Gun Jam VR Quest 2 Review: A Wave Shooter With A Twist

Gun Jam VR, the rhythm FPS from Jaw Drop Games and Raw Fury, is now available for Quest 2 and Quest Pro. This fast-paced wave shooter blends intense firefights with a unique beat-pattern shooting mechanic. An omnipresent beat dominates the futuristic ... more - uploadvr

Meta Fixed Quest Automatic App Updates, Significantly Reducing Friction

Meta fixed automatic app updates on Quest. Quest headsets had an option to update apps automatically in the smartphone app, but it didn’t work reliably. Even if you left your headset charging for hours you might put it on to find the app you wanted to ... more - uploadvr

Gran Turismo 7 PSVR 2 Review – Start Your Engines

Gran Turismo 7, Sony’s flagship racing series, arrives as a PSVR 2 launch title. Available as a free update for existing PS5 owners, here’s our full review. Gran Turismo Sport promised greater things to come on PSVR. With VR support limited to 1v1 races ... more - uploadvr

Meta Interaction SDK Gets Hand Tracking Teleport Gesture With Demo Game

Meta added a hand tracking teleportation system to its Interaction SDK. The Interaction SDK is a Unity framework providing high quality common hand interactions for controllers and hand tracking. It includes direct object grabbing, distance grabbing, ... more - uploadvr

Kill It With Fire VR Coming This Year To Quest 2, PSVR 2 & PC VR

Spider hunter game Kill It With Fire is coming to VR headsets later this year. This new VR version of the game is set for release on Quest 2, SteamVR, the original PSVR and PSVR 2. While we don’t have any VR gameplay just yet, you can check out the trailer ... more - uploadvr

Synapse Dual-Wielding Shooter Coming To PSVR 2

One of VR’s most experienced development studios, nDreams, revealed its upcoming shooter Synapse for PSVR 2. Coming 2023, the game will arm players with both telekinetic powers and weaponry that “evolves Fracked’s acclaimed run and gun gameplay” with ... more - uploadvr

Hellsweeper PSVR 2 Release Confirmed, Coming Later This Year

Upcoming dark fantasy combat game Hellsweeper VR will release on PlayStation VR2 later this year. It’s a new title from Mixed Realm, the team behind Sairento, and will be published by Vertigo Games, known for Arizona Sunshine, A Fisherman’s Tale and ... more - uploadvr

Journey To Foundation Coming 2023 To PSVR 2, Quest 2 & Pico 4

A VR game based on Isaac Asimov’s classic sci-if series Foundation is coming to PSVR 2, Quest 2, and Pico 4 this year from Archiact. Sony revealed the announcement trailer for Journey To Foundation during its latest State of Play stream. Archiact is ... more - uploadvr

Hello Neighbor: Search And Rescue Releases On PSVR 2 In May

Hello Neighbor: Search and Rescue will release May 24 for PlayStation VR2. Developers tinyBuild first revealed the game several months ago, announcing a simultaneous launch on PSVR 2 and PC VR on February 22. However, a few weeks before PSVR 2 launch, ... more - uploadvr

Mixture: Deep Dive Into Adventure’s Lore And Gameplay

Mixture is out now from developer Played With Fire and published by Beyond Frames Entertainment and it offers a fantasy action-adventure spanning both first and third person perspectives. Mixture’s distinctive hand-painted textures and unusual gameplay ... more - uploadvr

Guardians Frontline Arrives Next Month On Quest and PC VR

Guardians Frontline is almost here – Fast Travel Games confirmed that the FPS and RTS hybrid hits Quest and PC VR on March 9. Originally released as Guardians VR on App Lab, SideQuest and Steam Early Access, developer VirtualAge took direct inspiration ... more - uploadvr

Resident Evil 4 Remake ‘VR Mode’ For PSVR 2 Now In Development

New tweets from a Resident Evil Twitter account indicate that development has started on PSVR 2 content for the Resident Evil 4 Remake, set to release next month. The tweets in question come from the official Resident Evil account on Twitter and while ... more - uploadvr

Meta Says It Reduced Quest Pro Controllers Startup Time

Meta claims update v50 reduces the time Touch Pro controllers take to synchronize their tracking with the headset. The Touch Pro controllers track themselves via three cameras and a relatively powerful onboard chipset. This means tracking works at any ... more - uploadvr

Zombieland: Headshot Fever Reloaded Review – Always Double Tap

Zombieland: Headshot Fever Reloaded reimagines this arcade light-gun shooter for PlayStation VR2, significantly improving the Quest and PC VR release. Here’s our full review: VR offers a natural successor to light-gun shooters, and I’d argue Zombieland: ... more - uploadvr

Quest 2 Now Also Lets You Bring Up The Browser Without Quitting A VR App

Quest 2 now lets you bring up the web browser without having to quit the running VR app. Both Quest 2 and Quest Pro let you bring up 3 browser windows at once in the system home environment. But on Quest 2 you couldn’t bring up the browser while inside ... more - uploadvr

