Gambit! Releases This Week, New Municipal Mayhem PvP Mode Revealed

After multiple delays, Gambit! is set to release this week on April 6 for Quest and PC VR. XREAL Games, the team behind Zero Caliber VR, first unveiled the co-operative VR heist shooter back in 2020. Initially set to release in 2021, it then faced delays ... more - uploadvr

Fruit Ninja VR 2 Slices Onto Quest, Pico & PC VR Platforms This Week

Fruit Ninja VR 2 now has a final release date, set to launch later this week on April 6 for Quest, Pico and PC VR. Halfbrick Studios says the sequel will feature the return of Classic, Arcade and Zen modes from the original, now “juicier than ever.” ... more - uploadvr

OpenXR Toolkit Brings Quest Pro Foveated Rendering To PC VR Link

OpenXR Toolkit added eye-tracked foveated rendering support for Meta Quest Pro. As the name suggests, OpenXR Toolkit improves and adds features to PC VR titles that use the OpenXR open standard API. That includes Microsoft Flight Simulator, iRacing, ... more - uploadvr

Owlchemy Demo Reaches For Mass Market VR With Hand Tracking

The most technically impressive VR demo I tried at GDC 2023 felt familiar. I passed objects back and forth between my hands, tossed them into the air and caught them, twisted dials, grabbed and used spray bottles and typed on a keyboard by pinching one ... more - uploadvr

Gorn Now Available On PSVR 2, Passes 1.5 Million Sales On All Platforms

Bloody combat simulator Gorn is now available on PlayStation VR2 for PS5. In a bit of surprise news last week, Devolver Digital announced that Gorn is now available for PSVR 2 on PS5. Even better, those players who already own the game on PS4 for the ... more - uploadvr

Pin City Shows Promise With Zany VR Bowling Scenarios

In the roughly 15-minute demo of Pin City I played at PAX East 2023, I hurled my bowling ball over fires, through tunnels and into halfpipes. Put simply, it looks like Studio 217 is making sure the game lives up to its ‘VR bowling with a twist’ subtitle. ... more - uploadvr

Exclusive: Capcom Talks Bringing Resident Evil Village To PSVR 2, Future Plans & More

Resident Evil Village is easily one of the best experiences available for PSVR 2 at launch. Last week, we spoke to Capcom over Q&A about bringing Village’s VR Mode to life on PlayStation VR2 – here are the highlights, with a full transcript of the ... more - uploadvr

A Knight In The Attic Preview: An Arthurian Tilt Maze Rolling Onto Quest 2, PC VR

I love it when games surprise me the way A Knight In The Attic did. Not to discount the fun that comes from VR’s most popular genres, but this felt like something I’d never seen before. At PAX East 2023, I played the first 20 minutes of an early demo ... more - uploadvr

Capcom: No Current Plans For Mercenaries Mode Or Village DLC On PSVR 2

In an upcoming Q&A, Resident Evil Village VR Mode Director Kazuhiro Takahara told UploadVR that “at this time” the studio has no plans to bring the Resident Evil Village DLC content or The Mercenaries mode to PSVR 2. Resident Evil Village released ... more - uploadvr

New VR Games & Releases April 2023: PSVR 2, Quest 2 & More

Looking for new VR games coming out in April 2023? We’ve got you covered. The last few months have been some of the busiest we’ve seen in VR’s recent history, with PlayStation VR 2 offering over 40 launch games. While many of these were enhanced ports ... more - uploadvr

Capcom: “Large Majority” Of PSVR 2 Users Have Tried Resident Evil Village In VR Mode

Resident Evil Village VR Mode Director Kazuhiro Takahara told UploadVR that a “very large majority” of PSVR 2 owners have tried out Resident Evil Village in VR mode. In a snippet from an upcoming Q&A to be published this weekend, we asked Capcom’s ... more - uploadvr

Litesport Now Offers Weight-Based VR Workouts – Here’s A Personal Trainer’s Perspective

As a personal trainer, VR fitness apps aren’t something I usually lean towards. However, for Quest users looking for an introduction to strength training, the new weight-based training mode in Litesport (formerly Liteboxer) might have something to offer. ... more - uploadvr

Mobile Versions Of VRChat In Development, Android Release Coming Soon

In a new developer update, the VRChat team confirmed that it is developing mobile versions of its social VR experience, with an Android release coming first. In the update, the VRChat team shared some footage of the game running on Android, but stressed ... more - uploadvr

Gran Turismo 7 Adds New Cars & Track Layouts On PSVR 2

A free Gran Turismo 7 update adds five new cars and additional track layouts. Following its high-profile PSVR 2 release last month, Polyphony Digital will add five new cars in the free Update 1.31 for Gran Turismo 7; Audi RS 5 Turbo DTM ‘19, Porsche ... more - uploadvr

PSVR 2 Launch Sales Low, IDC Analysts Claim – But Is Sony Just Getting Started?

