Arken Age On Quest 3 Looks Like A Promising Port

Arken Age is making its way to standalone VR next month and I got the chance to take an early look at the upcoming game on Quest 3. How well does this ambitious PC VR and PS VR2 title hold up after making the jump to mobile hardware? Read on for my impressions ... more - uploadvr

Liminal Walking Simulator POOLS Launches On PlayStation VR2 This November

POOLS VR, the backrooms-inspired walking simulator, will make its PlayStation VR2 debut this November. Developed by Tensori, POOLS is an unnerving exploration game that asks players to wander through a series of eerie aquatic environments searching for ... more - uploadvr

visionOS 26 Out Now: PS VR2 Controllers, Photorealistic Personas, Spatial Scenes & More

Apple just released visionOS 26 for Apple Vision Pro. 0:00 /2:39 1× Announced at WWDC25, and available in beta since then for developers, visionOS 26 brings PlayStation VR2 Sense controllers & Logitech Muse stylus support, much more realistic Personas, ... more - uploadvr

Oakley Meta Sphaera Design Leaks Ahead Of Connect Too

As well as the Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses, the leaked video also reveals the design of the rumored Oakley Meta Sphaera glasses with a centered camera. If you haven't seen yet, Meta briefly posted and removed an unlisted video on its YouTube channel ... more - uploadvr

x27;Meta Ray-Ban Displayx27; Glasses Design & HUD Clips Leak Ahead Of Connect

Meta's HUD glasses with sEMG wristband will in fact be Ray-Ban branded, a leaked clip which also depicts the HUD and wristband in action reveals. An unlisted video on Meta's YouTube channel titled "Many Looks. Infinite Capabilities" shows Meta ... more - uploadvr

Walkabout Mini Golfx27;s Hardest And Easiest Holes Revealed Alongside Alice In Wonderland Course

Curiouser and curiouser. The creators of Walkabout Mini Golf are teeing up two more courses for release in VR headsets at $3.99 this year. While next month's release is yet to be revealed, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland joins the "world of Walkabout" ... more - uploadvr

Tactical Tabletop RPG Successor Gets VR Edition On Quest

Roguelite tactical RPG Successor is now available on Quest with mixed reality support, and PC VR support is coming at a later date. Developed by Playwood Project, Successor presents its world like miniatures coming to life across a digital tabletop board ... more - uploadvr

Open-Source Emulator Plays Virtual Boy Games On Quest, No Switch Needed

With Nintendo's surprise announcement that Virtual Boy games are coming to the Switch 1 & 2, we thought it a good time to explore Virtual Boy Go, an open-source app for Quest that promises similar functionality. I'm a real Virtual Boy freak. I was ... more - uploadvr

Snap OS 2.0 Brings The AR Glasses Closer To Consumer-Ready

Snap OS 2.0 is out now, adding and improving first-party apps like Browser, Gallery, and Spotlight to bring the AR platform closer to being ready for consumers. If you're unfamiliar, the current Snap Spectacles are $99/month AR glasses for developers ... more - uploadvr

Meta Connect 2025: What We Expect, And What We Donx27;t

Meta Connect 2025 starts on Wednesday. Here's what we expect to see announced, and what we don't. The company's annual conference, where it typically announces new hardware and major software and content updates, takes place on September 17 and 18 this ... more - uploadvr

Samsung Phones Can Soon Capture 3D Videos To View On "Galaxy XR Headsets"

Flagship Samsung phones can soon capture 3D photos and videos to view on "Galaxy XR headsets", just like iPhones can for Apple Vision Pro. First spotted by SamMobile, the latest version of Samsung's Camera app on the Galaxy S25 FE includes ... more - uploadvr

Sky Legends – An Aeropostal Epic Is A Flight Simulator Thatx27;s Steeped In History

Sky Legends – An Aeropostal Epic has you venture through aviation history one simulated flight experience or head-scratching puzzle at a time. Despite having taken eight transatlantic flights in the past three years (and a bucketload more short-haul), ... more - uploadvr

Will The Cardboard Virtual Boy Bring Zelda: Breath Of The Wild VR To Switch 2?

Not many people are aware that one of the best games of all time, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, is officially playable in VR. With lower resolution than the Oculus DK2, and at 30 frames per second, Zelda runs in VR by holding a cardboard box ... more - uploadvr

Soaring Over Jurassic World In Orbxx27;s Flight Simulator 2024 Archipelago DLC

Orbx released its Jurassic World: Archipelago DLC for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024, so I climbed into my motion simulator to explore the ultimate pack's detailed islands from high above and walked among the dinosaurs up close. Read on for my first ... more - uploadvr

Nintendo Switch & Switch 2 Getting Official Virtual Boy Accessory

Nintendo Switch and Switch 2 are getting official Virtual Boy accessories that Switch Online subscribers can slot their consoles into to play classic 3D games like Mario's Tennis. Released in 1995, Nintendo's Virtual Boy was the first standalone home ... more - uploadvr

