The VR Creators Worth Following in 2026
22 channels making VR worth watching, grouped by what they actually cover so you can skip to the part you care about. Some review headsets. Some live in the mod scene. One of them interviews strangers inside VRChat and turns it into documentary.
This is not ranked and it is not ordered by size. We opened every channel rather than copying another site's roundup, and the test for inclusion was simple: is this worth someone's evening? That is how a Korean channel with 568 subscribers ends up here alongside one with 3.7 million.
5 languages are represented. If you only ever watch VR coverage in English, the last section is the one to scroll to.
VR news and general coverage
Broad coverage across Quest, PC VR, and PlayStation. Start here if you only want to follow one or two channels.
roughly 810,000 subscribers · English
The biggest generalist in VR video and the best single starting point if you only follow one channel. Broad Quest and PC VR coverage, hands-on first looks, and a habit of crediting the people whose footage he features. His post on the WinlatorXR Half-Life 2 result is what carried that story to a mass audience. Our coverage →
roughly 780,000 subscribers · English
Tests the question you actually have rather than the one that makes a better thumbnail. "Can The Steam Machine Run VR Games?" and "Does VR work on Steam Machine?" are two separate passes at the same hardware problem, which is the kind of follow-through most coverage skips.
roughly 9,300 subscribers · English
The smallest English channel here and one of the most useful. His Weekly VR News format rounds up the beat in one sitting, and he writes real setup walkthroughs alongside it, like the UEVR guide for Halo: Campaign Evolved.
Games, mods, and ports
Reviews, first looks, and the VR mod scene. Between them these three cover Quest, PC VR, and PSVR2 without much overlap.
roughly 200,000 subscribers · English
The modding channel. Cyberpunk 2077 VR, Mirror's Edge VR, BioShock Infinite VR. If a flat game has picked up a VR layer, this is usually the best place to see what it actually looks like before you commit an evening to installing it.
roughly 100,000 subscribers · English
One of the deepest game libraries on this page, spanning Quest, PSVR2, and PC VR. Reviews land in a blunt buy, wait for a sale, or ignore verdict, which is more useful than a number out of ten. Our coverage →
roughly 115,000 subscribers · English
The PlayStation VR2 specialist, with a catalogue that runs to thousands of videos on that platform alone. Reviews, trailers, and a podcast. PSVR2 owners get left out of a lot of general VR coverage, and this is the fix.
Headsets and smart glasses
The review bench. Worth noting how much of this beat is now glasses rather than headsets.
roughly 185,000 subscribers · English
Headset and smart glasses reviews from a duo willing to question the category rather than just rate the products, which is where a title like "Maybe We've Been Building Headsets Wrong" comes from. They renamed the channel from Cas and Chary VR to Cas and Chary XR, which is the industry's whole shift compressed into one letter.
roughly 220,000 subscribers · English
One of the longest-running headset review channels anywhere, and the one most willing to argue that a cheap headset beats an expensive one. The URXR One review makes the case that a $799 device matters more than Vision Pro.
roughly 140,000 subscribers · English
Go here for smart glasses specifically: VITURE Pro 2, XREAL DNA, and a 30 day wear test comparing the camera-free Memomind One against Even G2. He lives with the hardware before reviewing it, which is rarer than it sounds. Our coverage →
roughly 260,000 subscribers · English
Mixed reality is the specialty, and the production care shows. "This is what mixed reality on Quest 3 was ACTUALLY meant to be" is a good sample of the register: enthusiastic, but built on a real demo rather than a spec sheet.
roughly 720,000 subscribers · English
The most quotable essayist VR video has produced. Pieces like "The VR Industry's Great Reset" and his CES roundups treat the medium as something worth arguing about rather than just unboxing. Start with the essays, not the reviews.
roughly 615,000 subscribers · English
A deep library of Quest headset reviews and app roundups that remains one of the better places to research a headset you are thinking about buying. He also built and shipped the Ready Or Not VR mod, so the channel doubles as a record of someone crossing from covering VR to making it.
Leaks and unreleased hardware
For the headsets nobody has announced yet.
roughly 130,000 subscribers · English
One of the central figures in XR hardware leaks, with a long record on unreleased Valve and Meta hardware. Worth following on X as well as YouTube, since a lot of the detail work happens there in threads.
Social VR and VRChat
What life inside the social platforms is actually like, as opposed to what the hardware can do.
roughly 1 million subscribers · English
Interviews strangers inside VRChat and edits the results into short documentaries, and the best of them are the strongest record anywhere of what social VR is actually like for the people living in it. Nothing else on this page is doing this.
Setup, fixes, and getting it running
The unglamorous work of making the hardware do what it promised.
roughly 200,000 subscribers · English
The practical channel, and the closest match here to the standard we hold ourselves to: tell people how to actually run the thing. Hardware repairs, PCVR streaming comparisons, and guides like "I Made My Quest 3 Run Steam Games Without a PC."
