Watch: What Developers Have Been Building With Snap’s AR Glasses

Snap shared a compilation of what developers have been building with its Spectacles AR glasses. Spectacles was revealed almost a year ago. It’s a standalone device powered by Qualcomm’s XR1 chip featuring two cameras to perform spatial tracking of the ... more - uploadvr

After The Fall Update Brings New Weapons, Free-For-All Mode & New PvP Map

The latest update for co-op FPS game After the Fall is available now, adding new weapons, maps and modes. This update, titled Shock & Awe, is the latest in a series of content drops as part of the game’s ongoing Frontrunner Season. Available on Quest ... more - uploadvr

Gabe Newell Sold Jeri Ellsworth Key AR Tech While Firing Her

Tilt Five CEO Jeri Ellsworth is working with her team to ship their patented AR technology to Kickstarter backers as they build out from a focused vision starting as AR glasses for tabletop gaming. About a decade ago, however, Ellsworth was developing ... more - uploadvr

Cities: VR Review – Authentic Skylines Experience Disappoints In VR

Cities: VR is available now, bringing a reworked version of the original PC game, Cities: Skylines, to Quest 2. However, while this new release retains a lot of the original’s spirit, the end product leaves a lot to be desired. Read on for our Cities: ... more - uploadvr

Wallace and Gromit VR Experience Announced For Quest

Aardman Animations announced a new collaboration with Atlas V and Meta to bring a new Wallace and Gromit VR experience to Quest 2. Wallace and Gromit: The Grand Getaway will release for Meta Quest 2 in 2023, which Aardman says will be the “next step” ... more - uploadvr

Project Cambria To Have 12 GB RAM For Multitasking, Import Logs Suggest

Meta’s Project Cambria headset could have 12 GB RAM for multitasking, import logs and a potential leak suggest. Project Cambria was announced in late October at Connect 2021. Cambria isn’t Quest 3 – Mark Zuckerberg described it as an “advanced and high ... more - uploadvr

Oculus Unreal Engine 5 Branch Now Available, But Key Features Don’t Work In VR

An Oculus branch of Unreal Engine 5 is now available, enabling development for Quest 2. Unreal Engine 5 shipped earlier this month after launching in Early Access last year. On modern PCs and next-gen consoles its ‘Nanite’ geometry system brings a radical ... more - uploadvr

VR Gamescast: Assassin’s Creed VR, Cities VR Impressions

This week on the VR Gamescast Jamie and Harry are talking Assassin’s Creed VR and Cities: VR! There’s been a whole heap of VR gaming news over the past seven days. First up, we’re breaking down Little Cities’ post-launch plans, including hand tracking. ... more - uploadvr

Tribeca Festival To Debut 10+ New VR Films In June

The Immersive line-up for the 2022 Tribeca Festival (commonly known as the Tribeca Film Festival) has been revealed, and it includes a whole host of new VR movies and experiences. This year’s selection is split into the Main Competition and the New Voices ... more - uploadvr

Blaston Gets Weapon Attachments, Fast Travel Games Collaboration In Reloaded Update

Fresh off of raising its price for a busy 2022 roadmap, Blaston is launching a major update today. The Blaston: Reloaded update includes many of the features developer Resolution Games previously teased. Headlining the update is the introducing of a ... more - uploadvr

How Owlchemy Labs Became VR’s Crash Test Dummies

We chronicle a partial history of one of VR’s best-known developers: Owlchemy Lab. I’m listening back through an interview with Andrew Eiche and Devin Reimer of Owlchemy Labs and we’re talking about the subtle genius of Half-Life: Alyx’s distance-grab ... more - uploadvr

Zuckerberg Sees Project Cambria ‘Eventually Replacing Your Laptop’

Mark Zuckerberg said he sees Project Cambria “eventually replacing your laptop”. Here’s how he described Cambria to Meta’s investors during the Q1 2022 earnings call: “On the hardware side, Meta Quest 2 continues to be the leading virtual reality headset. ... more - uploadvr

Meta’s Q1 AR/VR Revenue Up 35%, ‘Driven By Sales Of Quest 2’

Meta’s Reality Labs revenue grew 35% year-on-year in Q1 2022 – but costs grew 55%. Reality Labs is the division of Meta responsible for Quest VR hardware & software, Portal video calling appliances, and the Ray-Ban Stories camera glasses – as well ... more - uploadvr

Zombieland VR: Headshot Fever Adds Roguelike Arcade Mode

A new mode is coming to Zombieland VR: Headshot Fever, more than a year since the game first launched. It arrives tomorrow in the Arcade Attack update, adding a roguelike arcade mode that is designed to be much more approachable and instant compared ... more - uploadvr

Ghostbusters VR Isn’t Linked To Afterlife, May Feature Character Customization

The recently-announced Ghostbusters VR isn’t a sequel to Ghostbusters: Afterlife. Sony Pictures VR’s Jake Zim confirmed as much to IGN’s Taylor Lyles. “It is not a sequel to Afterlife,” he said. “It does not go deeper directly into the stories. It is ... more - uploadvr

