Oakley Meta HSTN Glasses Preorders Open For Shipping Next Week

Regular Oakley Meta HSTN glasses can now be preordered, and will ship next week. Ray-Ban and Oakley are both owned by EssilorLuxottica, the eyewear giant with which Meta last year secured an agreement extending their partnership “into the next decade”, ... more - uploadvr

Quest Store Sale Discounts Blockbuster VR Games

Meta's ‘Secret Vault Sale’ discounts major Quest games this week. On Meta's Horizon Store you can currently get the Quest versions of big titles like Skydance’s Behemoth, Metro Awakening, Resident Evil 4, Demeo, Into the Radius, and Breachers for between ... more - uploadvr

What Is Phantom Sense? The Unique VR Sensory Experience Explained

If you've never heard of phantom sense before, you might think it's a work of fiction, but you'd be wrong. It's actually a very real phenomenon. ... more - slashgear

Spatial Phone Lets You Use Your iPhone Or Android While Immersed On Quest

You can see and control your iPhone or Android in Quest with the $12 Spatial Phone app, though with noticeable latency. One of the most frustrating things about VR is how cut off it can feel. You’re in the zone, working out, playing, meditating, or just ... more - uploadvr

Fantasy Roguelite Ironstrike Goes Free-To-Play On Quest This Week

Co-op VR fantasy roguelite Ironstrike is going free-to-play on Quest later this week. For the unaware, Ironstrike by developer E McNeill (Ironlights) is a four-player roguelite where you fight through a fantasy world to rescue its gods, using a momentum-based ... more - uploadvr

Mixed Reality RTS Banners & Bastions Confirms Early Access Release Date

Mixed reality RTS Banners & Bastions enters early access on Quest later this month. Created by Airspace Defender developer Not Suspicious, we first learned about Banners & Bastions during last month's UploadVR Summer Showcase. A tabletop roguelite ... more - uploadvr

Meta To Reportedly Sell HUD Glasses With EMG Wristband For $800

Meta now plans to sell its upcoming HUD glasses with sEMG wristband for around $800, instead of over $1000, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports. The Verge, The Information, The Financial Times, and Gurman have all previously reported that Meta intends to ... more - uploadvr

Disney+ On Apple Vision Pro Gets Alien: Earth Environment

The Disney+ app on visionOS now has an Alien: Earth environment. The new environment lets Apple Vision Pro owners watch Alien: Earth, or anything else on Disney+, from inside the Containment Room on the USCSS Maginot. Trying it out, it looks exactly ... more - uploadvr

How To Pitch Articles To UploadVR

Last Updated : August 16, 2025. At UploadVR, we regularly publish articles from freelance writers and if you're looking to write for us, here's what you need to know. As part of my regular duties as UploadVR's Senior Editor, I'm entrusted with handling ... more - uploadvr

XR News Round-Up: Exoshock, Reach, The Phoenix Gene, Slime Lab & More

Our XR News Roundup is back once more, featuring more recent news stories across VR. With VR gaming this week, we demoed Stellar Cafe from former Owlchemy co-founder Devin Reimer. The VR Games Showcase had reveals for Glassbreakers, Street Gods, Tracked, ... more - uploadvr

The Exorcist: Legion VR SIN Is x27;On Holdx27; Indefinitely

The Exorcist: Legion VR SIN, a multiplayer sequel to the early episodic VR horror hit, is “on hold indefinitely.” Originally announced nearly four years ago, The Exorcist: Legion VR SIN - which stands for Safety In Numbers - intended to deliver a survival ... more - uploadvr

Meta Tiramisu "Hyperrealistic VR" Hands-On: A Stunning Window Into Another World

At SIGGRAPH 2025, I went hands-on with Tiramisu, Meta's research prototype that combines beyond-retinal resolution, high brightness, and high contrast, albeit with a narrow field of view. Since Oculus widely demoed the DK1 over a decade ago, we've seen ... more - uploadvr

VIVE NEW product is for sure UNEXPECTED. News!

It's friday and many things happened in VR this week, and we are here to talk about it! A new headset from Vive, new rumors about the upcoming Apple vision pro 2 and a new product from vive ? and much more! Let's discover everything together in this video ... more - tyrielwood@youtube

Meta Boba 3 Prototype Hands-On: Ultra-Wide Field Of View Without Compromise

At SIGGRAPH 2025 this week, I went hands-on with Boba 3, Meta's prototype of ultra-wide field of view PC VR in a form factor similar to Quest 3. I've long contended that field of view is the fundamental driver of immersion of VR, and argued that the ... more - uploadvr

Penguin Festival Wonx27;t Release On Quest Store, Citing Reuters Report On Meta AI

Penguin Festival, a cozy VR game about party planning, will no longer release on the Meta Horizon Store. Originally revealed in March by Cozy Cube Games, Penguin Festival is a solo game where you plan out a major party. Though the prior announcement ... more - uploadvr

Free-To-Play Clawball Gets Full Release On Quest

Clawball, the free-to-play VR cat soccer game from Pixel Ripped's studio, received its full release on Quest. Originally launched last October in early access, Clawball is a 3v3 soccer game from ARVORE (Pixel Ripped, YUKI) that takes inspiration from ... more - uploadvr

Is It Really Worth Visiting Cinemas for an ENHYPEN VR Concert?

