Timelapse: Rec Room Paintball Recreated In Horizon Worlds

A minute-long video posted to the Meta Quest YouTube channel shows a timelapse of creators in Horizon Worlds using its tools to make a game very much like some of Rec Room’s cornerstone activities. While we’ve been covering the steady changes to Horizon ... more - uploadvr

PianoVision: Practicing Piano On Quest With AR, MIDI And A Real Instrument

PianoVision presents the best version yet of an educational piano app for Quest. Not only does it overlay notes onto your real piano using passthrough and hand tracking, but it also responds to your playing in real time through connections with MIDI-enabled ... more - uploadvr

VR RPG Ruinsmagus Finds A Publisher, Coming To Quest & PC This Spring

VR Japanese RPG, Ruinsmagus, now has a publisher and is back on track for a western launch. The game from Kyoto-based Character Bank was originally hoping to launch worldwide with the help of a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign. But it failed to secure ... more - uploadvr

GDC Day 3: Cosmonious High, Lynx Mixed Reality Headset & More

Another day, another round of GDC 2022 coverage. Today is day three and the Between Realities crew hit the show floor again to bring you more interviews with VR/AR developers. If you missed the previous two days, it’s been pretty jam packed already. ... more - uploadvr

Meta Aims To Improve Quest Video Recording Features In April Or May

Meta is aiming to improve Quest’s video recording features by May, a Product Manager said on Twitter. Quest has built in video capture, but by default it records at 30 frames per second with a square (1:1) aspect ratio. The only in-VR option is whether ... more - uploadvr

VR Gamescast: Phasmophobia VR Updates, NFL VR Game, Tentacular Impressions

Coming up on this week’s VR Gamescast: updates for Phamsophobia VR and Zenith as well as impressions of the latest releases! Jamie and Harry are back at it, with plenty of headlines to list off. Kicking off the week, we talk about the upcoming improved ... more - uploadvr

Tentacular Review: A VR Kaiju Game With Heart, Hilarity And Substance

Easily dismissed at a glance, you’d be a sucker to miss Tentacular’s wonderful brand of intricate interaction and technicaly complexity. More in our Tentacular review! Tentacular risks being pigeon-holed. It’s easy to look at this kaiju game and see ... more - uploadvr

Sony Is Showing PSVR 2 To Developers At GDC

It doesn’t look like we’ll be getting a full PSVR 2 reveal at GDC 2022 this week, but Sony is definitely showing the new headset to developers. That much was confirmed when StrayBombay CEO and former Valve VR figurehead Chet Faliszek tweeted about seeing ... more - uploadvr

GDC Day 2: Moss 2 Updates, Cities VR Nears & More

The Beyond Realities team were up bright and early for the second day of GDC 2022, and we’ve got another first look at a new round of interviews straight from the show. Yesterday Alex and Skeeva were talking to the developers of Zenith, Walkabout and ... more - uploadvr

Walkabout Mini Golf Devs Tease More Licensed Content After Labyrinth DLC

Mighty Coconut hinted that more licensed content might be on the way to Walkabout Mini Golf, after announcing a DLC course themed around the 1986 film Labyrinth earlier this month. The tease was dropped at GDC by Lucas Martell from Mighty Coconut, while ... more - uploadvr

Bean Stalker 50% Off As Devs Highlight Multiplayer Features

As the developers of Bean Stalker we want to show you why our multiplayer is different, why it is important to us and why our game offers something different from the single-player experience for PC VR gamers. Plus, Bean Stalker is now available with ... more - uploadvr

Meta Offers Training & $500,000 In Rewards To Horizon Worlds Creators

Meta is offering cash rewards and training through its Oculus Start and Launch Pad programs to creators building in VR with Horizon Worlds. Last year, Facebook (now Meta) launched a $10 million fund to encourage people to create in Horizon Worlds with ... more - uploadvr

After The Fall’s Frontrunner Season Is A First Step In The Right Direction

When I reviewed After The Fall late last year I said I liked the game, I just needed to see much more of it. Vertigo’s set of zombie shooting assault courses had the fundamentals in place for some solid action, and the fantastic cross-play support meant ... more - uploadvr

Official NFL VR Game Headed To Meta Quest And PSVR

An officially licensed NFL VR game is in the works to bring professional football to Meta Quest and PlayStation VR devices. The still-unnamed title was revealed today in a partnership announcement between the National Football League and sports technology ... more - uploadvr

Google Acquires MicroLED Display Startup Raxium For AR Glasses

Google is acquiring AR MicroLED display startup Raxium, The Information reports. The acquisition suggests Google may be working on AR glasses. Meta plans to release glasses in “a few years”, and reports suggest Apple plans to as early as 2025. In 2020, ... more - uploadvr

