Takenoko For Tilt Five AR Coming Soon To Steam

Tilt Five is publishing an AR version of board game Takenoko later this month. There’s a coming soon page for the game on Steam with Takenoko set to become the first officially published title from Tilt Five for its AR glasses system. Based on the 2011 ... more - uploadvr

NBA Content Coming To Basketball VR App Gym Class This Winter

The popular VR basketball Gym Class announced a licensing relationship with the National Basketball Association (NBA) today, which will let users play on virtual replicas of NBA team courts and use team-branded apparel and balls in-game. This relationship ... more - uploadvr

Squid Game Coming To Sandbox VR Locations In Late 2023

Sandbox VR is creating a location-based Squid Game VR experience with Netflix, which arrives in late 2023. Best known for creating full-body VR experiences based on brands like Star Trek: Discovery Away Mission, Netflix’s popular series is the next Sandbox ... more - uploadvr

Cosmic Overdrive Brings A New Sci-Fi Runner To PC VR & Quest This Year

Cosmic Overdrive promises a challenging procedurally generated sci-fi runner, which takes off later this year on PC VR and Quest. Developed by a two-person team, VRGE Studios gave UploadVR a breakdown of Cosmic Overdrive’s gameplay loop. It tasks you ... more - uploadvr

Barbaria Review – An Addictive Adventure In Strategic Arcade Action

Barbaria charges onto Quest 2, Quest Pro and PC VR today. Read on for our full Barbaria review. Violence is in no short supply in VR. Looking at the most popular genres of the medium, physics-based combat simulators consistently rank high. Offering a ... more - uploadvr

The Light Brigade Releases February 22 For Quest 2, PSVR 2 & PC VR

The Light Brigade now has a confirmed release date of February 22 for Quest 2, PSVR 2 and PC VR. It’s the latest project from Funktronic Labs (known for Cosmic Trip and Fujii), who announced a Q1 2023 release in November last year. Now we’ve got confirmation ... more - uploadvr

Meta Targets Teens & User Retention In Horizon’s Next Steps

Meta set 2023 goals for its teams working on Horizon, including more than doubling its active userbase and creating at least one major hit experience on the platform, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal. The report by Salvador Rodriguez ... more - uploadvr

Among Us VR: New Polus Map Coming Soon, PSVR 2 Release Won’t Be Launch Day

Among Us VR is teasing a new map coming soon, based off the Polus map from the flatscreen original. Schell Games also confirmed that Among Us VR won’t be a launch day title for PSVR 2. In a new teaser trailer (embedded above), Schell Games gave a first ... more - uploadvr

Pavlov ‘More Efficient’ On PSVR 2 Than PC VR

Pavlov runs more efficiently on PSVR 2 compared to PC VR with more room for rendering, according to recent comments from developer David Villarreal. Villarreal revealed these details in a series of comments on the Pavlov Discord server, stating that ... more - uploadvr

Meta Cleared To Acquire Within & Supernatural 15 Months After Initial Attempt

A report from The Verge indicates that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) won’t appeal the recent court decision ruling against an injunction to block Meta Platforms from acquiring Within. In late 2021, the FTC opened an antitrust probe into Meta’s proposed ... more - uploadvr

Garden Of The Sea Joins PSVR 2 Launch Day Lineup

Garden of the Sea, Neat Corp’s cutesy gardening game, is officially joining the PSVR 2 launch lineup. Released last year on Quest and PC VR, Garden of the Sea feels like a mix between Stardew Valley and The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker. A relaxing ... more - uploadvr

Sony: 100+ Titles Currently In Development For PSVR 2

There are currently more than 100 titles in development for PlayStation VR2, according to Sony in a recent FAQ post. Sony notes that there will be 30+ games available during the launch window of the upcoming headset, but also hints at more to come, stating ... more - uploadvr

Steam Fest Demo Available Now For Titan1Studios’ Events At Unity Farm

Titan1Studios are featuring their new ambitious open world VR game The Events At Unity Farm at Steam Next Fest from February 6th to 13th. The game also has a playable demo available to download on Steam right now. Events At Unity Farm is a title with ... more - uploadvr

PlayStation VR2 Works Without A TV After Setup, Sony Confirms

If you’ve got a PS5 and PlayStation VR2 headset and already set it up there’s no need to have your TV on or even connected to the system, Sony confirmed. A TV is only required “to setup the PS VR2 unit for the first time” an official Q&A page for ... more - uploadvr

PSVR 2 Is 7% Lighter Than The Original Despite New Features

PSVR 2 is 7% lighter than the original PSVR, despite utilizing new headset technology like haptic feedback and eye-tracking. With just over two weeks until PSVR 2 launches, Sony released a new FAQ today that seeks to address any outstanding questions ... more - uploadvr

