Meta Explains Why Quest 2 Required A Facebook Account

Meta executives explained how Quest headset account logins went from Oculus to Facebook to Meta in less than two years. A podcast hosted by Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth posted on July 18 features a discussion with Reality Labs Vice President Mark Rabkin ... more - uploadvr

Steam VR Fest Offers Demos And Discounts Until July 25th

Valve’s Steam VR Fest offers game demos and discounts across existing and upcoming VR releases through July 25th. The event officially runs from July 18th through July 25th and it will be an exclusively VR affair highlighting what the immersive medium ... more - uploadvr

Between Realities VR Podcast: Season 5 Episode 21 Ft. Paradise Decay

In this week’s episode of Between Realities, Alex and Skeeva host VR YouTuber Paradise Decay. In his first ever live appearance, Paradise Decay talks about his journey in content creation and VR. Other topics include impressions of Kayak VR: Mirage and ... more - uploadvr

Hands-On: Far Cry VR Offers Satisfying Location-Based Multiplayer

Far Cry VR offers a compelling location-based multiplayer VR experience for the experienced and new to VR alike. Read on for our full hands-on. Announced in 2020 and rolled out to Zero Latency locations last year, I only recently got the chance to try ... more - uploadvr

The Twilight Zone VR Available Now On Quest 2

The Twilight Zone VR is available now on Quest 2, with three unique stories to play through. Developed by Pocket Money Games and published by Fun Train, The Twilight Zone VR was announced in November last year and launched yesterday for Quest 2 headsets ... more - uploadvr

Nofio: Startup To Launch Kickstarter For Valve Index Wireless Adapter

Valve Index might be getting a wireless adapter by way of Nofio. Nofio is a new Australia-based company building a low latency adapter to make Valve’s Index headset wireless. It plans to launch a Kickstarter campaign soon. In 2019 just after the launch, ... more - uploadvr

Supply Chain Analyst: Apple To Launch ‘More Affordable’ Headset Model In 2025

Apple plans to release a “more affordable” headset in 2025, Ming-Chi Kuo claims. Ming-Chi Kuo is a TF International Securities analyst mostly known for predicting Apple products & moves over a year in advance using his supply chain sources. Last ... more - uploadvr

Beat Saber Adds 80+ New Single Saber Levels

The latest Beat Saber update adds 80+ new single saber levels across a range of difficulties. Check out how intense the new mode can be in the trailer from Beat Games below: There’s of course left-handed mode available in the menu system if you want ... more - uploadvr

Survios Working On Aliens Game For VR, PC & Console

Survios is working on a brand new singe-player Aliens game for VR as well as traditional game systems. “Survios is embarking on a new collaboration with 20th Century Games to develop an intense single-player, action horror game set in the iconic Alien ... more - uploadvr

Gorgeous Water Racing Available Now In Kayak VR: Mirage On Steam

Kayak VR is now available for PC VR on Steam, offering a visually-stunning adventure paddling through some gorgeous environments, alongside asynchronous multiplayer functionality. Kayak VR: Mirage lets you commandeer a physics-based, physically accurate ... more - uploadvr

VR Edition Of Indie Game Lost Ember Available Now For PC VR

The VR Edition of indie adventure game Lost Ember is now available for PC VR, bundled for sale alongside the original game and available for free for existing players. Lost Ember originally released for PC and consoles, but in January developers Mooneye ... more - uploadvr

Magic Leap 2 On Sale To General Public In September For $3,299

Magic Leap 2 will be available for purchase to the general public in September starting at $3,299 with a 1-year “limited” warranty. That’s the base price for the ultra-high end Magic Leap 2 AR headset with prices increasing from there for a “Developer ... more - uploadvr

Upcoming HBO Documentary Filmed Entirely In VR Explores VRChat Communities

An upcoming HBO documentary will explore several communities within VRChat presented as a traditional documentary filmed entirely in VR. HBO debuted a trailer for the documentary, titled ‘We Met In Virtual Reality‘, this week, giving a glimpse at the ... more - uploadvr

Quest v42 Update: Oculus Move Achievements, More Parental Controls

The latest Meta Quest software update adds more features to in-built fitness tracker Oculus Move, as well as improving the available options for parental supervision. After recent updates added smartphone support to Oculus Move, the in-built Quest fitness ... more - uploadvr

Open Brush Passthrough Mode On Quest Now Available In Beta

Passthrough mode is now available in beta for Open Brush, the open source and free Tilt Brush alternative on Quest. The new mode lets you do away with virtual environments as your canvas, instead creating 3D Tilt Brush art in your own playing area. You ... more - uploadvr

Zombieland VR Dev Raises Further $7 Million

Zombieland: Headshot Fever developer XR Games has raised a further $7 million in another round of funding. As announced on the developer’s blog, existing investors Praetura Ventures and Maven led the round. It’s the UK-based company’s fourth round of ... more - uploadvr

