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

Google’s Most Experienced VR Studio Changes Leadership

Andrew Eiche is taking over Job Simulator studio Owlchemy Labs. The long time operations head at the Google-owned VR development studio is taking over for Devin Reimer, who says he’s leaving “to focus on new opportunities outside the company” after 12 ... more - uploadvr

Quest 2 Finally Supports Automatic Shared-Space Local Multiplayer

Quest 2 finally supports automatic shared-space colocation. “Colocation” is the term for multiple headsets sharing the same physical play space with the same virtual coordinate space. Facebook showed off an “arena scale” prototype of this feature in ... more - uploadvr

Between Realities VR Podcast ft Geenz of NEOS

In this week’s episode of the Between Realities VR Podcast, Alex and Skeeva host Geenz, graphics programmer for the social Metaverse platform NEOS VR. Geenz explains what makes NEOS different from other social VR apps. Other topics include the imminent ... more - uploadvr

Vermillion Overlay Mode Lets You Paint Directly In Half-Life: Alyx

VR painting app Vermillion launched a beta for a new overlay mode this week, allowing you to paint with Vermillion’s easel in other SteamVR apps like Half-Life: Alyx or Skyrim VR. Although it’s still in beta, opting into the overlay mode lets you bring ... more - uploadvr

Apple Headset Introduction Reportedly Delayed (Yet Again)

Apple has postponed the launch of its AR/VR headset yet again, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reports. The introduction was apparently originally planned for April, but should now happen at the annual WWDC conference in June. It should then go on sale later ... more - uploadvr

Yupitergrad 2 Releasing First On Pico; Quest, Vive & PC VR To Follow

Gamedust released a new trailer for Yupitergrad 2: The Lost Station this week, alongside confirmation that the game will release first on Pico headsets. The studio first announced the sequel to its 2021 swinging platformer almost a year ago, confirming ... more - uploadvr

Tencent Reportedly Scraps VR Headset Development

Tencent is allegedly scrapping development for a new VR headset due to profitability concerns and high investment costs. After setting up an internal XR unit to create VR software and hardware last June, Reuters reports that’s been scrapped and the unit’s ... more - uploadvr

Rhythm Shooter Gun Jam VR Launches On Quest 2

Rhythm shooter Gun Jam VR launched this week. Available now on Quest 2 and Meta Quest Pro, Gun Jam VR is made by Jaw Drop Games and published by Raw Fury. It tasks players to shoot to the rhythm like Pistol Whip, but from a stationary spot rather than ... more - uploadvr

Firewall Ultra Releases This Year, New Contractor Details & Eye Tracking Gameplay

First Contact Entertainment, the studio known for Firewall Zero Hour and Solaris: Offworld Combat, confirmed that Firewall Ultra will release this year for PSVR 2, alongside some new looks at the game and details of a new contractor called Havok. The ... more - uploadvr

Nerf Ultimate Championship To Be De-Listed Next Month, Shutting Down In August

Nerf Ultimate Championship, the team-based shooter that released in August 2022, will be de-listed from the Quest Store on March 1st. Existing owners will be able to continue playing the game until August 31, 2023, after which players will be unable ... more - uploadvr

Drop Dead: The Cabin Hands-On: A Thrilling And Challenging Co-Op Shooter

Drop Dead: The Cabin brings a co-op zombie wave shooter to Quest 2 today, and we were recently joined by developer Soul Assembly for a hands-on preview. Reminiscent of Call of Duty Zombies, Drop Dead: The Cabin takes a different approach to its on-rails ... more - uploadvr

PlayStation VR2 Review: Next-Generation VR Gaming For PS5

PlayStation VR2 heralds the next-generation of console-based VR on PS5. We’ve had the chance to put Sony’s new headset through its paces over the past week, so how does it hold up? Here’s our PSVR 2 review. After years of waiting, PSVR 2 is finally here ... more - uploadvr