PlayStation VR2 launch sales have been disappointing, analyst firm IDC claims. IDC (International Data Corporation) is an analyst firm that sells reports detailing its estimates of market size, market share, and unit sales of popular product categories. ... more - uploadvr

Beat Saber Adds Six New Songs To Panic! At The Disco Music Pack

Beat Saber announced another music pack revamp today, which will add six new songs to the Panic! At The Disco pack and update the beatmaps, environments and lighting for its existing tracks. Hot on the heels of the revamped Imagine Dragons pack from ... more - uploadvr

The Last Worker Review: Signed, Sealed, Delivered

The Last Worker brings a satirical narrative adventure to Quest, PSVR 2 and PC VR, mixing strong humor with tense stealth action. Jointly developed for flatscreen platforms and VR, here’s our full review: We’ve seen countless takes on sci-fi dystopian ... more - uploadvr

Yupitergrad 2 Preview: A Strong Start With Tighter Controls & Aerial Skirmishes

Yupitergrad 2: The Lost Station is an innovative Spider-Man-style action adventure swinging its way onto VR headsets this year. We played the first few hours of an early access alpha version for Quest 2 – read on for our hands-on impressions. Step into ... more - uploadvr

Sky Strikers Mixes Rocket League And Gorilla Tag On Quest 2 & PC VR

Sky Strikers VR mixes Gorilla Tag and Rocket League into a new VR experience, and it’s out now on Quest 2 and Steam. A free-to-play team-based multiplayer game that supports 6 players, Sky Strikers comes from developer Chamber 8 Studio, who claims they ... more - uploadvr

Seeker: My Shadow Brings Asymmetric Co-Op Puzzle Platforming To PSVR 2

Seeker: My Shadow brings a new VR co-op puzzle platformer to PSVR 2, available now. Developed by Finnish studio Jestercraft, Seeker: My Shadow appeared on PC VR nearly two years ago, and it’s now leaping onto Sony’s latest VR headset. Playable alone ... more - uploadvr

Espire 2 Adds Thirteen New Short Missions On Quest 2

Digital Lode released an Espire 2 update today, introducing 13 new “highly-replayable short missions” missions called Espire Ops on Quest 2. First released last November, Espire 2‘s latest patch is available now. Titled Update 1.4, this adds quality-of-life ... more - uploadvr

Rec Room Working On Support For Body Tracking And Hand Tracking

Rec Room is working on support for body tracking on SteamVR, and hand tracking on Quest. Rec Room’s avatars are currently legless. Support for body tracking on SteamVR, such as strapping on 3 or more Vive Trackers, should arrive alongside or soon after ... more - uploadvr

Apple Announces June Event Where It Will Reportedly Unveil Its Headset

Apple announced WWDC23 will take place June 5-9. Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) is a yearly developer-focused Apple event where upcoming versions of its operating systems and SDKs are revealed, and sometimes new Mac hardware too. In recent years ... more - uploadvr

Ghost Signal: A Stellaris Game Will Receive New Post-Launch Content

Fast Travel Games are planning new post-launch content for Ghost Signal: A Stellaris Game, as a new patch adds minor bug fixes today on Quest 2. Following its launch last week, Fast Travel Games released a minor update for Ghost Signal: A Stellaris Game. ... more - uploadvr

Vertigo 2 Review: A Constantly Creative & Engaging PC VR Experience

Seven years after the release of Vertigo, the sequel is now available for PC VR headsets. Vertigo 2 features an expansive campaign with witty writing, fantastic mechanics and endlessly creative gameplay. Read on for our full Vertigo 2 PC VR review. When ... more - uploadvr

Quest Pro v51 Adds Local Dimming To PC Link, Significantly Enhancing Contrast

The v51 Quest system software update adds local dimming to Link mode on Quest Pro. Most LCD panels have at most a few LEDs backlighting the entire display, severely limiting the contrast between dark and bright regions. You’ve probably noticed they show ... more - uploadvr

Meta Releases Haptics SDK For Quest Controllers, With 34 Premade Patterns

Meta released a Haptics SDK for Unity, and Haptic Studio for authoring haptics. These tools appear to be the result of Meta’s acquisition of the German startup Lofelt last year, as we speculated at the time of the acquisition. Lofelt offered a haptics ... more - uploadvr

Eye Of The Temple Room-Scale VR Platforming Comes To Quest 2 ‘Soon’

Eye of the Temple, a room-scale VR platformer, will make a surprise leap onto Quest 2 soon. Initially released for PC VR, Eye of the Temple comes from solo developer Rune Skovbo Johansen, who is collaborating with Salmi Games for the Quest 2 port. Requiring ... more - uploadvr

Zenith VR MMO Dropping Support For Quest 1 & PSVR 1

The developers behind the popular Zenith VR MMO are dropping support for the original Quest and PlayStation VR headsets. Original PSVR owners will be disconnected from the larger MMO community and retired to their own shard running version 1.2.2 of Zenith. ... more - uploadvr

Not For Broadcast VR Review: Nightly News Has Never Been So Fun

Not For Broadcast is the propaganda broadcasting experience available now for Quest 2 and PC VR. This flatscreen-to-VR port translates nicely, delivering a wonderfully entertaining job sim filled with clever adult humor. Find out more in our Not For ... more - uploadvr