ICYMI This Week: Grokit, Gazzlers, Beat The Beats, Noun Town & More

After this week's biggest VR news? Here's our latest roundup with a few stories you may have missed. Hardware news was dominated by AWE 2024 this week. We went hands-on with Sony's standalone enterprise headset, Ultraleap demoed Meta's Ray-Ban Glasses ... more - uploadvr

Inseye Lumi Is A $160 Cameraless Eye Tracking Addon For Quest 2 & 3

Inseye plans to release a $160 eye tracking addon for Quest 2 and Quest 3, though there's no specific timeline yet. Existing headsets with eye tracking like Apple Vision Pro and PlayStation VR2 use infrared cameras combined with infrared LED illuminators ... more - uploadvr

Hellsweeper VR Overhauls Traits System In Ascension Update

Hellsweeper VR overhauls the traits system in the free Ascension update. Available now on most supported platforms, the latest Hellsweeper VR update streamlines the traits system. Developer Mixed Realms states this "reduces the need to memorize ... more - uploadvr

Taskmaster VR Review: Your Disappointment Starts Now

The British comedy game show Taskmaster is a joyful slice of television that’s beloved globally. It’s something that all TV shows, regardless of genre, should strive to be: clever, unique, honest with a hint of devious, and gut-shakingly funny. Sadly, ... more - uploadvr

PowerWash Simulator VR Meets Alice In Wonderland Next Month In New DLC

PowerWash Simulator VR heads down the rabbit hole next month with a new Alice In Wonderland-themed DLC pack. The latest PowerWash Simulator VR DLC update, Futurlab's next crossover aims to capture the quirky essence of Alice in Wonderland. Featuring ... more - uploadvr

SWERYx27;s Death Game Hotel Has A Release Date, And Itx27;s Soon

Death Game Hotel, a VR horror title from Deadly Premonition director SWERY, confirmed a release date on Quest. Originally announced last year, Death Game Hotel is the debut VR game from White Owls, Inc. The studio was founded by Hidetaka Suehiro, better ... more - uploadvr

Palmer Luckey Confirms His Upcoming Headset Is Designed For Military Use

Oculus founder Palmer Luckey is returning to XR with a new headset, though it's primarily designed for military use. We've known for several weeks that Luckey planned to reveal a new headset during AWE 2024. Announced during a panel with Bigscreen Beyond ... more - uploadvr

I Used Meta Ray-Ban Glasses & Apple Vision Pro To Cover Augmented World Expo

Augmented World Expo in Long Beach is the first conference I’ve attended fully equipped with Meta Ray-Ban glasses and Apple Vision Pro as part of my reporting toolkit. I made plans to attend Augmented World Expo this year in Long Beach without a schedule ... more - uploadvr

Somnium VR1 PC VR Headset With Wide Field Of View Set To Finally Launch In July

Somnium VR1 early reservation holders can finally order the headset, and it's set to go on general sale in July. Who Is Somnium And What Is VR1? Somnium is a Czech startup previously solely focused on its social VR platform Somnium Space. But in late ... more - uploadvr

Rogue Ascent Brings The Roguelike VR Shooter To Steam Next Month

Rogue Ascent, a VR roguelike sci-fi adventure, reaches Steam next month with controller support. Developed by Nooner Bear Studio, Rogue Ascent is a VR shooter that can be played entirely through hand tracking. Fighting through procedurally-generated ... more - uploadvr

MiRacle Pool Sinks The Shot In Quest Store Mixed Reality Release

It’s no secret that a lot of folks out there would probably love to have a pool table or other large social fixture in their living spaces. Realistically, most people simply don't have the floorspace, or budget, to make it happen. This is where mixed ... more - uploadvr

Escape Simulator VR Meets PowerWash Sim In Todayx27;s DLC

Escape Simulator VR meets PowerWash Simulator in a new DLC crossover, and it's out now on Steam. Announced two weeks ago, Escape Simulator VR is turning the PowerWash Simulator VR garage into a "mind-bending" escape room. Armed with familiar ... more - uploadvr

Mannequin Offers Social VR Stealth On Steam Today

Mannequin, the asymmetrical VR multiplayer game inspired by Prop Hunt, launches today on Steam. Supporting five players in online 2v3 matches, Mannequin sees two Agents hunting down shape-shifting aliens. As the aliens, you can freeze to blend in with ... more - uploadvr

Downtown Club Review-In-Progress: A Solid Chassis On Which To Build

Within the first few moments, Downtown Club has me feeling like Max Verstappen. Lined up on the grid, I flex my gloved fingers and grip the steering wheel. The countdown begins and my right hand finds the shift knob. Three. Two. One. And I'm ready to ... more - uploadvr

The Infinite Inside Brings A New MR Puzzle Adventure To All Major Platforms Next Month

The Infinite Inside arrives on all major VR platforms next month. Previously available as a demo on App Lab and SideQuest, The Infinite Inside comes from Maze Theory, best known for Peaky Blinders: The Kings Ransom and Doctor Who: The Edge of Time. It's ... more - uploadvr

Android Watch App WowMouse Offers Hand Pointing & Gestures Without Camera Tracking

