VR Takes You Inside Bruce Lee’s Hong Kong Home

Enter the Bruceleeverse. Created in honor of the martial arts legend, “Revival of the Memory: Bruce Lee’s Home in Metaverse” is an upcoming exhibition that will allow you to explore Lee’s old Hong Kong home in VR and participate in a “series of interactions.” ... more - vrscout

Dead Second Update Brings New Levels & Many More Features

An update for bullet time shooter Dead Second brings two new levels, manual reloading and much more. Dead Second launched late last year in early access for Quest via App Lab, offering a mixture of arcade cover shooter and bullet time slow-mo gameplay. ... more - uploadvr

Tennis League VR For Quest Could Help Improve Your Game

Love. Set. VR. Tennis League VR is an insanely cool tennis experience you can use to improve everything from your forehand and backhand swing to your overall form. Developed by AnotherReality along with their funding partner Health Improvement Solutions ... more - vrscout

Horizon Worlds Spotlight: JoleneSugarbaker

Welcome back to our weekly spotlight on the people building for Horizon Worlds and their amazing creations.... ... more - oculus

Meta Quest 2 Games Dominate Nominations for the 2022 VR Awards

This month the finalists for the 6th International VR Awards were announced by AIXR with numerous games and experiences across the Meta Quest 2 library... ... more - oculus

Vince Gilligan Confirms A Breaking Bad VR Experience Almost Came To PSVR

A Breaking Bad VR experience was once in development for PSVR, confirmed Vince Gilligan in a recent interview. Back in 2017, Variety reported that a Breaking Bad experience was in development for PSVR. However, the game was never officially announced ... more - uploadvr

Case Study: Bolle Boosts Brand Image with AR

AR continues to evolve and take shape. Like other tech sectors, it has spawned several sub-sectors that comprise an ecosystem. These include industrial AR, consumer VR, and AR shopping. Existing alongside all of them — and overlapping to some degree ... more - arvrjourney

FIVE REASONS why the Varjo Aero is not worth its price!

You know, that Marco does really like the picture quality of the Varjo Aero. Unfortunately the high price sets high standards, so after 6 months on the market, Varjo should have fixed some of the bugs. But they didn't... 🔴 Meet us on the MRTV Discord ... more - [email protected]

Virtual try-on is revolutionizing metaverse makeup

Makeup in the metaverse makes no sense to most people; beauty routines are deeply tangible experiences, and trying to virtually replicate either the process or results seems rather pointless. But what about metaverse makeup that becomes real, actual ... more - mashable

The Meta Quest 2 is a pain to wear. Here's how I made mine comfortable.

For a "wearable" piece of technology, the Meta Quest 2 is pretty hard to wear out of the box. Ads for the virtual reality device will have you believe it's as easy to throw on as a hat or sunglasses, but that wasn't my reality. After a blissful ... more - mashable

Virtual try-on lets you preview metaverse makeup in real-time

We tried out three makeup products from three different retailers in the metaverse before purchasing their physical counterparts to compare the results. In this episode of Beauty, Hacked, Jennimai puts a foundation, blush, and lipstick from Estée Lauder, ... more - mashable

VTuber App Lets You Create An Avatar With Your Smartphone

Those in Europe can download the app for free via the Apple Store and Google Play. CUSTOMCAST is an all-in-one mobile app that allows you to create your very own virtual entertainer, aka ‘VTuber’, using a smartphone or tablet. You can control your avatar ... more - vrscout

‘Warplanes: Battles over Pacific’ Brings Intense WWII Dogfights to the Quest Platform Today

Home Net Games nailed the intensity of VR aerial battles when it released Warplanes: WWI Fighters last year. And now, the studio is back with... ... more - oculus

Rec Room’s Latest VR Game Is A Western-Themed Shoot-Out

Get your posse together for some 3v3 action. Saddle up everyone because Rec Room is galloping into the Wild West with a rootin’ tootin’ original experience called Showdown. This western-inspired game has you and other players taking a ride on the old ... more - vrscout

Hardware-Rumors: Summary and Future 2022

The year 2022 is already half over. Nevertheless, according to rumors, a lot of VR hardware will be released this year. Some of it has even been officially announced. Marco summarizes all this for you! 🔴 Meet us on the MRTV Discord Server: https://bit.ly/mrtv-discord ... more - [email protected]

Tennis League VR Demo Coming Tomorrow For Quest, Full Release In Fall

Tennis League VR is a new sports game coming to Quest headsets later this year with a free playable demo launching on August 12. Get your rackets ready — Tennis League VR aims to bring realistic tennis gameplay to VR with accurate ball physics and online ... more - uploadvr

How Many Quest 2s Did Meta Sell in Q2?

