. Created by solo developer Paulo Cunha, Loony Laps is an upcoming toy car racing game that brings the...

Finding Frida is a 41-minute VR documentary at Venice Immersive using photorealistic 3D scans and animated artwork to explore the life of forgotten Norwegian textile artist Frida Hansen.A miniature...

Stryker says its SportSuite Vision software for the headset received De Novo authorization from the FDA in July.

We’ve seen several stories about Apple Vision Pro being used in healthcare settings. This week, Stryker announced the completion of the first surgical procedure using an innovative new app on Vision...

Pharmaceutical firm Pfizer has turned to Apple Vision Pro to make an experience that's meant to help cancer patients understand how the company conducts its research into the disease, but looks more...

Knights of Fiona brings nearly every element of a typical JRPG to VR while exposing the challenges the genre presents when translated to virtual reality.I have been playing JRPGs my entire life,...

Discovery: Rogue Planet, out now for Quest 3, feels like it was ripped straight from the narrative FPS games of the late '90s & early aughts, with all the good and bad that comes with that.Halo....

TL;DR After first introducing its Vive Eagle smart glasses last year, HTC is bringing the wearable to the US. The smart glasses offer a 12MP camera, your choice of OpenAI or Gemini AI assistance, and...

Which VR headsets are showing the most traction among consumers? The latest consumer survey from ARtillery Intelligence and Thrive Analytics tackles this question and we break it down in the latest...

Valve has pushed an update to the Steam Link PC VR streaming app on Quest that finally includes the ability to play games via wired connection. As first spotted by data miner and serial leaker ‘Luna’...

In Augmented Reality News What’s the story? TDK Corporation has acquired assets from OQmented, a Germany-based developer of MEMS-based laser beam scanning and display technologies, folding them into...

HTC published US store listings for the Vive Eagle on September 3 at $499. Three configurations are buyable, seven say Coming Soon, and the 90 language translation in the marketing is the paid tier, not the two years of VIVE AI Plus that ships in the box.

Following Virtual Desktop's implementation of the feature, the latest Public Beta release for Valve's Steam Link on Quest adds support for wired USB PC streaming. Meta Horizon OS 2.5 and later...

The 33-minute immersive experience makes you the star of an animated film on Apple Vision Pro and Meta Quest. Out on Apple Vision Pro and Meta Quest, Starclash is an animated film that places you...

The hour-long Android XR experience is made in collaboration with Google and narrated by Margot Robbie.Galápagos: The Last Eden will let visitors explore the wildlife, oceans and volcanic history of...

The mixed reality experience from writer Andy Weir launches on Quest, Pico, and Android XR this fall.Maze Theory has released a new trailer showing the first extended look at gameplay from their...

The Unity Cube is an objectively terrible game (it’s literally just a floating cube, after all) that was built to test the limits of what Quest content Meta would allow into its uncurated App Lab...

Steam Frame isn’t here yet, and we’re no closer to knowing the price or release date, although the component supplier behind the headset’s built-in camera tracking system is officially producing a...

While B2B spending in XR involves enterprise end users, B2B2C involves enterprises building things for their customers and marketing targets. How much are brands and enterprises spending today, and...

Bigscreen announced it’s permanently lowering the price of its slim and light PC VR headset, Bigscreen Beyond 2, which now starts at $959. The long-awaited Halo Mount is also now in production, with...

In Virtual Reality News What’s the story? Astroport Space Technologies and XelerateVR have formed a strategic partnership to let human operators on VR treadmills control humanoid robots building on...

In XR News What’s the story? VR Expert and Treeview have formed a partnership to help enterprise customers identify, develop and deploy custom applications for the XREAL AURA optical see-through ......

Beyond 2 now starts at $959 and Beyond 2e at $1,159, down $60 each. The headset price did not move. The standard configuration swapped a $120 cushion built from a 3D face scan for a $60 universal one.

Amelia's Escape VR promises more than it ultimately delivers with a story that feels like it was just getting started when it ends.I am not going to bury the lead here. Amelia's Escape is too short....

The Meta Horizon+ Games Catalog also gets seven new titles added to the subscription service. It's the first of the month, and that means a whole new batch of games have been added to the Meta...