Doublepoint is the company behind an impressive Wear OS app that lets any Android smartwatch add hand pointing and gestures to XR headsets or glasses without needing optical hand tracking. A quick demo offered by Doublepoint at the Augmented World Expo ... more - uploadvr

Ultraleap Demos Metax27;s Ray-Ban Glasses With All-Day Hand Tracking Sensor Added

Ultraleap is at Augmented World Expo in Long Beach demonstrating a path to all-day gestural recognition with low power consumption required to keep it ready all day. The 3D-printed housing for a downward-facing event sensor is connected by wire to a ... more - uploadvr

Neon Squad Tactics Review: Demeo With Droids

Neon Squad Tactics might feel to some like it was borne out of one of those desperate meetings - that people outside of game development assume happen all the time but likely never do. The kind where one person twirling a pencil-thin mustache names a ... more - uploadvr

Gorilla Tag Has 1 Million Daily & 3 Million Monthly Active Players

Gorilla Tag has reached over 1 million daily and three million monthly active players. Revealed during a fireside chat at AWE 2024, developer Another Axiom confirmed Gorilla Tag has seen over 1 million daily active users, over 3 million monthly active ... more - uploadvr

ALVR SteamVR Streaming App For Apple Vision Pro Now On The visionOS App Store

ALVR is now available on the visionOS App Store. If you're interested in VR you're probably familiar with the three most popular tools to make Meta Quest headsets act as PC VR headsets on Windows: Virtual Desktop, Steam Link, and Quest (Air) Link. But ... more - uploadvr

First Impressions: Sonyx27;s Standalone Headset For Creatives Disappoints

Sony's upcoming standalone headset running the XR2+ Gen 2 chipset is unlikely to draw in creatives with its limited field of view and finicky controllers. Sony Announces XR2+ Gen 2 Standalone Headset For Enterprise Sony is the previously undisclosed ... more - uploadvr

Meta Reportedly Began Work On Quest Pro 2 Back In November

Meta started work on a Quest Pro 2 in November 2023, according to The Information. Buried in their report today about Apple suspending work on Vision Pro 2 to focus on shipping a cheaper headset by the end of next year, The Information's Wayne Ma and ... more - uploadvr

Apple Reportedly "Suspends" Work On Vision Pro Successor To Focus On Cheaper Headset

Apple has "suspended" work on a high-end Vision Pro successor to focus on releasing a cheaper Vision headset by the end of 2025, according to The Information. The Information's Wayne Ma and Qianer Liu report that Apple told "at least one ... more - uploadvr

Varjo Teleport Lets You Capture Any Scene With An iPhone And View It Photorealistically In PC VR

Varjo Teleport lets you easily capture any scene with an iPhone and move around it in PC VR with photorealistic graphics. Like the Gracia platform we reported on yesterday, Varjo Teleport is possible thanks to Gaussian splatting, a relatively new neural ... more - uploadvr

Xreal Beam Pro Is A $200 Phone-Like Device To Power Xreal Glasses & Capture 3D Content

Xreal Beam Pro is essentially a custom Android phone specifically designed to power Xreal Glasses, including 6DoF AR on Xreal Air 2 Ultra. Xreal Air glasses lack onboard compute or battery, they just act as an external monitor for whatever device (such ... more - uploadvr

Pico 4S Seemingly Certified By Korean Regulator, Suggesting Imminent Launch

South Korea's National Radio Research Agency (RRA) certified a new Pico standalone headset. The RRA is South Korea's regulatory agency with responsibility over wireless frequency use, equivalent to the US FCC. As with the FCC, the RRA's approval is necessary ... more - uploadvr

Quest 3 Augments Heavily Delayed As Meta Had To "Go Back To The Drawing Board"

Quest 3's Augments feature is being rebuilt from scratch as the original approach "wasn't good enough", Meta's CTO has confirmed. Augments were announced at Meta Connect 2023 by Mark Zuckerberg when launching Quest 3. They were described as ... more - uploadvr

How visionOS 2 Better Integrates Your iPhone, iPad, Mac, Keyboard & Gamepad With Apple Vision Pro

AirPlay Mirroring to Apple Vision Pro with visionOS 2 dramatically expands the headset's capabilities, and new features better integrate your iPad, Mac, keyboard and controllers too. The first VR headset to ship after Facebook’s acquisition of Oculus ... more - uploadvr

Gracia Is A Platform For Truly Volumetric Photos & Short Videos, Viewable On Quest 3

Gracia is a technology pipeline and viewing platform for 6DoF volumetric content, available on Quest 3 and PC VR. Simple stereoscopic 3D photos and videos like Apple's spatial video only offer limited parallax of a view of a scene presented in a rectangle ... more - uploadvr

Logitech MX Ink Is A Meta-Supported Tracked Stylus For Quest Headsets

Logitech MX Ink is a tracked stylus for Meta Quest headsets. MX Ink will support Quest 2 and Quest 3 and be the first officially supported third-party tracked controller for an Oculus or Meta headset. Logitech MX Ink is designed for both 2D drawing on ... more - uploadvr