Startenders: Solid But Familiar Bartending Gameplay On Quest, PSVR

Startenders launched last week for Quest and PSVR, offering players the chance to get mixing as an intergalactic bartender. We went hands-on to find out if it goes down smooth. After playing through a few of the opening levels of Startenders this week, ... more - uploadvr

Watch: New Look At Magic Leap 2 Headset & Controllers

A video shared by Magic Leap earlier this month gives us our most comprehensive look at the design of the company’s upcoming Magic Leap 2 AR headset yet. It shows us almost every angle imaginable of the headset and its controllers. As reported in late ... more - uploadvr

Zenith’s First Major Content Update Promises ‘Dozens To Hundreds’ Of Endgame Hours

VR MMO Zenith’s first major content update could provide “dozens to hundreds” of hours of additional content. That is according to Ramen VR CEO Andy Tsen, who caught up with the Beyond Realities team reporting on the ground at GDC 2022 for UploadVR. ... more - uploadvr

Text-Based Classic Colossal Cave Getting A VR Remake

1976 text-based title, Colossal Cave Adventure, is getting a full VR remake soon. IGN revealed the remake earlier this week alongside a first screenshot seen below. This will be a full 3D reimagining of the original game, which saw players make choices ... more - uploadvr

GDC 2022 Day 1: Walkabout Mini Golf Content, Zenith Dungeons & More

Day 1 of GDC 2022 is done and dusted and we have interviews straight from the show floor, talking to developers about titles like Walkabout Mini Golf, Zenith VR and more. This year, the team from Between Realities are our UploadVR Correspondents at GDC ... more - uploadvr

Mothergunship: Forge 10 Minutes Quest 2 Gameplay!

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Mothergunship: Forge Is The Most Fun I’ve Had In VR Wave Shooter In Years

There is an unspoken term around these parts, a phrase that describes a type of game many VR players may long to never see again. The saturation of this genre has long since turned its taste sour and the heart sinks when you realize you might be playing ... more - uploadvr

Mothergunship: Forge Announced For Quest 2, SteamVR

Terrible Posture Games is bringing the over-the-top action of Mothergunship to VR soon. Mothergunship: Forge is coming to Quest 2 and SteamVR on June 16. It’s an all-new spin-off of the original Mothergunship, a 2018 game that let players craft ridiculous ... more - uploadvr

Battles over Pacific Is A WW2 Sequel To Warplanes: WW1 Fighters

Warplanes: Battles over Pacific is a WW2 sequel to the hit VR combat flight sim Warplanes: WW1 Fighters. WW1 Fighters was the first combat flight game on Quest until the release of Ultrawings 2, and is still the only one with a realistic art style and ... more - uploadvr

Brushwork VR Bringing Native Studio App To Quest

Brushwork Studio is a painting app coming to Quest 2 headsets, developed as a native spin-off app from the WebXR Brushwork app that launched last year. Back in May, we wrote about how Brushwork VR offered a free WebXR painting app in your headset’s browser, ... more - uploadvr

Zombieland VR Dev Acquires Another VR Studio As It Moves To New Projects

Zombieland: Headshot Fever developer XR Games has acquired another VR studio. The company this month announced the acquisition of Fierce Kaiju, a long-running team that got its start in VR in the early days of the Gear VR headset with the Viral series. ... more - uploadvr

Agony VR’s Demo Is Out Now, But It’s Not Shaping Up Very Well

2018’s Agony didn’t go down well with either critics or gamers. What looked like a promising, uncompromising trip through the underworld actually ended up being an entirely different kind of hell thanks to monotonous gameplay mechanics and skin-deep ... more - uploadvr

Qualcomm Announces $100 Million ‘Metaverse Fund’ For VR/AR Developers

Qualcomm is setting aside $100 million to fund immersive reality developers and technologies. The Snapdragon maker, known in the VR and AR industry for its XR2 platform, today announced the Snapdragon Metaverse Fund. Through this initiative, the company ... more - uploadvr

Final Fantasy Publisher Square Enix Working On AR Gaming For Qualcomm’s Dev Kit

Final Fantasy publisher Square Enix is working with Qualcomm on its new AR developer kit, Snapdragon Spaces. The pair announced the collaboration today as Qualcomm also revealed a $100 million ‘Snapdragon Metaverse Fund‘. It will see Square Enix explore ... more - uploadvr

Unity Hosting PSVR 2 Development Talk At GDC This Week

Engine maker Unity will be holding a talk about making titles for Sony’s PSVR 2 headset this week. The company will host the session, titled ‘Building Next-Gen Games for PlayStation VR2 with Unity‘ at the event in San Francisco on Thursday March 24. ... more - uploadvr