The first surgery using Stryker's SportSuite Vision app on Apple Vision Pro has been completed at Duke Health, demonstrating its potential in the operating room.What surgeons see while using the...

The Quest 3 has just been upgraded to run with crazy framerates up to 240Hz. And The Unity Cube is probably the first app on the Quest Horizon Store to support 200+Hz framerates! Keep reading this...

Pixelity Inc. has announced that a hands-on preview of its upcoming VR/MR experience Evangelion: Δ Cross Reflections is coming to San Francisco on September 25. In addition to gameplay of the...

Pixelity Inc announced it’s hosting public demos soon in San Francisco for EVANGELION: Δ CROSS REFLECTIONS, the upcoming XR game based on the hit ’90s anime Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995). Hands-on...

FitXR's redesigned smartphone app introduces personalized strength, cardio and mobility workouts that can be completed without a headset, with members able to move workouts between mobile and...

Gunman Contracts is one of the most full-featured mods for Half-Life: Alyx (2020), and now the indie developer behind the project is about to release the long-awaited, built from the ground-up game...

Though eCommerce gets outsized attention, the vast majority of shopping is conducted offline in physical stores. Can phygital retail marry the best of both worlds for convenience, engagement and...

The interactive production stars Orlando Jones, Ayelet Zurer and others, with a new trailer debuting exclusively on UploadVR.A group of ten people wearing Apple Vision Pro gathers around a table....

Gunman Contracts, a John Wick-style first-person shooter that started as a mod for Half-Life: Alyx, launches in Early Access on September 10 on Steam.We normally do not traffic in copium, but this is...

Valve hasn’t announced the price or release date of Steam Frame, its first standalone VR headset, although the company is reportedly getting ready with a promo that could bundle in its award-winning...

Virtual Desktop added a new environment from BRINK Traveler, bringing a stunning 3D capture of Iceland's Landmannalaugar to Guy Godin's popular VR PC streaming app.BRINK Traveler brings real-world...

Looking for a list of the new VR releases for PC VR, Meta Quest, PlayStation VR2 and other platforms in September? We've got you covered.With two-thirds of 2026 behind us, we start looking ahead to...

Meta's latest update for Quest headsets adds a Gamepad Emulation mode for Touch Plus controllers and a range of extended refresh rates on Quest 3, alongside other changes.Gamepad Mode 0:00 /0:24 1×...

The Half-Life: Alyx mod turned commercial shooter was going to launch the day Valve shipped the Steam Frame. Its Steam page now reads September 10, and the developer says the timing is his own.

The physics-driven comedic prison-break sandbox game is coming to Meta Quest and PlayStation VR2 in October. HyperVR Games, the publisher and studio behind Shave & Stuff and Titans Clinic, has...

Meta just pushed an update to Quest 3 that’s effectively boosted the headset’s refresh rate up to 240Hz—or 207Hz at the headset’s full resolution. Whether you’ll actually be able to make good use of...

Both Apple pundits and most of the internet seem to agree that Vision Pro is the best way to watch baseball, following the immersive experience offered by Apple’s Friday Night Baseball. Notably,...

VITURE is back with another special edition – this time involving a variation on its Beast XR glasses. The new Phantom Beast carries a kung fu punk aesthetic through a collaboration with Phantom...

It’s the last day of August. The last day of what is usually considered a vacation month, before we start the busy period of XR product launches in September and October! So enjoy this last...

In Virtual Reality News What’s the story? FIBA, the organization that steers 3×3 basketball, has announced an exclusive three-year deal with L1VE to bring the 3×3 World Tour, Women’s Series ......

FIBA's August 26 release hands L1VE a three-year exclusive on immersive live rights across the 3x3 World Tour, Women's Series and World Cup. It names the competitions and the capture technology, and no fee, no headset and no ticket price.

Bad Inmate, a physics-driven prison escape comedy from HyperVR Games in Riga, hits Quest and PlayStation VR2 together on October 15. Same-day releases on both headsets are rarer than they should be for a studio this size.

Meta's developer documentation now lists Quest 3 as accepting any integer refresh rate from 72 Hz through 207 Hz, with 240 Hz sitting behind developer mode and display scaling. The same page tells developers not to make an extended rate a requirement.