Smash Eat Grow Offers An Edible, Destructive VR Multiplayer Playground

XR Games and Obstinate are teaming up on Smash Eat Grow, a free-to-play multiplayer experience that's coming to Quest soon. Announced today, XR Games (Hitman 3 VR Reloaded, Zombieland VR) is partnering with Obstinate to develop Smash Eat Grow. The free-to-play ... more - uploadvr

Questx27;s Web Browser Seems To Be Getting Ad Blocking & VPN Extensions

The Horizon OS browser seems to be getting a range of new extensions, including an ad blocker and multiple VPN options, a screenshot suggests. For most people, Meta's web browser currently has one first-party extension, a PDF viewer, and one third-party ... more - uploadvr

Mixed Reality Art App Pencil Adds New Lessons & Digital Canvas With Full Release

Mixed reality educational art app Pencil - Learn to Draw received its full release with more lessons, a campaign mode, and more. Originally launched in early access last September, Pencil - Learn to Draw from developer Lead Head teaches you how to draw ... more - uploadvr

Meta Overhauls Questx27;s TV App To Be A Hub For Streaming Content

Meta overhauled Quest's TV app as a hub for streaming content, both flatscreen and immersive, and removed all user-uploaded videos. Originally known as Oculus TV, then Meta Quest TV, and now simply TV, the app previously focused on 180° and 360° content, ... more - uploadvr

Besiege VR Gets New War Machines And Camera Customization

Besiege VR's new update adds 20 new machines to the war sandbox. Released in July on Quest, Besiege VR from developer 3R Games adapts the popular flatscreen sandbox hit by rebuilding the game across a 55-level campaign. Following its first patch two ... more - uploadvr

Everyone Is Making Smart Glasses Now

A surprising number of startups and established companies are selling or working on smart glasses. We often report on the Ray-Ban and Oakley Meta glasses, Google's announced plans to take them on, and Apple's reported work on its own smart glasses. These ... more - uploadvr

Horizon Worlds Creators Can Now Add Scriptable Conversational AI NPCs

Meta Horizon Worlds creators can now add scriptable conversational AI NPCs that adult users in the US can naturally talk to. Meta first teased AI NPCs for Horizon Worlds at Connect 2024, and they became available for select Meta-partnered creators earlier ... more - uploadvr

Applex27;s visionOS Jupiter Environment Features Moving Great Red Spot & Dynamic Shadows

Apple Vision Pro developers are digging into a new home space in their headsets out beyond the asteroid belt. The Release Candidate version of visionOS 26 makes the new Jupiter home environment downloadable to Vision Pro headsets, simulating the view ... more - uploadvr

Amazon Reportedly Working On Echo HUD Glasses

Amazon plans to launch its own monocular HUD glasses, The Information reports, hoping to ship in late 2026 or early 2027. The company has been selling audio-only smart glasses, called Echo Frames, since 2019 for invite-only early adopters and 2020 for ... more - uploadvr

BMW Is Using Quest 3 To Train Technicians To Repair EV Batteries

BMW is using Quest 3 mixed reality to train technicians to repair its electric car batteries. Electric vehicle batteries are an intricate assembly of cells, wiring, and fasteners. Repairing them is challenging, and physically training technicians to ... more - uploadvr

Venice Immersive 2025: Everything We Saw In Italy

Venice Immersive recently wrapped up, and we spent a week going hands-on once more with various projects. An XR-focused segment of the Venice International Film Festival, this year marked my third year visiting Lazzaretto Vecchio after attending in 2023 ... more - uploadvr

iPhone 17 Pro Is Still Limited To 1080p 30FPS Spatial Video Recording

iPhone 17 and 17 Pro are still limited to 1080p 30fps spatial video recording, and iPhone Air can't record spatial media at all. Spatial video is Apple's term for stereoscopic 3D video using the Apple HEVC Stereo Video Profile format of MV-HEVC. Recording ... more - uploadvr

Alteregox27;s x27;Silent Speechx27; Could Be The Answer To Dictating Text In Public

Alterego is a wearable device that promises to let you silently dictate text by sensing the subvocal movements of your speech muscles. The idea here is not new. The CEO and one of the two co-founders of Alterego, Arnav Kapur, was the lead author of the ... more - uploadvr

Of Lies And Rain Quest 3 Early Access Hands-On: Gasping For Breath

Of Lies and Rain enters early access tomorrow, offering a story-driven VR adventure in a post-apocalyptic world, and we tried it on Quest 3. After fighting a twenty-year war against a rogue AI called A.D.E., the surface now belongs to the machines. Survivors ... more - uploadvr

Star Wars: Beyond Victory Releases October 7, Watch New Trailer Here

Star Wars: Beyond Victory - A Mixed Reality Playset launches next month on Quest 3 and 3S. Developed by ILM, the studio behind Vader Immortal and Tales from the Galaxy’s Edge, this upcoming game features both VR and mixed reality gameplay. Beyond Victory ... more - uploadvr