Basketball Game Gym Class VR Now Available On Quest Store

Basketball game Gym Class VR is now available on the official Quest store, after a successful stint on App Lab. Gym Class supports all headsets on the Quest platform, including the original Quest, Quest 2 and Quest Pro, and uses a free-to-play model ... more - uploadvr

What Will Meta’s 8 Gaming Studios Deliver On Quest 3?

The games Meta is lining up for Quest 3 and beyond are likely the cornerstone of the company’s approach in VR gaming in the coming years. Meta’s core customer-base of VR gamers had very few announcements to excite them at Connect this week. Grand Theft ... more - uploadvr

Horizon Worlds Getting 3D Model Importing To Improve Graphics Quality

Horizon Worlds is getting some significant updates to its creator tools. Creators will be able to import textured 3D models made in professional PC software instead of having to build everything from shapes inside VR. They’ll also be able to import Creative ... more - uploadvr

Adobe Bringing Substance 3D Modeler And More To Quest Next Year

During its annual Connect conference yesterday Meta announced a partnership with Adobe that will bring several of the company’s creative tools and programs to Quest 2 and Quest Pro. While Quest Pro was Meta’s flashiest announcement of the day, the Connect ... more - uploadvr

Meta Working With Ray-Ban On New Smart Glasses

Meta and Luxottica confirmed work on new smart glasses. The two companies collaborated on smart glasses that shipped last year, Ray-Ban Stories. Stories are essentially camera glasses for taking hands-free first person photos and videos. They also have ... more - uploadvr

Meta Avatars Getting Legs Soon, And A Graphics Overhaul Next Year

Meta Avatars are getting third-person legs soon, and a major graphics overhaul next year. Legs will arrive in Horizon Worlds first later this year, and then be available to all developers via the SDK next year. You’ll only see other people’s though, ... more - uploadvr

Quest Pro’s Controllers Have “Up To” 8-Hour Battery Life

Quest Pro’s controllers have “up to” 8-hour battery life Meta told UploadVR. Rumors circulated on Twitter and Reddit yesterday claiming the Touch Pro controllers, like the headset, have only 1-2 hour battery life. This would have seriously hampered Quest ... more - uploadvr

Meta & Microsoft Partnering To Bring Windows 11 To Quest Via Cloud Streaming

At Connect 2022 Meta & Microsoft announced a partnership spanning across Windows, Office, Teams, and more. Meta has been slowly adding productivity features to the Quest operating system, initially branded Infinite Office. If you have a supported ... more - uploadvr

Meta Quest 3 Will Be Around $300-$500, But Isn’t Launching This Year

Quest 3 will be priced around $300-$500 but isn’t launching this year. In an interview with Stratechery, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said “it’s not this year, but there will be a Quest 3 and that’s in the price range of $300, $400, or $500, that zone”. ... more - uploadvr

You Can Play Demeo In Mixed Reality On Quest Pro From October 25

Resolution Games shared footage of an update coming to Demeo on October 25 that adds support for a mixed reality mode on both Quest Pro and Quest 2. The mixed reality mode is enabled by the Quest platform’s passthrough mode, which uses the headset cameras ... more - uploadvr

Resolution Games Announces Spatial Ops, A Mixed Reality Multiplayer FPS

Resolution Games announced a new game today titled Spatial Ops, which will use mixed reality to create a unique multiplayer FPS that can be played with others in the same physical location. This latest title from Resolution follows on from the studio’s ... more - uploadvr

Meta Narrowing Focus At Reality Labs To AR, VR, Horizon & Neural Wristband

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg see its Reality Labs division as focusing on four main platforms going forward. Those are roughly defined as: Horizon and its avatars VR headsets AR headsets Neural Interfaces like its upcoming watch/wristband Zuckerberg sees ... more - uploadvr

Xbox Cloud Gaming Coming To Quest For Streaming 2D Games

During today’s Meta Connect keynote, Mark Zuckerberg announced that Xbox Cloud Gaming is coming to the Quest platform, allowing users to stream and play 2D games in VR. The announcement was made alongside Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, as part of a larger ... more - uploadvr

Meta’s Top Researcher: AR Succeeds Phones While VR Replaces PCs

If Meta’s top researcher is correct, VR headsets and AR glasses will exist parallel to one another “for a very long time”. Eyewear for AR and VR use cases are developing along somewhat similar paths while relying on related technologies — and each week ... more - uploadvr

VR’s Killer App May Be Full-Body Codec Avatars

The final demo at a day-long visit to Meta’s research offices in Washington state was easily the most memorable — true telepresence. Realizing true telepresence in consumer hardware may be one of the hardest ideas to prepare for consumers. It may also ... more - uploadvr

Horizon Workrooms Gets Triple Screen Personal Office, Sticky Notes, & More

Meta’s remote work solution Horizon Workrooms is getting major updates including multiple virtual monitors for a linked PC or Mac, sticky notes, support for Quest Pro’s face-tracked avatars, and more. Meta Horizon Workrooms is the product name for the ... more - uploadvr