VR fitness
Treated as a routine rather than a novelty, which is rarer than it should be.
roughly 170,000 subscribers · English
VR fitness treated as a routine instead of a novelty, which is rarer than it should be. Beat Saber runs in mixed reality, rowing machines wired up as controllers, and a general willingness to show what sustained play looks like rather than a first session. Our coverage →
For developers
If you are building in Unity or wiring up XR interactions, start here rather than with the consumer channels.
roughly 51,000 subscribers · English
The Unity VR tutorial channel, including a multi-part series on building a VR multiplayer game that runs from network setup through distributed authority and ownership. Note this is the tutorials channel; the main @ValemVR handle is a separate, mostly short-form feed.
roughly 105,000 subscribers · English
XR development with the AI tooling angle taken seriously rather than as a gimmick. He built and shipped a VR/MR game with AI assistance in 30 days and documented it, and tests things like Unity's CLI against Codex rather than just describing them.
Beyond English
The part of this page most likely to show you something new. The largest VR channel we found anywhere is in this group, and so is the smallest.
roughly 3.7 million subscribers · Spanish
The largest VR-focused channel we found anywhere, by a factor of more than four over the biggest English one, and effectively invisible in English-language VR coverage. Game-led and genuinely fun. If you think of VR video as an English-speaking scene, this is the entry that should change your mind.
roughly 44,000 subscribers · German creator, English channel
A German creator who owns close to every headset that has shipped and runs a separate English-language channel for the rest of us. The catalogue runs to thousands of videos, including practical pieces like using a Steam Machine plus Quest 3 as a Steam Frame alternative.
roughly 6,100 subscribers · Japanese
A second-cohort Meta Quest ambassador and the first DPVR ambassador, covering the Japanese Quest scene. Digs into corners English coverage tends to skip, like HeyVR.io and free WebXR games that run with no install at all.
568 subscribers · Korean
568 subscribers and a library in the hundreds, which tells you why this page is not ordered by size. Ran the Half-Life 2 Quest 3 standalone test three days before that story reached a large audience, plus a Portal 1 test alongside it. The best argument here that audience and contribution are different things. Our coverage →
What is missing, and why we are telling you
Two gaps we could not close honestly. We did not find a Portuguese-language VR channel we would actually recommend, and rather than pad the list we left the slot empty. Chinese-language VR creators are a bigger omission, and mostly a structural one: that conversation largely happens on Bilibili rather than YouTube, so a page built around YouTube channels is the wrong instrument for finding it. If you know who belongs in either slot, we would genuinely like to hear about it.
How this list works
Every entry was checked by opening the channel itself, not by cross-referencing someone else's list. Subscriber counts are rounded on purpose, because an exact figure is wrong within a week. Inclusion is judged on what a channel publishes rather than how many people watch it. We revisit the roster every 90 days and add creators as we come across them, so this will grow. For what to actually put on the hardware these channels review, start with our best VR headsets guide and the release date tracker.
Frequently asked questions
Who is the biggest VR YouTuber?
In English, Nathie, at roughly 810,000 subscribers and more than 1,500 videos, followed by Naysy at roughly 780,000. Globally it is not close: the Spanish-language channel Virtumaniacos has roughly 3.7 million subscribers, more than four times the largest English VR channel. Syrmor has a larger subscriber count than Nathie at roughly 1 million, but works in a different form, editing VRChat interviews into short documentaries.
Which VR YouTuber should I follow for PSVR2?
Without Parole, whose catalogue runs to thousands of videos almost entirely about PlayStation VR2, covering reviews, trailers, and a regular podcast. Gamertag VR also reviews PSVR2 releases alongside Quest and PC VR, and uses a blunt buy, wait for a sale, or ignore verdict rather than a score.
Which VR channels cover smart glasses rather than headsets?
Tyriel Wood is the most focused on them, covering VITURE Pro 2, XREAL DNA, and camera-free glasses like the Memomind One and Even G2, usually after wearing them for an extended period. Cas and Chary XR cover glasses alongside headsets, and BMFVR mixes smart glasses testing with mixed reality work on Quest 3.
Are there good VR YouTube channels that are not in English?
Yes, and one of them is the largest VR channel we found anywhere. Virtumaniacos is Spanish-language with roughly 3.7 million subscribers. VoodooDE VR is a German creator who runs a separate English-language channel. Okurasu VR covers the Japanese Quest scene as a Meta Quest ambassador. SideBook VR is Korean, has 568 subscribers, and ran the Half-Life 2 Quest 3 standalone test three days before that story reached a large audience.
How was this list put together?
Every channel was opened directly and its figures read from that channel's own page rather than copied from another roundup, then judged on what it actually publishes rather than on audience size alone. That is why several very large channels are absent and why a 568-subscriber Korean channel is included. The page is grouped by beat and is not ranked.