Gran Turismo 7 Was Always Designed for PSVR 2, Claims Director

Gran Turismo 7 was always designed with VR support in mind, confirms Polyphony Digital CEO Kazunori Yamauchi in a new interview. Revealed during CES 2023, Gran Turismo 7 arrives later this month as a PSVR 2 launch game, and we’re slowly learning more ... more - uploadvr

Pistol Whip Promises A ‘More Realistic Firing Experience’ On PSVR 2

Popular action-rhythm game Pistol Whip arrives on PSVR 2 this month, and Cloudhead Games recently outlined how it utilizes the new Sense controller. Joining an extensive list of PSVR 2 launch games, Cloudhead Games previously confirmed its Pistol Whip ... more - uploadvr

Between Realities VR Podcast ft Quinn Taber of Immerse

In this week’s episode of the Between Realities VR Podcast, Alex and Skeeva host Quinn Taber, CEO of the award-winning language learning platform Immerse. Quinn explains how Immerse is leveraging the power of virtual reality to make learning a new language ... more - uploadvr

Meta CTO Shoots Down Face Tracking For Non-Pro Headsets Like Quest 3

Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth said that the facial expression tracking technology in Quest Pro is still years away from making it into the more affordable line of Meta’s VR headsets. The Quest Pro launched late last year for $1500, featuring technology that ... more - uploadvr

Blaston Now Available On Pico 4 & Pico Neo 3

Resolution Games one-on-one arcade shooter Blaston is now available on the Pico platform for both Pico 4 and Pico Neo 3 Link. Resolution confirmed that Blaston would be heading over to Pico late last year, while also detailing an update with major revamps ... more - uploadvr

John Carmack’s Full Statement On Echo VR’s Planned Closure

Former Oculus CTO John Carmack responded to a request for comment from UploadVR regarding Meta’s planned closure of Echo VR. You can read Carmack’s full statement below. For those catching up, earlier this week Meta shocked fans of one of VR’s earliest ... more - uploadvr

Between Realities VR Podcast ft Monkey See Monkey Doo Doo

In this week’s bonus episode of the Between Realities VR Podcast, Alex and Skeeva host the team behind the newly released VR game Monkey See Monkey Doo Doo. David Burnham from Continuum VR answers questions about the origins and development of their ... more - uploadvr

Watch: Gran Turismo 7 VR Gameplay, New Details Revealed

A new hands-on video from IGN gave us our first proper look at Gran Turismo 7 gameplay on PSVR 2, alongside confirmation of some other minor details as well. You can see the gameplay in the video from IGN above, which includes snippets of PSVR 2 footage ... more - uploadvr

Meta CTO: John Carmack Would Not Have Shut Down Echo VR

Addressing the recent announcement that Echo VR shuts down in August, Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth provided his perspective on the decision and said “John [Carmack] would not have shut down Echo VR.” During his latest Instagram AMA, someone asked Bosworth ... more - uploadvr

Meta One Step Closer To Completing Supernatural Acquisition

This week Meta Platforms made it one step closer to successfully acquiring Within, the studio behind fitness service Supernatural, according to a report by Bloomberg. The United States Federal Trade Commission’s effort to block the deal hit a snag with ... more - uploadvr

Broken Edge Details 2023 Updates, The Viking Releases February 15

Competitive multiplayer fantasy dueler Broken Edge detailed more content plans for 2023, as well as confirming a February 15 release for the next playable fighter, The Viking. Broken Edge announced The Viking during our Upload VR Showcase last December, ... more - uploadvr

Quest 3 Will Have Color Passthrough Mixed Reality, Meta Confirms

Meta effectively confirmed Quest 3 will have color passthrough for mixed reality. “Later this year, we’re going to launch our next generation consumer headset, which will feature Meta Reality as well,” CEO Mark Zuckerberg told investors in an earnings ... more - uploadvr

Samsung To Develop New XR Hardware In Partnership With Qualcomm, Google

During today’s Samsung Unpacked event, Samsung announced plans to create new ‘Extended Reality’ (XR) hardware in partnership with Google and Qualcomm. This new XR platform was far from the main focus of the event, which centered around the new Samsung ... more - uploadvr

Meta VR Revenue Sees Quarterly Rebound Despite Year-On-Year Downturn

Meta’s Reality Labs revenue rebounded in Q4 2022 but was still less than Q4 2021 due to “lower Quest 2 sales”. Reality Labs is the division of Meta behind Quest, smart glasses, Meta Avatars, the Horizon platform, and research & development toward ... more - uploadvr

Crumbling Looks Like A Big Nostalgia Trip On Quest and PC VR

Crumbling aims to recreate your childhood nostalgia of playing with action figures through a hack ’n’ slash VR roguelike, and it’s coming to Quest and PC VR this Summer. Created by solo German developer Ole Jürgensen, Crumbling sees you fending off hordes ... more - uploadvr