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

‘Framerate Insurance’ Smooths Out Quest 2 Air Link Connection Drops

Air Link Framerate Insurance (AFI) is a new experimental feature to fake dropped frames, reducing judder caused by WiFi connection issues. Air Link is a Quest feature which lets the device act as a wireless PC VR headset via your WiFi network. It was ... more - uploadvr

Polyarc Talks Moss, VR Sequels And Future Tech

We sat down with Polyarc to discuss the upcoming release of Moss Book 2 and the future of the VR industry. Moss Book 2 comes to PSVR on March 31, marking the launch of one of VR’s first major sequels. We got a first look at the game earlier this week ... more - uploadvr

Between Realities VR Podcast: Season 5 Episode 8 Ft. Beardo Benjo

In this week’s episode of the Between Realities VR Podcast, Alex and Skeeva host rising VR YouTuber Beardo Benjo, who’s celebrating surpassing 50k subscribers. Beardo Benjo explains the value of authenticity when creating video content. Other topics ... more - uploadvr

Zenith Dev Raises $35 Million, Studio To Double

Ramen VR, developers of the popular VR MMO Zenith: The Last City, raised $35 million as part of a recently-closed Series B funding round. This follows on from a successful launch for Zenith in late January across Quest, PC VR and PSVR platforms. Despite ... more - uploadvr

Zombie Apocalypses And Virtual Lumberjacking – VR Games & Updates On Our Radar This Week

Another zombie apocalypse and a chance to become a virtual lumberjack are just some of the VR titles on our radar this week. Every week we get a lot of updates on new VR games at Upload – so much so that we don’t have time to cover them all. This week ... more - uploadvr

Population: One Metropolis Update Available Now, New Details Revealed

The Metropolis update for Population: One is available now, with an entire new section of the map and a new game mode to highlight it. As we wrote about a week ago after going hands-on with the new update, the Metropolis area is one of the most drastic ... more - uploadvr

Polyarc On What Project Cambria’s Eye And Face-Tracking Could Bring To Moss

Ahead of Moss Book 2’s debut on PSVR later this month, developer Polyarc reflected on what future headset technology could mean for its series going forward. Specifically, we rasked engineer and designer Joshua Stiksma what he thought the arrival of ... more - uploadvr

Phasmophobia Shares Footage Of VR Overhaul Update

Developers Kinetic Games shared a brand new look at the overhauled VR features and rework coming soon to cooperative ghost-hunting game Phasmophobia. The new gameplay was shown in a tweet, embedded below, and goes through several new changes to the VR ... more - uploadvr

Immersed Adds Passthrough Portals & Tracked Keyboards

Work from anywhere solution Immersed is rounding out its feature set with customizable passthrough portals and support for tracked keyboards on Meta Quest 2. The new features are live right now in Immersed, which offers a free version that gives users ... more - uploadvr

Moss Book 2 – 6 Things We Learned!

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Devolver Digital’s Tentacular Launches March 24 For Quest, SteamVR

Firepunchd and Devolver Digital announced that Tentacular will be available March 24 for Quest and PC VR via Steam, alongside a new release date trailer with some gameplay breakdowns. The trailer, embedded above, gives us our best look at the game so ... more - uploadvr

Virtex Stadium Partners With Echo VR, Launching Closed Beta Stadium

Virtex Stadium is partnering with Meta and Echo VR to bring the live sport experience to virtual reality. Last year, we wrote about how Virtex Stadium was introducing a virtual venue system that would allow users to attend virtual esports matches in ... more - uploadvr

Ragnarock Gets First DLC Pack, Gloryhammer RAID, Featuring Six Tracks

The first DLC content for VR rhythm game Ragnarock is available now. The Gloryhammer RAID DLC features six new tracks from power metal band Gloryhammer for $5.99. This includes one massive 10-minute song, ‘The Fires of Ancient Cosmic Destiny’, as well ... more - uploadvr

Next Gen Sword Fighter Altair Breaker Coming This Summer From Swords of Gargantua Devs

Thirdverse is slated to launch its new multiplayer VR sword-fighting game Altair Breaker this summer for Meta Quest 2 and PC VR. Altair Breaker follows Thirdverse’s rogue-like Swords of Gargantua, which is available on PSVR, carries mostly positive reviews ... more - uploadvr

VR Gamescast: Moss 2 Impressions, VR Storytelling Troubles, Snoop Dogg In The Metaverse

This week on the VR Gamescast we’re talking about Moss: Book 2, Virtual Virtual Reality 2 and more. After a short break, Jamie and Harry are back to round up the latest VR news and reviews. Headlining this week is the reveal that Moss: Book 2 is coming ... more - uploadvr

Job Listings Confirm Supernatural Is Coming To PSVR

A new job listing for VR workout app Supernatural confirms that the team is looking to bring the fitness title across to PSVR on both PS4 and PS5. Spotted on Twitter by @Zuby_Tech, job listings on Supernatural’s LinkedIn page are advertising for a number ... more - uploadvr

Moss: Book 2 Is Coming To PSVR On March 31

Moss: Book 2’s release date has been revealed, and it’s right around the corner. Polyarc’s anticipated sequel hits PSVR on March 31. For now, PSVR is the only platform the game’s launching on. However the original Moss also launched as a PSVR exclusive ... more - uploadvr