Climate Station Explores Climate Change Through An Interactive Story On PS VR2

Climate Station, a free interactive story focused on climate change developed by Sony, is out now on PS5 and PlayStation VR2. Developed by Sony Interactive Entertainment in collaboration with the United Nations Playing for the Planet Alliance, Climate ... more - uploadvr

I Am Cat Now Has Multiplayer

I Am Cat lets players roam free in a pirate map with friends in a new update. One of VR’s most popular games that took the world by storm thanks to its inherently silly premise, I Am Cat, has now added a long-awaited multiplayer feature. As the name ... more - uploadvr

Alliance Peacefighter Aims For The Stars With Frantic Space Action And Great Controls

Alliance Peacefighter has finally launched onto Steam, having been pulled from its original June 4 release at the eleventh hour and given two extra weeks in development space dock. The reason given was a simple one: persistent issues with Valve Index ... more - uploadvr

Meta Teases AI Generation Of Entire Horizon Worlds Coming "Very Soon"

Meta's Horizon Worlds Desktop Editor is getting AI Environment Generation "very soon", teased to let creators generate entire worlds from a text prompt. Meta launched the Worlds Desktop Editor for Windows in early access in February, alongside ... more - uploadvr

Escaping Wonderland Takes The Whimsical Adventure To Steam & PS VR2

Whimsical first-person puzzle adventure Escaping Wonderland arrives today on Steam and PlayStation VR2. Initially launched last year on Quest and Pico, Escaping Wonderland is a standalone sequel to 2020's adventure Down the Rabbit Hole that takes place ... more - uploadvr

Beat Saber Is Ending PlayStation VR & PS VR2 Support

Beat Saber won't release any new content on PlayStation VR and PS VR2, and multiplayer will shut down for both headsets in January. In a new statement by Beat Games, the developer announced both versions will remain available with cross-buy support across ... more - uploadvr

Thief VR Studiox27;s Next Game Based On "Flagship IP" From Major Movie

A new job listing confirms Maze Theory's next game after Thief VR is based on a “flagship IP” to coincide with an upcoming movie. After announcing Thief VR: Legacy of Shadow earlier this month with Vertigo Games, UK-based studio Maze Theory is looking ... more - uploadvr

OpenXR Spatial Entities Extensions Standardize Surfaces, Markers, Anchors & Persistence

The new OpenXR Spatial Entities Extensions standardize surface detection, marker tracking, spatial anchors, and persistence. OpenXR is the open standard API for AR/VR/MR app development and runtimes. It's managed by Khronos, the same non-profit industry ... more - uploadvr

Meta Ceases Onward Development & Merges Downpour Into Camouflaj

Downpour Interactive has been merged into Batman: Arkham Shadow studio Camouflaj as Meta ends development of Onward. Less than three months after the major Onward 2.0 launch, Downpour Interactive confirmed no further updates are coming. Onward will continue ... more - uploadvr

Metax27;s Spatial SDK For Engine-Free Quest Development Got Significant Upgrades

Since launching it in September, Meta has made significant improvements to its Spatial SDK. Meta Spatial SDK lets developers build Horizon OS apps using existing Android mobile app development tools, rather than needing to use a game engine such as Unity, ... more - uploadvr

Five Classic Oculus Rift Gems You Should Play Right Now

Virtual reality has come a long way since the days of the Oculus Rift CV1, with its Touch motion controllers revolutionizing our interactions and immersing us deeper into strange new virtual worlds. For a while now I've been reminiscing about all those ... more - uploadvr

DAZN Gives US Quest Owners A Free 3D Tabletop View Of The FIFA Club World Cup

Quest owners in the US can watch all FIFA Club World Cup games for free, including a 3D tabletop representation, and the finals will be streamed in 180°. It comes via a free Horizon OS app from the sports streaming service DAZN, compatible with Quest ... more - uploadvr

Badminton Time VR Arrives Today On PlayStation VR2

Badminton Time VR brings the multiplayer arcade sports game to PlayStation VR2 today. Developed by Fishing Cactus, Badminton Time VR first appeared last year on Nintendo Switch before getting a VR version on Quest. Now available on PlayStation VR2, this ... more - uploadvr

Jigsaw Night Is A Master Class In Interaction Design For Mixed Reality And VR

LONG BEACH, CALIFORNIA – I'm on the sun deck of the Queen Mary with Steve Lukas on the release day of his app to Meta's storefront. Lukas' 15-year-old son Christian joined him for Augmented World Expo last week, and pressed the button a few hours earlier ... more - uploadvr

Pinball FX VR Brings Classic Williams Cabinets To Life

Nine official Williams pinball tables recently launched on Quest, and we’ve got up close looks at all of them. Grouped into three separate offerings costing $9.99 each, pinball wizards can add the Williams Pinball Volumes 1, 2, and 3 DLC packs to their ... more - uploadvr