Green Hell VR Dev Believes PSVR 2 Will Bring ‘Millions Of New VR Enthusiasts’

Green Hell VR developer Incuvo sounds bullish on PSVR 2. Speaking to Gamerant, CEO Andrzej Wychowaniec touched on the subject of Sony’s new headset and the features he was looking forward to. Particularly, Wychowaniec said he was looking forward to what ... more - uploadvr

Tokyo Chronos Dev Wants You To Choose Its Next VR Project

MyDearest, developer of the Chronos series, wants you to choose its next VR project. The Tokyo-based studio this week announced Project: Gathering, an initiative that asks fans to vote on one of three concepts for its next game. Each title is a multiplayer ... more - uploadvr

Moon VR Player Lets You Watch Videos In Passthrough On Quest 2

Moon VR Player lets you watch regular and 180° videos in passthrough on Quest 2. Moon VR was around years ago on the Samsung Gear VR, developed by a full team. In 2017 they ran out of funding and had to suspend development – though the app was maintained ... more - uploadvr

How To Fix Oculus (Air) Link Juddering On Windows 11

Back in October we tried installing Windows 11 and found Oculus Link juddered. Six months later this issue still remains, but there is a workaround. Oculus Link is a Quest feature which lets the device act as a PC VR headset, either wired via USB or ... more - uploadvr

Little Cities To Get Hand-Tracking Support In Post-Launch Update

Upcoming VR city-building sim, Little Cities, will get hand-tracking support in a post-launch update. Publisher nDreams confirmed as much today, noting that the game will get hand-tracking integration via a free update in June. Following on in July, ... more - uploadvr

Watch: Co-Op VR Shooter The Chewllers Gets Cinematic New Trailer

We’ve got a brand new look at The Chewllers, the cooperative VR shooter we announced at last winter’s Upload VR Showcase. The latest look at the game takes the form of a cinematic trailer starring the titular monsters. Chewllers are grimy little minion-like ... more - uploadvr

VR Awards Opens Nominations For 2022 Ceremony

Nominations are now open for the VR Awards 2022. As we reported last month, the annual show will return to London later this year for its first in-person event since the COVID-19 pandemic. The show will look to gather the VR industry under one roof on ... more - uploadvr

Oculus.com Replaced By ‘Meta Store’

Oculus.com now redirects to a new ‘Meta Store’ website. Specifically, oculus.com redirects to the Quest section of this new Meta Store. The Oculus blog and Oculus App Store seem to still exist at the old URL, for now at least – though Meta already has ... more - uploadvr

Build Your Own Quest VR Bundle Discounts Some Great Games

A bundle of Quest games offers significant discounts with Fanatical offering three, five, or nine games from a list for roughly $20, $30, or $50. The bundle comes by way of Fanatical, an online store that has “sold over 95 million keys to gamers in over ... more - uploadvr

Open Source Tool Makes Oculus Link Load Directly To SteamVR

An open source tool called OculusKiller makes Oculus Link load directly into SteamVR, disabling Oculus Dash. The tool, available on GitHub, was developed by software engineer ItsKaitlyn03. You may recognise that name – earlier this month Kaitlyn found ... more - uploadvr

Meta Opens First Store To Sell Quests, Portals, And Glasses

Meta’s campus in Burlingame, California will be home to its first physical retail space where you can check out Quest 2 and its accessories as well as the Ray-Ban Stories sunglasses and the Portal video-calling device. The store opens May 9 with interactive ... more - uploadvr

Wolfenstein II VR Mod Released

Machine Games’ shooter sequel, Wolftenstein II, now has a VR mod. Released over the weekend, the mod is the work of developer Helifax, and represents their first full VR mod having previously worked on 3D conversions of games like Doom Eternal. Check ... more - uploadvr

Report: Assassin’s Creed VR Called Nexus, Menu Footage Leaks

Supposed leaks may give us new information about the Assassin’s Creed VR game, apparently called Assassin’s Creed: Nexus. Two posts surfaced online this weekend, both citing the Nexus name for the Meta-exclusive project. Take note that these reports ... more - uploadvr

Elden Ring VR Mod In Development From GTAV Modder

An Elden Ring VR mod is in development. Modder Luke Ross, known for his series of REAL VR mods, is behind the upcoming ‘port’. As you can see in the video below, the mod will allow you to play the game in first-person, seeing the enormous world from ... more - uploadvr

Two Years On, Half-Life: Alyx’s Modding Community Is Stronger Than Ever

From gangsters to Rapture, Half-Life Alyx has a thriving modding community. Looking to learn more, we spoke to the developers behind the Levitation and Gunman Contracts mods, talking about the wider scene. We’ve witnessed some stunning creativity in ... more - uploadvr