Can a VR concert in cinemas offer a unique live music experience? We went to find out! During the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, many artists, unable to hold in-person concerts, used virtual concerts as a way to engage with fans during lockdowns. It ... more - uploadvr

PlayStation VR2x27;s Eye Tracking Now Works On PC Via Open-Source Driver Mod

PlayStation VR2's eye tracking and adaptive triggers can now be used on PC, thanks to a mostly open-source mod of Sony's SteamVR driver. If you're unaware, while PS VR2 officially supports PC VR through Sony's official SteamVR driver, the headset currently ... more - uploadvr

How does Warby Parker work? Heres a step-by-step guide to ordering new prescription glasses.

UPDATE: Aug. 14, 2025, 12:45 p.m. EDT Warby Parker is discontinuing its Home Try-On program at the end of 2025. The service was still available at the time of writing, but only a third of its styles were eligible . Our original story follows. Warby Parker ... more - mashable

Passport Tokyo: Walkabout Mini Golf Path Crosses Capybaras & Neko Atsume Kitties

The design team behind Walkabout Mini Golf occasionally leaves their homes to gather for a retreat in the physical world. Funded by sales of the VR game and its add-on destinations, like the newly released Tokyo, Walkabout's originator Lucas Martell ... more - uploadvr

Echo Wars - Road Rage Blends Over-The-Top Arcade Shooting With VR Driving

Echo Wars - Road Rage mixes VR driving with arcade shooting next week on Quest and Steam Early Access. Created by Barcelona-based studio Ivanovich Games, Echo Wars - Road Rage uses a “dual control” system where one hand covers driving your vehicle and ... more - uploadvr

Pinball FX VR Serves Up More Classic Williams Cabinets Today

Pinball FX VR receives more official Williams tables today with Volume 9 on Quest. This joins a steady stream of post-launch expansions such as the recent Tomb Raider and Williams Pinball Volumes 1-3 DLC, the latter of which added nine more tables across ... more - uploadvr

Pico 4 Ultra Gets Enhanced Body Tracking With 5 Pico Trackers & Travel Mode

Pico 4 Ultra now has a Travel Mode, and now supports using 5 Pico Trackers for enhanced body tracking, with the extra 2 strapped to your forearms or thighs. ByteDance's Pico 4 Ultra is arguably the only direct competitor to Quest 3 and Quest 3S, and ... more - uploadvr

Antigravity unveils world first 360-degree video camera drone

Insta360 announced new drone brand Antigravity last month, teasing that its debut product would be the "world's first" consumer aerial drone with inbuilt 360-degree video capture. Now Antigravity has unveiled said drone: the Antigravity A1. ... more - mashable

Vivox27;s Apple Vision Pro Copycat Is An In-Store Demo Only, For Now

Vivo's headset, which bears a striking resemblance to Apple Vision Pro, will be demoed in Chinese stores from next week, but won't be shipping this year. If you're unfamiliar, Vivo is a Chinese smartphone company with around 10% global market share. ... more - uploadvr

M5 Vision Pro Reportedly Spotted In Apple Code

MacRumors say they found references to an M5 Vision Pro in Apple's code, another twist in the rumor mill regarding what chip the headset will feature. If you haven't been following along: last year supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo reported that the ... more - uploadvr

How to watch the 2025 Vuelta a España online for free

TL;DR: Live stream the 2025 Vuelta a España for free on SBS on Demand. Access this free streaming platform from anywhere in the world with ExpressVPN. It has been a busy few months for cycling fans. Following on from a number of high-profile Classics ... more - mashable

The virtual idols taking over the internet — and the company betting big on them

VTubers, or content creators using virtual avatars, have taken over the world of live streaming. These vampires, demons, witches, school girls, and everything in between have crawled out of the realms of internet obscurity to break Twitch subscriber ... more - mashable

I Finally Tried the Highest Resolution VR Headset - Pimax Crystal Super

This is the Highest resolution VR Headset on the Market right now. With wide FOV, Eye Tracking, Auto IPD, Aspherical Lenses and inside out tracking. ►Thanks to VIAIM and their OpenNote for making this video possible!!! discount code: TYRIEL10 link: https://amzn.to/45zUuuU ... more - tyrielwood@youtube

New TMNT: Empire City Diary Shows Early Parkour Gameplay On Quest 3

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Empire City released a pre-alpha look at traversal and parkour gameplay on Quest 3. For the unfamiliar, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Empire City is a first-person action-adventure by Cortopia Studios that's playable solo ... more - uploadvr