The Connectome Demo At AWE Shows How Connect The Dots Can Be Spatial

Connect the dots takes on a whole new dimension of color, scale, and fluidity in virtual reality with Connectome on Quest. Who among us didn't play connect the dots at some point in their childhood? Connectome aims to bring this simple game of creating ... more - uploadvr

Oakley Meta Glasses Seem To Be Launching On Friday

Oakley and Meta are teasing a joint launch for Friday. A new verified Instagram page called "Oakley | Meta" posted a collaborative video with the official Meta and Oakley pages teasing the June 20 launch, and the video has been reposted by ... more - uploadvr

At Least 10 Million People Now Own Beat Saber On Quest Alone

10 million Quest owners have completed at least one track of Beat Saber standalone on their headset. Beat Saber's first achievement crossing 10 million unlocks on Quest was spotted by UploadVR reader James Kelley, who brought it to our attention. Arguably ... more - uploadvr

Dreams Of Another Wants To Explore Creative Symbolism With Clouds

By turning guns into a tool for creation, Dreams of Another isn't your normal VR adventure. We've known about Q-Games' upcoming philosophical adventure since its announcement back in February, and Dreams of Another explores a key philosophical theme; ... more - uploadvr

An Apple Executive Publicly Showed Their visionOS Persona For The First Time

For the first time, an Apple executive has shown themselves using their visionOS Persona. Greg "Joz" Joswiak, Apple's SVP of Worldwide Marketing, shared a short clip on X in response to YouTuber iJustine, who posted a similar clip raving about ... more - uploadvr

Puma Made A Quest-Only WebXR Shopping Experience For Its Latest Shoe

Through a partnership with Meta, Puma has launched a Quest-only WebXR mixed reality shopping experience for its latest basketball shoe. The experience lets you view the various colors and sizes of the All Pro Nitro, and grab it to view it at 1:1 scale. ... more - uploadvr

Exer Gale Hands-On: Ix27;m Like a Bird, I Wanna Fly Away

The idea at the core of Exer Gale is a good one; use VR to let players fly like a bird. Since the dawn of time (or at least, since the birth of imagination) human beings have dreamt of flight. In the year 8 CE, the Roman poet Ovid wrote The Myth of Daedalus ... more - uploadvr

XR News Roundup: Roboquest, Hidden Pictures, Living Room & More

Our latest edition of the XR News Roundup is live with more stories from this week. The last two weeks have been busy. Meta confirmed Deadpool VR, nDreams announced Reach, State of Play unveiled both Thief VR and Lumines Arise, and we finally discovered ... more - uploadvr

Omega Pilot Evolution Races Towards Quest, PS VR2 & Pico

Omega Pilot Evolution is a high-speed VR futuristic racing game heading to Quest, Pico and PlayStation VR2. Developed by XOCUS (EXOcars), Omega Pilot Evolution is a sequel to 2022's Omega Pilot. A first-person VR racing game with anti-gravity vehicles, ... more - uploadvr

Dreams Of Another Has An Exclusive First Person Mode On PlayStation VR2

Dreams of Another, the next entry in the PixelJunk series, has an exclusive VR only first person mode on PlayStation VR2. Revealed back in February's State of Play presentation, Dreams of Another promises an upcoming philosophical adventure focused on ... more - uploadvr

Five Nights At Freddyx27;s: Secret Of The Mimic Will Add VR Support Post-Launch

Though it's absent from today's flatscreen launch, Five Nights at Freddy's: Secret of the Mimic will receive VR support post-release. There's been some confusion these last few months about the state of VR support in Five Nights at Freddy's: Secret of ... more - uploadvr

Reach Invites High Intensity VR Action With Open Arms

As I jumped over buildings and quickly flinged to rooftops, Reach made me glad to have accrued VR legs in the past few years. The debut title by nDreams Elevation takes cues from existing mechanics and the studio’s own institutional knowledge of the ... more - uploadvr

Le Mans Ultimate Leaves Early Access Next Month On SteamVR

Le Mans Ultimate, an official game for the FIA World Endurance Championship, enters full release next month on SteamVR. Previously released last year on Steam Early Access, Le Mans Ultimate by Studio 397 will reach version 1.0 on July 22. Announced before ... more - uploadvr

Little Thief Review: Boring, Lifeless & A Befuddling Number Of Bathrooms

Stealing is bad, but the impish glee at pretending to steal can be very addictive. Whether it's in Skyrim with a bow and arrow, or the aptly named THIEF series, we love to skulk through the shadows, finding hidden trinkets. Little Thief promises to take ... more - uploadvr

Could Samsungx27;s Android XR Headset Launch Next Month - In South Korea?

Could Samsung's first standalone XR headset launch next month, but only in South Korea? PandaFlash, a Samsung-focused leaker, seemed to strongly hint so in posts on X. The posts suggest the launch would occur during a July Samsung Unpacked event, and ... more - uploadvr