I Expect You To Die Mixed Reality Mission Coming Free To Quest 2, Quest Pro

Schell Games is releasing I Expect You To Die: Home Sweet Home on October 25, a free mixed reality “mini-mission” available on Quest 2 and Quest Pro. The experience will bring the spy-themed escape room gameplay from the I Expect You To Die series into ... more - uploadvr

Quest Pro Specs & Features: XR2+ Chip, Mini-LED Panels, Pancake Lenses, 12GB RAM, Eye & Face Tracking, And More

Today Meta Quest Pro was officially announced. Here’s a detailed rundown of its specifications & features and how it compares to Quest 2 (on paper): Quest 2 Quest Pro Release October 2020 October 2022 Screen Type LCD QD-LCD Pixels Per Eye ~1720×1890 ... more - uploadvr

Meta Quest Pro Ships October 25th For $1500

Meta just officially announced Quest Pro at Connect 2022. It was previously referred to as “Project Cambria” – the codename given when it was teased at last year’s Connect. Meta had already revealed most of its features, and in past months the design ... more - uploadvr

Quest Pro’s Controllers Support Quest 2 For $300 Later This Year

Quest Pro’s controllers support Quest 2, and will be sold separately for $300 later this year. The new Touch Pro controllers are included with Quest Pro. They are self-tracking, with three cameras and an onboard chipset, meaning tracking works at any ... more - uploadvr

Meta Quest Pro Hands-On Impressions: New Features In A Sleeker Headset

I went hands-on with Meta Quest Pro. Here are my initial impressions of Meta’s first “high-end” standalone headset: Click here for a full spec sheet & a rundown of Quest Pro’s new features. Visual Quality & Field Of View The rumors were wrong: ... more - uploadvr

Hands-On: Meta Quest Pro Feels Made For Horizon Workrooms

The most impactful moment of my brief hands-on time with Quest Pro was the immediate let-down of taking the headset off after using Horizon Workrooms. I immediately and deeply missed the three crisp, large, virtual displays which had been floating in ... more - uploadvr

Zuckerberg Sees Neural Wristband Surpassing Keyboards By 2028

Meta recently showed press its first in-person look at progress toward a wristband that can sense your intentions. In 2019, the company-formerly-known-as-Facebook acquired a startup called CTRL-Labs that was working on a wrist-worn device for reading ... more - uploadvr

Quest Pro Is The First Headset With Snapdragon XR2+ & Has Foveated Rendering

Quest Pro is the first headset with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 1 chipset, and supports foveated rendering. Other current standalone headsets – including Quest 2, Pico 4, Vive Focus 3, and Lynx R1 – use the regular XR2, recently retroactively labeled ... more - uploadvr

HP Reverb G2 Is Just $350 In Limited Time Flash Sale

HP Reverb G2 is just $350 in a limited-time sale on HP’s website. Reverb G2 is a tethered PC VR headset. It uses Microsoft’s Windows MR software platform but is compatible with most SteamVR games. Its dual 2160×2160 panels provide higher resolution than ... more - uploadvr

Valve Job Listing Confirms It’s Planning To Ship A New VR Headset

Valve posted a job listing to “prototype, ship, and support” a VR headset with advanced tracking features: At Valve, we are pushing the boundaries of virtual reality (VR) experiences. We are looking for versatile, self-directed software engineers in ... more - uploadvr

How To Watch Meta Connect 2022 Live, On Screen Or In VR

Meta Connect is streaming tomorrow. Here’s how you can watch it. Connect starts at 10 am Pacific Time, streaming officially to Facebook and in Horizon Worlds. We’re expecting the formal reveal of the Meta Quest Pro headset alongside a lineup of major ... more - uploadvr

Is HTC Vive Teasing A Quest 2 & Pico 4 Competitor?

One day before Meta Connect HTC appears to be teasing a consumer Vive standalone headset. Last week HTC teased a new “small” headset on Twitter, sharing a dark image of the corner of what is presumably the visor. We speculated on what this headset might ... more - uploadvr

Between Realities VR Podcast: Season 6 Episode 5 With Chris Brickler of MyndVR

In this week’s episode of the Between Realities VR Podcast, Alex and Skeeva host Chris Brickler, CEO and co-founder of MyndVR. Chris explains how MyndVR is using virtual reality to improve the quality of life for older adults. Other topics include the ... more - uploadvr

Hands-On: Guardians Frontline Successfully Blends FPS And RTS VR Gameplay

VirtualAge Games and Fast Travel Games rebranded Guardians into Guardians Frontline but make no mistake, this remains a promising halfway point between the FPS and RTS genres. We went hands-on with a Quest 2 demo at EGX London 2022 – read on for our ... more - uploadvr