Kinetic Games has released Phasmophobia's second Quality of Life update, adding a raft of new Restricted maps, streamlined Evidence collection, VR fixes, and considerably more ways to die. Read more

Hip Hop Mixtape 2 arrived on Steam on August 27 with eight tracks at $10.96 bundled, or $15.92 bought singly. Sixteen days after Beat Saber fell to $19.99, the first pack since the cut prices in at 55 percent of the game.

Kinetic Games did not tune Phasmophobia's VR character rig in v0.19.0.0, it replaced the whole thing and matched the model to your own arm length. Five of the ten VR fixes that shipped with it are about doors.

Assets added in recent updates to the Meta Horizon mobile app suggest that Meta is preparing to spin off the now mobile game-focused Horizon Worlds into a separate app, codenamed Eclipse.Link to the...

Zero Latency puts Jumanji into more than 150 venues in December while Schell Games runs its first layoffs and Pico cancels its own event. The out-of-home side of VR is growing, and a closure this month shows how fragile that growth still is.

Rockstar's 26-minute Extended Look put a 2019-era Quest on a character as a gag. With no PC version announced, the VR mod route that gave GTA 5 a second life is closed for years.

Strings in the August 25 Meta Horizon build point to a separate app codenamed Eclipse, pre-release name Horizon Create. Check the store listings and the direction is already visible: category Adventure, no mention of a headset anywhere.

The investment and development community are constantly striving to find the next profitable sector in XR, turning to new business opportunities following a turbulent time in the consumer VR gaming...

I’ve always been a bit skeptical of smart glasses and mixed reality headsets. It’s not hard to find the utility of something like a Meta Quest in gaming, but Apple’s Vision Pro, for example, has...

Meta continues to crack down on malicious users disabling the privacy LED on its Ray-Ban smart glasses, this time focusing on the most obvious loophole out there. more…

Schell Games, the veteran VR studio behind spy-themed puzzle series I Expect You to Die and Among Us 3D, confirmed it has laid off around 10 percent of staff. As initially noted by Game Developer,...

Hip Hop Mixtape 2 is Beat Saber's latest DLC collection, featuring eight tracks from chart-topping artists and custom lightshows for each song's map. Mixtape 2 is available now for Meta Quest and PC...

In Virtual Reality News What’s the story? The 913th Airlift Group, a U.S. Air Force Reserve unit with no assigned aircraft, has built a virtual reality (VR) training center for ... continue reading...

Dorsey posted two words at a Bigscreen Beyond 2 link card on Friday morning and drew 176,000 views. In 2023 he compared VR's trajectory to the hovering recliners in WALL-E, and his objection then was never about specs.

Valve's Great on Frame list went from eight titles to 98, Pico pulled its September 2 launch event nine days out, Schell Games had the first layoffs in its history, and the GTA San Andreas VR port Meta announced in 2021 arrived from one modder instead.

Alex Himel says the glasses will now cut the camera if the capture LED is covered mid-recording, closing a loophole the July update left open. The check moved from a one-time gate to a running invariant, and that is a different engineering problem.

The 913th Airlift Group built a VR maintenance trainer in a converted storage room at Little Rock AFB and reports $18.5 million in mitigated costs. The release names no vendor, no headset and no methodology, which makes the delivery model the more useful finding.

Valve's certified list went from eight titles in mid July to 98 today, and the names now read like the VR canon. Part of that curve is developer work and part of it is a threshold Valve lowered in August.

August builds of the Meta AI app carry Hologram product tours, and Horizon OS now contains Hologram Calling sub-frameworks referencing Codec Avatars. Where the code sits matters more than how the avatars look.

Around 14 people were cut from the I Expect You To Die studio on August 21, counted from employee LinkedIn posts rather than any company statement. Jesse Schell spent 2024 explaining to GamesIndustry.biz why layoffs are a choice.

A Flat2VR community member going by GeT_RiCh has published version 0.1.0 alpha of a GTA San Andreas VR source kit for Quest 3. It ships no game assets, verifies Google's signing certificate, and needs your own Play Store copy of version 2.11.311.

W4 Games closed an $18 million Series B led by Tencent, taking the Godot enterprise vendor to $33 million raised, plus a multi-year deal to push the open-source engine across Asia. The engine's license does not change. Who is paying for its support does.