Table of Tales Coming To Quest 2 This Week With Hand Tracking

Table of Tales: The Crooked Crown is coming to Quest 2 headsets this week after originally launching for PSVR in 2019 and PC VR last year. Table of Tales — a PSVR exclusive at launch — simulates a tabletop RPG in VR, not dissimilar to something like ... more - uploadvr

New Post Malone Immersive Performance Debuts In Horizon Worlds This Week

Another immersive music performance is coming to Horizon Worlds and this time, it’s featuring Post Malone. ‘Post Malone’s Twelve Carat Toothache: A VR Experience‘ is part of Meta’s upcoming ‘Horizon Block Party’. The experience will focus on Malone’s ... more - uploadvr

Gadgeteer Adds 23 New Musical Gadgets In Update

A new update for physics-based puzzle game Gadgeteer brings 23 musical gadgets to play with as well as a new environment to build in. The Musical Gadget Update released recently for Gadgeteer on Quest and PC VR. It adds a bunch of new music-inspired ... more - uploadvr

Puzzling Places Behind High Walls DLC Layers In Historical Storytelling

A new level of storytelling with Easter eggs placed around historical landmarks can be found in the new Behind High Walls paid content for Puzzling Places. The incredibly well-reviewed puzzler recently got an AR passthrough mode on Quest 2 and its developers ... more - uploadvr

Red Matter 2 Coming August 18 To Quest 2 & PC VR

Vertical Robot, the studio behind upcoming VR sequel Red Matter 2, announced a release date confirming that it will arrive on August 18. Plus, a PC VR release has now been confirmed as well. Vertical Robot announced Red Matter 2 back in April at the ... more - uploadvr

Valve To Host Steam VR Fest Next Week

Valve is set to host a new Steam festival dedicated to VR titles next week. Steam VR Fest was quietly confirmed at the beginning of June, before even last month’s broader Steam Next Fest had taken place. Running from July 18 – 25, the event will be “celebrating ... more - uploadvr

Between Realities VR Podcast: Season 5 Episode 20 Ft. Benoit Busque of Cloudhead Games & Pistol Whip

In this week’s episode of Between Realties, Alex and Skeeva host Benoit Busque, Senior Game Designer working on Pistol Whip at Cloudhead Games. Benoit gives a look into the design choices of the Pistol Whip and the newest Contracts update. Other topics ... more - uploadvr

Quest 2 Will No Longer Require A Facebook Account From Next Month

Meta headsets will no longer require a Facebook account from next month. In August Meta will “begin rolling out” Meta accounts, which can be used to set up Meta headsets. You’ll still be able to link your Facebook account to your Meta account to message ... more - uploadvr

Ruinsmagus Review: A Gorgeous But Repetitive VR Dungeon Crawler

Ruinsmagus boasts fantastic art and solid combat but its dungeon raids can’t stave off repetition. Read on for our full Ruinsmagus review. Speaking as someone that doesn’t have any special affinity for the medium, I have to admit anime works really well ... more - uploadvr

Meta’s Project Cambria To Be Called Quest Pro, Finding Reveals

Meta’s upcoming high end headset will be called Quest Pro, a code finding reveals. Project Cambria is the public codename for Meta’s next headset, announced at Connect 2021. It will be sold alongside Quest 2 with a price tag “significantly” higher than ... more - uploadvr

GTA & Red Dead VR Mods At Risk After Take-Two Notice

A modder behind tools that make some of the world’s biggest games playable in VR may take some of them down after receiving a copyright notice from Patreon. The modder who goes by LukeRoss is known for releasing tools that get a range of modern videogames ... more - uploadvr

Walkabout Mini Golf’s Labyrinth Collab Launches This Month, First Footage Here

Walkabout Mini Golf’s much anticipated Labyrinth DLC is coming this month, and we’ve got a first look at it. The DLC — first announced in March — will launch on July 28, bringing scenes and characters from the iconic Jim Henson movie to VR for the first ... more - uploadvr

June’s Steam Data Shows May’s VR Users Record Was An Anomaly

June’s Steam Hardware Survey indicates May’s VR users record was an anomaly, not real sudden growth. Companies like Meta, Valve, & HTC don’t reveal hardware sales figures. The Steam Hardware Survey remains the most reliable indicator of PC VR’s adoption. ... more - uploadvr

EVE: Valkyrie And Sparc Shutting Down Next Month

CCP Games’ EVE: Valkyrie, one of the first-ever multiplayer VR games, is shutting down next month along with Sparc. Tweets from both games’ official accounts confirmed the news. Both Valkyrie, a space combat game, and Sparc, which offered Tron-style ... more - uploadvr