Demeo Gets Pico Crossplay Support, PSVR 2 Edition Out Now

Demeo now supports cross-platform multiplayer on Pico, which joins today’s PS5 and PSVR 2 release, Resolution Games confirmed. First released in 2021, Resolution’s popular tabletop dungeon crawler continues launching on new platforms and, last year, ... more - uploadvr

Top 5 Best PSVR 2 Games To Play At Launch

PlayStation VR2 launches this week, but what are the best PSVR 2 games to play at launch? Here are our picks based on what we’ve tried already on PS5 or previously on another system. If you’re picking up a PSVR 2 this week, we’ve put together this list ... more - uploadvr

Quest v50 Lets You Direct Touch The Interface With Your Fingers

The Meta Quest v50 update adds an experimental feature called Direct Touch. Interacting with the Quest system interface currently requires pointing and clicking. With controllers, this “click” is done with the trigger or A/X button, while hand tracking ... more - uploadvr

Pistol Whip Overdrive Season Releases New Scenes Each Month

Rhythm shooter Pistol Whip will release scenes monthly for its new Overdrive season. We’ve been big fans of Pistol Whip since its 2019 release delivered comfortable and satisfying active gameplay that can be grasped in minutes and mastered over hours. ... more - uploadvr

No Man’s Sky Available Now On PlayStation VR2

No Man’s Sky is now available for PlayStation VR2, after initially being about announced as a launch window title. Today is the day we’ve all been waiting for – PSVR 2 launch day. However, it seems there’s still a few surprises for those getting their ... more - uploadvr

State of Play Presentation Will Reveal Five New PSVR 2 Games This Week

Sony’s State of Play presentation returns this Thursday, promising reveals for five new PlayStation VR2 games. With just one day left before PlayStation VR2 arrives, Sony announced a new online broadcast on February 23 at 1pm PT. This latest showcase ... more - uploadvr

PSVR 2 Specs & Technical Analysis: Displays, Lenses, Reprojection, And More

PlayStation VR2 ships today. Here’s our technical analysis of it as VR hardware. PSVR 2 offers major upgrades over the original 2016 product. PSVR 1 required an array of cables connected to a breakout box and a PlayStation Camera, while PSVR 2 connects ... more - uploadvr

I Expect You To Die 3 From Schell Games Coming This Year

I Expect You To Die 3 is coming this year to Meta Quest and Steam VR headsets. The single-player puzzle series from Schell Games imagines a James Bond-inspired “spy-fi” world of plotting villains and the spies trying to stop them. Each mission is like ... more - uploadvr

Kayak VR: Mirage PSVR 2 Review – Calm Waters Ahead

Following its PC VR release last year, Kayak VR: Mirage now arrives on PlayStation VR2. Developed by Better Than Life, how does this visually stunning physics-based sim fare on the new PS5 headset? Here’s our full review. Kayak VR is my biggest surprise ... more - uploadvr

Another Fisherman’s Tale Coming From Innerspace & Vertigo

A Fisherman’s Tale released in 2019 with “best-in-class” puzzle design as it achieved a “perfect storm of gameplay, immersion and narrative.” Our review’s biggest critique was that the game developed by Innerspace VR was too short, even as it was nominated ... more - uploadvr

Pico Now Fully Supports The OpenXR Standard

Pico headsets are now fully compliant with the OpenXR standard, the company says. OpenXR is the open standard API for VR and AR development. It was developed by Khronos, the same non-profit industry consortium managing OpenGL. OpenXR includes all the ... more - uploadvr

Tencent Reportedly Plans To Bring Meta Quest 2 To China

Tencent reportedly plans to bring Meta’s Quest 2 to China. Last week Reuters reported Tencent is scrapping its own in-development VR headset due to the high cost of the project and internal projections that it wouldn’t be profitable until 2027. Chinese ... more - uploadvr

Apple Headset ‘A Macintosh Moment’ – Acquired Mixed Reality Startup Founder

Apple’s entry to VR will be “a Macintosh moment”, says the founder of Vrvana. Vrvana was acquired by Apple in 2017. It was a startup working on Totem, one of the first headsets to use high-resolution color cameras for stereo passthrough mixed reality ... more - uploadvr

WATCH: First Gameplay From The Dark Pictures: Switchback VR On PSVR 2

A new gameplay walkthrough video posted to the PlayStation YouTube channel gives us our first proper look at The Dark Pictures: Switchback VR, an upcoming horror-themed rollercoaster shooter for PlayStation VR2. The video reveals a bunch of new details, ... more - uploadvr

Pico Reportedly Laying Off Hundreds Just Months After Pico 4 Launch

Pico is laying off hundreds of staff, South China Morning Post reports. The report cites “two people familiar with the matter.” One of those people reportedly said the cuts represent a “substantial portion of Pico” with some teams seeing as much as a ... more - uploadvr