Moss: Book II Now Available On Steam For PC VR Players

Moss: Book II dropped onto Steam this week with no fanfare. We found the sequel “satisfying” when it debuted on PSVR earlier this year. The platformer continues the adventure with Quill with its release first on PSVR followed by a launch on Quest 2 in ... more - uploadvr

10 Spooky VRChat Worlds To Visit For Halloween

October is always a great time to see new worlds in VRChat, as the annual Spookality event brings out a lot of creativity. Be sure to check out the Spookality row in the menu for the newest submissions. Some already stood the test of time and are worth ... more - uploadvr

Adobe Substance 3D Modeler Leaves Beta, Version 1.0 Available On PC

Adobe Substance 3D Modeler is now out of beta, with version 1.0 available on PC with VR support. The tool is available for Windows as part of the Substance 3D collection from Adobe. This collection of apps includes Modeler, alongside Substance 3D Painter, ... more - uploadvr

Holonautic Reveals Surgineer Coming Soon To Quest Platform

Holonautic revealed Surgineer this week, a new game described as an “unrealistic surgery simulator,” coming soon to Meta Quest 2 and Quest Pro. Holonautic is primarily known for its sandbox puzzle game Hand Physics Lab, available on Quest. The team also ... more - uploadvr

Pico 4 Enterprise Specs vs Quest Pro vs Vive Focus 3: Business HMDs Compared

Pico 4 Enterprise was announced today with a significantly lower price than its competitors. But how do its specs & features compare? Here’s an on-paper comparison between it, HTC’s Vive Focus 3, and Meta’s Quest Pro: Pico 4 Enterprise HTC Vive Focus ... more - uploadvr

Rec Room’s House of Terror Is A Sucker-Punch Immersive Experience

A quaint carnival-style haunted house sits on a nostalgic map, surrounded by warm autumn décor reminiscent of a local fair. Overhead hangs a large moon with the occasional roll of thunder in the sky. Nothing feels too spooky, instead giving off an amiable ... more - uploadvr

Crisis Brigade 2 Reloaded Review – Uncompromising Arcade Shooter Remains A Blast On Quest 2

Previously known as Crisis Vrigade 2, Sumalab’s VR arcade shooter has a long history across PSVR and PC VR. After releasing on Quest last year via App Lab and SideQuest, Crisis Brigade 2 Reloaded is now available on the official Quest Store. But how ... more - uploadvr

Pico 4 Pro Isn’t Launching Outside China

Pico 4 Enterprise was announced today for €900, but it’s only sold to businesses. The Pico 4 Pro it’s based on is sold to consumers in China. But Pico said it has no plans to bring it to consumers in the West. There are actually some minor hardware differences ... more - uploadvr

Pico 4 Enterprise Has Eye Tracking & Face Tracking For €900

Pico 4 Enterprise adds face & eye tracking for businesses. It’s a variant of the regular Pico 4 with a gold front plate and 3 extra cameras to track your gaze and facial expressions: 1 for each eye and 1 for the lower face. It also uses LPDDR5 RAM, ... more - uploadvr

Fitness Service Supernatural Now Supports Single Controller Mode

Fitness service Supernatural now supports a single controller mode. The fitness app Meta is trying to acquire now supports a new “One Controller Mode” that “intelligently adjust workouts to ensure that there are no gaps or awkward sequences during the ... more - uploadvr

Quest Store Now Lets Developers Offer 15-30 Minute Free Trials

Quest Store developers can now offer 15-30 minute trials of their apps & games. Called Try Before You Buy, the new feature is integrated into the Meta Quest app and Quest system software. Developers can opt-in without needing to integrate any SDK ... more - uploadvr

Will HP End Reverb G2 Production & Exit The VR Market?

HP’s Reverb G2 is seeing steep discounts as rumors circulate production will end next year. Reverb G2 leverages Microsoft’s ‘Windows Mixed Reality’ PC VR platform. Despite the name, all PC WMR headsets are VR-only, and they’re compatible with most SteamVR ... more - uploadvr

Pico 4 Review: Should You Actually Buy One Instead Of A Quest 2?

Pico 4 ships today, and we’ve had a chance to put it through its paces over the past few weeks. Pico is no newcomer to VR – it revealed its first headset in 2016. Last year it was acquired by ByteDance, the Chinese tech giant behind TikTok. Pico has ... more - uploadvr

Pico 4 Games: All Major VR Apps Available Today At Launch

The Pico 4 launches today, bringing some much needed competition to standalone VR and the Meta Quest 2. But what games can you play on Pico 4? Here are some of the biggest releases. As we wrote in our review, Pico 4’s hardware “makes Quest 2 look outdated ... more - uploadvr

The Exorcist: Legion VR Receives Visual Overhaul On Quest For Halloween

Developer Wolf & Wood released a major The Exorcist: Legion VR update on Meta Quest platforms, just in time for Halloween. Originally released episodically across 2017 and 2018, Legion was later ported to Quest as one package. Following a 90Hz update ... more - uploadvr