As you may have heard, Meta announced Q2 earnings last week. Among other things, Meta Reality Labs’ (MRL) represented a $2.8 billion expense. There, the message to investors is to stick with Meta while it builds, and cements a central position within, ... more - arvrjourney

Public Beta For Half-Life 2 VR Mod Releases Next Month

The public beta for Half-Life 2 VR, a community-made mod for Valve’s 2004 seminal PC shooter, will release in September. The team announced the beta in a post on the mod’s website, jokingly mentioning that they definitely mean this September, and not ... more - uploadvr

Final Fantasy VII Remake unofficially comes to VR with this PC mod

I still remember the hush that fell over the audience when Sony revealed the first trailer for Final Fantasy VII Remake — and the cheers. Fans couldn’t wait to see these characters again in HD. But there may now be an even more immersive way to thrust ... more - theverge

Sensorium Launches 24-Hour Metaverse Streaming Channel

Empyreal Parties 24/7 promises an unreal multi-sensory experience. The multi-sensory VR platform Sensorium is launching what they claim is the first in-engine metaverse streaming channel, offering an out-of-this-world visual and audio experience like ... more - vrscout

Surf The Metaverse In Style With The CARV Metaboard

Upgrade your Ready player Me avatar and compete against other Metaboard owners in a game of Hoverball. Metaverse company CARV recently announced the CARV1 Metaboard, a metaverse hoverboard that doubles as a digital collectible. Each Metaboard will use ... more - vrscout

Half-Life 2: VR Beta Coming Next Month To PC VR Headsets

Valve’s near-perfect first-person shooter is finally coming to SteamVR headsets. After years of development hell, Half-Life 2: VR will be available in open beta this coming September on PC VR headsets. Work on the highly-anticipated mod originally began ... more - vrscout

Becoming Iron Man In VR On Quest 2!

I became Iron Man in VR by playing First Hand, a free VR hand tracking game for Quest 2. It lets you step into the shoes of Tony Stark, build his iron gauntlets, unlock superpowers from the palms of your hands and travel through the Multiverse. Check ... more - [email protected]

What is the Metaverse

Understanding the technologies that enable the Metaverse In Facebook’s recent announcement to rebrand to Meta, they made a big push about a new buzzword: the ‘Metaverse’. There are always new technology buzzwords that keep coming up and it can get quite ... more - arvrjourney

Blaston Hosts Championship with over $10K in Prizes

The Blaston Championship 2022 is underway! Compete with other top ranked players through November for a prize pool of over $10,000, enjoy the biggest VR esports competition of the year, and see if you can claim championship title glory. Blaston is a ... more - vrfitnessinsider

Chinese Analyst: Pico 4 Launches September With Subsidy To Take On Quest 2

A Chinese analyst who has been reliable in the past claims ByteDance plans to release Pico 4 globally in September. The current Pico Neo 3 Link has remarkably similar specs to Meta’s Quest 2, but ByteDance described it as a ‘beta program” and only launched ... more - uploadvr

VR Experience Simulates The Feeling Of LSD & Mushrooms

Could virtual psychedelics have a positive impact on our mental health? Isness-D is a therapeutic VR experience capable of inducing a sense of self-transcendence similar to a medium dose of LSD or magic mushrooms. The app was developed by David Glowacki, ... more - vrscout

Lenovo Teases ‘Legion VR700’ Headset In Chinese Poster

Lenovo teased a ‘Legion VR700’ headset in an image with Chinese text. No specific details or specifications were announced, but the poster shows a headset with a halo strap and at least two cameras on the top corners of the front (presumably for inside ... more - uploadvr

Augmented Books Are On The Way According To Researchers

Augmented reality (AR) technology adds a whole new dimension to paperback books. Imagine this. You’re several chapters into a captivating novel when a character from an earlier book makes a surprise appearance. You swipe your finger across their name ... more - vrscout

What to Watch: August 2022 Highlights

Meta Horizon Home lets you and your friends watch movies, documentaries, and on-demand concerts and events on Oculus TV together in VR. And we’re highlighting... ... more - oculus