Kartoffl Brings A New Puzzle Adventure To Quest And PC VR This November

After releasing a demo on App Lab in January, developer Breach VR confirmed that Kartoffl arrives on November 3 for the Quest platform and PC VR. Bringing a new puzzle adventure with over 60 increasingly difficult levels, Kartoffl takes inspiration from ... more - uploadvr

Quest Pro Battery Lasts ‘Longer’ Than Quest 2 With New Features Disabled

Quest Pro’s battery should actually last longer than Quest 2 if you aren’t using the new features, John Carmack claimed. Meta officially revealed Quest Pro last week. Most of its specs are superior to Quest 2, but whereas Quest 2 has a battery life of ... more - uploadvr

Quest’s Horizon Home Is Getting YouTube Cowatching

Quest owners will be able to watch YouTube together in Horizon Home, Meta announced this week. The brief mention during Meta Connect indicates people will be able to have the YouTube VR experience with friends in their Horizon Home on Quest headsets. ... more - uploadvr

Everything Announced At Meta Connect 2022: Quest Pro & More

This week, Meta held its annual Connect conference and revealed its new Quest Pro headset, alongside a bunch of other hardware and software announcements. If you missed the event live, we’ve got all the announcements listed below. If you prefer something ... more - uploadvr

Between Realities VR Podcast: Season 6 Episode 6 with Anthony & Aaron of Overrun Games

In this week’s episode of the Between Realities VR Podcast, Alex and Skeeva host Anthony Graceffa and Aaron Lutes, creators of Arcaxer, a new RPG on the Quest. Anthony and Aaron give insight into the development of Arcaxer and explain the struggles of ... more - uploadvr

Some Pico 4 Pre-Order Deliveries Delayed Due To ‘Unprecedented’ Demand

Some Pico 4 preorders in Europe will be delayed, Pico says. The standalone VR headset is set to launch on Tuesday, October 18th in Europe, Japan & South Korea for €429, and is already available in China. The ByteDance-owned company blamed “unprecedented ... more - uploadvr

Here’s The Exact Performance Benefit Of Foveated Rendering On Quest Pro

Quest Pro supports Eye Tracked Foveated Rendering, but exactly how much does it improve performance? If you’re not familiar with the term, eye tracked foveated rendering (ETFR) is a technique where only the region of the display you’re currently looking ... more - uploadvr

Apple’s Headset Reportedly Has Iris Scanning And Leg Tracking

Apple’s upcoming headset will have leg tracking and iris scanning, The Information reports. Last year Bloomberg, The Information, and supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo released reports claiming Apple is preparing to release a premium headset for VR and ... more - uploadvr

Quest Hand Tracking 2.1 Will Reduce Tracking Loss & Improve Stability

Quest 2 controller-free hand tracking is getting another significant quality update. Hand Tracking 2.0 arrived on Quest 2 in May and the original Quest this month, bringing dramatic improvements to using your hands without controllers. Meta said its ... more - uploadvr

Iron Man VR Breaks Free From Cords & Load Screens On Quest 2

At launch in 2020, Marvel’s Iron Man VR was a fantastic PSVR game that let you truly embody Tony Stark and his iconic suit of armor. However, the game was also hindered in places by the hardware it ran on. With Iron Man VR flying onto Quest 2 next month, ... more - uploadvr

Meta Avatar Legs Demo ‘Created By Motion Capture’, Not Live VR

A key segment of the Connect broadcast this week announcing that Meta’s avatars would eventually feature legs was produced with “animations created from motion capture,” the company said. The segment caught the eye of eagle-eyed developers who were confused ... more - uploadvr

Quest Pro Doesn’t Have The Depth Sensor Zuckerberg Said It Would

Quest Pro doesn’t have a depth sensor, despite Zuckerberg saying it would. It was previously referred to as “Project Cambria” – the codename given when it was teased at last year’s Connect. Zuckerberg told Protocol in May Cambria will “ship later this ... more - uploadvr

Quest Pro Lets You Bring Up The Web Browser Without Quitting VR Apps

Quest Pro 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 can’t bring up the browser while inside a ... more - uploadvr

Quest Pro Controllers Have New 3-Point Haptics & Index Finger Tracking

Quest Pro‘s controllers have major new features. In the Connect 2022 main keynote Meta talked at length about the new Touch Pro controllers being self-tracking, and vaguely described “new localized and VCM haptics upgrades”. But in a talk for developers ... more - uploadvr

Quest Headsets Finally Getting Colocation Support Via ‘Shared Spatial Anchors’

Meta Quest headsets are getting support for colocation. Colocation means having multiple headsets sharing the same physical play space with the same virtual coordinate space. Facebook showed off an “arena scale” prototype of this in late 2018, but no ... more - uploadvr